Birka (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
Places
- BirkaBirkaDuring the Viking Age, Birka , on the island of Björkö in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient. Björkö is located in Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö...
, a Viking-age trading center in Sweden - The Beryozovye IslandsBeryozovye IslandsBeryozovye Islands , alternatively spelled Berezovye Islands, is an island group in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The islands are situated at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland, just outside the town of Primorsk on the Karelian Isthmus....
in the Gulf of Finland - Birka, Afghanistan, a place in Afghanistan
- The Wagh El-Birket, a former red-light district in Cairo
Ships
- Birka LineBirka LineBirka Line is an Ålandian shipping company that operates a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During the 1970s the company was often marketed as Ålandslinjen...
, an Ålandian shipping company - MS Birka ParadiseMS Birka ParadiseMS Birka Paradise is a cruise ship owned by Birka Line, operated under their Birka Cruises brand. She was built in 2004 by Aker Finnyards at Rauma, Finland.-Concept and construction:...
, a cruise ship owned by Birka Line - Birka Princess, later MS Sea Diamond, a cruise ship operated by Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines
- MS Birka Queen, later MS Norwegian Majesty, a cruise ship owned by Louis Cruise Lines, under charter to Norwegian Cruise Line
- A German hospital ship sunk during WWII by the submarine HMS Triden (N52)HMS Trident (N52)HMS Trident was a British T class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was laid down on 12 January 1937 and was commissioned on 1 October 1939...
Other
- See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=birkat&namespace=0 for various Hebrew prayers
- Birka is the name of a font family by Franko LuinFranko LuinFranko Luin was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967...
, trademarked to Omnibus, available through the Linotype font foundryType foundryA type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...
(see http://www.linotype.com/162/birka-family.html)
See also
- Burka (disambiguation)Burka (disambiguation)Burka or burqa may refer to:*Burqa, a full body cloak worn by some Muslim women*Burka a traditional man's coat made from felt or karakul*Burqa, Ramallah, a village on the West Bank*Burqa, Nablus, a village on the West Bank...
- Burk (disambiguation)
- Berk (disambiguation)
- Birkaland (disambiguation)