What is "sabata"

Sabata may refer to:

• Sabata (city) - an ancient city in Sittacene, also spelled Sabdata
• Victor de Sabata - Italian conductor and composer
• Sabata (film), the first film in the The Sabata Trilogy, a series of Spaghetti westerns
• Sabata - a character in Boktai video game series

Sabata or Sabdata ( Plin. vi. 27. s. 31), was an ancient town of Sittacene, Assyria, probably the same place as the (Sabatha)of Zosimus (iii. 23), which that writer describes as 30 stadia from the ancient Seleuceia. It is also mentioned by Abulfeda (p. 253) under the name of Sabach.

Sabata (, roughly translated as Hey buddy ... that's Sabata, you're finished!), is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Gianfranco Parolini. It is the first film in The Sabata Trilogy by Parolini, and stars Lee Van Cleef as the title character. Parolini had previously had a major success with the first Sartana spaghetti western If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968), but the sequels were given to other directors, such as Giuliano Carnimeo. Producer Alberto Grimaldi contacted Parolini for a similar series of Sabata.