Armada

Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet. Armáda is the Czech and Slovak word for armed forces.

Armada may also refer to:

Military

Explorations and military campaigns

• Portuguese India Armadas (armadas da Índia), fleets of ships dispatched from Portugal to India, following the sea route opened up by Vasco da Gama in 1497–1499
• 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500)
• 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501)
• 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502)
• 5th Portuguese India Armada (Albuquerque, 1503)
• 6th Portuguese India Armada (Albergaria, 1504)
• 7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)

Military campaigns

• Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessful attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588
• English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal towns from Spain
• 2nd Spanish Armada, a second unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England in 1596
• 3rd Spanish Armada, a third unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England in 1597
• 4th Spanish Armada, a fourth unsuccessful Spanish invasion, this time via Ireland in 1601
• Armada of 1779, an unsuccessful attempt to invade England by France and Spain in 1779

Ships

• HMS Armada, two ships in the British Royal Navy
• USS Armada (AM-145), a World War II minesweeper of the US Navy

Armed forces

• Armada, the Spanish Navy
• Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela, the Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela
• Armáda České republiky, the Military of the Czech Republic
• Armada de Chile, the Chilean Navy
• Armada Ecuatoriana, the Ecuadorian Navy
• Armada Nacional, the Colombian National Armada
• Armada Portuguesa, the Portuguese Navy
• Armada de la República Argentina, the Argentine Navy
• Marina Armada, the Mexican Navy
• Armada de Barlovento, a subdivision of the Spanish Navy assigned to the Windward Islands during the 1700s
• Komando Armada Barat (Western Fleet Command) and Komando Armada Timur (Eastern Fleet Command), fleets of the Indonesian Navy

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Armada (album), an album by black metal band Keep of Kalessin
• The Armada (band), a band formed by ex-The Tea Party lead singer Jeff Martin
• Armada Music, a music label created by Armin van Buuren
• La Armada, Dominican-American hardcore punk band

Gaming

• Armada (video game), a video game
• Star Trek: Armada, a Star Trek video game
• Wing Commander: Armada, a video game by Origin Systems
• Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, a Warhammer 40,000 game

Publishing

• Armada (novel), a 2015 novel by Ernest Cline
• The Armada (book) (1959), a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
• Armada (comics), a division of Acclaim Comics Inc., which published licensed own properties
• Armada Books, a defunct publishing house

Television

• Transformers: Armada
• "Armada", an episode of Transformers: Prime

Businesses

• Armada (company), a company that produces alpine skis and outerwear
• Armada Centre, a shopping centre in Plymouth, England
• Armada Music, an independent record label based in the Netherlands

People

• Armada (gamer) (Adam Lindgren, born 1993), professional Super Smash Bros. player
• General Alfonso Armada, a Spanish military officer condemned as one of the plotters of the 23-F attempted coup
• Juan Armada y Losada (1861–1932), Spanish politician

Places

• Armada, Arkansas, a ghost town
• Armada, Michigan, a small village in the US
• Armada House, Bristol, in Bristol, England
• Armada Road Multi-Family District, a U.S. historic district in Venice, Florida
• Armada Towers, in Dubai, U.A.E.
• Armada Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska

Sports teams

• Armada Rijeka, a football-fan club from Rijeka, Croatia
• La Armada, a nickname for the Spain Davis Cup team
• Long Beach Armada, a professional baseball team based in Long Beach, California
• Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, a junior ice hockey team based in Boisbriand, Quebec
• Jacksonville Armada FC, a professional soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida

Transportation

• Mahindra Armada, an Indian SUV/MUV
• Nissan Armada, a Japanese-American full-size SUV

Other uses

• Armada (Bas-Lag), the name of a fictional floating city in China Miéville's novel The Scar
• Armada (Capoeira), a move in the Brazilian martial art capoeira
• Armada (moth), a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae
• Armada de Molucca, a 1519 exploration fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan
• Compaq Armada, a model of laptop computer

See also

• Armado (disambiguation)
• Armata (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Armada
• All pages with titles containing armada