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Milka (given Name)
Milka is a feminine given name found in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. It may refer to: *Milka Babović (1928–2020), Croatian runner and journalist *Milka Canić (born 1944), Serbian quiz show host *Milka Chulina (born 1974), Venezuelan model of Croatian descent *Milka Duno (born 1972), Venezuelan race car driver *Milka Hartman (1902-1997), Slovenian poet *Milka Loff Fernandes (born 1980), German TV presenter and actress *Milka Planinc (1924–2010), Croatian Yugoslav politician *Milka Stojanovic (born 1937), Serbian opera singer *Milka Tadić, Montenegrin political activist *Milka Ternina (1863–1941), Croatian dramatic soprano See also *Milcah, Hebrew name מִלְכָּה (meaning "queen" or "ruler") * Malka, Hebrew name *'' Milka – A Film About Taboos'', a 1980 Finnish film *Milko (name) Milko (Cyrillic script: Милко) is a Slavic name that may refer to: ;Given name * Milko Bambič (1905–1991), Slovene illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Babović
Milena "Milka" Babović (27 October 1928 – 26 December 2020) was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist. She won numerous sprinting events in the former Yugoslavia, and was selected the best athlete several times. She also had a noted career as a sports journalist and editor in television. Life Babović was born in Skopje to a Montenegrin father and a Syrmian German (Danube Swabian) mother, and grew up in Sarajevo, but moved to Ruma and Belgrade in high school. She graduated in pedagogy at the University of Zagreb. Having taken up sports in Ruma, she joined Mladost in Zagreb and started to compete in sprinting events. Starting in 1953, she won the Yugoslav national titles in the 100 m (once), 80 m hurdles (seven), 4 × 100 m relay (seven), and 4 × 200 m relay events (two). She set several Yugoslav sprinting records, and won two international student competitions in the 80 m hurdles in 1953 and 1957; at the 1954 European Championships she placed fifth. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Canić
Milka Canić ( sr-cyr, Милка Цанић; 18 July 1944 – 19 October 2016) was the supervisor of the Serbian TV quiz show "TV Slagalica" (formerly known as "Muzička Slagalica"), which has aired every day at 19:00 CET on RTS channel 1 since 1993. Career Canić graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and was a professor of the Serbian language at the gymnasium in Priština, at the military gymnasium in Belgrade, and at XV Belgrade gymnasium. Canić worked for five years on RTS program ''"Srbija danas"'' (''Serbia today''), and after that she became part of "Slagalica" crew about 10 years ago, and gained enormous popularity in Serbia since then. On 2008 Serbian parliamentary election Milka Canić was a candidate of the Democratic Party of Serbia The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Chulina
Milka Yelisava Chulina Urbanich (; born January 6, 1974) is a Venezuelan actress, model and Miss Venezuela 1992 winner, second runner-up at Miss Universe 1993 and Top 15 semifinalist at Miss International 1994. Miss Venezuela Born to Croatian parents, Chulina grew up in Maracay, Venezuela, and competed in 1992 as Miss Aragua in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Venezuela, capturing the crown and the right to represent her country in Miss Universe 1993. Miss Universe As the official representative of her country to the 1993 Miss Universe pageant held in Mexico City, Mexico on May 21, 1993, she got the highest semifinal interview score in the history of the pageant at the time, a combined score of 9.843. In the end, she placed second runner-up to Miss Universe 1993. Miss International After Miss Universe, Chulina represented her country in the 1994 Miss International pageant held in Ise, Japan, on September 4, 1994, where she was one of the Top 15 semifinalists. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Duno
Milka Duno (born April 22, 1972) is a Venezuelan race car driver who competed in the IndyCar Series and ARCA Racing Series. She is best known for holding the record of highest finish for a female driver in the 24 Hours of Daytona. She entered the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2014. Duno is a former model and has thus attracted much attention. Her racing career is unusual because of her late start. She was introduced to the sport when she was invited to a driving clinic by a car club in Venezuela and did not start racing until she was 24.Milka Duno's Official Website Retrieved August 5, 2007 Prior to racing her background was primarily academic. Duno holds s in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Hartman
Milka Hartman (11 February 1902 – 9 June 1997) was a Slovenian poet. She worked as a teacher for home economics in Slovenia and Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to t .... A number of her poems have been set to music by herself and others. References 1902 births 1997 deaths Slovenian women poets Slovenian poets Carinthian Slovenes 20th-century women writers 20th-century poets {{slovenia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Loff Fernandes
Milka Loff Fernandes (born 19 June 1980 in Hamburg) is a German TV presenter and actress of Cape Verdean descent. Fernandes was, from 1999 until 2004, VJ for the television channel Viva and in 2002 recorded the song ''Girl for a day'' with Band Ohne Namen, reaching Number 16 in the German music charts. Fernandes has also played roles in the television crime series ''Tatort'', ''Rosa Roth'' and the short film ''Traum(a)''. Her parents come from the Cape Verde islands, and she is a practising Buddhist, now living in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th .... She has also appeared twice in the German celebrity version of '' Come Dine with Me''. References External links * 1980 births Living people German television presenters German television ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Planinc
Milka Planinc ( Malada; ; 21 November 1924 – 7 October 2010) was a Croatian politician active in SFR Yugoslavia. She served as Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986, the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was the first female head of government of a diplomatically recognized Communist state in Europe. Early life Planinc was born Milka Malada in a mixed ethnic Croat and ethnic Serb family in Žitnić, a small village near Drniš, Dalmatia in modern-day Croatia. She attended school until the onset of World War II interrupted her education. She joined the Communist Youth League in 1941, which was a pivotal year in Planinc's life and for her country. Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia and divided the country among German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian occupying authorities. Soon a resistance movement known as the Partisans was formed, led by Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Planinc waited impatiently for the day when she would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Stojanovic
Milka is a brand of chocolate confectionery, originally made in Switzerland in 1901 by Suchard. It has then been produced in Lörrach, Germany for the past 100 years. Since 2012 it has been owned by US-based company Mondelez International, when it started following the steps of its predecessor Kraft Foods Inc., which had taken over the brand in 1990. It is sold in bars and a number of novelty shapes for Easter and Christmas. Products with the ''Milka'' brand also include chocolate-covered cookies and biscuits. The brand's name is a portmanteau of the product's two main ingredients: "" (milk) and "" (cocoa). History On November 17, 1825, Swiss chocolatier Philippe Suchard (1797–1884) established a pâtisserie in Neuchâtel where he sold a hand-made dessert, ''chocolat fin de sa fabrique''. The following year, Suchard founded Chocolat Suchard and moved production to nearby Serrières, where he produced 25–30 kg of chocolate daily in a rented former water mill. During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Tadić
Milka Tadić, or Milka Tadić Mijović, is a well-known Montenegrin journalist, media executive and international civic activist. Biography Milka Tadić Mijović was one of the co-founders and the executive director of ''Monitor'', the first private independent weekly established in Montenegro in 1990. That same year, she was also one of the founders of the multi-ethnic, reform oriented organization Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (UJDI). Tadić Mijović was the first journalist in Montenegro dismissed from job for criticizing Slobodan Milošević's nationalistic policies. During the nineties, she was actively engaged in the anti-war movement. Her wartime reports, analytical columns and radio and TV interviews, as well as investigative articles on organised crime and corruption in Montenegro and the region have been translated and published or quoted by leading international media. She has served on the Council of Europe Steering Committee on the Mass Media a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Ternina
Milka Ternina (born Katarina Milka Trnina, pronounced ; 19 December 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses. Praised by audiences and music critics alike for the electrifying force of her acting and the excellence of her singing in both German and Italian works, her career was curtailed at its peak in 1906 by a medical condition which paralyzed a nerve in her face. Early life and education A native of Vezišće (part of Križ), the young Trnina (usually referred to as Milka Ternina in English-speaking countries) studied singing privately with Ida Winterberg in Zagreb and then with Joseph Gänsbacher at the conservatory in Vienna, graduating from his class in 1883 with a gold medal. She had made her operatic debut while still a student in Zagreb, singing Amelia in an 1882 production of Giuseppe Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera''. Career Ternina sang initially as a full-time professional perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milcah
Milcah ( ''Mīlkā'', related to the Hebrew word for "queen") was the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, according to the genealogies of Genesis. She is identified as the grandmother of Rebecca in biblical tradition, and some texts of the Midrash have identified her as Sarahs sister. Sister of Sarah One of the Yahwist passages from Genesis identifies Haran as the father of Iscah Iscah ( ''Yīskā''; gr, Ἰεσχά) is the daughter of Haran and the niece of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. The passage in which Iscah is mentioned is extremely brief. As a result rabbinical scholars have developed theories to explain it, t ... and Milcah. Some rabbinic texts within the Midrashic tradition have identified the aforementioned Iscah as Sarah. According to the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Isaac Nappaha, who was one of the Palestinian rabbis, said that Iscah and Sarah were the same person: "And why was she called Iscah? Because she saw through the Holy Spirit". Ancestor of Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malka (other)
Malka or Malkah may refer to: Places * Malka (river), a river in Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia * Malka Balo, one of the districts in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia * Malka Hans, Punjab, a town in Pakistan * Malka Jara, a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province * Malka, Kamchatka Krai, a village on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Rusie * Malka Mari, a settlement in Kenya's Eastern Province * Malka, Pakistan, a town of Gujrat District in the Punjab province of Pakistan * Malka Polyana, a village in the municipality of Aytos in Burgas Province, Bulgaria * Malka Smolnitsa, a village in the municipality of Dobrichka in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria People Surname * Judah ben Nissim al-Malkah, a Moroccan-Jewish writer and philosopher of the 13th century * Marie Ortal Malka, Israeli musician * Moti Malka, an Israeli footballer * Motti Malka, mayor of the Israeli city of Kiryat * Napki Malka, a Hephthalite king of the 6th-7th century * Zadok Malka, a former Israeli footballer Given name * MALKA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
