Bessa (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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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