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Elissa (name) Elissa is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Hebrew name Elisheba, which also is the root of Elizabeth Closely related names include Alyssa, Elisa, and Eliza. Other spellings include Ellissa and Elyssa. People * Dido, first Queen of ...

, a feminine given name (including people by that name)

People

Dido Dido ( ; , ), also known as Elissa ( , ), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in modern Tunisia), in 814 BC. In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (t ...

, Queen of Carthage in Greek and Roman mythology, also referred to as Elissa or Alyssa *

Elissa (singer) Elissar Zakaria Khoury ( ar, إليسار زكريا خوري; born 27 October 1972), commonly known as Elissa ( ar, إليسا), is a Lebanese recording artist. She is one of Lebanon's most famous singers, and one of the best-known artists in ...

(born 1972), Lebanese singer

Other uses

* ''Elissa'' (book), a 1900 novel by H. Rider Haggard * ''Elissa'' (ship), a historic sailing ship anchored in Galveston Bay * Elissa, one of the seven women occurring as narrators in Giovanni Boccaccio's ''

The Decameron ''The Decameron'' (; it, label=Italian, Decameron or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old it, Prencipe Galeotto, links=no ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dan ...

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