Amazon

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The Amazons are a nation of female warriors in Greek myth.
Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:
Contents
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1 Geography
2 Commerce
o 2.1 Amazon.com
o 2.2 Other businesses
3 Film
4 Games and sport
5 Land transport
6 Literature
7 Sea transport
8 Television
9 Women's groups and movements
10 Other uses
11 See also
Geography[edit]
Amazon River, in South America
Amazon rainforest, in South America
Amazon Creek, Oregon, United States
Commerce[edit]
Amazon.com[edit]
Amazon.com, an online retailer
Amazon Locker, Amazon.com's self-service parcel-delivery service
Amazon Marketplace, Amazon.com's fixed-price online marketplace
Amazon Publishing, Amazon.com's publishing unit
Amazon Studios, Amazon.com's division that develops comics, movies
and television shows
Other businesses[edit]
Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist bookstore
Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer
Film[edit]
The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent comedy
Amazons (1984 film), an American thriller
Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
Amazon (1997 film), a short documentary
Games and sport[edit]
Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece
Amazons (solitaire), a card game
Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team
Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1992 video game
Game of the Amazons, a board game
The Amazon, a Pro Wrestling character
The Amazon, a Diablo II character
Land transport[edit]
Amazon (automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar
Volvo Amazon, a 1956-1970 mid-size car
Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive operating 1851-1877
Amazon, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive operating 1892-1908
Literature[edit]
Amazons (novel), co-written by Don DeLillo
The Amazon (novella), by Nikolai Leskov
The Amazons (play), by Arthur Wing Pinero
Amazons!, a fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Amazon (comics), a Marvel supervillain
Amazon (Amalgam Comics)
Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters
Sea transport[edit]
Amazon (brigantine), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861
Amazon (yacht), a British screw schooner built 1885
Amazon-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
Amazon-class sloop of the British Royal Navy
HMS Amazon, nine ships of the British Royal Navy
RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Amazone (1843): 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
Amazone (1900): 2,700 ton Gazelle-class light cruiser
USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark
Television[edit]
Amazon (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama
Amazon (2008 TV series), a British documentary series
Amazon, a planned prequel television series to Wonder Woman
Women's groups and movements[edit]
Amazon feminism
Amazonian Guard, a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
Dahomey Amazons, a Fon regiment
Takembeng, a women's social movement in Cameroon
Other uses[edit]
Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
Amazon Theatre, an opera house in Manaus, Brazil
1042 Amazone, an asteroid
Amazonka, an album by Ruslana