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Dragana (given Name)
Dragana () is a Slavic given name for females. It is the feminine form of the male name Dragan, which comes from the Slavic element ''dorogo/drago'', which means "precious". Notable women named Dragana include: *Dragana Cvijić (born 1990), Serbian handball player *Dragana Jugović del Monaco, Serbian mezzo-soprano *Dragana Kovačević (born 1981), Serbian cyclist *Dragana Kršenković Brković (born c. 1950), Montenegrin writer *Dragana Marinković (born 1982), Croatian and Serbian volleyball player *Dragana Mirković (born 1968), Serbian singer *Dragana Pecevska (born 1983), Macedonian handball player *Dragana Stanković (born 1995), Serbian basketball player *Dragana Šarić (born 1962), Serbian singer better known as "Bebi Dol" * Dragana Tomašević (born 1982), Serbian discus thrower *Dragana Zarić Dragana Zarić-Martinov(Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Зарић-Мартинов, born 1 August 1977) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. Her career-high rankin ...
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Slavic Languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family. The Slavic languages are conventionally (that is, also on the basis of extralinguistic features) divided into three subgroups: East, South, and West, which together constitute more than 20 languages. Of these, 10 have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of the countries in which they are predominantly spoken: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group) and Bulgarian and Macedonian (eastern dialects of the South group), and Serbo-C ...
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Dragana Kovačević
Dragana Kovačević (born 26 December 1981) is a Serbian former racing cyclist. She twice finished as a runner-up at the Serbian National Road Championships in 2012 and 2015, and she also competed in the women's road race at the UCI Road World Championships in 2007 and 2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact .... References External links * * 1981 births Living people Serbian female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) {{Serbia-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Dragana Tomašević
Dragana Tomašević ( sr-cyr, Драгана Томашевић; born 4 June 1982, in Sremska Mitrovica) is a Serbian discus thrower. Since 8 August 2006, she is holder of the Serbian national record in Discus Throw with her personal best shot of 63.63 m. Career Early in her career Dragana competed in Shot Put, without any major success. In her primary discipline, Discus Throw she competed in four Olympic Games, eight World Championships and six European Championships. Her best result in these competitions is 6th place at the 2010 and 2018 European Championships, while her best finish in World Championships is 7th place in 2005 and 2011, respectively. On 8 August 2006, she set the Serbian national record in Discus Throw with her personal best shot of 63.63 m. Personal bests Achievements See also * Serbian records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in Serbia maintained by its national athletics federation: Srpski Atletski Savez (SAS). ...
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Dragana Šarić
Dragana Todorović ( , / ; born 2 October 1962), better known under the stage name Bebi Dol (), is a Serbian singer and songwriter. Born in Belgrade, she made her debut in 1981 with the single "Mustafa". Bebi Dol rose to further prominence by representing SFR Yugoslavia at the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest with "Brazil". She has released four studio albums to date: ''Ruže i krv'' (1983), ''Ritam srca'' (1995), ''Ljuta sam...'' (2002) and ''Čovek rado izvan sebe živi'' (2006). Early life Dragana Šarić was born on 2 October 1964 in Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia, to mother Magdalena, who worked for Television Belgrade and father Milisav, a military jazz musician. Three months after she had been born, the family relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark, and later continued moving across Europe because of her father's job, who performed in American military bases. When Šarić turned seven, they eventually moved back to Belgrade so she can attend school there. She was a student at the Mok ...
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Dragana Stanković
Dragana Stanković ( sr-cyr, Драгана Станковић, born 18 January 1995) is a Serbian professional women's basketball player for Sopron Basket of the EuroLeague Women and the Serbian national basketball team. International career She represented Serbian national basketball team at the Olympic Games 2016. See also * List of Serbian WNBA players The following is a list of Serbian basketball players that play or have played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Active players The following is a list of current WNBA players. :''Note: This list is correct through the end ... References External links Dragana Stankovićat eurobasket.com * * * 1995 births Living people Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Centers (basketball) Hatay Büyükşehir Belediyesi (women's basketball) players Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players for Serbia Olympic bronze medalists for Serbia Olympic medalists in ba ...
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Dragana Pecevska
Dragana Ristova, née Pecevska ( mk, Драгана Ристова) (born 11 April 1983) is a retired Macedonian handball player who plays for ŽRK Metalurg and for the North Macedonia women's national handball team. She plays on the position left wing. In the season 2009/10 with ŽRK Budućnost she won the EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup The Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe that won their national cup, and took place every year from 1976 to 2016 (until 1993 organized by IHF instead of EHF). From the 2016–17 season, th .... References Living people 1983 births Macedonian female handball players Handball players from Skopje {{NorthMacedonia-handball-bio-stub ...
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Dragana Mirković
Dragana Mirković ( sr-cyr, Драгана Мирковић, ; born 18 January 1968) is a Serbian pop-folk singer and entrepreneur. She rose to prominence in the eighties as a member of the popular collective Južni Vetar. Today, Mirković is recognised as one of the best-selling artists from the former Yugoslavia. Alongside her husband, she also founded a satellite music channel called DM SAT. Life and career Early life Mirković was born on 18 January 1968, in Kasidol, a village near Požarevac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. The youngest of two children, she grew up in the same household as her parents, grandparents and sister Dušica. Mirković has described her upbringing as " Yugoslav", noting the peaceful co-existence between Slavs of different faiths at the time. A musical influence in her youth was her grandfather, Dragutin, who played the accordion. At the age of five, she learned to sing the Bosnian folk song "Djevojka sokolu zulum učinila". Mirković recalled that she c ...
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Dragana Marinković
Dragana Marinković (born 19 October 1982) is a Serbian professional volleyball player who competed for the Croatian and Serbian women's national teams in the 2000s. She is tall. Marinković has played for seven seasons in the Italian Serie A. In the season 2009/2010, she moved to Pesaro. Sources * * External linksDragana Marinkovicat the International Volleyball Federation International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ... * * 1982 births Living people Serbian women's volleyball players Croatian women's volleyball players Sportspeople from Pula Serbs of Croatia Expatriate volleyball players in Italy Expatriate volleyball players in Romania Expatriate volleyball players in Turkey Expatriate volleyball players in South Korea Serbian expatriate sportspeople in It ...
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Dragana Kršenković Brković
Dragana Kršenković Brković (Драгана Кршенковић Брковић) is a Montenegrin writer. Biography Kršenkovic Brković graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and from the Faculty of Drama Arts. TV Belgrade screened her play - ''Vrele kapi'' in 1981. She wrote it for an entrance examination. As the Wars in the Balkans erupted, she moved from Belgrade, Serbia, to Podgorica, Montenegro. There, Kršenković Brković established a puppet theater called The Blue Lagoon, with her husband, Tomislav Brković. Details of this theater can be found in the bilingual monograph ''Puppet Theatre Blue Lagoon'' (Podgorica, 2019) Kršenković Brković was a Hubert Humphrey fellow 2005-06, which is a Fulbright Exchange Program. She spent a year in Washington DC, US. She also received an Austrian Government grant in order to carry out research at the University of Graz in Austria in 2008. Kršenković Brković was a guest writer in residential programs in the US (''th ...
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Dragana Jugović Del Monaco
Dragana del Monaco (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана дел Монако; born 1963) is a Serbian mezzo-soprano opera singer. She received her doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Music at Belgrade University, where she majored in solo singing. Dragana began her singing career in 1982 as a soloist with the Yugoslavian Ensemble Renaissance, and made her operatic debut in 1988 as Rosina in Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. During that season, she also sang Preziosilla in Verdi's ''La forza del destino'', as well as Olga and Filippyevna in Tchaikovsky's ''Eugene Onegin''. In 1989, she received a scholarship from the Italian government to further her studies at the Milan Conservatory and went on to perform in many European opera houses as well as in Egypt, Syria, and Algeria. She is now the principal soloist of the Serbian National Theatre opera company. Amongst her recent opera performances outside Serbia are: *Madelon in '' Andrea ...
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Gana (nickname)
Gana () is a nickname, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Dragana. The nickname may also refer to: * Gana Bala Bala Murugan, better known by his stage name Gana Bala is an Indian playback singer in Tamil cinema. He rose to prominence after rendering the songs 'Aadi Pona Aavani' and 'Nadukadalula Kappala' from the soundtrack of ''Attakathi''. He has pred ..., an Indian playback singer * Gana (outlaw), Nigerian criminal References {{Nickname Feminine hypocorisms ...
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Dragana Cvijić
Dragana Cvijić (born 15 March 1990) is a Serbian handball player for Ferencvárosi TC and the Serbian national team. International honours *EHF Champions League: **''Winner'': 2012'', ''2015'' *World Championship: **''Finalist'': 2013 Individual awards * Balkan-Handball.com Serbian Handballer of the Year: 2015, 2018 *All-Star Pivot of the World Championship: 2013 *All-Star Pivot of the EHF Champions League: 2018 * Team of the Tournament Pivot of the Bucharest Trophy: 2014, 2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ... References External links * Living people 1990 births Handball players from Belgrade Serbian female handball players Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Serbia Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Expatriate handball players Se ...
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