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Nika (other)
Nika may refer to: Surname * Ansi Nika (born 1990), Albanian footballer * Lelo Nika (born 1969), Serbian and Romanian Romani accordionist * Rakitina Nika, pen name of science fiction and fantasy writer Ludmila Bogdanova (born 1963) Other uses * ''Nika'' (film), a Russian biographical drama film * Nika (given name) ** Nika Shakarami, Iranian woman killed in Mahsa Amini protests * Nike (mythology), or Nika, the goddess of victory * Nika Award, a Russian film award * Nika District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan * NIKA Racing, a Swedish car racing team * AS Nika, a football club in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo * Neka, also known as Nīkā, a city in Mazandaran Province, Iran See also * Nika riots, riots that took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 532 * Nikka (other) * Nikas (other) Nikas may refer to: __NOTOC__ Surname * Ilias Nikas (born 1964), Greek judoka *Panny Nikas (born 1988), Australian footballer Given name *Nika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ansi Nika
Ansi Nika (born 22 August 1990) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Albanian club Flamurtari Vlorë. Club career Nika begun his professional career with Ada Velipojë where he played for two seasons, before joining his boyhood club Vllaznia Shkodër at the start of 2009–10 season. Nika signed a new one year contract with Teuta Durrës on 19 June 2014. A day later, he was loaned out to Kukësi for their UEFA Europa League qualification games. However, this deal later turned to be a permanent deal, as Nika remained at the club for the entire 2015–16 season. On 5 July 2016, Nika joined Tirana on a two-year contract. He was presented three days later along with fellow midfielder Afrim Taku. He scored his first goal for the club on 26 October in the 4–1 away win against Luftëtari Gjirokastër, valid for the first leg of Albanian Cup's second round. Nika terminated his contract by mutual consent on 7 January due to lack playing of time, hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lelo Nika
Lelo Nika (born 1969) is a Serbian and Romanian Romani accordionist who lives in Denmark. He plays a mixture of Balkan jazz and Romanian music. He comes from Nikolinci, near Belgrade, Serbia, which has a large Romanian population. He moved with his family to Helsingør, Denmark, in 1970, for three years. Starting in 1979, he studied under Serbian accordionist Branimir Djokic. He studied at the Malmö Academy of Music Malmö Academy of Music (Swedish: Musikhögskolan i Malmö) is a Swedish public collage dedicated to education and research within the fields of music and music pedagogy. The school is located in Malmö in southern Sweden and belongs to the Facult ... in Sweden and the Danish Accordion Academy and has twice won first prize at the World Accordion Championship. External links Lelo Nika homepageabout Lelo Nika 1969 births Living people People from Helsingør Serbian accordionists Serbian expatriates in Denmark Serbian folk musicians Serbian jazz musicians S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakitina Nika
Rakitina Nika (pen name of Ludmila Bogdanova) (born in 1963) is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Gomel, Belarus. She received the ESFS encouragement award (Belarus) at Eurocon Eurocon is an annual science fiction convention held in Europe. The organising committee of each Eurocon is selected by vote of the participants of the previous event. The procedure is coordinated by the European Science Fiction Society. The first ...-2008. Bibliography * 2008. "Gonitwa" (novel) References External links * http://www.fantlab.ru/autor4066 (Russian) 1963 births Belarusian science fiction writers Living people {{belarus-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nika (film)
''Nika'' (russian: Ника) is a 2022 Russian biographical drama film written and directed by Vasilisa Kuzmina, Based on real events, the Soviet poetess Nika Turbina, performed by Elizaveta Yankovskaya, and Turbina's mother played by Anna Mikhalkova. It was theatrically released in Russia on May 19, 2022, by Central Partnership. Plot As a child, Nika Turbina, together with her mother, toured the Soviet Union, whose life turned out to be short, but full of dramatic events. Having become famous throughout the USSR for the poems that came to her in a dream and were recorded by her mother, the girl spent her entire childhood on tour around the country, bohemian parties and meetings with celebrities. Readers were struck by her childish sadness and poignant lines. But the end of the 1990s are dawning, and 27-year-old Nika has not been writing for a long time, inspiration has left her. It's place has been taken over by alcohol and attempts to understand herself. Where did her “vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nika (given Name)
Nika is a female or male given name having multiple origins in different languages and countries. In Greek Νικα (Nika second-person singular present active imperative contracted of νῑκάω (nīkáō) means Victory and was the flag under which Saint Constantine the Great and his Christian forces marched against the Pagans - "Εν Τουτο Νικα" "With this flag we have victory". (In Slavic countries the name comes from the Ancient Greek goddess of victory "Nike"Petrovsky, p. 38 (some personalities coming from Slavic countries are listed below). Nika is a female name in Persian, language meaning "very good" and "pure crystal water" , it derives from "Nik" meaning "Good", "True" and "Chosen". Nika is also the name of a river in north of Iran. Zoroastrianism, the ancient Iranian religion believes in the motto "Pendar Nik" (Good Thoughts), "Goftar Nik" (Good Words), and "Kerdar Nik" (Good Deeds). In the Pashto language, Nika is a male given name meaning "grandfather". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nika Shakarami
On 20 September 2022, 16-year-old Iranian Nika Shakarami () disappeared in Tehran during the 2022 Iranian protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. Her family was informed of her death ten days later. She had died under suspicious circumstances suspected to involve violence by security forces. After her body was identified by her family, they planned to bury her in Khorramabad, but the body was allegedly stolen by Iranian authorities and instead buried in Hayat ol Gheyb, reportedly to exercise leverage over her family and to avoid a funeral procession which could cause further protests. The Iranian authorities denied wrongdoing, spread several contradictory stories concerning her fate, and allegedly coerced some of her family members to support these narratives. Shakarami's death and the attempts of government suppression regarding information on her fate was widely publicized in international media and further fanned the ongoing protests. Shakarami and Sarina Esmailzadeh, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nike (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Nike (; grc, Νίκη, lit=victory, ancient: , modern: ) was a goddess who personified victory in any field including art, music, war, and athletics. She is often portrayed in Greek art as Winged Victory in the motion of flight; however, she can also appear without wings as "Wingless Victory" when she is being portrayed as an attribute of another deity such as Athena.Suidas. ''The Suda on Line: Byzantine Lexicography''. Translated by Whitehead, David, et al. (2014). Accessed 9 December 2022. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-html/ In Greek literature Nike is described as both an attribute and attendant to the gods Zeus and Athena. Nike gained this honored role beside Zeus during the Titanomachy where she was one of the first gods to offer her allegiance to Zeus. At Athens, Nike became a servant to Athena as well as an attribute of her due to the prominent status Athena held in her patron city. The fusion of the two goddesses at Athens has contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nika Award
The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. History The award was established in 1987 in Moscow by Yuli Gusman, and ostensibly modelled on the Oscars. The Russian award takes its name from Nike, the goddess of victory. Accordingly, the prize is modelled after the sculpture of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. The oldest professional film award in Russia, the Nika Award was established during the final years of USSR by the influential Russian Union of Filmmakers. At first the awards were judged by all the members of the Union of Filmmakers. In the early 1990s, a special academy, consisting of over 500 academicians, was elected for distributing the awards, which recognise outstanding achievements in cinema (not television) produced in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 2002 Nikita Mikhalkov esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nika District
Nika District ( ps, نکه ولسوالۍ, fa, ولسوالی نکه), also known as Naka, is one of the most remote districts in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It lies in a bowl-shaped valley and is only accessible by a few rocky river beds and a single dirt road, the latter of which is not passable in winter. The valley's economy is rudimentary and relies on wood cutting and subsistence farming. The district is within the heartland of the Zadran tribe of Pashtuns. The population in 2019 was estimated at 16,747. It was, until the US invasion 2001, a bastion for the Taliban, with mid-level and a few senior Taliban commanders spending time there, including Jalaluddin Haqqani, who has since taken up a prominent role in Al Queda and is rumored to have been one of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NIKA Racing
NIKA racing (short for Nicklas Karlsson Racing) is a Swedish racing team, founded by former racing driver Nicklas Karlsson along with Eric Lindgren which currently competes in the World Touring Car Championship. Before that they competed in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship where they won the teams' championship title in 2011. Swedish Touring Car Championship Chevrolet Lacetti (2007–2009) Karlsson founded the team in 2006 and to run a Chevrolet Lacetti for himself under the ''Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden'' banner in Swedish Touring Car Championship in 2007, but started at two races only during the season. He stepped aside for 2008 to become team manager and the team ran Norwegian Thomas Schie in their car. Schie remained for the most part among the top ten and scored a best result second place in Gothenburg. He finished seventh in the drivers' championship while the team finished fifth in the teams' championship. Schie continued for the team during the 2009 season, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AS Nika
Association Sportive Nika, more commonly known as AS Nika, is a Congolese football club based in Kisangani, Tshopo province and currently playing in the Linafoot Ligue 2, the second level of the Congolese football. Their home games are played at Stade Lumumba. History AS Nika was founded in 1955 as ''FC RUBI'', the name of the river which symbolizes their origin and which is found at the entrance to the city of Buta, by the students of Frères Maristes school from Buta who came to study in Kisangani. Over time, the club has had several names ; ''FC Dieterein'', ''INSS'', ''Espoir'', ''Electronic'' and from 1972 AS Nika. Honours Ligue de Football de Province Orientale The Catholic League of France (french: Ligue catholique), sometimes referred to by contemporary (and modern) Catholics as the Holy League (), was a major participant in the French Wars of Religion. The League, founded and led by Henry I, Duke of ... (LIFPO) * Winners (1): 2006 * Runners-up (1): 2010 Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neka
Neka ( fa, نكا, also Romanized as Nekā’ and Nekā; also known as Nīkā; formerly, Nāranj Bāgh) is a city and capital of Neka County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 46,152, in 11,941 families. Geography Neka is located at the foot of and up into the northern Alborz (''Elburs'') mountain range, south of and near the Caspian Sea coast. It is close to the city of Behshahr, and southeast of the coastal city of Sari. It is noted for its destination spas at natural hot springs, and the nearby Caspian coastline and Peninsula of Miankaleh. It is a tourist destination of Mazandaran Province. History Not much is known about this area in geographical or historical accounts of the past, until the Qajar dynasty. However, in the geographical records of the early Islamic period, the name Mirdan of a city near the current city of Neka has been mentioned. Deh Khoda has mentioned the River Neka in his encyclopedia. It seems that Neka was a vicini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
