Besa or BESA may refer to:

Arts & entertainment

* ''Besa'' (newspaper), a newspaper published in Albania * ''Besa'' (TV series), a Serbian-British television series produced by Adrenalin and Red Planet Pictures * ''The Besa'', a novel by Albanian-American actress, author, producer and humanitarian

Masiela Lusha Masiela Lusha (; born October 23, 1985) is an Albanian-born American actress and author. She gained recognition for playing Carmen Lopez on the globally syndicated ABC sitcom '' George Lopez'', a role that earned her two consecutive Young Art ...

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Solemn Promise ''Solemn Promise'' () is a 2009 Serbian drama film directed by Srđan Karanović. The film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist. Plot The film po ...

'' (), a 2009 Serbian drama film directed by Srđan Karanović

Organizations

Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies The Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) is an Israeli think tank affiliated with Bar-Ilan University and supported by the NATO ''Mediterranean Initiative'', conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global st ...

(BESA Center), an Israeli think tank * British Educational Suppliers Association, a trade association of manufacturers and distributors of equipment for the education market *

Building Engineering Services Association The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA), until 2012 the Heating and Ventilating Contractors' Association, and from then until 2016, B&ES, is the main UK trade association for companies that design, install, commission and maintain he ...

, the main UK trade association for HVACR companies

Football

FC Besa Pejë Football Club Besa Peja () is a football club based in Peja, Kosovo. Their home ground is Shahin Haxhiislami and they compete in the Second Football League of Kosovo. The club went defunct after having lots of financial problems and not being abl ...

, a football club based in Peja, Kosovo *

KF Besa Kavajë Klubi i Futbollit Besa Kavajë is an Albanian professional association football, football club based in Kavajë. They are currently competing in Kategoria e Parë, the second tier of Football in Albania, Albanian football. Their home ground is B ...

, a professional Albanian football club based in Kavajë *

KF Besa Sllupçan KF Besa Sllupçan (, ''FK Besa'') is a football club based in the village of Sllupçan near Kumanovo, North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land ...

, a football club based in the village of Sllupçan near Kumanovo, North Macedonia

Places

Besa (Attica) Besa () was a deme of ancient Athens, situated in the mining district, midway between Anaphlystus and Thoricus,Xenophon, ''Vect.'' 4.43-44. and 300 stadia from Athens main city. Xenophon Xenophon of Athens (; ; 355/354 BC) was a Greek milita ...

, a deme of ancient Athens *

Beša, Levice District Beša (, ) is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia. Genealogical resources The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv" in Nitra, Slovakia. * Rom ...

, a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia *

Beša, Michalovce District Beša () is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia. History In history, historical records the village was first mentioned in 1260. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 191 ...

, a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia * Besa, an Egyptian village located near the Hadrian-founded city of

Antinoöpolis Antinoöpolis (also Antinoopolis, Antinoë, Antinopolis; ; ''Antinow''; , modern , modern ''Sheikh 'Ibada'' or ''Sheik Abāda'') was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young belov ...

Daneș Daneș ( Hungarian: ''Dános'', Hungarian pronunciation: ; ) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania, near Sighișoara. It is composed of four villages: Criș, Daneș, Seleuș and Stejărenii (''Beșa'' until 1960). The route of the V ...

(previously Beșa), a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania

Other

Banco Económico (Angola) Banco Económico, formerly Banco Espírito Santo Angola (BESA) renamed in 2015, after the bankruptcy of its mother house in Portugal, Banco Espírito Santo (BES), is an Angolan bank based in Luanda. Previously, BESA was affiliated with the now de ...

(previously Banco Espírito Santo Angola), an Angolan bank based in Luanda *

Besa (Albanian culture) Besa ( Albanian indefinite form: ) is an Albanian cultural precept, usually translated as "pledge of honor", "solemn faith" or "solemn oath", that means "to keep the promise" and "word of honor", regarded as something sacred and inviolable. ''Be ...

, an Albanian cultural precept that means "to keep the promise" and "word of honor" *

Besa (singer) Besa Kokëdhima (; born 29 May 1986), also known mononymously as Besa, is an Albanian singer. In 2013, she won the 15th edition of . She represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Titan". Life and career Kokëdhi ...

(born 1986), Albanian singer and songwriter *

Besa machine gun The Besa machine gun was a British version of the Czechoslovak ZB-53 air-cooled, belt-fed machine gun (called the TK vz. 37 in the Czechoslovak army"TK" from ''těžký kulomet'' "heavy machine gun"; "vz" from ''vzor'' "Model"). The name ca ...

, a British version of the Czechoslovak ZB-53 air-cooled, belt-fed machine gun *

Besa River Besa River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Prophet River. The river flows through the Muskwa Ranges, and is the backbone of the Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, part of the larger Muskwa-Kechika Managemen ...

, a waterway in northern British Columbia, Canada * Besa, a denomination of the

Italian Somaliland rupia The Somali rupia (plural: ''rupie'', Somali: روپيا) was the currency in Italian Somaliland from 1909 to 1925. It was subdivided into 100 ''bese'' (singular: ''besa'', Somali: بيزا). History The Somali Rupia was introduced between 1909 and ...

* Besa, a genus of algae in the order

Gigartinales Gigartinales is a red algae order in the class Florideophyceae Florideophyceae is a class of exclusively multicellular red algae. They were once thought to be the only algae to bear pit connections, but these have since been found in the fila ...

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