Jaga
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Jaga may refer to several different things:
- Jaga (kingdom) in present-day Africa, also known as Kasanje, whose people were the Imbangala and often confused with the Yaka further north.
- Jaga (king), the title of an Imbangala king, especially those of the Imbangala state of Kasanje.
- Jaga (Rajasthan), a social caste of genealogists in Rajasthan, India.
- Jaga (Muslim caste)Jaga (Muslim caste)The Jaga are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They are also known as Jagawa and Jagabhatt.- Origin :...
, a Muslim community in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. - Jaga (Kongo), two similar but distinct bands of warriors encountered by the Portuguese in the 16th and 17th centuries in the African kingdom of Kongo.
- JAGA (API), an open source API for implementing genetic algorithms and genetic programming in Java.
- जागना, jāgnā, Hindi, "to be alert, vigilant".
- Baba YagaBaba YagaBaba Yaga or Baba Roga is a haggish or witchlike character in Slavic folklore. She flies around on a giant pestle, kidnaps small children, and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs...
, a witch in Slavic mythology (alternate spelling Baby Jaga). - Geronimo ji-Jaga, black panther.
- Jaga JazzistJaga JazzistJaga Jazzist is an experimental jazz band from Norway that rose to prominence when the BBC named their first album, A Livingroom Hush , the best jazz album of 2002. The core of the band are brothers and main songwriters Lars and Martin Horntveth...
, a Norwegian jazz/electronica/prog-crossover band. - A character from the American animated television series ThunderCatsThunderCatsThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. The series follows the adventures of a group of cat-like humanoid aliens...
. - Jagiellonia BialystokJagiellonia BialystokJagiellonia Białystok is a Polish football club, based in Białystok, that plays in Ekstraklasa.Founded in 1920, Jagiellonia plays home games at Białystok City Stadium. The club won the Polish Cup in 2010, Super Cup and qualified to play in the third round qualification of the UEFA Europa League...
, a Polish football team. - In the BionicleBionicleBionicle is a line of toys by the LEGO Group marketed primarily for 5- to 16-year-olds. The line was launched on December 30, 2000 in Europe and June/July 2001 in Canada and the United States. "Bionicle" is a portmanteau constructed from the words "biological" and "chronicle"...
line of LEGO toys, "Jaga" is a collective term for several scorpion-like species.