Anka
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Anka is a variation of Anna
Anna (given name)
Anna is a Latin form of the Greek name Greek Ἄννα and the Hebrew name Hannah . Anna is in wide use in countries across the world as are its variants Anne, originally a French version of the name, though in use in English speaking countries for hundreds of years, and Ann, which was originally the...

 in Serbian.

Anka may also refer to:

People

  • Paul Anka
    Paul Anka
    Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...

     (born 1941), musician popular mainly in the 1950s and '60s in the United States
  • Darryl Anka
    Darryl Anka
    Darryl Anka started his Hollywood career as a visual and special effects artist who has worked on, among many others, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I Robot, Pirates of the Caribbean, Live Free or Die Hard and Iron Man. After that he started working as a producer and writer...

    , author and creative artist

Fictional characters

  • Arne Anka
    Arne Anka
    Arne Anka is a Swedish comic strip drawn by Charlie Christensen under the pseudonym Alexander Barks from 1983 to 1995. The title character closely resembles Donald Duck...

    , a poet/party duck by the cartoonist Charlie Christensen
  • Anka The Machine-Gunner, a female movie character popular in Russian humor

Other

  • Anka, Nigeria
    Anka, Nigeria
    Anka is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Anka at.It has an area of 2,746 km² and a population of 142,280 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 890....

    , a local government area of Zamfara State
  • Angströmquelle Karlsruhe
    Angströmquelle Karlsruhe
    Angströmquelle Karlsruhe is a synchrotron facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . The facility is operated by the Institute for Synchrotron Radiation and started user operation in 2003....

    , a synchrotron facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany
  • Anka news agency, a news agency based in Ankara, Turkey
  • Anka Air, a Turkish airline
  • Anka SK
    Anka sk
    The sports club Anka Spor Kulübü is a professional men's and women’s, young and PW ice hockey teams from Ankara, Turkey, The men participate in the Turkish Hockey SuperLig and the women in the Turkish Ice Hockey Women's League, Turkish Young's Ice Hockey League and Turkish PW Ice Hockey...

    , an Ankara-based Turkish ice hockey club.
  • Angha, a legendary bird
  • Zumrud-u Anka, a mythological bird of ice that is the Arabian version of the phoenix
  • TAI Anka, a UAV developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries
  • Monascus purpureus
    Monascus purpureus
    Monascus purpureus is a species of mold that is purplish-red in color...

    , also called "red rice", a strain of mold used in Chinese cooking to give sweetness and aroma, as well as to add a red color.
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