Abilene

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Abilene may refer to:

Places

United States

  • Abilene, Kansas
  • Abilene, Texas
  • Abilene, Texas metropolitan area
  • Abilene, Virginia
  • Abilene State Park, near Abilene, Texas
  • Abilene Trail, from Texas to Abilene, Kansas, used in the 19th century

Elsewhere

  • Abilene (ancient), a plain in Syria on the eastern slope of Anti-Lebanon mountain range
  • Abilene, Alberta, Canada

Films

  • Abilene Town, a 1946 western film starring Randolph Scott
  • Gunfighters of Abilene, a 1960 film starring Buster Crabbe
  • Gunfight in Abilene, a 1967 western film starring Bobby Darin and Leslie Nielsen
  • Abilene (film), a 1999 drama film starring Ernest Borgnine

Military

  • Operation Abilene (1966), a joint US-Australian military operation in 1966 during the Vietnam War
  • Operation Abilene (2003), a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War
  • USS Abilene (PF-58), a 1943 Tacoma-class US navy frigate named after Abilene, Kansas
  • Abilene Trophy, awarded annually to the community in Air Mobility Command

Other uses

  • Abilene Christian University. Abilene, Texas
  • Abilene Network, the American national academic backbone network
  • Abilene paradox, a form of dysfunctional group dynamics
  • "Abilene" (song), a 1963 song recorded by George Hamilton IV
  • Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, in Abilene, Kansas
  • Abilene and Southern Railway, taken over by Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1978
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