Bertha
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| Gender | Female |
| Meaning | Old German for bright |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Bertha |
Bertha is a female given name, which is derived from the Old High German word berht meaning "bright".
- Berchta (Bertha, Percht, Perchta), a goddess in South German mythology
- women called Bertha
- Bertha of Kent (539-c. 612), queen of Kent
- Saint Bertha of Val d'Or (d. c. 690), abbess
- Saint Bertha of Artois (d. c. 725), daughter of Count Rigobert
- Bertrada of Laon (also called Bertha with the big feet) (720 – July 12, 783), Frankish queen
- Saint Bertha of Bingen (fl. c. 840?), mother of Saint Rupert of Bingen
- Bertha, a daughter of Charlemagne
- Bertha, daughter of Lothair II
- Bertha of Burgundy, queen of France
- Bertha of Holland, queen of France
- Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine empress
- Bertha of Swabia, queen of Burgundy
- Bertha von Putelendorf, Saxon noble
- Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist
- Blessed Bertha de Bardi Florence; (d. 24 March 1163)
- Sándor Bertha (August 19, 1843 - November 24, 1912), Hungarian composer
- Berta Grosser, German actress
- Bertha Sánchez, Colombian long-distance runner
- Common spelling of the Hungarian Name, Berta
It can also refer to:
- Big Bertha (Howitzer) ("Dicke Bertha"), nickname of several World War I artillery weapons
- a Victorian type of ladies' collar.
- Hurricane Bertha (disambiguation) for other storms named
- Hurricane Bertha, Atlantic hurricane in 1996
- 154 Bertha, an asteroid.
- Bertha or Berta people, an ethnic group from eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.
toponymy
popular culture:
- Big Bertha (drum), the so-called "largest drum in the world", owned by the Longhorn Band of the University of Texas at Austin
- Bertha (TV series), a stop-motion animated BBC children's series of 13 parts
- "Bertha (song)", by the Grateful Dead
- Bertha (Rorem), an opera by Ned Rorem.
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