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Europa

In GreekMythology a Phoenician princess. As ZeuS saw her he fell in love with her. He assumes the guise of a bull and kidnaped her to Crete. She bore him some childs, King Minos and Rhabda Manthus.

Europa is also the spelling of Europe in languages like Greek and Latin. Thus, for instance, its appearance on postage stamps commemorating a "United Europe" first issued in 1956.