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Marija
Marija is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Depending on phonological rules concerning consecutive vowels or the use of the palatal approximant, "Mary" in these languages is ''Marija'' if consecutive vowels are disallowed and otherwise ''Maria''. Marija is the most common female name in Croatia. The name Marija was the most common feminine given name until 1969. The male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo and Mario. Notable people with the name include: * Marija Agbaba, Serbian handball player * Marija Bankauskaitė, Lithuanian ceramics artist * Marija Bursać, Bosnian Serb Yugoslav resistance fighter * Marija Čolić, Serbian handball player * Marija Ćirović, Montenegrin model * Marija Dūdienė, Lithuanian painter * Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archaeologist * Marija Gluvakov, Serbian pianist * Marija Jovanović, Montene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas ( lt, Marija Gimbutienė, ; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe. Biography Early life Marija Gimbutas was born as Marija Birutė Alseikaitė to Veronika Janulaitytė-Alseikienė and Danielius Alseika in Vilnius, the capital of the Republic of Central Lithuania; her parents were members of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. Her mother received a doctorate in ophthalmology at the University of Berlin in 1908, while her father received his medical degree from the University of Tartu in 1910. After Lithuania regained independence in 1918, Gimbutas's parents organized the Lithuanian Association of Sanitary Aid which founded the first Lithuanian hospital in the capital. During this period, her father also served as the publisher of the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Gluvakov
Marija Gluvakov – Medenica (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Глуваков – Меденица) (born 3 April 1973), is a Serbian pianist and piano teacher. Education Gluvakov was born in Senta, Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia. She received her early training in music schools in Novi Kneževac, Bihać and Zemun. She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 1995, as the best student of the year. She completed there, with the highest marks, her postgraduate studies in both Piano Performance (1999) and Chamber Music (1997).Marija Gluvakov’s biography at the Faculty of Arts website Retrieved on September 3, 2008 Her primary teacher wer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijan
Marijan is a male Croats, Croatian first name. The Macedonian version of this name is Marjan. Marijan is also a last name found in Croatia. People named Marijan *Marijan Beneš – Croatian boxer *Marijan Brkić Brk – Croatian musician *Marijan Brnčić – Croatian footballer *Marijan Buljat – Croatian footballer *Marijan Čerček – Croatian footballer *Marijan Hinteregger – Croatian-Austrian actor *Marijan Kanjer – Croatian Olympic swimmer *Marijan Kovačević – German-Croat footballer *Marijan Mrmić – Croatian footballer *Marijan Nikolić – Croatian footballer *Marijan Oblak – Croatian Catholic archbishop *Marijan Pušnik – Slovene football manager *Marijan Šunjić (cleric), Marijan Šunjić – Bosnian Croat Catholic bishop See also * Marjan (name), cognate name also used in Slovenian, Macedonian and Serbian References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijana
Marijana is a feminine given name found in South Slavic languages. It is cognate to Maryanne or Mary Ann. It may refer to: * Marijana Goranović (born 1989), Montenegrin Paralympic shot putter * Marijana Jevtić, Bosnian football player * Marijana Kovačević (born 1978), Croatian tennis player * Marijana Krajnović (born 1988), Serbian politician * Marijana Lubej (born 1945), Slovenian sprinter * Marijana Marković (born 1982), German fencer of Serbian descent * Marijana Matthäus (born 1971), Serbian entrepreneur * Marijana Mićić (born 1983), Serbian TV host * Marijana Mišković Hasanbegović (born 1982), Croatian judoka * Marijana Petir (born 1975), Croatian politician * Marijana Radovanović (born 1972), Serbian singer * Marijana Rajčić (born 1989), Australian rules football player * Marijana Ribičić (born 1979), Croatian volleyball player * Marijana Rupčić (born c. 1986), Croatian model * Marijana Savić, Serbian activist * Marijana Šurković (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Bursać
Marija Bursać ( sr-Cyrl, Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 192023 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Bursać was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar. After the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers and their creation of the Independent State of Croatia in April 1941, Bursać supported the Partisan resistance movement led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Like other women in her village, she collected food, clothing, and other supplies for the Partisan war effort. Bursać became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia in September 1941. The following August she was appointed political commissar of a company of the 1st Krajina Agricultural Shock Brigade, which harvested crops in the Sanica (river), Sanica River valley, and was admitted to the KPJ at the end of that summer. Bursać b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Jurić Zagorka
Marija Jurić (; 2 March 1873 – 30 November 1957), known by her pen name Zagorka (), was a Croatian journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She was the first female journalist in Croatia and is among the most read Croatian writers. Early life and education Marija Jurić was born on 2 March 1873 in the village of Negovec in the family of Ivan Jurić and Josipa Domin. She had two brothers and a sister. Baptized in a Catholic church on 3 March 1873, she was given the baptismal name Mariana. She later spoke of her family as being wealthy but unhappy. She spent her childhood in Hrvatsko Zagorje on the Golubovec estate owned by Baron Geza Rauch which her father managed. She was educated by private tutors alongside baron Rauch's children. Zagorka attended elementary school in Varaždin were she stood out as very intelligent and talented, finishing all grades with the highest marks. Although her father wanted to send her to Switzerland to attend high school, which baron Rauch a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Jovanović
Marija Jovanović (born 26 December 1985) is a retired Montenegrin handball player. She played for the Montenegrin national team. She competed at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship, where the Montenegrin team placed sixth, and Jovanović was listed among the top ten goalscorers of the tournament (scoring 31 goals). As captain, she led the Montenegrin national team when they won a gold medal at the European Championship in Serbia. After two years spent at the Ferencvárosi, she decided to end her career and graduated in Business Economics in 2018. She has been in private business ever since. Honours ;Club *EHF Champions League: **''Semifinalist'': 2011, 2012, 2013 *EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **''Winner'': 2006 and 2010 *Women's Regional Handball League: **''Winner'': 2010 and 2011 **''Silver Medallist'': 2009 *Montenegrin Championship: **''Winner'': 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 * Romanian Championship: **''Winner'': 2012, 2013 *Montenegrin Cup: **''Winner'': 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Karan
Marija Karan ( sr-cyr, Марија Каран; born 29 April 1982) is a Serbian actress. She had her film debut in '' Kad porastem biću Kengur'' and appeared after this in '' Jesen stiže, dunjo moja''. She was born in Belgrade. In 2007, Karan appeared alongside Nikola Kojo and Bogdan Diklić in the Serbian thriller ''Četvrti čovek'' (''The fourth Man'') by Dejan Zečević and alongside Branko Tomović in the British Drama '' Taximan'' by Henrik Norrthon. ''Marija Karan'' was also introduced in a FOX TV Series called ''Odd Mom Out''. She appeared on the December 2011 cover of Serbian Cosmopolitan magazine ''Cosmopolitan'' is an American monthly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a List .... Filmography Television Films External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karan, Marija 1982 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Ćirović
Marija Ćirović is a Montenegrin model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Montenegro in Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cirovic, Marija Miss World 2007 delegates 1989 births Living people Montenegrin beauty pageant winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Agbaba
Marija Agbaba Lanistanin ( sr-cyr, Марија Агбаба; born 9 August 1995) is a Serbian handball player for Békéscsabai Előre NKSE and the Serbian national team. She represented Serbia at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship. Her younger sister Jelena Agbaba currently plays for Moyra-Budaörs Handball Budaörs Handball is a Hungarian women's handball club, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top level championship in Hungary. They played in the first division between 2015 and 2019, then they spent two seasons in the second division ( .... References External links * Serbian female handball players 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Kikinda Expatriate handball players Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Békéscsabai Előre NKSE players {{Serbia-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Čolić
Marija Colic (born 12 April 1990) is a Serbian handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ... player for Nice Handball and the Serbian national team. She was part of the team at the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship. References 1990 births Living people Serbian female handball players People from Prokuplje Expatriate handball players Serbian expatriate sportspeople in France {{Serbia-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marija Lastauskienė
Marija Lastauskienė '' née'' Ivanauskaitė ( pl, Maria Lastowska, née Iwanowska) (15 May 1872 in Šiauliai – 19 July 1957 in Kaunas) and her sister Sofija Pšibiliauskienė were Lithuanian sisters who wrote under the shared pen name '' Lazdynų Pelėda'' ('' Hazel Owl''). Marija married Belarusian literary critic and politician Vaclau Lastouski (Lastauskas), but divorced after a few years. Biography Born in Šiauliai, Lastauskienė grew up and spent her youth in a family estate in Paragiai. Her father was painter Nikodem Iwanowski. Her family, of Polish–Lithuanian nobility stock, was influenced by Polish culture. Therefore, her native language was Polish and she had difficulties writing in Lithuanian. Lastauskienė did not have formal education and self-educated reading various Polish authors. At the age of sixteen she moved to Warsaw to work as a seamstress at her aunt's shop. She later moved to Saint Petersburg and Riga, before settling down in Vilnius, where her sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
