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Braganza

/bɾaˈɡanθa/

proper noun/bɾaˈɡanθa/

Bragança (a district in northeastern Portugal); Bragança (a city in Bragança district, Portugal)

Inherited from Latin Brigantia (the Celtic goddess of victory), from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī, *brigantī, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts (“high”), from the root *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise”) + *-onts (adjective-forming suffix).