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Savaiya
Savaiya (सवैया) is a quatrain meter of classical Hindi and Brajbhasha poetry in which all four lines share a single end rhyme, each line carrying 22 to 26 letters.
SAVAK (ساواک)
SAVAK (ساواک, Sāzmān-e Eṭṭelāʿāt va Amnīyat-e Kešvar) was Iran's national intelligence and security service under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1957–1979, built with CIA and Mossad training and notorious for surveillance and torture.
Savalou
Savalou is a royal town in central Benin's Collines Department and the historic seat of the Kingdom of Savalou, founded by the Gbaguidi dynasty, whose kings still reign there.
Savan Kotecha
Savan Kotecha is an American songwriter and producer of Gujarati Indian heritage based in Sweden. He co-wrote hits for One Direction, Ariana Grande, and The Weeknd.
Savanes, Ivory Coast
Savanes is an autonomous district of Côte d'Ivoire occupying the country's extreme north, bordering Mali and Burkina Faso, with its capital at Korhogo and about 2.2 million people.
Savanes, Togo
Savanes (Région des Savanes) is Togo's northernmost region, capital Dapaong, area about 8,600 km², population 1,143,520 (2022 census). Poorest region of Togo (65.1% poverty), affected since 2021 by JNIM spillover from Burkina Faso, hosting most of the country's refugees.
Savanna
Savanna (savannah): tropical grassland with scattered trees forming a biome between forest and grassland, covering about a quarter of land, maintained by rainfall limits, fire, and herbivory, and dating to 10–6 million years ago.
Savanna Samson
Savanna Samson, stage name of Natalie Oliveros (born 1967), is an American retired adult film performer who appeared in more than 90 films and later became a Tuscan winemaker.
Savannah (actress)
Savannah, born Shannon Michelle Wilsey, was an American pornographic actress who made over 100 videos from 1990 to 1994 and died by suicide in 1994, aged 23.
Savannah Bananas
Savannah Bananas: independent pro baseball team founded by Jesse and Emily Cole in Savannah, Georgia, in 2016. Plays Banana Ball (two-hour games, inning points, fan foul-ball outs) in the six-team Banana Ball Championship League; first international games in Canada and Mexico in 2027.
Savannah Bond
Savannah Bond is the stage name of Kelli-Anne Oxley, an Australian pornographic actress from Melbourne who moved to Los Angeles in 2019 and has made over 100 films.
Savannah cat
Savannah cat: domestic cat breed from African serval × domestic cat crosses, TICA-registered 2001, championship 2012. F1–F5 generation labels, spotted coat, tall build, banned in Australia since 2008.
Savannah Chrisley (influencer)
Savannah Faith Chrisley, American reality TV personality and influencer from Chrisley Knows Best and Growing Up Chrisley; hosts the weekly podcast Unlocked (2022, PodcastOne), guardian of Grayson and Chloe during parents Todd and Julie's 2022 fraud convictions, campaigned for their May 2025 Trump pardon, guest co-hosted The View in February 2026, and founded Chrisley & Co. Realty in Nashville.
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), private nonprofit art and design university founded 1978 in Savannah, Georgia by Paula Wallace and three co-founders; 100+ degree programs across Savannah, Atlanta, Lacoste France, and SCADnow online; SACSCOC accredited.
Savannah Gankiewicz
Savannah Mari Gankiewicz (born 1995) is an American pageant titleholder, Miss Hawaii USA 2023 and Miss USA 2023 by succession after Noelia Voigt's May 2024 resignation; fifth Hawaiian Miss USA, first from Maui in over 20 years.
Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Clark Guthrie (born 1971) is the main co-anchor of NBC's Today and NBC News chief legal correspondent, a Georgetown-trained lawyer who joined Today in 2011, became co-anchor in 2012, and moderated the 2020 Trump town hall.
Savannah Marshall
Savannah Marshall is a British professional boxer and mixed martial artist from Hartlepool, England, a 2012 world amateur champion who later won the undisputed super middleweight title.
Savannah Miller
Savannah Miller (born 1981) is a British fashion designer, sister of Sienna Miller, trained at Central Saint Martins; co-founder of Twenty8Twelve (2007) and founder of Savannah Miller Bridal (2016), plus Nine by Savannah Miller and Vivere.
Savannah River National Laboratory
Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy applied research laboratory at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, designated a national laboratory in 2004.
Savannah River Site
The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a 310-square-mile U.S. Department of Energy complex in South Carolina, built in the early 1950s to produce tritium and plutonium-239 for nuclear weapons.
Savannah Sellers
Savannah Sellers (born 1995) is an American NBC News anchor and correspondent, co-anchor of Morning News NOW and co-host of Stay Tuned, NBC's Snapchat show; Emmy and 2022 Gracie Award winner, CU Boulder journalism graduate, Paris 2024 and Milan Cortina Olympics correspondent.
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia: Georgia's oldest city, founded 1733 by James Oglethorpe as America's first planned city with 22 surviving squares; a major container port, population about 149,000, council-manager government, and high coastal flood risk.
Savano Capital Partners
Savano Capital Partners is a direct secondary investment firm founded in 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, buying shares from founders and early investors in late-stage software companies.
Savant (DC Comics)
Savant (Brian Durlin) is a DC Comics antihero-villain created by Gail Simone and Ed Benes, debuting in Birds of Prey #56 (2003); a genius-level, time-blind information broker who later joined the Suicide Squad and was played by Michael Rooker in the 2021 film.
Savant syndrome
Savant syndrome, also called autistic savant skills, is a rare condition in which an 'island of genius' contrasts with overall disability; about one in 10 autistic people have savant abilities, in domains like music, art, and calendar calculating.
Savanur State
Savanur State (نواب ساونور) was a princely state in the Deccan ruled by Nawabs of Miyana Afghan descent, seated at Savanur, now in Haveri district of Karnataka.
Savar, Dhaka Division
Savar (সাভার) is an upazila of Dhaka District, Bangladesh, northwest of Dhaka city; home to Dhaka EPZ (est. 1993), Jahangirnagar University, the National Martyrs' Memorial, and a fast-growing garment industrial hub.
Savarakathi
Savarakathi (சவரக்கத்தி), also spelled Savarakkathi, is a 2018 Tamil dark comedy directed by G. R. Adithya, written and produced by Mysskin, starring Ram, Mysskin, and Poorna in a barber-versus-gangster chase, released 9 February 2018.
Savaran
The Savaran (سواران), also written Asvaran, were the elite cavalry of the Sasanian Empire, drawn from the great houses and nobles and at their zenith under Khosrow I (531–579).
Savari (ಸವಾರಿ) (2009 film)
Savari (ಸವಾರಿ), also Savaari, is a 2009 Kannada drama directed by Jacob Varghese, a remake of the Telugu film Gamyam, starring Srinagar Kitty, Raghu Mukherjee, and Kamalinee Mukherjee; released 10 April 2009, it became a surprise hit and spawned Savaari 2 (2014).