Elissa may refer to:
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Elissa (name)
Elissa is a feminine given name. It is the root of Elizabeth. Its popularity also derives from its use as an alternate name for the legendary Queen Dido.
Closely related names include Alyssa, Elisa, and Eliza. Alternate spellings include Ellis ...
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Dido
Dido ( ; , ), also known as Elissa ( , ), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in Tunisia), in 814 BC.
In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (located ...
, Queen of Carthage in Greek and Roman mythology, also referred to as Elissa or Alyssa
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Elissa (singer)
Elissar Zakaria Khoury (; born 27 October 1971), commonly known as Elissa (), is a Lebanese people, Lebanese singer, actress, television personality and businesswoman. Known for her romantic musical style and emotive vocal performances, she has ...
(born 1971), Lebanese singer and actress
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''Elissa'' (book), a 1900 novel by H. Rider Haggard
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''Elissa'' (ship), a historic sailing ship anchored in Galveston Bay
* Elissa, one of the seven women occurring as narrators in Giovanni Boccaccio's ''
The Decameron
''The Decameron'' (; or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human Comedy (drama), comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy, Comedy'' "''D ...
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Elisa (disambiguation)
The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (, ) is a commonly used analytical biochemistry assay, first described by Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann in 1971. The assay is a solid-phase type of enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence o ...
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Elise (disambiguation)
Elise or Elyse may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Elise, the unidentified person to whom Beethoven dedicated ''Für Elise''
* ''Elise'', a 1979 speculative fiction novel by Ken Grimwood
* ''Élise ou la vraie vie'' (''Elise, or the Real Life' ...
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Eliza (disambiguation)
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to explore communication between humans and machines, ELIZA simulated conversation by using a pattern matching and ...
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Alisa (disambiguation) Alisa is a given name.
Alisa may also refer to:
* Alisa (gravure idol) (born 1989), Japanese gravure idol and actress
* ''Alisa'' (moth), a synonym for moths of the genus ''Agriphila''
* Alisa (Russian band), a Russian hard rock band
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Lisa (disambiguation)
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