Saros
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Saros, Şaroş or Sáros may refer to:
- Saros (astronomy), an 18-year period, across which lunar and solar eclipses repeat
- Saros (band)Saros (band)Saros is a progressive death / doom metal band based out of San Francisco, California. The band was formed in 2004 and has released a demo and one full length . The album features the band's distinct epic song structure, melded to fast paced melodic riffing...
, an American band - Saros (Nigeria)Saros (Nigeria)Saros or Creoles in Nigeria during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century were freed slaves who migrated to Nigeria in the beginning of the 1830s. They were known locally as Saros or Amaros: migrants from Brazil and Cuba. Saros and Amaros also settled in other West African countries...
, descendants of free slaves from Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
who migrated to NigeriaNigeriaNigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in... - Saros (software)Saros (software)Saros is an Eclipse plug-in for distributed collaborative text editing that can support arbitrarily many participants at once.It can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from simple remote code review, over Remote pair programming, through to variants of Side-by-side programming with more than...
an Eclipse plug-in for distributed collaborative text editing
- SS SarosSS SarosThe Saros was a 2044 ton steamship which was wrecked at Point Hicks, in what is now Croajingolong National Park. Helmed by a Captain Aitken, it left Geelong bound for Sydney on 23 December 1937, but ran aground in heavy fog...
, a shipwreck off the southeast coast of Australia
Places
- Gulf of Saros, an inlet of the Aegean Sea
- Sáros countySáros countySáros was a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northeastern Slovakia...
, a former division (vármegyeComitatus (Kingdom of Hungary)A county is the name of a type of administrative units in the Kingdom of Hungary and in Hungary from the 10th century until the present day....
) of the Kingdom of Hungary - ŞoarşSoarsŞoarş is a commune in Braşov County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Bărcuţ, Felmer, Rodbav, Seliştat and Şoarş. Every one of these has a fortified church....
, Braşov County, a commune in Romania - Şaroş River (disambiguation), several rivers of Romania
- Şaroş pe Târnave , a village in DumbrăveniDumbraveniDumbrăveni is a town in the north of Sibiu County, in the centre of Transylvania, central Romania...
town, Sibiu County, Romania
See also
- ŠarišŠarišFor the beer brand see Šariš .Šariš is the traditional name of a region situated in northeastern Slovakia. It encompasses the territory of the former Sáros county.-History:...
, SlovakSlovakizationSlovakization or Slovakisation is a term used to describe a cultural change in which ethnically non-Slovak people are made to become Slovak. The process can be named as 'accelerated assimilation'....
form; a historical region of Slovakia - Sárosi (Sárosy, Sárossi, Sárossy), Hungarian surnames meaning 'from Sáros'