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Hrvoje
Hrvoje is a Croatian male ethnic first name derived from "Hrvat" meaning "Croat". Notable people with the name include: * Hrvoje Čale (born 1985), Croatian football back * Hrvoje Horvat (born 1946), Croatian handball back * Hrvoje Klasić (born 1972), Croatian historian * Hrvoje Kovačević (born 1982), Croatian football midfielder * Hrvoje Panžić (born 1978), Croatian judoka * Hrvoje Perić (born 1985), Croatian basketball forward * Hrvoje Petek (born 1958), Croatian American physicist * Hrvoje Šarinić (1935–2017), Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister * Hrvoje Slovenc, (born 1976) Croatian-American fine-art photographer * Hrvoje Vejić Hrvoje Vejić (born 8th June, 1977) is a Croatian retired footballer who is the president of NK Jadran Luka Ploče. He plays at the center-back position. Club career In 1998, Vejić started his football career in the Croatian capital with NK ... (born 1977), Croatian footballer * Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (c. 1350–1416 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (ca. 1350–1416) was a medieval Bosnian nobleman and magnate, Grand Duke of Bosnia, Knyaz of Donji Kraji, and Duke of Split. He was the most prominent member of the Hrvatinić noble family, and one of the major feudal lords in Kingdom of Bosnia. He was Grand Duke of Bosnia under three Bosnian kings: King Tvrtko I, King Stephen Dabiša and King Stephen Ostoja. In 1403 Ladislaus of Naples named him his deputy for Dalmatia, and bestowed him with a title ''Duke of Split'', later ''Herzog of Split''. He played a crucial role in the dynastic struggles between the Anjou and Luxembourg claimants to the Hungarian-Croatian throne at the end of the 14th century, as well as in the emergence of the Bosnian Kingdom as a regional power during the same period. Family Connections Hrvoje was the eldest son of Duke Vukac Hrvatinić. He had three brothers: Vuk (who was Ban of Croatia), Dragiša and Vojislav. He was married to Jelena Nelipčić,Sveučilište u Zagr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Perić
Hrvoje Perić (born October 25, 1985) is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Benedetto XIV Cento of the Italian second-tier Serie A2 Basket. Standing at 2.01 m, he plays at the power forward position. Professional career Croatia After progressing through the youth ranks of home town club KK Dubrovnik, he debuted with the first team in the Croatian second division (A-2) in 2000-01. The next year he moved to another A-2 club, KK Solin , moving the same season to KK Split, a side that was playing in both the Croatian A-1 Liga and the stronger regional competition the Adriatic League. Split went on to win the domestic league in 2002-03 but the 17-year-old Perić would only play one game, with three more in the regional league. The following season he played more, both in the Adriatic League and the Europe-wide second tier ULEB Cup but was not part of the squad that won the Krešimir Ćosić Cup. 2004-05 proved to be his breakthrough season, he accr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Klasić
Hrvoje Klasić (born 6 December 1972) is a Croatian historian. Since 2003, Klasić is a professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. His work focuses on contemporary Croatian and world history. Klasić is a critic of attempts at rehabilitation of the World War II fascist Ustasha movement in the country. He is ambassador for the European Association of History Educators. Early life and education Hrvoje Klasić was born in Sisak in SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia on 6 December 1972. In 1991, when he was 18, he was a military volunteer in the Croatian Armed forces during the Croatian War of Independence. In an interview for Bosnian daily newspaper '' Dnevni avaz'' he sarcastically commented that, if he was a victim of the war, he would be a hero in his town–but since he was not, some consider him today to be a traitor. Klasić completed his undergraduate (in 1997), master and doctoral studies at the Facult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Petek
Hrvoje Petek (born January 13, 1958) is a Croatian-born American physicist and the Richard King Mellon Professor of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also a professor of chemistry. Education Petek received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Subsequently, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. Research and career Petek has developed coherent photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy as methods for studying the dephasing and spatial propagation of polarization fields in solid state materials and nanostructure. He is developing methods for multidimensional multiphoton-photoemission spectroscopy. Together witTaketoshi Minato |
Hrvoje Čale
Hrvoje Čale (born 4 March 1985) is a former Croatian international footballer. Club career Čale began his career at age nine in the youth ranks of Dinamo Zagreb. He made his break into the first team in 2003. However, he was mostly used as a substitute when starters were injured. After his loan to Inter Zaprešić in 2004–05, Čale became a starter for Dinamo, where he played until the end of the 2007–08 season. In May 2008, Čale was transferred to Trabzonspor for a fee of €2.5 million. He signed a four-year contract. Before the move, Čale called Davor Vugrinec and asked him about his experience with the club. Vugrinec talked very positively about the club, which Čale said contributed to his decision. He became Trabzonspor's 68th foreigner, and the second Croatian, after Davor Vugrinec. In his first season with Trabzonspor, Čale participated in 36 total matches and cemented his place as the starting left-back. Čale was the starting left-back for the Turkish Cup wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Šarinić
Hrvoje Šarinić (; 17 February 1935 – 21 July 2017) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1992 to 1993. Šarinić was born in Sušak and graduated from the University of Zagreb then-Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy. Šarinić had a business career in Paris, France. He was a dual citizen of both Croatia and of France, as he spent 24 years in France, from 1963 to 1987. After the first democratic elections in Croatia, he joined the government of Franjo Tuđman and became head of his personal office. After the parliamentary elections of 1992 he, as member of Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), was appointed to the post of prime minister. His cabinet, like all in Tuđman years, was less concerned with foreign policy and war and more with domestic issues. One of those issues was privatisation of state-owned companies. During his time many of the most controversial events of that process took place, including the now infamous takeov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Horvat
Hrvoje Horvat (born 22 May 1946) is a Croatian handball coach and player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics for SFR Yugoslavia. International career He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal at the Munich Games. He played all six matches and scored fifteen goals. Four years later he was a member of the Yugoslav team which finished fifth. He played all six matches and scored fifteen goals again. Managerial career In 2005 he became coach of German team HSC 2000 Coburg and has led them up into the second league. Personal life His nickname is Cveba, which is the Croatian word for raisin. Horvat has a son Hrvoje, who is also a handball coach, and daughters Jasenka, who was married to the late Iztok Puc, one of the best players in handball history, and Vanja, who was married to former footballer and now a manager Zoran Mamić. Honours ;Player ;Partizan Bjelovar *Yugoslav First League (7): 1966–67, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1970–71 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Slovenc
Hrvoje Slovenc (born 1976, Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian-American fine art photographer based in New York City. He holds an MS in biochemistry from the University of Zagreb and an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art. His photographs have been exhibited in dozens of shows nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Museum of New Art in Detroit; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia; and the Young Artists' Biennial in Bucharest, Romania. Slovenc's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, Croatia. Slovenc was part of the Light Work and AIM residency program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Slovenc has been a visiting artist at institutions including Drew University, City College of New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Kovačević
Hrvoje Kovačević (born 12 July 1982) is a Croatian association football player currently playing for NK Lučko. He began his career playing for HNK Cibalia in the Croatian Prva HNL, before signing a contract with Israeli team Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. ( he, מועדון כדורגל בני יהודה תל אביב, ''Moadon Kaduregel Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv''), commonly referred to as Bnei Yehuda (), is an Israeli football club from the Hatikva Quarter of the city of Tel ... in the 2005/2006 season. He later moved to Hapoel Ramat Gan where he played in 2009. References External links Profileat Sportnet.hr Profileat Nogometni-magazin.comNational team profile 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Vinkovci Association football midfielders Croatian footballers Croatia youth international footballers Croatia under-21 international footballers HNK Cibalia players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players Hapoel Ramat Gan F.C. players Maccabi Herzl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrvoje Vejić
Hrvoje Vejić (born 8th June, 1977) is a Croatian retired footballer who is the president of NK Jadran Luka Ploče. He plays at the center-back position. Club career In 1998, Vejić started his football career in the Croatian capital with NK Zagreb, where he played for three seasons. He then spent four seasons at Hajduk Split, where he became the team captain, before moving to Tom Tomsk of Russia. Vejić joined his former club Hajduk Split on 12th January 2009, as a free player after leaving Tomsk. International career He played four matches for his country's under-21 side between 1998 and 1999 in the qualifying matches for the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He made his first appearance for the senior team against Norway in a friendly match on 7th February, 2007. Despite not playing a single minute in Croatia's Euro 2008 qualification campaign he was chosen to participate in the final tournament, where he received one cap playing full 90 minutes in a 1– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croat
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Due to political, social and economic reasons, many Croats migrated to North and South America as well as New Zealand and later Australia, establishing a diaspora in the aftermath of World War II, with grassroots assistance from earlier communities and the Roman Catholic Church. In Croatia (the nation state), 3.9 million people identify themselves as Croats, and constitute about 90.4% of the population. Another 553,000 live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they are one of the three constituent ethnic groups, predominantly living in Western Herzegovina, Central Bosnia and Bosnian Posavina. The minority in Serbia number about 70,000, mostly in Vojvodina. The et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavic Names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries. The main types of Slavic names: * Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ''Rogvolod''), *pъlkъ (''Svetopolk'', ''Yaropolk''), *slavъ (''Vladislav'', ''Dobroslav'', ''Vseslav'') and their derivatives (''Dobrynya, Tishila, Ratisha, Putyata'', etc.) * Names from flora and fauna (''Shchuka'' - pike, ''Yersh'' - ruffe, ''Zayac'' - hare, ''Wolk''/'' Vuk'' - wolf, ''Orel'' - eagle) * Names in order of birth (''Pervusha'' - born first, ''Vtorusha''/''Vtorak'' - born second, ''Tretiusha''/''Tretyak'' - born third) * Names according to human qualities (''Hrabr'' - brave, ''Milana/Milena'' - beautiful, ''Milosh'' - cute) * Names containing the root of the name of a pagan deities (''Troyan'', ''Perunek/Peruvit'', ''Yarovit'', ''Stribor'', ''Šventaragis'', ''Veleslava'') A number of names from Slavic roots appeared as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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