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'''Sita''' may refer to any of the following -

#The Goddess [[Sita Devi]] of Hindu mythology
#The [[Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aeronautique]]
#The singer by name [[Sita (singer)|Sita]].




'''SITA''' '''[[Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aeronautique]]''' is a [[multinational company|multinational]] [[information technology]] company specialising in providing IT services to the [[aviation industry]].

SITA was founded in February [[1949]] as a [[corporative]] by 11 [[airlines]] essentially as an operation at the service of European airlines nurtured in the idea of absolute neutrality.  SITA was at the forefront of many of the technologies that today constitute the [[internet]].  At the time, because there were working with airlines they were already thinking globally for example, they were the first to handle data [[traffic in real time]] via a [[packet switched network]] over [[common carrier leased lines]].

See also [http://www.sita.aero www.sita.aero] and [http://www.equant.com www.equant.com].



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'''Sita''', in [[Hindu mythology]] is the wife of [[Rama]]. She was a foundling, found in a furrow in a ploughed field, and became the adopted daughter of King [[Janaka]]. Thus Sita came to be known as [[Janaki]]. Because of this birth she is sometimes considered a daughter of [[Bhumidevi]]. After marrying Rama, she was kidnapped by King [[Ravana]] of the [[Rakshasa]]s, but rescued by her husband, who then became King of [[Ayodhya]]. She has two sons by Rama, called [[Lava (Ramayana)|Lava]] and [[Kusha]].

She may have been named after a [[goddess]] Sita, who is mentioned once in the [[Rigveda]] as an earth goddess who gives good crops. Her name means "[[furrow]]".

The birth place of Sita is "Punaura" located in [[Sitamarhi]] district of [[Bihar]] state in [[India]]. The other names by which Sita is known are Janaki, Vaidehi and Maithili. 

The story of her kidnapping and subsequent rescue forms the core of the [[Sanskrit]] epic, the [[Ramayana]], written by [[Valmiki]].
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''See also'': [[Sita (singer)]].

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