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Mikk D'Wolff
Mikk is an Estonian masculine given name, a version of Nicholas. People named Mikk include: *Mikk-Mihkel Arro (born 1984), decathlete *Mikk Jürjens (born 1987), actor, singer and TV presenter * Mikk Jurkatamm (born 2000), basketball player * Mikk Mikiver (1937–2006), actor and theater director *Mikk Murdvee (born 1980), Estonian-Finnish conductor and violinist *Mikk Pahapill (born 1983), decathlete *Mikk Pinnonen (born 1991), handballer * Mikk Reintam (born 1990), football player See also *Mikko *Miki, Azerbaijan Miki (also, Mikk) is a village and municipality in the Astara Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental co ..., village and municipality in the Astara Rayon of Azerbaijan, also known as Mikk. References {{Given name Estonian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the Latin script. It is the official language of Estonia and one of the official languages of the European Union, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. Classification Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. The Finnic languages also include Finnish and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is subclassified as a Southern Finnic language and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, Estonian is one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of an Indo-European origin. From the typological point of view, Estonian is a predominantly agglutinative language. The loss of word-final sounds is extensive, and this has made its inflectional morphology markedly more fusional, especially with respect to no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek language, Greek name Νικόλαος (''Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' (Synaeresis, contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic Deluge myth, deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk-Mihkel Arro
Mikk-Mihkel Arro (born 28 March 1984) is an Estonian decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ .... Achievements References * 1984 births Living people Estonian decathletes Sportspeople from Paide World Athletics Championships athletes for Estonia {{Estonia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Jürjens
Mikk Jürjens (born 27 January 1987) is an Estonian stage, television, film, and voice actor, singer, and television presenter whose career began in the mid-2000s. Early life and education Mikk Jürjens was born and raised in the town of Rapla in Rapla County. In 2006, he enrolled in the performing arts department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn to study acting under course supervisor Hendrik Toompere Jr., graduating in 2010. Among his graduating classmates were: Marta Laan, Liis Haab, Lauri Kaldoja, Liisa Pulk, Roland Laos, Hendrik Toompere Jr. Jr., Sandra Uusberg-Üksküla, and Kristjan Üksküla. Career Stage Following his graduation from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2010, he joined the Tallinn City Theatre the same year, where he is currently still engaged. Among his more memorable roles in theatre were in works by: A. H. Tammsaare, Peter Barnes, J. B. Priestley, David Hare, Alexander Pushkin, Richard Greenberg, David Lindsay-Abaire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Jurkatamm
Mikk Jurkatamm (born 18 September 2000) is an Estonian professional basketball player for Treviso Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He also represents the Estonian national team. Standing at 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in), he plays at the shooting guard The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two, two guard or off guard,Shooting guards are 6'3"–6'7"BBC Sports academy URL last accessed 2006-09-09. is one of the five traditional positions in a regulation basketball game. A shooting guard's m ... position. References External links Mikk Jurkatammat fiba.com Mikk Jurkatammat basket.ee 2000 births Living people 21st-century Estonian people Estonian expatriate basketball people in Italy Estonian men's basketball players Lega Basket Serie A players Shooting guards Basketball players from Tallinn TTÜ KK players Universo Treviso Basket players Virtus Bologna players {{Estonia-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Mikiver
Mikk Mikiver (4 September 1937 – 9 January 2006) was a prominent Estonians, Estonian stage and film actor and theater director. Biography Mikiver was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated from the State Conservatory of Tallinn in 1961. He then went on to appear in many Estonian films and was a highly regarded dramatic actor. In addition to stage and film, Mikiver was also a prodigious television actor. While never retiring from acting, Mikiver gradually became more interested in theater direction and was for many years the principal director of the Estonian Drama Theatre and the Tallinn City Theatre, Estonian Youth Theater. In addition to Estonian language films, Mikiver also appeared in Russian language, Russian, Swedish language, Swedish, Polish language, Polish and Finnish language, Finnish productions. For his notable achievements, the Council of Ministers of Estonia, Estonian government awarded Mikiver the Order of the White Star, 4th Class, as well as the National Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Murdvee
Mikk Murdvee (born March 20, 1980) is an Estonian-Finnish Conductor (music), conductor and violinist living in Helsinki, Finland. Education Mikk Murdvee was born in Tallinn. He studied violin in Tallinn Music High School (1986–1998), Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Sibelius Academy (1999–2005), graduating from the latter with highest possible marks. He started conducting studies privately with Atso Almila in 2000. 2002–2007 he studied in Sibelius Academy conducting class, where his teachers were Leif Segerstam, Atso Almila and Jorma Panula plus many other visiting teachers. In addition he has taken part of master classes (including Neeme Järvi Summer Academy) with Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Eri Klas, J.Panula, L.Segerstam, Leonid Grin and Juozas Domarkas, conducting Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony orchestra, Pärnu City Orchestra, Orchestra of Theatre "Vanemuine" and St.Petersburg Festival Orchestra. Work experience He has conducted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Pahapill
Mikk Pahapill (born 18 July 1983) is a retired Estonian decathlete. His personal best score is 8398 points, achieved at the 2011 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis. His coach is Remigija Nazarovienė. He won the 2009 European Indoor Championships in heptathlon with 6362 points, which is currently the 10th all-time result. Pahapill was born in Kuressaare. Pahapill was the runner-up at the 2009 Décastar meeting with a then personal best score of 8255 points and runner-up at the 2011 competition with a result of 8184 points. He was also the runner-up at the 2010 European Cup Combined Events in Tallinn, recording a total of 8198 points to finish behind Romain Barras. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Pinnonen
Mikk Pinnonen (born 4 January 1991) is an Estonian handballer who plays as a playmaker for Știința Municipal Dedeman Bacău in the Romanian Liga Naţională and the Estonian national team. National team career Pinnonen's first international match was a 31–22 defeat against Macedonia on 27 November 2008 at the Boris Trajkovski Sports Center in front of 4,000 Macedonian fans. In that match, he scored 4 goals for Estonia aged 17 years. Achievements *Danish Handball Cup The Danish Men's Handball cup ( da, Landspokalturneringen i håndbold for herrer) is the nationwide cup tournament for men's handball teams in Denmark. It’s also known as Santander Cup for sponsorship reasons. The competition has been played ann ...: **''Winner'': 2013 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinnonen, Mikk 1991 births Living people People from Antsla Parish Estonian male handball players Expatriate handball players Estonian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Estonian expatriate sportspeople in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikk Reintam
Mikk Reintam (born 22 May 1990) is a retired Estonian professional footballer who last played as a centre back for Meistriliiga club Nõmme Kalju FC. Internationally he played for the Estonia national team in 12 matches. Club career Flora Reintam came through the youth system at Flora and played for the club's affiliates Warrior. He made his debut for Flora's first team on 3 March 2009, against Levadia in the Estonian Supercup, and scored the first goal of a 2–1 win. Reintam made his debut in the Meistriliiga on 7 March 2009, and scored the only goal of an away win against Nõmme Kalju. In July 2010, Reintam moved to Tulevik on loan until the end of the 2010 season. JJK On 7 March 2011, Reintam signed a three-year contract with Finnish club JJK. He made his debut in the Veikkausliiga on 12 May 2011, in a 2–1 away victory over RoPS. His club finished the 2011 season in third place, their highest position in history. Nõmme Kalju On 15 February 2014, Reintam signed a o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko
Mikko is a Finnish masculine given name and equivalent of the English name Michael, having been borrowed into the Finnish language. The given name Mikko is shared by the following notable people: * Mikko Alatalo, Finnish musician and politician * Mikko Eloranta, Finnish ice hockey left winger * Mikko Franck, Finnish conductor * Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer * Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish World Rally Championship driver * Mikko Hyppönen, Finnish security guru and an author * Mikko Ilonen, Finnish golfer * Mikko Juva, Finnish historian, theologian, and archbishop * Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer * Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player * Mikko Kolehmainen, Finnish flatwater canoer * Mikko Korhonen, Finnish golfer * Mikko Koskinen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender * Mikko Larkas, Finnish basketball coach * Mikko Leppilampi, Finnish actor and musician * Mikko Lindström, guitarist for Finnish band HIM * Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer and current director of Boston Ballet * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
