Xenia
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Xenia may mean:
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[edit] Thing or concept
- Xenia (Greek), the ancient Greek concept of hospitality
- Xenia motif, the representation of a host's generosity to his guests
- Xenia epigram, an epigram accompanying a present or gift
- Xenia (genus), a genus of coral
[edit] People
- Xenia (name), a romanization of the Cyrillic "Ксения", a feminine given name, more commonly anglicized as "Kseniya" or "Ksenia"
- Xenia, a theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup X (mtDNA)
- Saint Xenia, several people
- Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875-1960), sister of Tsar Nicholas II
- Xenia Desni, a Ukrainian actress of the silent era
- Xenia Seeberg, a German actress best known for appearing in the science fiction television series Lexx
- Xenia Shestova, Russian nun and mother of Mikhail I of Russia
- Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss/Russian fashion model
[edit] Places in the United States
- Xenia, Illinois, a village in Clay County
- Atlanta, Illinois (formerly known as "Xenia"), a city in Logan County
- Xenia, Kansas, an unincorporated community
- Xenia, Missouri, a former town
- Xenia, Ohio, a city in Greene County
- Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, near Xenia, Ohio
[edit] Other uses
- Xenia (poetry), a 1966 anthology of poems by the Italian writer Eugenio Montale
- USS Xenia (AKA-51), an Artemis-class attack transport formerly of the United States Navy, renamed Presidente Errazuriz after transfer to Chile after 1946
- 625 Xenia, an asteroid discovered in 1907
- Xenia (automobile), an American car
- Xenia Onatopp, a fictional villain from James Bond's GoldenEye