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Sitia UNESCO Global Geopark
Sitia UNESCO Global Geopark, easternmost Crete, Greece, designated 2015; 713.5 km2, Municipality of Sitia; known for Deinotherium fossils, Pleistocene mammals, over 170 caves, and karst geotourism.
Sitih
Sitih (Tsidil, tsìdìł) is a traditional Diné (Navajo) race game from Arizona: forty stones in a circle, three marked sticks thrown as dice, tied to Changing Woman and now used in classrooms.
SiTime
SiTime Corporation (Nasdaq: SITM) is a Santa Clara, California fabless semiconductor company making MEMS-based precision timing components as alternatives to quartz, acquired by MegaChips in 2014 and later returned to public markets.
Sitio Conte
Sitio Conte is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Coclé province, Panama, an elite cemetery dated 450 to 900 AD whose richly furnished graves became the type example of a ranked chiefdom society.
Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (The Yellow Woodpecker Farm) is a series of 23 Brazilian children's books by Monteiro Lobato, set on Dona Benta's farm and published from 1920 to 1947.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, formerly Sítio Santo Antônio da Bica, is Roberto Burle Marx's former home and landscape laboratory in Barra de Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, holding over 3,500 plant species and inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage cultural landscape in 2021.
Sitio Royalties Corp.
Sitio Royalties Corp. was a Denver-based oil and gas mineral and royalty company focused on the Permian Basin, traded on the NYSE as STR until Viper Energy acquired it in 2025.
Sitka deer
Sitka deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis), Sitka black-tailed deer, a small coastal subspecies of mule deer native to Southeast Alaska and north-coastal British Columbia rainforests, transplanted to Kodiak and Prince William Sound, dependent on old-growth winter habitat.
Sitka spruce
Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), also called tideland spruce, is the largest spruce, growing on the Pacific coast from Alaska to California and exceeding 100 m.
Sitka, Alaska
Sitka (Tlingit Shee Atika) is a city and borough on Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska, accessible only by air or boat. Former Russian America capital New Archangel, site of the 1804 battle and the 1867 Alaska Purchase transfer; population about 8,300.
Sitkvis Kona
Sitkvis Kona (Georgian: სიტყვის კონა, "bundle of words"), also called the Georgian Dictionary, is the first complete explanatory dictionary of the Georgian language, compiled by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.
Sitneprotafib
Sitneprotafib (JAB-3312, AST-24082) is Jacobio Pharma's oral allosteric SHP2 (PTPN11) inhibitor for cancer; second SHP2 inhibitor in FDA clinical development and first to reach Phase III, combined with glecirasib in KRAS G12C NSCLC.
Sitokiren
Sitokiren (SPH3127, Sintolan, Xintuoan) is an oral non-peptide direct renin inhibitor developed by Shanghai Pharmaceuticals; approved in China 9 December 2025 for hypertension, noninferior to valsartan in a phase III trial.
Siton Undae
Siton Undae, a large Martian dune field (unda) near Escorial Crater in the northern plains, centered at 75.55°N, 297.28°E, about 223 km across; one of three main sites of Martian wedge dunes, with Abalos and Aspledon Undae.
Sitopaladi Curna
Sitopaladi Curna (सितोपलादि चूर्ण), also Sitopaladi Churna, is a classical Ayurvedic five-ingredient powder (rock sugar, bamboo manna, pippali, cardamom, cinnamon at 16:8:4:2:1) used for cough and respiratory disorders, with limited clinical trial evidence.
Sitor Situmorang
Sitor Situmorang (1924–2014), born Raja Usu Situmorang, was an Indonesian poet, journalist, and dramatist of Batak origin, a leading figure of the postwar Angkatan '45 literary generation.
Sitra Oil and Gas Field
The Sitra Oil and Gas Field is a producing oil and gas field in Egypt's north Western Desert, discovered in 1982 with its main Sitra 8 block.
Sitracima
Sitracima (Sindicato de Trabajadores de Cimatextiles) was Guatemala's first maquila-sector union, organized in 2001 by women at the Cimatextiles factory, affiliated to FESTRAS, which signed a 2003 collective agreement with SITRACHOI before the factory closed in 2007.
Sitravatinib
Sitravatinib (MGCD516) is an oral multitargeted receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting TAM and split family kinases; tested with checkpoint inhibitors in RCC and NSCLC, its development was discontinued after Phase 3 trials missed their endpoints.
Sitre
Sitre was an Egyptian queen of the early 19th Dynasty, wife of Ramesses I and mother of Seti I, buried in tomb QV38 in the Valley of the Queens.
Sitt al-Mulk
Sitt al-Mulk (ست الملك) was a Fatimid princess, daughter of al-Aziz and half-sister of al-Hakim, who ruled as regent for al-Zahir from 1021 to 1023.
Sittace
Sittace (Σιττάκη, also Sittake) was an ancient city in Sittakene, near the Tigris southeast of Artemita, capital of the region per Pliny; mentioned by Xenophon and Ptolemy, now unlocated.
Sittalai Sattanar
Sittalai Sattanar (சீத்தலைச் சாத்தனார்) was a Tamil Buddhist poet, critic, and grain merchant of Madurai, author of the Manimekalai, one of the five great Tamil epics.
Sittanavasal Cave
Sittanavasal Cave (சித்தன்னவாசல்), called Arivar Koil, is a rock-cut Jain cave temple in Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, India, celebrated for early medieval murals of the Jain Samavasarana, ranked after Ajanta.
Sittanavasal paintings
The Sittanavasal paintings are 7th- to 9th-century Jain murals in the Arivar Koil cave temple at Sittanavasal, Tamil Nadu, among South India's earliest surviving murals and principal early Jain wall painting.
Sitti Nurbaya
Sitti Nurbaya, also spelled Siti Nurbaya, is a 1922 Indonesian novel by Marah Rusli about two Minangkabau lovers whose marriage plans are destroyed by debt and forced marriage.
Sitting
Sitting, the supported resting posture of humans, spans chair history from Song dynasty China to modern ergonomics; prolonged sitting raises spinal load, reduces vascular function, and is best countered by posture variation rather than standing alone.
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull (Tatanka-Iyotanka), Hunkpapa Lakota leader born 1831–1837, resisted the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, led the non-treaty Lakota, was present at the 1876 Little Bighorn victory over Custer, and was killed December 15, 1890 during arrest amid Ghost Dance fears.
Sitting Target
Sitting Target (1972) is a British crime thriller directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, and Ian McShane, based on Laurence Henderson's 1970 novel, about an escaped convict hunting his unfaithful pregnant wife; noted for an X rating for violence and Clapham Junction filming.
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is a town in Swale, Kent, England, on Milton Creek beside Roman Watling Street (A2). Known as a pilgrim and coaching stop, then for brickmaking (Smeed Dean) and Edward Lloyd's newsprint mill, closed 2007.