Victoria - Definition and Overview

Emperess Victoria of the United Kingdom etc.

There have been a large number of places, people and objects named Victoria:

Places

Cities, towns, suburbs, etc. called Victoria

• Victoria (Australia)
• Victoria, Arkansas, United States of America
• Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  • Victoria (electoral district)
• Victoria de Durango, Durango, Mexico
• Victoria, Grenada
• Victoria, Guanajuato, Mexico
• Victoria, area of the London Borough of Hackney, a ward in South Hackney.
• Victoria, Illinois, United States of America
• Victoria, Indiana, United States of America
  • Victoria National Golf Club, Victoria, Indiana
• Victoria, Kansas, United States of America
• Victoria, Labuan, Malaysia.
• Victoria, Malta (also called Rabat)
• Victoria, Minnesota, United States of America
• Victoria, Newport, Wales
• Victoria, Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Victoria, Romania
• Port Victoria, capital of the Seychelles, pop. 23,000, on the main island Mahe
• Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, United States of America
• Victoria, Virginia, United States of America
• Victoria City is the capital and one of the first British urban settlements in Hong Kong.
• La Victoria de Acentejo is a municipality in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria (in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya) is the largest lake in Africa.

Mount Victoria

Mount Victoria, Wellington, is a prominent landmark and related suburb in the capital of New Zealand.

Mount Victoria, Auckland, is the highest volcano in Devonport, a seaside suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

State of Victoria, Australia

Victoria is a state of Australia, the southernmost mainland state. It is situated in the south eastern corner of the Australian continent.

Transport

• Victoria Coach Station in London, England, United Kingdom
• Victoria railway station in London
• Victoria tube station in London
• Victoria railway station in Manchester, England
• Victoria Bridge, Montreal

Victoria County

Various places in North America are called Victoria County.

Victoria Harbour

Victoria Harbour is the body of water between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula.

Victoria Island

Victoria Island is in the Canadian Arctic. (Victoria, British Columbia, is on an island, but that is Vancouver Island, while Vancouver, British Columbia is on the mainland.)

Victoria Park

Many places around the world are called Victoria Park.

Victoria Peak

Victoria Peak is a mountain on Hong Kong Island.

Victoria Square

Various places around the world are called Victoria Square.

People

British royalty

• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Empress of India, etc (reigned 1837–1901)
• Victorian era
• Her daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick
• Her granddaughter, Princess Victoria Alexandra

Spanish composer (1548–1611)

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Swedish Crown Princess (born 1977)

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

Professional wrestler

Victoria is the stage name of Lisa Marie Varon.

The goddess Victoria

See Victoria (mythology).

Doctor Who character

See Victoria Waterfield.

Institutions

Victoria College

Several colleges around the world are called Victoria College.

Victoria University

Many universities around the world are called Victoria University. See also: University of Victoria.

Other Victoria topics

Asteroid

• 12 Victoria is an asteroid discovered in 1850 by John Russell Hind.

Beers

• Victoria (beer) is the name of a Mexican beer.
• Victoria Bitter is also the name of an unrelated Australian beer, named for the Australian state of Victoria.

Fiction

• Victoria is the name of a fictional cat in the musical Cats.

Game

• Victoria is the name of a PC RTS game released by Paradox Entertainment.

Goddess

• Victoria is the Roman goddess of victory.

Language

• "Victoria" means "victory" in the Latin language and several romance languages. Therefore, Franco's dictatorship in Spain added the phrase de la Victoria to the names of several Spanish locations.

Military

• The Victoria Cross is a Commonwealth medal, first issued in 1856.

Plant

• The waterlily genus Victoria.

Rock music

• Victoria is a song by Biscayne hard rock band Parabellum.
• Victoria is a song by Spanish metal rap group Def Con Dos.

Ships

• Victoria was the first ship to circumnavegate the globe, in the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano.
• Victoria (submarine) is a class of Canadian submarine.

Similar words

Victor

See Victor.

Victorian

See Victorian.

Vitoria

• Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain
• Vitoria, Brazil

See also

• List of places named after Queen Victoria