Bertha

Bertha

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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
** Saint Bertha of Kent (539-c. 612), Queen of Kent
** Saint Bertha of Val d'Or (d. c. 690), Abbess
** Saint Bertha of Artois (mid 7th century - July 4, 725), Abbess, daughter of Count Rigobert and Ursana
** 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
** Bertha Wilson, first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
** Blessed Bertha de Bardi Florence; (d. March 24, 1163)
* Sándor Bertha (August 19, 1843 - November 24, 1912), Hungarian composer
* Bertha Díaz, Cuban track and field athlete
* 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 (1996), Atlantic hurricane in 1996
** Hurricane Bertha (2008), Atlantic hurricane in 2008
* 154 Bertha, an asteroid.
* Bertha or Berta people, an ethnic group from eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia.toponymy
* Bertha, Minnesota
* Bertha Township, Minnesota

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.

ee also

* Berta
* Big Bertha


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