Tristan (disambiguation)

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Tristan is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

Tristan may also refer to:

Places

  • Tristan (Guinea), the largest island in the Tristan and Capken Islands
  • Tristan da Cunha, a British volcanic island and eponymous archipelago in the mid-south Atlantic, often shortened to "Tristan"
  • Tristan Island or the Île Tristan, located at the mouth of the Pouldavid Estuary off the French port of Douarnenez in south-western Brittany
  • Tristan hotspot, a volcanic hotspot which is responsible for the volcanic activity which forms the volcanoes in the southern Atlantic Ocean

Literature

  • Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Thomas of Britain
  • Tristan, a 12th-century French poem by Béroul
  • Tristan, a 13th-century German poem by Gottfried von Strassburg
  • Tristan (novella), a 1903 novella by Thomas Mann
  • The Tristan Betrayal, a novel by Robert Ludlum
  • Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose), an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance

Music

  • Tristan (musician) or Tristan Cooke (born 1970), British psytrance and Goa trance DJ and producer
  • Tristan (Henze), composition for piano, tape and orchestra by Hans Werner Henze
  • "Tristan" (song), by Patrick Wolf from his second album Wind in the Wires
  • Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner
  • The Tristan chord, a variant on the half-diminished chord

Science and Technology

  • Tristan (dinosaur), a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen
  • TRISTAN, a particle accelerator at KEK in Japan

Other uses

  • Tristan (name), a moderately common male given name
  • Tristan (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Tristan
  • All pages with titles containing Tristan
  • Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation)
  • Tristam (disambiguation)
  • Tristram (disambiguation)
  • Tristrant, a 13th-century German poem by Eilhart von Oberge
  • Sir Tristrem
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