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Bessa (Ancient Greek: Βῆσσα) was a town in ancient Locris, so called from its situation in a wooded glen. It is mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. It had disappeared in the time of Strabo. Its site is unlocated.
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38.7253° N · 22.9730° E
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