Breda (disambiguation)

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Breda may refer to the following:

• Breda, a city in southern Netherlands.
• Breda, a municipality in Selva (comarca), Girona (province), Catalonia, Spain.
• Breda, a city in Iowa, United States.
• The Treaty of Breda, two separate 17th century treaties signed in the Dutch city.
• HMS Breda, a British warship.
• Breda, a genus of jumping spiders.
• Ernesto Breda, an Italian engineer and industrialist, or Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, his manufacturing company or a number of related Italian industrial manufacturing companies including bus and streetcar maker Ansaldobreda, S.P.A. and small arms maker Breda Meccanica Bresciana.
• Toussaint Bréda, better known as Toussaint L'Ouverture.
• Breda Royal Beer, generally known as simply Breda. A Dutch lager sold almost exclusively in the Channel Islands.
• The anglicized form of the Gaelic name Brighid (pronounced "breed") or Bridget, meaning "exalted one".
• A company that manufactures transit vehicles which is now known as Ansaldobreda, S.P.A..
• Herman Van Breda, a Belgian monk and philosopher specialized in Edmund Husserl.