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Milica Novkovic
Milica ( sr-Cyrl, Милица; pronounced 'Millitsa') is a feminine name popular in Balkan countries. It is a diminutive form of the given name Mila, meaning 'kind', 'dear' or 'sweet'. The name was used for a number of queens and princesses, including Milica of Serbia, wife of Tsar Lazar, who is honored as a saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Milica has been the most popular name for girls born in Serbia since 1991, and is overall the most common female given name in the country. The name is occasionally given the phonetic spelling ''Milizza'' in English speaking countries. The name of Princess Milica of Montenegro was often translated as Milizza in English language publications. Individuals named Milica * Milica of Serbia (1335–1405), Princess of Serbia, wife of Lazar of Serbia * Milica Despina (1485–1554), Princess consort of Wallachia, wife of Neagoe Basarab *Milica of Montenegro (1866–1951), Montenegrin princess * Milica Branković (died 1464), Serbian princes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Milica Of Serbia
Princess Milica Hrebeljanović née Nemanjić ( sr, Милица Немањић Хребељановић · ca. 1335 – November 11, 1405) also known as Empress (''Tsaritsa'') Milica, was a royal consort of Serbia by marriage to Prince Lazar, and regent of Serbia during the minority of her son, despot Stefan Lazarević from 1389 to 1393. She later became a Serbian Orthodox nun under the name Jevgenija. She is the author of "''A Mother's Prayer''" ( sr, Молитва матере) and a famous poem of mourning for her husband, ''My Widowhood's Bridegroom'' ( sr, Удовству мојему женик). Biography Early life She was the daughter of Prince Vratko Nemanjić (known in Serb epic poetry as ''Jug Bogdan''), who as a great-grandson of Vukan Nemanjić, Grand Prince of Serbia (ruled 1202-1204)), was part of the collateral, elder branch of the Nemanjić dynasty. Her husband was Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović. She was the fourth cousin once removed of Emperor Duš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Čubrilo
Milica Čubrilo - Filipović ( sr-Cyrl, Милица Чубрило - Филиповић) is a Serbian politician and diplomat. She served as the Minister of Diaspora from 2007 to 2008. In May 2010, she was appointed Serbian Ambassador to Tunisia, and held the position until November 2013. Education and career She was born in Carthage, Tunisia in 1969. She graduated in 1992 at the Law School of Panthéon-Assas University. In 1993, she received her MA degree in Anthropology and Law at the Sorbonne. In 2007, prior to taking the post of the Ministry of Diaspora, she worked as a coordinator of the world congress of the International Press Institute (IPI), scheduled to take place in Belgrade in June 2008. In 2006, she was a consultant for the USAID Regional Competitiveness Initiative, on the strategy and promotion of tourism in the Balkans. From 2003 to 2006, she was the director of the Tourist Organisation of Serbia (TOS). She was in charge of promoting Serbia as a tourist destin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Ninković
Milica Ninković (30 January 1854 – 18 November 1881) was a Serbian feminist, translator and editor. Life Milica Ninković was born on 30 January 1854 Újvidék, in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Novi Sad, Serbia). She attended the School of Pedagogy of the University of Zurich from 1872 to 1874 with her sister Anka. Upon leaving Switzerland in 1874, they decided to establish a private high school for girls in Kragujevac, Serbia, but permission was not granted by the government and they were threatened with expulsion from Serbia. Ninković avoided this by marrying the journalist and future politician Pera Todorović. During the Serbian–Ottoman War of 1876–78, she volunteered as a nurse. After the war, she worked for the British Legation in Belgrade, Serbia, until pressure from the Serbian government forced the British to fire her. Ninković then left the country to study medicine abroad, but caught tuberculosis and died in Kragujevac on 18 November 1881.Pantelić, pp. 370– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney ( ; born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political science and law. He then moved to Montreal and gained prominence as a labour lawyer. After placing third in the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election, he was appointed president of the Iron Ore Company of Canada in 1977. He held that post until 1983, when he successfully became leader of the Progressive Conservatives. He then led the party to a landslide victory in the 1984 federal election, winning the second-largest percentage of seats in Canadian history (at 74.8 percent) and receiving over 50 percent of the popular vote. Mulroney later won a second majority government in 1988. Mulroney's tenure as prime minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mila Mulroney
Milica "Mila" Mulroney (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица "Мила" Пивнички; née Pivnički; born July 13, 1953) is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. She was notable for taking on a greater role during her husband's tenure than previous spouses of Canadian prime ministers, for her work for children's charities, and for criticism of her lavish spending habits. Early life Mulroney was born Milica Pivnički to Serbian Orthodox parents Dimitrije "Mita" Pivnički and Bogdanka (née Ilić) in Sarajevo, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia. Her first years were spent in the city of Sarajevo where her father practised medicine. In 1956, Dr. Pivnički took a research fellowship position at the Royal Victoria Hospital's Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry in Montreal. While his pregnant wife Bogdanka waited to join him, she moved with young Milica back to their hometown of Novi Bečej, Serbia. Finally, two years later, in 1958, she and their two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Miljanov
Milica Miljanov ( sr-cyrl, Милица Миљанов; c. 1860 – ?) was a Montenegrin soldier and war heroine in World War I. Biography Milica Miljanov was born in Medun, around 1860. She was one of three daughters of the Montenegrin duke, Marko Miljanov. She married Ivan Lazović. Miljanov volunteered to the army in 1914 as a mother and at an age when even men are relieved from active duty, fighting all across the Balkan warfront. Unlike other women who joined the army, she did not change her identity and name, and was able to fight as a woman till the end of the war. Her daughter, Olga, born in 1898, was a writer, dancer, composer, philosopher and teacher, who was remembered as Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, the wife and associate of the American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Mićić Dimovska
Milica Mićić Dimovska(1947-2013) was a Serbian writer. She has written numerous novels and collections of short stories and won a number of awards. Her works have been translated into English, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, and Swedish. Personal life While Dimovska spent most of her life in Novi Sad, she studied literature in Belgrade, at the University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-ba .... Her first publications came in the 1970s. While in Belgrade, she became very closely connected with a group of writers whose style was considered “new style fiction” roza novag stilaor “hard-boiled fiction” tvarnosna proza This group focused their works on the people in the “social margin”, often women, yet Mićić Dimovska was almost the only wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Mandić
Milica Mandić ( sr-cyr, Милица Мандић, born 6 December 1991) is a Serbian taekwondo athlete. She is a two-time Olympic champion in the +67 kg category, as well as World champion in the same category. Career Mandić won a bronze medal in the middleweight category (under 73 kg) at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships and a silver medal at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she beat Anne-Caroline Graffe of France in a 9–7 win, becoming the first gold medalist for independent Serbia. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in quarterfinals by British Bianca Walkden. At 2017 World Taekwondo Championships she won gold medal, beating South Korean Oh Hye-ri. In April 2020, she announced that she will retire after the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were held one year later due to COVID-19 pandemic, she won her second gold medal (first for Serbia in Tokyo 2020) against South Korean Lee Da-bin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Majstorović
Milica Majstorović ( sr, Милица Мајсторовић; born 9 October 1989) is a Serbian singer. She came to media attention as a contestant in regional television show '' Operacija Trijumf'', while her debut single "Savršeni par" was released on 6 January 2009. On 20 February 2010, it was reported Majstorović tried to commit suicide due to professional disappointments,Tračarenje.comMilica Majstorović pokušala da se ubije?(20 February 2010)Vesti OnlineMilica Majstorović pokušala samoubistvo?(23 February 2010) which she confirmed on 2 March 2010.SrbijaNet (2 March 2010)''Story''Milica Majstorović: Istina o pokušaju samoubistva (22 March 2010)''Alo!''Pokušala da se ubije zbog posla? (16 March 2010) Life and career Early life and career: 1989–2008 Milica Majstorović was born on 9 October 1989, in Kragujevac Serbia former SFR Yugoslavia. She has been playing the piano and the flute since she was ten, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Kacin Wohinz
Milica Kacin Wohinz (née Brezigar, 12 October 1930 – 29 December 2021) was a Slovenian historian best known for her seminal study on the history of the Italianization, forceful Italianization of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) that took place between 1918 and 1943. Life Wohinz was born in the Slovene Littoral, which was annexed by the Kingdom of Italy after World War I. At the age of twelve, she was expelled from school by the Italian Fascist regime as punishment for her father's resistance to Italianization. During World War II, she joined the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, helping Slovene partisans. After World War II and the annexation of the Slovenian Littoral to Yugoslavia in 1947, she attended the Slovene-language high schools in Postojna and Ljubljana. In 1952, she enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where she studied history. She obtained her PhD in 1970 under the supervision of Vasilij Melik. From 1959 onward, she worked at the Institute o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milla Jovovich
Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich; sr-Latn, Milica Bogdanovna Jovović; russian: Милица Богдановна Йовович; uk, Милиця Богданoвна Йовович ( ; born December 17, 1975), known professionally as Milla Jovovich, is an American actress and model. Her starring roles in numerous science-fiction and action films led the music channel VH1 to deem her the "reigning queen of kick-butt" in 2006. In 2004, ''Forbes'' determined that she was the highest-paid model in the world. Born in Kiev (now Kyiv) and raised in Los Angeles, Jovovich began modeling when Herb Ritts photographed her for the cover of the Italian magazine ''Lei'' in 1987. Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In 1988, Jovovich made her screen debut in the television film ''The Night Train to Kathmandu'' and appeared in her first feature film, ''Two Moon Junction''. Jovovich gained attention for her role in the 1991 romance fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Janković
Milica Janković ( Pozarevac, 23 November 1881 - Niska Banja, 27 June 1939) was a Serbian writer of prose and verse. Milica Janković is also known under her pseudonym Leposava Mihajlovic. She graduated from high school in Veliko Gradiste and art school of the University of Blegrade in 1906. From 1906, she went on to have a teaching career that lasted for more than three decades. She never married. Her chief work is ''Ispovesti'' ("Confessions"), a collection of modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ... short stories. According to a critic, Jankovic's ''Ispovesti'' stories may be compared also with the best of Jovan Ducic's travel letters and the most perfect essays of Bogdan Popovic, Pavle Popovic, Jovan Skerlic, and Slobodan Jovanovic. "Characteriz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
