Bopa

Bopa is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Mono Department of south-western Benin.The commune covers an area of 365 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 70,268 people.

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Coordinates: 6°35′N 1°59′E / 6.583°N 1.983°E / 6.583; 1.983

BOPA

BOPA (Danish: Borgerlige Partisaner, Civil Partisans) was a group of the Danish resistance movement; it was affiliated with the communists and developed after the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

In 1942, the Communist Party of Denmark was banned by the German authorities. Communists organized small sabotage cells across the country, formed mainly by veterans who had been part of the volunteer anti-Franco brigades of the Spanish Civil War. However, as arms were scarce, their weapons were often petrol and matches, and only small-scale operations were carried out.

On January 25, 1943 a group of students — who had previously been refused membership in the communist resistance group due to its members' distrust of any elitism (including students)— set fire to a stock of German listening devices at Dansk Industrisyndikat in Hellerup using a bottle of spirit. The students were accepted into the group, which changed its name from the original KOPA (Kommunistiske Partisaner, Communist Partisans) to Borgerlige Partisaner (Civil Partisans) or BOPA. The new name was at first used jokingly by old members, but it soon became the most widely used name.

BOPA (disambiguation)

BOPA may refer to: