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Dražen Vrdoljak
Dražen is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name, derived from Slavic root '' drag'' ("dear, beloved"). Notable people with the name include: * Dražen Besek (born 1963), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Biškup (born 1965), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Bolić (born 1971), Serbian football player * Dražen Brnčić (born 1971), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Budiša (born 1948), Croatian politician * Dražen Dalipagić (born 1951), Serbian basketball player and manager of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin * Dražen Erdemović (born 1971), Bosnian soldier and war criminal of Serb and Croat descent * Dražen Gović (1981–2022), Croatian football player * Mirko Dražen Grmek (1924–2000), Croatian and French historian of medicine * Dražen Funtak (born 1975), Croatian sprint canoer * Dražen Ladić (born 1963), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Lalić (born 1960), Croatian sociologist * Dražen Marović (born 1938), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. South Slavic languages historically formed a continuum. The turbulent history of the area, particularly due to expansion of the Ottoman Empire, resulted in a patchwork of dialectal and religious differences. Due to population migrations, Shtokavian became the most widespread dialect in the western Balkans, intruding westwards into the area previously occupied by Chakavian and Kajkavian (which further blend into Slovenian in the northwest). Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs differ in religion and were historically often part of different cultural circles, although a large part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Funtak
Dražen Funtak (born 6 July 1975 in Osijek) is a Croatian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ..., he was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-1 500 m, C-2 500 m, and C-2 1000 m events. Four years later in Sydney, Huidu was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 500 m event. References Sports-Reference.com profile 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Osijek Croatian male canoeists Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Croatia {{Croatia-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Žerić
Dražen "Žera" Žerić (born 20 July 1964) is a Bosnian singer and one of the founders and lead vocalist of famous Bosnian band, Crvena Jabuka (Red Apple). Noted for his spiky hair and a distinctive voice, he remains one of the most recognizable vocals of the entire area of Former Yugoslavia. Biography Early years Žerić was born in the city of Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia in a family of Bosniaks professors Nedžib and Šemsa. Žerić has one brother, Damir, who lives in Rome. Žerić grew up in Sarajevo where he attended music school for piano, as well as primary and secondary school. He later graduated with aa economics degree from The University of Sarajevo. From early to mid 1985, Zlatko Arslanagić formed a band with his mates Dražen Ričl, Aljoša Buha, Cunja Jelčić and Žera. That was the beginning of Crvena jabuka. Crvena jabuka quickly became one of the most successful bands in Yugoslavia topping charts year after year, from 1985 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Ričl
Dražen Ričl (12 March 1962 – 1 October 1986) was a Bosnian rock musician and comedian, best known as the first lead vocalist of popular Sarajevo-based rock band Crvena jabuka. Biography Ričl was born in Sarajevo to Czech father Ferdinand Ritchel and Bosniak mother Elvira Deak. He grew up in Sarajevo's Višnjik neighborhood, where he was known by the nicknames Para and Zijo. Upon finishing musical high school, he started studying journalism at the University of Sarajevo, where he met future fellow musician Branko Đurić. Soon, Zijo abandoned his studies to start playing in his first band ''Ozbiljno pitanje'' (''Serious Question'') in 1981. The band also featured Zlatko Arslanagić, future co-founder of Crvena Jabuka. In 1983, Ričl joined one of the greatest acts of the New Primitives movement, Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors. Simultaneously, he was one of the leading actors in the first season of the popular absurd comedy TV series ''Top lista nadrealista'', which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Prćić
Dražen Prćić ( Subotica, November 1, 1967) is Croatian novelist from area of Bačka, autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. He's the son of Croatian writer Milivoj Prćić. Until March 2020, he wrote fourteen novels and two historic books. His novels are not as the mainstream of popular literature, where the violence is the dominant force (with Catholicism The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ... shown in negative context). In his works, the hero is the hardline Catholic that reaches the goal with the hard work and honest effort. Works *''Wild card'', sports novel (translated in Serbian, English, Italian, German and Hungarian) *''Moja klinka i ja'', youth novel (1992) *''Završni udarac'', thriller (1997) (translated in English: The Final Stroke) *''Film'', no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrović (; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989. A star on multiple international basketball stages, Petrović earned two silver medals (1988, 1992) and one bronze (1984) at the Summer Olympic Games, a gold (1990) and a bronze (1986) at the FIBA World Cup, and a gold (1989) and a bronze (1987) at the FIBA EuroBasket. He was the FIBA World Championship MVP in 1986 and the FIBA EuroBasket MVP in 1989. With Cibona Zagreb, Petrović also won two consecutive EuroLeague championships in 1985 and 1986. He first represented Yugoslavia's senior national team and, later, Croatia's senior national team. He earned four Euroscars, and was named Mr. Europa twice. In 1985, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia. Seeking a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Mužinić
Dražen Mužinić (born 25 January 1953) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Mužinić spent most of his career in his native Yugoslavia. With Hajduk Split he won four league titles, five cups and he was capped by his country 32 times. He was named the Yugoslav Footballer of the Year in 1977. Club career Norwich City manager John Bond signed him in 1980, paying what was then a club record £300,000 for his services. However, his time at Norwich was not a success. He struggled for form and did not speak English, making communication at times impossible. At one match, Bond employed the services of an interpreter from the University of East Anglia to pass on instructions to Mužinić from the touchline. Mužinić made just 23 appearances for Norwich, 17 starts and 6 substitute appearances. He did not score a goal for the club. He made his debut on 13 September 1980 and his final appearance for the club came on 28 December 1982. By then, Bond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Marović
Dražen Marović (born January 14, 1938 in Split) is a Croatian chess player who was active in former Yugoslavia, later a trainer, journalist, writer and broadcaster. Biography Despite learning the game at the relatively late age of sixteen, he made remarkable progress to finish second in the Yugoslav Junior Championship, just two years later. In pursuit of a profession, he obtained a degree in Literature which, when coupled with his gift for languages, provided him with a lifetime vocation, teaching Italian, Spanish and English. Along with the academic achievements, came even greater advances in his chess playing skills and the improvements were reflected in his international tournament results; Zagreb 1964 (2nd= with Bruno Parma after László Szabó), Málaga 1968 (1st= with Borislav Ivkov), Zagreb 1971 (1st), Zagreb 1972 (2nd= with Mato Damjanovic and Vlastimil Hort after Leonid Stein), Virovitica 1978 (1st) and Sainte-Maxime 1982 (1st). Equally impressive was his fourth- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Lalić
Dražen Lalić, DSc (born 15 June 1960, Makarska) is a Croatian educator and academic at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb and one of the better known sociologists in the country. Lalić graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1983 and received a doctorate in sociology from the Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb in 1993. Lalić has authored or co-authored several articles and books on various topics, including elections in Croatia, youth subcultures, non-governmental organizations. He is sociologist of sport notable for his 1993 book titled ''Torcida-A look inside''. It was the first book of its kind that focuses on the sociological aspects of the football supporting group Torcida Split and its members in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Lalić self-identify as antifascist and someone who comes from a family with Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Ladić
Dražen Ladić (; born 1 January 1963) is a Croatian professional football coach and former player who is the current assistant manager of the Croatia national team. Playing career Club Ladić was born in Čakovec, but grew up in the nearby village of Gornji Hrašćan and started his career at NK Varteks in 1977, transferring to the club's senior squad in 1980. He left Varteks for Dinamo Zagreb in 1984, but the club decided to loan him to Iskra Bugojno for two seasons immediately after they signed him. He eventually made his debut for Dinamo in July 1986 and stayed at the club until the end of his playing career nearly 14 years later, collecting a record-holding total of 802 appearances in official matches. During his time at the club, Ladić also played in several matches of both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. In 1997, he notably saved a penalty kick in Dinamo Zagreb's home match against Partizan Belgrade in the first qualifying round for the UEFA Champions Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Dražen Grmek
Mirko Dražen Grmek (9 January 1924 – 6 March 2000) was a Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist. He was one of the pioneers and founders of the history of medicine. His entire opus promotes the historical research of medical knowledge and practices by means of contemporary scientific methods, especially the study of the formation of ideas in specific societies and periods. He put forward the theory of ''pathocenosis'', the coexistence of all diseases in a specific time, place and society. Life and career Grmek was born in Krapina, Zagorje, near Zagreb (then in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). He went to France and joined the French Resistance in 1942. His underground activities took him to Italy, Switzerland and then back to France. When the war ended, he returned to Zagreb to study medicine. After his studies, Grmek worked as a general practitioner at first. Then he became a university professor and finally dedicated all his time to scient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
