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Amazon usually refers to:

• Amazons, a mythical tribe of woman warriors
• Amazon River, in South America
• Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
• Amazon (company), an online retailer

Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

Video Amazon

Places

• Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries
• Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river
• Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin
• Amazon Creek, Oregon, United States

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Organizations

Businesses

• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a former feminist bookstore
• Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer

Military units

• Amazons Company, a Greek ceremonial female battalion
• Amazonian Guard, or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
• Dahomey Amazons, a Fon regiment

Other organizations

• Takembeng, or les Amazones des SDF, a women's social movement in Cameroon

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Art, entertainment, and media

Characters

• Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer
• Amazon (Amalgam Comics)
• Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters
• The Amazon, a Pro Wrestling character
• The Amazon, a Diablo II character

Film

• The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent tragedy
• War Goddess, also known as The Amazons, a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama
• Amazons (1984 film), an American thriller
• Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
• Amazon (1997 film), a short documentary
• Amazon (1990 film), a 1990 drama
• Amazon (2000 film), a 2000 French film

Games

• Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece
• Amazons (solitaire), a card game
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1991 video game
• Game of the Amazons, a board game
• Amazon (video game), a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game

Literature

• 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
• Swallows and Amazons series, a series of twelve children's books by Arthur Ransome

Television

• Amazon (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a British documentary series

Music

• The Amazons (band), a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire

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People

• Amazon, nom de guerre of a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
• Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder
• Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress

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Vehicles

Land

• 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

Ships

• 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
• SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
• SMS Amazone, a 1900 2,700 ton Gazelle-class light cruiser
• USS Amazon (1861), a United States Navy bark
• Amazon (1780 ship), launched in France in 1775 under another name

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Other uses

• Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team
• 1042 Amazone, an asteroid
• Female equestrians, in Greece
• Amazon (color), a variant of jungle green

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See also

• Amazon parrot
• Amazonka, a 2008 album by Ruslana
• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Amazonia (disambiguation)
• Amason (disambiguation)
• Amazonian (disambiguation)

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