Breda (disambiguation)

Breda (disambiguation)

Breda is a city in the southern Netherlands.

Breda may also refer to the following:

Places

* Breda, Girona, a municipality in Selva comarca, Girona province, Catalonia, Spain
* Breda, Iowa, a small city in the United States
* Breda di Piave, a commune in the Treviso province, Italy

People

* Ernesto Breda, an Italian engineer and industrialist
**Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, his manufacturing company
**Ansaldobreda, S.P.A., bus and streetcar maker
**Breda Meccanica Bresciana, small arms maker
* Herman Van Breda, a Belgian monk and philosopher who specialized in Edmund Husserl
* Toussaint Bréda, better known as Toussaint Louverture
* The anglicized form of the Gaelic name Brighid (pronounced "breed") or Bridget, meaning "exalted one"

Other uses

* HMS "Breda", four different British warships
* SS Breda, a Dutch cargo ship sunk in 1940
* "Breda" (genus), a genus of jumping spiders
* Breda Royal Beer, generally known as simply "Breda", a Dutch lager sold almost exclusively in the Channel Islands

See also

* The Treaty of Breda, two separate 17th century treaties signed in the Dutch city


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