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Thalassia may refer to:
- Thalassia, Greece, a village in northern Greece
- Thalassia (genus), a genus of seagrass commonly known as "turtle grass"
- Thalassia (queen), a queen of Characene
Thalassia is a marine seagrass genus comprising two known species.
Thalassia (fl. 2nd century BCE) was the wife of Hyspaosines, king of Characene, a small kingdom on the Persian gulf in what is now known as Iraq. Thalassia is a rare Greek name.
Thalassia is known from cuneiform texts found in Babylon, where she appears as Talasi'asu. In these texts it is reported that after the death of her husband in 124 BCE, she tried to install their son on the throne of the kingdom. The son is not named and therefore it remains open whether she was successful. The king following Hyspaosines was Apodakos, he might be this son. Thalassia is also known from a building inscription found on Bahrain, where she is mentioned together with her husband. Here, the Greek version of her name is attested.
Usage examples of "thalassia".
A communications man magnificently took a hand-light -- brought nobody knew why through the perpetual day of Thalassia -- and used stray objects from the pockets of the others to make a generator of microwaves out of iron particles in vegetable oil.