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Sabha
The sabha (सभा) was an assembly of Vedic India, mentioned from the Rigveda onward, whose name denoted both the assembly itself and the hall in which it met.
Sabha (Brahmadeya assembly)
The sabha was the assembly of Brahmin landholders in a brahmadeya village of medieval South India, best known from the Uttaramerur inscriptions of 919 and 921.
Sabhasad Bakhar
The Sabhasad Bakhar (सभासद बखर) is a Marathi prose chronicle of Shivaji's life, written by his courtier Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad at Jinji in the 1690s.
Sabhiya
Sabhiya (Pali; Sanskrit Sabhika) is an early Buddhist wandering ascetic whose twenty questions the Buddha answered at Rajagaha; ordained after probation, he became an arahant.
Sabhiya Kaccāna
Sabhiya Kaccāna (सभिय कच्चान) is a figure of the Pali canon: in the Sabhiya Sutta a wandering mendicant questions the Buddha at Rājagaha, ordains, and becomes an arahant.
Sabi
Sabi (사비; 泗沘) was the third and final capital of the Korean kingdom of Baekje, established by King Seong in 538 and destroyed by a Silla–Tang alliance in 660.
Sabi period
The Sabi period (사비시대, 538–660) was the final era of Korea's Baekje kingdom, beginning when King Seong moved the capital to Sabi, present-day Buyeo, and ending with the Silla–Tang conquest of 660.
Sabians (الصابئون)
The Sabians (الصابئون, al-ṣābiʾūn) are a religious community named three times in the Quran without definition, a name later claimed by the Mandaeans and the pagan star-worshippers of Harran.
SABIC
SABIC, also known as the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, is a Riyadh-based Saudi chemical company founded by royal decree in 1976 and ranked among the world's largest petrochemicals manufacturers.
Sabiha Gökçen
Sabiha Gökçen (1913–2001) was a Turkish aviator, adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the world's first female combat pilot, flying for the Turkish Air Forces from 1936.
Sabin Carr
Sabin Carr (1904–1983), American Yale pole vaulter; first to clear 14 feet outdoors (4.27 m, 1927) and indoors (4.29i, 1928); 1928 Amsterdam Olympic pole vault gold medalist at 4.20 m.
Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine
Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine (sIPV) is IPV made from attenuated Sabin strains instead of wild Salk strains, lowering biosafety risk; first licensed in China in 2015, WHO-prequalified since 2022, immunologically non-inferior to Salk IPV.
Sabina (Italy)
Sabina, a historical and physical region of central Italy on the left bank of the Tiber above Rome, homeland of the ancient Sabines; capital Rieti, about 1,600 km2, annexed by Rome in 290 BC.
Sabina Kuller
Sabina Küller (Anna Sabina Lambertz Küller, born 1994) is a Swedish ice hockey forward, AIK/SDHL player, 2012 Youth Olympic gold medalist and 2018 Olympian, later an SDHL referee awarded Guldpipan.
Sabina Matos
Sabina Matos is an American Democratic politician, the 70th Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island since 2021 and a former Providence City Council president who immigrated from the Dominican Republic.
Sabina Park
Sabina Park is a cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica, home to international cricket since 1930, known for its fast, bouncy pitch and lively match-day atmosphere.
Sabina Schulze
Sabina Schulze (Sabina Kessler), born 1972 in Leipzig, East German swimmer; 1988 Seoul Olympic 4x100 m freestyle relay gold as a heats swimmer, 1986 world champion and world record holder.
Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic
Sabina Selimovic and Samra Kesinovic, Austrian teenagers of Bosnian descent, left Vienna April 10, 2014, joined Islamic State in Raqqa as 'poster girls', and were later reported killed; deaths never officially confirmed.
Sabina Spielrein (Сабина Николаевна Шпильрейн)
Sabina Spielrein (Сабина Николаевна Шпильрейн), Russian-born psychoanalyst (1885–1942), Jung's patient at the Burghölzli, author of Destruction as a Cause of Coming into Being (1912), pioneer of child language and child psychiatry, killed by an SS Sonderkommando in Rostov-on-Don.
Sabina Wurmbrand
Sabina Wurmbrand, born Sabina Oster, was a Romanian-born evangelist imprisoned under communism who co-founded The Voice of the Martyrs with her husband Richard and wrote The Pastor's Wife.
Sabina Yasmin
Sabina Yasmin (সাবিনা ইয়াসমিন), born 1954, is a Bangladeshi playback and adhunik singer who has recorded for films, radio, and television since 1962, holding a record 13 or 14 National Film Awards.
Sabinada
The Sabinada was a separatist and republican rebellion in Salvador, Bahia, led by the doctor and journalist Francisco Sabino between November 1837 and March 1838.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was an Anglican priest, novelist, and folklorist who served as rector and squire of Lew Trenchard, Devon, and wrote the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers".
Sabine Bau
Sabine Bau (born 1969, Würzburg), German foil fencer; 1988 Olympic team champion and individual silver medalist, four-time world champion, later an orthopaedic surgeon in Würzburg.
Sabine Bischoff
Sabine Bischoff (Bischoff-Wolf), 1958-2013, West German foil fencer with FC Tauberbischofsheim; 1984 Olympic team foil gold, 1985 world team champion, six world medals, German champion 1983-84.
Sabine Busch
Sabine Busch, born 1962 in Erfurt, is a retired East German hurdler who set a 400 m hurdles world record in 1985 and won world titles in 1987.
Sabine Dardenne
Sabine Dardenne (born 1983) is a Belgian survivor of the Dutroux case, kidnapped by Marc Dutroux on 28 May 1996 and held 80 days in a cellar in Marcinelle; she testified at his 2004 trial and wrote I Choose to Live.
Sabine Doebel
Sabine Doebel is an American developmental psychologist and associate professor at George Mason University, where she directs the Developing Minds Lab and studies how everyday experience shapes children's executive function.
Sabine Ehrt
Sabine Ehrt is a microbiologist who studies how Mycobacterium tuberculosis persists and evades treatment, and became chair of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2025.
Sabine H. L. Klapp
Sabine H. L. Klapp is a professor of theoretical physics at Technische Universität Berlin, appointed in 2008, known for research on nonreciprocal active matter and complex fluids.