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Armada is the Portuguese and Spanish word for naval fleet, or an adjective meaning 'armed'; Armáda (pronounced [ˈarmaːda]) is the Czech and Slovak word for armed forces. It may refer to:
Military
Explorations and military campaigns
- Portuguese India Armadas (armadas da Índia), fleets of ships dispatched from Portugal to India, following the sea route opened up by Vasco da Gama in 1497–1499
- 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500)
- 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501)
- 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502)
- 5th Portuguese India Armada (Albuquerque, 1503)
- 6th Portuguese India Armada (Albergaria, 1504)
- 7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)
Military campaigns
- Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588
- English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal towns from Spain
- Armada of 1779 or Other Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by France and Spain in 1779
Ships
- HMS Armada, two ships in the British Royal Navy
- USS Armada, World War II minesweeper of the US Navy
Armed forces
- Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela, Bolivarian Armada of Venezuela
- Armáda České republiky, the Military of the Czech Republic
- Armada de Chile, Chilean Navy
- Armada Ecuatoriana, Ecuadorian Navy
- Armada Española, Spanish Navy
- Armada Nacional, Colombian National Armada
- Armada Portuguesa, Portuguese Navy
- Armada de la República Argentina, Argentine Navy
- Marina Armada, Mexican Navy
- Armada de Barlovento, a subdivision of the Spanish Navy assigned to the Windward Islands during the 1700s
Products
- Nissan Armada, a model of car
- Transformers: Armada, an animated TV series and toy line, part of Hasbro's Transformers franchise
- The Armada (book) (1959), a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
- Armada (book), a 2015 novel by Ernest Cline
- Mahindra Armada, a model of car
Computing
- Armada (video game), a video game which was popular on the Sega Dreamcast
- Compaq Armada, a model of laptop computer
- Star Trek: Armada, a Star Trek game published by Activision
- Wing Commander: Armada, a video game by Origin Systems
Sports
- Armada Rijeka, a football-fan club from Rijeka, Croatia
- Peña Armada Sur, a football-fan club from Tenerife, Spain
- La Armada, a nickname for the Spain Davis Cup team
- Long Beach Armada, a professional baseball team based in Long Beach, California
- Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, a junior ice hockey team based in Boisbriand, Quebec
- Jacksonville Armada FC, a professional soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida
Business
- Armada (comics), a division of Acclaim Comics Inc., which published licensed own properties
- Armada (company), a company that produces alpine skis and outerwear
- Armada Asset Management, LLC, a holding company based in Newport Beach, CA
- Armada Books, a now defunct publishing house, one time publishers of the Billy Bunter children's novels
- Armada Centre, shopping centre in Plymouth, England
Music
- The Armada (band), a band formed by ex-The Tea Party lead singer Jeff Martin
- Armada (album), an album by black metal band Keep of Kalessin
- Groove Armada, a British big beat duo
- Armada Music, a music label created by Armin van Buuren
People
- Adam Lindgren (born 1993), professional Super Smash Bros. player known as Armada
- General Alfonso Armada, a Spanish military officer condemned as one of the plotters of the 23-F attempted coup
- Juan Armada y Losada, Spanish politician
Places
- Armada, Michigan, a small village in the US
- Armada Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska
- Armada Towers, in Dubai, U.A.E.
- Armada House, in Bristol, England
- Armada Road Multi-Family District, a U.S. historic district in Venice, Florida
Other uses
- Armada (moth), a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family
- Armada (novel), a by Ernest Cline
- Armada (Bas-Lag), the name of a fictional floating city in China Miéville's novel The Scar
- Armada (Capoeira), a move in the Brazilian martial art capoeira
- Armada de Molucca, 1519 exploration fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan
- The Halley Armada, a group of space probes sent to examine Halley's comet
- The Armada gasfields a group of gas fields named after people associated with the Spanish Armada located in the North Sea.
- Black Armada, a collective term for Dutch ships stranded in Australian ports from 1945 to 1949, due to a waterfront labour dispute in support of Indonesian independence
See also
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