Mesta (disambiguation)

The Mesta was a powerful association of sheep holders in the medieval Crown of Castile.

Mesta may also refer to:

Organizations

Mesta (company), a Norwegian company primarily building roads
Mesta Machinery, a former major US manufacturer of heavy machinery from 1898 until 1983
Mesta Group, a former fraudulent student group that swindled money out of York University's Glendon Campus

Places

Mesta River, a river in Bulgaria and Greece
Mesta, Greece, a village on the island of Chios, Greece
Mesta, Bulgaria, a village in Bulgaria

Other uses

Mesta station, a light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Imset or Mesta, in Egyptian mythology, a funerary deity, one of the Four sons of Horus
Roselle (plant) or Meśta, a species of hibiscus native to the Old World tropics, cultivated for the production for bast fibre
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, one of the kings' sagas
Perle Mesta (1889–1975), American society figure, political hostess, and ambassador to Luxembourg

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