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'''Bertha''' is a female given name, which is derived from the Old High German word ''berht'' meaning "bright".
* [[Perchta|Berchta]] ''(Bertha, Percht, Perchta)'', a goddess in South German mythology
*women called Bertha
** [[Bertha of Kent|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
* [[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 (clothing)|collar]].
* [[Hurricane Bertha (disambiguation)]] for other storms named
** [[Hurricane Bertha (1996)|Hurricane Bertha]], Atlantic hurricane in 1996
* [[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]].
==See also==
* [[Berta]]
* [[Big Bertha]]
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