Thule (disambiguation)
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Thule is a name commonly associated with Northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things:
- The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of Scandinavia. In the works of Procopius, it refers to Scandinavia.
- Thule or Thyle (from the ON Þulr "wise-man, sage") was a specific courtly position associated with Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon royalty and chieftains in the Middle Ages.
- The Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit, and their Thule culture
- Qaanaaq, a town in northwest Greenland formerly known as Thule
- The Thule Air Base of the US Air Force, located near Qaanaaq
- Thule Island, a small island in the territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- The Thule Society, an early forerunner of the Nazi Party. See also Thule-Seminar.
- In Thea Beckman's trilogy The Children of Thule, Thule is the name used for Greenland.
- Thule, a fictional planet from the Star Wars universe
- Asteroid 279 Thule
- Thule asteroid group
- Thule, A brand of Icelandic beer.
- White order of Thule, an esoteric nazi association.
- A Swedish manufacturer of car roof racks, among other things.
Ultima Thule may also refer to:
- Ultima Thule, a Swedish nationalist rock group.
- Ultima Thule, an Estonian rock group.
- An album by the band Ostara.
- An album by Polish band Armia and one of the songs on this album.
- A song on the album Ultima by Grzegorz Turnau.
- The name of a short story by Vladimir Nabokov.
- A song book published by the student unions at Luleå University of Technology