Bassa
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People
(BASSA clan of BATWAL,HINDU) Like other neighbouring Hindu communities, the Batwal are striucly exogamous, never marrying within the clan. The major clans include the Basae, a name derived from the Beas River and meaning those settled along the banks of that river, and the Chariya, i.e. those who were inhabitants of Shimla. Other clans include the Sindhi, Sandhu or Sundha, Targotra, Thage, Kaith, , Lahoria, Mandee, Nandan, Chanjotra, Mottan, Sargotra, Leander, Most Batwal in India have been strongly influenced by/and part of the Sindhis, while some Batwals have come under the influence of other Hindu reformists.[1] Like the Punjab Batwal, the Jammu Batwal community also consists of clans. Their main clans are the Nakodar and Kasim. The Batwal shares the customs and traditions of the locally dominant Sindhis ethnic group and speak Punjabi, Sindhi and Dogri languages.[2]
- Bassa people (Cameroon)
- Basaa language, a member of the Bantu languages family
- Bassa people (Liberia)
- Bassa language, a member of the Kru languages family
- Bassa script
Places
- Bassa, Chamba, village in India
- Bassa, Kogi State, Nigeria
- Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria
- Bassa Cove colony, now Buchanan, Liberia
- al-Bassa, a destroyed Palestinian village, currently located in northern Israel
- Cahora Bassa, an artificial lake in Mozambique
- Grand Bassa County, Liberia
- Another name for Basse Santa Su, Gambia
Other uses
- Business Analysis Summit South Africa, a conference run by the South African Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis
- British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association, a union exclusively for British Airways cabin crew
- Bassa Sports Club, an association football team in Antigua and Barbuda