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Salavat Yulaev

Salavat Yulaev (Салават Юлаев) was a Bashkir leader of the Peasant War of 1773–75, an associate of Pugachev, and a national hero of the Bashkirs.

Salawat

Salawat, also known as Durood Sharif, is the Islamic invocation of blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad, commanded by Quran 33:56 and recited in every obligatory prayer.

Salaya power plant

The Salaya power plant, also known as Salaya TPP or Salaya I, is a 1,200 MW coal-fired thermal power station near Vadinar in Gujarat, India, owned and operated by Essar Power.

Salaya–Mathura Oil Pipeline

The Salaya–Mathura Oil Pipeline (SMPL) is a 2,660 km crude oil pipeline owned and operated by IndianOil that carries imported and domestic crude from the Gujarat coast to refineries at Koyali, Mathura, and Panipat.

Salbardi

Salbardi (सालबर्डी) is a 2026 Marathi crime mystery thriller directed by Ramesh Sahebrao Choudhari, starring Pooja Sawant as inspector Manorama investigating child murders in a village; released 17 April 2026, later on Prime Video.

Salbutamol

Salbutamol (albuterol; Ventolin) is a short-acting selective beta2 agonist inhaled bronchodilator for asthma and COPD relief, first marketed as an MDI in 1968, with 100 mcg actuations, 4-6 hour action, and CFC-to-HFA reformulation history.

Salcomp

Salcomp is a Finnish charger manufacturer headquartered in Salo, the world's largest maker of mobile phone chargers, wholly owned by China's Lingyi iTech since 2019.

Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay is a large natural bay on South Africa's west coast, about 100 km north of Cape Town, and the country's largest and deepest natural bay.

Saldidae

Saldidae, shore bugs, a family of small predatory true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha) living at water margins worldwide; about 300 species in 30 genera, 2 subfamilies.

Saldino-Mainzer syndrome

Saldino-Mainzer syndrome, also known as Mainzer-Saldino syndrome or conorenal syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive ciliopathy, described in 1970, that combines kidney disease, retinal degeneration, and skeletal dysplasia.

Salé Al Jadida

Salé Al Jadida (Sala Al Jadida, سلا الجديدة) is a planned new town east of Salé, Morocco, launched by Hassan II on 11 July 1995 with 5.5 billion dirhams; a dormitory city of about 400,000 people facing Rabat.

Sale of Goods Act 1979

Sale of Goods Act 1979 (1979 c. 54), UK statute governing sale-of-goods contracts, consolidating the 1893 Act; implies terms on title, description, quality, and fitness; consumer provisions largely replaced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

Sale of the Century

Sale of the Century ($ale of the Century), also known as Temptation in revivals, is a quiz-and-shopping game show format created in the US (NBC 1969) and made famous by Australia's 1980–2001 Nine Network version with Tony Barber and Glenn Ridge.

Sale Sharks

Sale Sharks: English professional rugby union club in the Gallagher Premiership, founded 1861 as Sale FC, the Premiership's oldest club. Premiership champions 2006, Challenge Cup winners 2002 and 2005, based at Salford's CorpAcq Stadium.

Salé, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra

Salé (سلا) is a Moroccan city of 945,101 (2024 census) on the Bouregreg river opposite Rabat, seat of the Salé prefecture in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, founded in the 11th century and served by the Rabat-Salé tramway.

Salea

Salea (spiny lizards, bush lizards) is a genus of three arboreal agamid lizard species of subfamily Draconinae, endemic to montane Western Ghats forests of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India; erected by Gray in 1845, distinct from the fish name Kuhlia salelea.

Saleem Ahmed

Saleem Ahmed (سلیم احمد; 1927 – 1983) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, critic, playwright, and columnist, known for promoting the anti-ghazal trend in Urdu poetry.

Saleem Malik (سلیم ملک)

Saleem Malik (سلیم ملک), born 1963 in Lahore, is a former Pakistan right-handed middle-order batsman; 103 Tests (5,768 runs, avg 43.69), 283 ODIs, 12 Tests as captain, life ban for match-fixing in 2000 overturned by a Lahore court in 2008.

Saleen

Saleen, also known as Saleen Automotive, is an American high-performance vehicle manufacturer founded by racing driver Steve Saleen in 1983, known for modified Ford Mustangs and the S7 supercar.

Saleen S7

The Saleen S7 is an American mid-engine supercar built by Saleen in Irvine, California, from 2000 to 2007, with 550 hp, or 750 hp twin-turbo from 2005.

Saleh al-Ali

Saleh al-Ali (صالح العلي) was a Syrian sheikh who led a revolt against the French occupation of the Syrian coastal mountains from 1918 until his surrender in 1922.

Saleh al-Arouri

Saleh al-Arouri (صالح العاروري), Hamas deputy political bureau chief from 2017 and West Bank leader, founding al-Qassam commander; spent 18 years in Israeli prisons, exiled to Syria, Turkey, Qatar, Lebanon; killed 2 January 2024 in an Israeli drone strike in Beirut.

Saleh al-Jafarawi

Saleh al-Jafarawi (صالح الجعفراوي), known as Mr. FAFO, was a Palestinian freelance journalist from Gaza City who documented the 2023–2025 Gaza war on Instagram, faced debunked crisis-actor accusations, and was shot dead by an armed group on 12 October 2025.

Saleh Mohammadi

Saleh Mohammadi (صالح محمدی), born 2007, Iranian national freestyle wrestler, 2024 Saitiev Cup bronze medalist; executed by hanging March 19, 2026, in Qom after a moharebeh conviction over the January 2026 protests.

Saleka

Saleka (Saleka Night Shyamalan, born 1996) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, daughter of M. Night Shyamalan; debut album Seance (2023) and Lady Raven in Trap (2024).

Salekhard (Салехард)

Salekhard (Салехард), formerly Obdorsk, is the capital of Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, founded in 1595 and the only city directly on the Arctic Circle, on the Ob River with subarctic Dfc climate and ferry-only river crossing.

Salem (TV series)

Salem (2014–2017) is WGN America's first original scripted drama, a supernatural fantasy by Adam Simon and Brannon Braga in which real witches, led by Janet Montgomery's Mary Sibley, drive the 1692 witch trials; three seasons, 36 episodes, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Salem Ahmed Bin Mahfouz

Salem Ahmed Bin Mahfouz was a Saudi businessman of the Jeddah merchant family who came from Hadhramaut, founded the National Commercial Bank in 1953, and established SEDCO in 1976.

Salem Al-Dawsari (سالم محمد شافي الدوسري)

Salem Al-Dawsari (سالم الدوسري), Saudi winger and captain of Al Hilal and Saudi Arabia; scored the winner in the 2-1 upset of Argentina at the 2022 World Cup and is a two-time AFC Player of the Year (2022, 2025).

Salem al-Hazmi

Salem al-Hazmi (سالم الحازمي), Saudi al Qaeda muscle hijacker on American Airlines Flight 77, younger brother of Nawaf al Hazmi; born in Mecca, entered the US 2001, died crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11.