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Salem

Salem often refers to:

Salem, Massachusetts, a city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts
Salem, Oregon, the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon
Salem, Tamil Nadu, a city in India and the largest municipality with the name

Salem may also refer to:

Places

Canada
Salem, Ontario

Germany
Salem, Baden-Württemberg
Salem Abbey (Reichskloster Salem), a monastery
Schule Schloss Salem, Germany (also referred to as Salem College, with a section called Salem International College)
Salem, Schleswig-Holstein

India
Salem, Tamil Nadu, a city of 700,000
Salem district, the district of Tamil Nadu in which the city of Salem is located

Israel
Salem, a place mentioned in Genesis 14:18
See also West Bank

Palestinian National Authority
Salem, West Bank

Spain
Salem, Valencia

Sweden
Salem, Sweden
Salem Municipality

United Kingdom
Salem, Greater Manchester, within Oldham, England
Salem, village near Llandeilo, Wales
Salem, above Penrhyn-coch, Wales
Salem, Montserrat

United States
Salem, Alabama
Salem, Fulton County, Arkansas
Salem, Saline County, Arkansas
Salem, Connecticut
Salem, Florida
Salem, Georgia
Salem, Illinois
Salem, Adams County, Indiana
Salem, Indiana (Washington County)
Salem, Jay County, Indiana
Salem, Iowa
Salem, Kentucky
Salem, Maine
Salem, Maryland
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem witch trials
Salem Harbor
Salem Sound, a body of water
Salem Channel, a part of the Salem Sound
Salem, Michigan
Salem, Mississippi
Salem, Missouri
Salem, Montana
Salem, Nebraska
Salem, New Hampshire
Salem, New Jersey
Salem Nuclear Power Plant
Salem River, a tributary of the Delaware River
Salem, New Mexico
Salem, New York
Salem, an earlier name of Brocton, New York
Salem, North Carolina
Salem, Ohio
Salem, Oklahoma
Salem, Oregon, the state capital
Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area
Salem (Amtrak station), a railroad station
Salem, Pennsylvania
Salem, South Carolina
Salem, South Dakota
Salem, Texas, in Newton County
Salem, Utah
Salem, Virginia
Salem, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Salem, West Virginia
Salem, Wisconsin
Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Salem, Pierce County, Wisconsin

West Bank
Salem, the official spelling of Salim, Nablus

Variants
East Salem, Pennsylvania
Lower Salem, Ohio
New Salem (disambiguation)
Salem Township
West Salem (disambiguation)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Old Salem, a history museum in Winston-Salem

People

Abu Salem, accused in the 1993 Bombay bombings
Emad Salem, an FBI informant
Mamdouh Salem, former Prime Minister of Egypt 1975-1978
Pamela Salem, a British film and television actress
Peter Salem, a black slave who lived during the American Revolution
Raphaël Salem, a Greek-Sephardic mathematician after whom are named the Salem numbers and whose widow founded the Salem Prize
Salem Al Fakir, a Swedish musician
Salem al-Hazmi, one of five men named as a hijacker in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Salem Chalabi, an Iraqi-American lawyer
Salem Poor, a black soldier who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Educational institutions

Salem Castle School, Germany (sometimes also referred to as Salem College and with a section called Salem International College)
Salem Academy, North Carolina
Salem College, North Carolina
Salem State College, Massachusetts
Salem International University, West Virginia
Salem High School, several in the United States

Religious institutions

Salem Methodist Church Complex (Ohio)

Mathematics and science

Salem number
Salem Prize, in mathematics
Salem hypothesis, in the creationism/evolution debate

Art, literature and press

Salem's Lot, a horror novel by Stephen King
Salem Monthly, an alternative newspaper in Salem, Oregon
Salem (Vosper painting), a painting by Sydney Curnow Vosper

Entertainment

Music

Salem (band), an Israeli extreme metal band
Salem (UK), a 1980s heavy rock band from Hull, UK
Salem (US band), an indie rock band from the United States
Salem Highballers, the recording name given to the McCray Family

Television

Salem (Days of our Lives), the fictional setting of the U.S. soap opera Days of our Lives
Salem Saberhagen, a cat in the comic book and television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

Sports teams

Salem Red Sox, a minor league baseball team in Salem, Virginia
Salem Stampede, a Salem, Oregon team in the International Basketball League
Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a minor league baseball team in Keizer, Oregon

Business

Salem Communications, a Christian company with divisions in radio, print, and web
Salem (cigarette)

Other

USS Salem, the name of three ships of the United States Navy
Salem (supertanker), involved in maritime insurance fraud
Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge, a covered bridge in Alabama, United States
Salem Airport, list of airports associated with the name Salem

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Salem" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Slovak, Finnish, Turkish, Volapük.

Translation(s) in other languages: Danish: Salem (flertydig), Korean: 세일럼, Hebrew: סאלם, Japanese: セイラム, Portuguese: Salém, Russian: Сейлем, Swedish: Salem (olika betydelser).


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