Sylvania

Sylvania literally means 'forest land'. Ít is used to mean several different things:

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• Sylvania is the name of several places in the United States of America and elsewhere:
• Sylvania, Alabama, USA
• Sylvania, Georgia, USA
• Sylvania, Ohio, USA
• Sylvania, New South Wales and Sylvania Waters, New South Wales, suburbs of Sydney, Australia
• Sylvania Waters is also the name of a 1992 Australian reality television show.
• Sylvania is also the name of a company manufacturing electrical devices; once a subsidiary of General Telephone and Electronics, it now is a subsidiary of the German company Osram.
• Sylvania is the a fictional country from the movie Duck Soup.
• Sylvania, furthermore, is also the fictional place that is the home to the Sylvanian Families toy line.
• Sylvania, is additionally the name of an imperial province infested with vampires in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game.