Antinopolis [SEP] named after
Antinopolis
Antinopolis (Antinoöpolis, Antinoopolis, Antinoë); (; "Antinow"; modern "Sheikh 'Ibada") was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young beloved, Antinous, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinous drowned in 130 AD. Antinopolis was a little to the south of the Egyptian village of Besa (), named after the goddess and oracle of Besa, which was consulted occasionally even as
Kosice Region of Slovakia
- A village near Antinopolis and the goddess that the town was named after
Sports.
- Besa Kavajë, an Albanian football club
- FK Besa Slupčane, a Macedonian football club
- KF Besa Pejë, a Kosovo Albanian football club
Other uses.
- Besa (Albanian culture), an Albanian concept of faith, honor, and keeping one's word
- "Besa" (alga), a red algae genus in the order Gigartinales
- "Besa" (