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Nikša Vujanović
Nikša (Никша) is a given name and a Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian alternative of Nicolas / Nikola. It may refer to: *Nikša Bratoš (born 1959), Bosnian musician who gained fame in former Yugoslavia, member of bands Valentino and Crvena jabuka *Nikša Dobud (born 1985), Croatian water polo player *Nikša Gligo (born 1946), Croatian musicologist and university professor *Nikša Gradi or Nikola Gradić / Nicoló Gradi (1825–1894), Croatian writer, politician, and lawyer from Dubrovnik *Nikša Kaleb (born 1973), Croatian handball player *Nikša Petrović (born 1992), Croatian football player *Nikša Ranjina or Nicola Ragnina (1494–1582), Croatian writer and noblemen from the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) *Nikša Roki (born 1988), Croatian swimmer *Nikša Skelin (born 1978), Croatian rower *Nikša Sviličić Nikša (Никша) is a given name and a Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian alternative of Nicolas / Nikola. It may refer to: *Nikša Bratoš (born 1959), Bosnian musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas (given Name)
Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to masculine given names cognate to English Nicholas. The given name ''Nicolas'' is widely used in France () and Brazil (). The variant Nicolás () is widely used in Spanish-speaking countries. The variant Nicola (), while mistakenly considered feminine in parts of the English-speaking world, is a popular male name in Italy, although ''Nicolas'' is also sometimes used, especially amongst Italian Americans and Latin Americans of Italian descent. People Nicolas *Prince Nicolas of Belgium (born 2005), grandson of King Albert II *Prince Nicolas, Duke of Ångermanland (born 2015), grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf *Nicolas-Alexandre, marquis de Ségur (1695–1755), French aristocrat *Nicolas Anelka (born 1979), French footballer *Nicolas Cage (born 1964), American actor *Nicolas Chalvin (born 1969), French conductor and oboist *Nicolas Chumachenco (1944–2020), Polish violinist *Nicolas Coutelot (born 1977), a French tennis player *Nicolas Devilder (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Bratoš
Nikša Bratoš (born 17 August 1959 in Travnik, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian musician. He is known for having played in bands Valentino and Crvena jabuka. He has worked on songs for a variety of Croatian pop artists. Biography Bratoš was born in 1959, and graduated from the University of Electronics in Sarajevo in 1985. He played guitar and sang backup vocals in Valentino before transitioning into Crvena jabuka. Bratoš first worked with Crvena jabuka as a producer. He was recruited to produce 1988's ''Sanjati'', and then every subsequent album. Bratoš was later recruited as a member of the band. He is known for having played many different instruments. Generally he played rhythm guitar, but periodically harmonica, saxophone, mandolin, melodika, clarinet, and woodwinds and sometimes Keyboard instrument, keyboards, synthesizers and singing backup vocals. Bratoš was able to add horn arrangements as well as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Dobud
Nikša Dobud (born 5 August 1985) is a Croatian water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Croatia men's national water polo team in the men's event. He is 6'7" (200 cm) tall and weighs 276 lbs (125 kg). In 2015, Dobud received a four-year suspension for attempting to evade a FINA drug test. His suspension ended in as of April 2019. He then signed a contract to play for Italian water polo club Pro Recco. He also intended to play for Maltese club San Giljan in the summer. See also * Croatia men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of Olympic champions in men's water polo * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo This is a list of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo. Men Medalists by tournament ;Abbreviation and legend * * – Host team * † – ''Defunct team'' * (C) – Captain * (GK) – Goalkeeper * (LH) – Left-handed Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Gligo
Nikša Gligo (born 6 April 1946 in Split) is a Croatian musicologist and university professor. Gligo's scientific interests include 20th-century music, music terminology, the aesthetics of music, and music semiology. He has been involved with the Music Biennale Zagreb in various capacities from 1973 to 1991 and from 2002 to the present. He served as the art director of the 10th Biennale in 1979. He has been a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2006 and a member of section Musicology & History of Art & Architecture of the Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ... since 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Gradi
Nikola "Nikša" Gradi ( it, Nicolò Gradi; 1825–1894) was a writer, politician, and lawyer from Dubrovnik, a descendant of the Ragusan patrician family Gradi. Biography Gradi was born in Zadar in 1825, where he attended the Gymnasium. After studying law in Padua, his judicial career led him to Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Rijeka and Kotor, then part of the Habsburg monarchy. Following retirement, he settled in Dubrovnik, devoting himself mainly to literature and politics. Apart from law, the scope of his erudition included classical, Italian and old Serbian literature. Gradi was a miscellaneous writer, and his articles, sketches, polemics, poems and dramatic texts in both Italian and Serbian were published in supplements, calendars, pamphlets and books. He focused on the philological problem of the composition of Gundulić's ''Osman''. His passion for old Ragusan writers and folk tradition urged him to write exclusively in Serbian in his mature years. His verse deals with patrioti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Kaleb
Nikša Kaleb (born 9 March 1973) is a retired Croatian handball player. He is World champion from 2003 with the Croatian national team,"Croatia" – ''European Handball Federation (2008)'' (Retrieved on February 1, 2008) and Olympic champion from 2004. ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 1, 2008) He received a silver medal at the 2005 World Championship, and a silver medal at the 2008 European Championship. Career Kaleb spent most of his career playing for his hometown club . He retired from handball in 2008. H ...
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Nikša Petrović
Nikša Petrović (born 27 January 1992) is a Croatian football midfielder, who played for Osijek in the Prva HNL. Hi career with Osijek was ruined however by persisting knee injuries. - Glas Slavonije References External links *Nikša Petrović at Sportnet.hr
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It was launched in 2000 and covers sports news from both Croatia and the rest of the world. It is considered the lar ...
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Nikša Ranjina
Nikša Andretić Ranjina or Nicola Ragnina (1494–1582) was a writer and nobleman from the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik), most famous as the compiler of Ranjina's Miscellany. Ranjina is the most famous for his manuscript collection of Croatian Petrarchian poems known as Nikša Ranjina's Miscellany. The manuscript itself was destroyed in World War II. The manuscript had two pieces and contained about 820 poems, with (recognized) authors such as Šiško Menčetić (about 500 poems), Džore Držić (~70 poems), Mavro Vetranović, Marin Krističević and Mato Hispani. Beside this well-known miscellany, he also compiled ''Ranjinin Lekcionar'' (started in 1508) (a collection of passages from the Bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts ...), and the Dubrovnik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Roki
Nikša Roki (born 8 February 1988) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events. He represented his nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple-time Croatian championship titles and national records throughout his swimming career in the 200 m butterfly and the individual medley double (both 200 and 400 m). Roki competed for Croatia in two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he managed to dip beneath the FINA B-cut in 2:01.56 (200 m butterfly) and 4:25.28 (400 m individual medley) at the Golden Bear meet in Zagreb. On the first day of the Games, Roki broke a Croatian record of 4:22.44 to touch the wall first in heat one of the 400 m individual medley, but finished only in twenty-third place. In the 200 m butterfly, Roki repeated his luck in the evening prelims, as he topped the first heat against India's Rehan Poncha, Peru's Emmanuel Crescimbeni, and Honduras' Javier Hern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Skelin
Nikša Skelin (born 25 March 1978, in Split) is a Croatian rower who has won two Olympic medals. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ... he won a silver medal in coxless pairs with his older brother Siniša. ReferencesOfficial Olympic reports External links Official site of the Skelin brothers 1978 births Living people Croatian male rowers Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Croatia in rowing Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia in rowing Olympic rowers for Croatia Rowers from Split, Croatia Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for Croatia Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikša Sviličić
Nikša (Никша) is a given name and a Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian alternative of Nicolas / Nikola. It may refer to: *Nikša Bratoš (born 1959), Bosnian musician who gained fame in former Yugoslavia, member of bands Valentino and Crvena jabuka *Nikša Dobud (born 1985), Croatian water polo player *Nikša Gligo (born 1946), Croatian musicologist and university professor *Nikša Gradi or Nikola Gradić / Nicoló Gradi (1825–1894), Croatian writer, politician, and lawyer from Dubrovnik *Nikša Kaleb (born 1973), Croatian handball player *Nikša Petrović (born 1992), Croatian football player *Nikša Ranjina or Nicola Ragnina (1494–1582), Croatian writer and noblemen from the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) *Nikša Roki (born 1988), Croatian swimmer *Nikša Skelin Nikša Skelin (born 25 March 1978, in Split) is a Croatian rower who has won two Olympic medals. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆνα ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
