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Savvas (surname)
Savvas ( el, Σάββας) is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Savvas (1907–1981), Greek Professor of Medicine * Dimitrios Savvas (born 1939), Greek Olympic wrestler *Georgios Savvas ( 1880s–?), Greek revolutionary chieftain *Olivia Savvas, Australian politician See also * Savas (given name) *Sava (name) Sava is a male personal name in South Slavic languages. Perhaps the most famous example is the Serbian medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava. In Croatia, Sava is found as a male name among the Serbs and also as a female name among the Croats, like ... {{surname, Savvas Greek-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Surname
In the modern world, Greeks names are the personal names among people of Greek language and Greek culture, culture generally consist of a given name and a family name. History Ancient Greek personal names, Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare. But by the 11th and 12th centuries, elite families often used family names. Family names came from placenames, nicknames, or occupations.Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', 2016, , p. lii During the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman period, surnames with Turkish prefixes such as "Hatzi-", "Kara-" and suffixes such as "-(i)lis", "-tzis", and "-oglou" became common, especi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Savvas
Alexander Savvas (1907–1981) was a Greek Professor of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Anatomy. He wrote a number of anatomy books and research protocols, and was influential among Greek physicians for his educational method and proficient use of Greek language and medical terminology. Biography He was born in Pergamon (now Bergama) in the Ottoman Empire on 10 March 1907. Son of a soap and oil trader, he was the oldest of four children of the family of Panagiotis Savva. His early school years were defined by events of the time, namely the destruction and expulsion of the Greek population in Asia Minor. He studied at the Municipal School of Pergamon, the Elementary School of Mytilene, in the second primary male school in Mytilene, in the historic Kydoniai Gymnasium (school of the great centers of Asia Minor), in the Demi-gymnasium of Pergamon and Athens High School. He was an outstanding student throughout the course of his schooling. At the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitrios Savvas
Dimitrios Savvas ( el, Δημήτριος Σαββας; born 17 September 1939) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler from Greece who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... References External links * 1939 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Greece Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Florina {{Greece-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Savvas
Georgios Savvas (Greek: Γεώργιος Σάββας) was a Greek revolutionary chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle. Biography Savvas was born in the 1880s in Thessaloniki. He participated in an armed group at Olympus at the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle. He soon became a leader of a small group. There he met with Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian and at the end of 1905, Mazarakis asked him to move with his team in Mariovo after the damage the Greek bodies suffered there. There, expanding his body, he cooperated with Captain Theodosis, Kapetan Garefis and Em. Katsigaris. He acted in the area of Mariovo and Almopia throughout the Macedonian Struggle, persecuting the Bulgarian groups. Sources * Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate, Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών και τα εις Θράκην γεγονότα, Athens 1979, p. 181, 223 * John S. Koliopoulos John S. Koliopoulos ( el, Ιωάννης Σ. Κολιόπουλος) (Ioannis Koliopoulos in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Savvas
Olivia Madison Savvas is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 state election, representing Newland. She replaced the Liberal politician, Richard Harvey, who had held the seat since 2018. Savvas attended high school at Kildare College and Saint Ignatius' College. Savvas studied law and politics at Adelaide University, and worked as an analyst in a major bank focusing on counter-terrorism finance. Her family originates from the Greek island of Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate .... Savvas served three years as a councillor representing the Balmoral Ward on the City of Tea Tree Gully Council, taking leave of absence to campaign for Newland. Elected at age 25, she will be the youngest me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savas (given Name)
Savas may refer to: * Savas, Ardèche, a commune in the Ardèche department, France * Savaş, a Turkish name * Savas (Zembillas), American Greek Orthodox metropolitan * Savas Matsas (born 1947), Greek intellectual and politician * Savas Papapolitis (1911–1973), Greek politician * Paul Savas, American politician * Theodore P. Savas, American publisher and writer * Tommy Savas Tommy A. Savas (born December 20, 1984) is an American actor and producer. He is known for ''Roger Dodger'' (2002), ''Seven Days'' (2007) and ''Extra Butter, Please'' (2011). Early life Savas was born in Harlem, New York City, New York, United ... (born 1984), American actor and producer See also * Savvas (other) {{disambig, geo, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sava (name)
Sava is a male personal name in South Slavic languages. Perhaps the most famous example is the Serbian medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava. In Croatia, Sava is found as a male name among the Serbs and also as a female name among the Croats, likewise in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a result of the tradition of naming female children after rivers – in this case, after the river Sava. It is also used in Romanian, where it is also a surname. Given name * Saint Sava, Serbian saint * Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin monarch * Sava Antić, Yugoslav footballer * Sava Athanasiu, Romanian geologist and paleontologist * Sava Babić, Serbian writer * Sava Bjelanović, Serbian politician * Sava Caracaș, Romanian army general * Sava Dobroplodni, Bulgarian writer * Sava Dumitrescu, Romanian pharmacologist * Sava Grujić, Serbian soldier, statesman and diplomat * Sava Grozdev, Bulgarian mathematician * Sava Henția, Romanian painter * Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav partisan * Sava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |