Sala

Sala or SALA may refer to:

Places

Europe

• Sala, the historical name of the river IJssel and home of the Salii Franks
• Sala, a river in Germany mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry V - probably referring to the Saale or Franconian Saale
• Sala Baganza, a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
• Sala Bolognese, a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
• Sala Consilina, a municipality in Campania, Italy
• Sala Municipality, Latvia, a municipality in Latvia
• Sala, Sala Parish, a village in Latvia, an administrative centre of Sala municipality
• Šaľa, Slovakia, a city in Slovakia
• Sala Municipality, Sweden, a municipality in Sweden
• Sala, Sweden, a city in Sweden, seat of Sala Municipality
• Sala (Swedish island), island in Södermanland, Sweden
• Sala (Estonian island), one of the Uhtju islands
• Sala Parish (disambiguation), parish (socken) in Sweden

Africa

• Sala: Local Moroccan name for Salé
• Sala Nova: Medieval Latin name referring to Salé, Morocco
• Sala Vetus: Medieval Latin name referring to Rabat, Morocco
• Sala, Houet, village in Satiri Department, Houet Province, Burkina Faso
• Sala, Ziro, village in Ziro Province, Burkina Faso
• Sala Colonia, a Phoenician and Roman colony whose ruins are located in present-day Chellah, Morocco
• Sala River, Roman name for the Bou Regreg, which marked the southern limit of the province of Mauretania Tingitana

The Americas

• Sala y Gómez Island, a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile

Asia

• Şələ, Azerbaijan
• Sala, Cambodia, village in Cambodia
• Sala, Iran, village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Sala, Cabuyao City, a barangay in the Philippines
• Sala, Lampang, village and sub district in northern Thailand
• Sala Keoku, park in Thailand featuring fantastic concrete sculptures
• Thong Sala, the principal town on Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand
• Amphoe Tha Sala, district in southern Thailand
• Sala (Lydia), an ancient town of Lydia, now in modern Turkey

Buildings

"Sala" means "room" in Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages, and forms part of the name of many rooms in buildings in these countries.

• Sala Lavardén (Spanish, Lavardén Hall), a theater in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina
• Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, renowned ayurvedic clinic in Kalwa, Thane, India, founded in 1902 by P.S. Warrier
• Sala Stadium, stadium in Ashkelon, Israel
• Sala del Tricolore (Reggio Emilia) (Italian, Room of the Tricolor), council chamber of the Reggio Emilia comune, where was born the Flag of Italy
• Sala Palatului (the Palace Hall), a conference hall behind the National Museum of Art of Romania
• Sala Polivalentă (disambiguation), multi-purpose hall in Bucharest, Romania
• Šaľa Stadium, stadium in Šaľa, Slovakia
• Sala (Thai architecture), an open pavilion in the architecture of Thailand
• Sala Apartment Building, Rock Island, Illinois, USA
• Sala Regia (disambiguation) (Regal Room), a state hall of the Vatican Palace
• Śālā, any hall, house, shed or covered space in Indian architecture; also a school (salai, calai)

Music

• Sala Molksa, a 1998 album released by Negură Bunget
• Sala Santa Cecilia (album), a 2005 album performed by Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto

People

Surname

Athletes

• Albert Sala (born 1981), field hockey player from Spain
• Andrea Sala (footballer) (born 1993), Italian footballer
• Carlos Sala (born 1960), retired Spanish hurdler
• Claudio Sala (born 1947), former Italian association football player and current commentator
• Costantino Sala (1913–?), Italian professional football player
• Darío Sala (born 1974), Argentine football goalkeeper
• Emiliano Sala (1990–2019), Argentine football forward
• Giovanni Sala (born 1963), Italian enduro rider and a six-time World Enduro Champion
• Guido Sala (1928–1987), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer
• Lee Sala (born 1926), leading contender for the middleweight boxing crown in the 1940s and 1950s
• Luigi Sala (born 1974), Italian football defender
• Luis Pérez-Sala (born 1959), Catalan-Spanish racing driver
• Manuel Sala (born 1982), Angolan football player
• Marco Sala (1886–1969), Italian professional footballer, who played as a defender
• Marco Sala (born 1999), Italian football defender
• Patrizio Sala (born 1955), Italian former footballer
• Ramón Sala (born 1971), former field hockey defender from Spain
• Valentino Sala (1908–?), Italian professional football player and coach

Musicians

• Alessandro Sala (1816–1890), Italian composer, organist, and pianist
• Flavio Sala (born 1983), Italian Classical guitar player
• Ingrid Sala Santamaria (born 1940), Filipina pianist
• Nicola Sala (1713–1801), Italian composer
• Oskar Sala (1910–2002), 20th-century German composer and pioneer of electronic music
• Pep Sala (born 1960), Catalan musician, songwriter and record producer

Other

• Alessandra Sala, Italian computer scientist
• André Ricard Sala (born 1929), Catalan industrial designer
• Anri Sala (born 1974), contemporary Albanian artist
• Cesare Sala, formerly a Milan-based coachbuilder of extreme opulence
• Emilio Sala (painter) (1850–1910), Spanish painter
• Emilio Sala (sculptor) (1864–1920), Italian sculptor
• Emilio Grau Sala (1911–1975), Catalan painter
• Enric Sala (born 1968), marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
• Galdino della Sala (1096–1176), tenth century Christian saint from Milan, Italy
• George Augustus Sala (1828–1895), British journalist
• Giuseppe Sala (born 1958), Italian politician
• Jean Sala Breitenstein (1900–1986), United States federal judge
• Louis Sala-Molins (born 1935), essayist and political philosophy professor at Paris-I and Toulouse-II universities
• Luc Sala (born 1949), Dutch entrepreneur and writer
• Milagro Sala (born 1964), leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association, Argentina
• Oscar Sala (1922–2010), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
• Ricardo Sala Gaitán, Colombian industrial engineer and politician
• Richard Sala, American cartoonist, illustrator and comic book creator
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin (born 1963), Spanish professor of economics at Columbia University

Forename

• Sala Baker (born 1976), actor and stuntman from Wellington, New Zealand
• Sala Burton (1925–1987), United States Representative from California
• Sala Fa'alogo, New Zealand rugby league player who played professionally for Widnes in the Super League
• Sala, Kannada (South India), folk hero who killed a tiger (see Hoysala Empire#History)

Other

• South Australian Living Artists Festival, visual arts festival known as SALA
• Sāla tree, a type of tree (Pali and Sanskrit "sāla")
• Salak (Salacca zalacca, translated from Thai as "sala"), a tree and its fruit, native to southeast Asia
• Salanoemia sala (maculate lancer), a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae
• I-sala, a type of Fijian headscarf or turban

See also

• Salat, alternative spelling
• Saila, name
• Salar people, an ethnic group from China

• Salas (disambiguation)