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Beja may refer to:
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Beja, Portugal, a city in Portugal
- Beja District, the district it is in
- Beja Airbase, the nearby airbase
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Béja, a town in Tunisia, or
- Béja Governorate, the governorate or province of which it is the capital
- Beja, Latvia, a town and municipality in Latvia
- Beja (Princely State), a former princely state in India, Himachal Pradesh
- Beja people, an ethnic group in northeast Africa
- Beja language, language spoken by the Beja people
- Beja Congress, a group formed primarily of Beja opposing the government of Sudan
Beja ( , ) is a city in Tunisia, Africa. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located from Tunis, between the Medjerdah River and the Mediterranean, against the foothills of the Khroumire, the town of Beja is situated on the sides of Djebel Acheb, facing the greening meadows, its white terraces and red roofs dominated by the imposing ruins of the old Roman fortress.
Beja (Salvador e Santa Maria da Feira) is a civil parish in the municipality of Beja, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Salvador and Santa Maria da Feira. The population in 2011 was 11,133, in an area of 22.51 km².
Beja (Santiago Maior e São João Baptista) is a civil parish in the municipality of Beja, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Santiago Maior and São João Baptista. The population in 2011 was 14,015, in an area of 51.27 km².
Usage examples of "beja".
With a sinking sensation in his gut, he decided that he must be in the compound of the Beja tribesmen beside the Beit el Mai, the stronghold of his old enemy Osman Atalan.
Cousin Faisal showed us around the beautiful Roman houses in the ruins at nearby Bulla Regia, and his wife, Mona, and her mother spent a day preparing the lamb couscous of Beja, full of nuts and dates and very sweet.
Lady Belju, also of Hallingdal, who built Naes church, and by means of fire and butter split the Beja rock, so that a road was carried over it, which road is called to this day the Butter Rock.
Souk-el-Arba airfield on the 16th, whence they advanced to Beja, and farther on met Germans in position.
East of Beja the British 4th and 78th Divisions also attacked successfully.
IId Corps, freed from the southern front, was brought up during the first weeks of April and relieved the British Vth Corps in the sector from Beja to the sea.
Bad in Ez-Zahra and Cap Bon, and also very bad in Pont du Fahs and Beja and many other places.
It was one to conjure with, for the Beja were the fiercest and most feared of all the fighting Arabs, and Osman Atalan was their most dreaded warlord.
He brooded on the fact that the perfidious Bacheet, that illegitimate son of a Beja father and a Galla pleasure dancer, was under no restrictions as to his nocturnal movements.
If by some remote chance he succeeded in crippling the mare, the rest of the Beja aggagiers would be upon them in the next instant, their long blades bared.
His Beja division had been waiting in reserve, ready to ride in and exploit when Salida and his Jaalin forced the breach.
To the rumbling thunder of hoofs, the Beja cavalry swept over the skyline ahead.
They led him out into a small courtyard and through another door into a larger enclosure, around whose walls were seated a hundred or more Beja warriors.
We both know well that an emir of the Beja could never let his blood enemy die in chains without a sword in his hand.
The Emir Osman Atalan of the Beja was contemplating her bare face steadily, and though his dark eyes were implacable she knew he was looking at her as a woman, a young and beautiful woman who would soon be without a man.