Breda (disambiguation)

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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
• Breda, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
• Bréda, a small river in eastern France, tributary of the Isère

People

• Breda Pergar, Yugoslav distance runner
• Ernesto Breda, an Italian engineer and industrialist
  • Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, his manufacturing company
  • AnsaldoBreda, bus and streetcar maker
  • Breda Meccanica Bresciana, small arms maker
• Herman Van Breda, a Belgian monk and philosopher who specialized in Edmund Husserl
• Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda, Dutch biologist
• Toussaint Bréda, better known as Toussaint Louverture

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

• Congress of Breda, negotiations between Great Britain and France to end the War of the Austrian Succession
• Declaration of Breda, in 1660 by Charles II of England paving the way for the English Restoration.
• *Treaty of Breda (1650) and Treaty of Breda (1667), two separate 17th century treaties signed in the Dutch city
• Breda Meccanica Bresciana, an Italian arms manufacturer, often known simply as Breda.
• AnsaldoBreda, a rolling stock manufacturer.
• Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie, a rolling stock manufacturer, often known simply as Breda.

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