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Mythology

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Brea (mythology) Brea may refer to: Mythology * Brea (mythology), an Irish mythological god People * Anthony José Brea Salazar, a Venezuelan professional racing cyclist * Armando Bréa, a Brazilian middle-distance runner * Benjamín Brea, a Venezuelan musicia ...
, an Irish mythological god


People

* Anthony José Brea Salazar, a Venezuelan professional racing cyclist *
Armando Bréa Armando Bréa (31 December 1898 – 21 August 1986) was a Brazilian middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metr ...
, a Brazilian middle-distance runner * Benjamín Brea, a Venezuelan musician *
Brea Grant Brea Colleen Grant is an American actress, writer, and director. She played the character of Daphne Millbrook in the NBC television series ''Heroes''. Early life Brea Grant was born and raised in Marshall, Texas. She earned bachelor's and maste ...
, an American actress *
Cirilo de Alameda y Brea Cirilo de Alameda y Brea O.F.M. Obs. (9 July 1781, in Torrejón de Velasco, Spain – 30 June 1872, in Toledo) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was archbishop of Toledo 1857–1867. Life He had worked as a priest in Urugu ...
O.F.M. Obs. (1781-1872), Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Diego de Brea, Slovenian theatre director *
Jennifer Brea Jennifer Brea is an American documentary filmmaker and activist. Her debut feature, '' Unrest'', premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and received the US Documentary Special Jury Award For Editing. Brea also co-created a virtual reality fil ...
, an American documentary filmmaker and activist * Julián Brea, Argentine professional football forward *
Lesli Brea Lesli Guillermo Brea (born October 12, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball player. A right-handed relief pitcher, Brea is tall, and he weighed 170 pounds during his playing career. Some records list his year of birth as 1978, but this figu ...
, a former Major League Baseball player *
Ludovico Brea Ludovico (or Louis) Brea (c. 1450 – c. 1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in and near Genoa. Brea was born into a family of coopers in Nice, and later moving to Liguria, he painted numerous altarpieces that display ...
, a Renaissance painter * Luigi Bernabò Brea, Italian archaeologist * María Isabel Soldevila Brea, Dominican journalist, academician, and television presenter *
Teodosio César Brea Teodosio César Brea (born 1927) is an Argentine lawyer. Brea obtained his law degree from the “Universidad de Buenos Aires” in 1950 and a Master in Comparative Jurisprudence from the New York University School of Law in 1954. He validated h ...
, Argentine lawyer


Places

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Brea, California Brea (; Spanish for "tar") is a city in northern Orange County, California. The population as of the 2010 census was 39,282. It is southeast of Los Angeles. Brea is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The city began as a center of cru ...
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Brea, Cornwall Brea ( kw, Bre) is a village in Cornwall, England, UK, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth. It is in the civil parish of Carn Brea, Redruth, Carn Brea and consists of Brea, Lower Brea, and Higher Brea. A small stream, the Red River (Koner), ...
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Brea (Chalcidice) Brea ( grc, Βρέα), was a town of Chalcidice, in ancient Macedonia Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state ...
, a town of ancient Macedonia, Greece *
Brea (Thrace) Brea ( grc, Βρέα, demonym: Βρεαῖος or Βρεάτης) was an ancient Greek colony in Bisaltia, Thrace, in the lower reaches of Strymon. Nothing is known about the city itself. Nevertheless, the city is considered important by an insc ...
, an ancient Greek colony founded by Athens *
Brea de Tajo Brea de Tajo () is a municipality of the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Las Vegas. Sights include the church of La Asunción La Asunción () is a city in Venezuela. The capital of Nueva Esparta st ...
, a municipality of Madrid, in central Spain *
Brea de Aragón Brea de Aragón is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given populat ...
, a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain *
La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago La Brea is a town in southwestern Trinidad, located northeast of Point Fortin and southwest of San Fernando. La Brea (Spanish for "the tar" or "the pitch") is best known as the site of the Pitch Lake, a natural asphalt lake. Pronunciation of "La ...
, a town located northeast of Point Fortin and southwest of San Fernando, southern Trinidad and Tobago


Fictional characters

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Aya Brea is a fictional character from the video game adaptations of the 1995 novel ''Parasite Eve'' by Square Enix (formerly Square or SquareSoft). An original character created by producer Hironobu Sakaguchi for the 1998 role-playing video game '' Par ...
, the protagonist in the Parasite Eve video game series.


Other uses

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Brea (fly) Brea may refer to: Mythology * Brea (mythology), an Irish mythological god People * Anthony José Brea Salazar, a Venezuelan professional racing cyclist * Armando Bréa, a Brazilian middle-distance runner * Benjamín Brea, a Venezuelan mus ...
, a signal fly in the
Platystomatinae Platystomatinae is a subfamily of flies (Diptera) in the family Platystomatidae (Signal flies) that includes 80 genera, the largest subfamily with at last estimate, species globally. Subfamily classification The Platystomatidae were comprehens ...
subfamily of flies (Diptera)


See also

* La Brea (disambiguation) *
Bria, Central African Republic Bria is the capital of Haute-Kotto, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. As of the 2003 census the town had a population of 35,204. Geography Bria is located on the Kotto River. History Civil war On 18 December 2 ...
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