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Vona is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Franco Vona (born 1964), Italian cyclist *Gábor Vona (born 1978), Hungarian politician * Vona Groarke, Irish poet See also * Vona, Colorado, town in the United States *Perşembe Perşembe ( tr, Perşembe,originated from Persian word "پنج شنبه(/pændʒʃænbɛ/)" meaning Thursday) (formerly ''Vona'', Βόνη in ancient Greek, also ''Heneti'', ჰენეთი in Georgian and Laz languages) is a town and district ..., a district center in Turkey (former name Vona) * Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), a written arts organization {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Vona
Franco Vona (born 20 August 1964) is a former Italian racing cyclist. Vona won three stages of the Giro d'Italia and placed 6th overall in 1992. During the 1992 Tour de France he placed 2nd on the only two high mountain stages of the race and was inside the top 10 until the final ITT which dropped him to 11th. Later in his career he rode on the powerful Maglificio team of Patrick Lefevere and Roger De Vlaeminck and earned TTT stage victories in the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Tour de France. Major results ;1988 : 1st Stage 16, Giro d'Italia ;1989 : 3rd Overall, Vuelta a Venezuela :: 1st Stage 5 : 3rd Stage 19, Giro d'Italia : 12th, Züri-Metzgete ;1991 : 1st Stage 6, Tour de Suisse ;1992 : 6th Overall, Giro d'Italia :: 1st Stages 5 & 12 : 11th Overall, Tour de France :: 2nd Stages 13 & 14 ;1993 :21st Overall, Tour de France :: 1st Stage 4 (TTT) ;1994 : 16th, Liège–Bastogne–Liège :37th Overall, Tour de France :: 1st Stage 3 (TTT) ;1995 :48th Overall, Tour de France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Vona
Gábor Vona (born Gábor Zázrivecz; 20 August 1978) is a Hungarian historian, teacher and former nationalist politician who led the political party Jobbik from 2006 until 2018. He was the party's candidate for the position of prime minister in the 2010, 2014 and 2018 national elections. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2010 to 2018 and led the Jobbik parliamentary group until 2016. Under his leadership, the Jobbik founded its controversial and short-lived paramilitary wing Magyar Gárda, while the then minor extra-parliamentary party gained great popularity among voters since the 2006 nationwide protests and elevated into the National Assembly during the 2010 parliamentary election. Vona initiated to re-define Jobbik from a nationalist radical movement to a conservative people's party after 2014 when the party became the strongest opposition party against Viktor Orbán's Fidesz. Vona tendered his resignation after disappointing election results in the 2018 parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke is an Irish poet. Groarke was born in Mostrim in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork. Groarke has published five collections of poetry with the Gallery Press (and by Wake Forest University Press in the United States): ''Shale'' (1994), ''Other People's Houses'' (1999), ''Flight'' (2002), ''Juniper Street'' (2006) and ''Spindrift'' (2009). She is also the author of a translation of the eighteenth-century Irish poem, ''Lament for Art O'Leary'' (Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire) (Gallery Books, 2008). Groarke has been a co-holder of the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University and has taught at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She now teaches at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, and in 2010 was elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of the arts. Awards and honours Groarke's work has been recognized with awards including the Brendan Behan Memorial Award, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vona, Colorado
Vona is a statutory town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 95 at the 2020 census. History Vona was named after Vona, the niece of an attorney from Burlington by the name of Pearl S. King. Geography Vona is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics Transportation Interstate 70 passes just south of Vona. The Vona exit from I-70 is exit 412. U.S. Highway 24 runs just north of the interstate, from Seibert through Vona, Stratton and Bethune to Burlington. See also * List of municipalities in Colorado The U.S. State of Colorado has 272 active incorporated municipalities, comprising 197 towns, 73 cities, and two consolidated city and county governments. At the 2020 United States Census, 4,299,942 of the 5,773,714 Colorado residents (74.47%) ... References External links CDOT map of the Town of Vona {{authority control Towns in Kit Carson County, Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perşembe
Perşembe ( tr, Perşembe,originated from Persian word "پنج شنبه(/pændʒʃænbɛ/)" meaning Thursday) (formerly ''Vona'', Βόνη in ancient Greek, also ''Heneti'', ჰენეთი in Georgian and Laz languages) is a town and district of Ordu Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. According to the 2016 census, population of the district is 31,065, with a male population of 15,966 and female population of 15,099. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an elevation of . Legend and history Perşembe is on the Vona Peninsula on the Black Sea coast and is held to be the point where the legendary Jason and the Argonauts were forced to land during their struggle with the storms and currents of the Black Sea. For a long time Vona was part of the Roman Empire and its successors the Byzantine Empire and Empire of Trebizond. This era ended in 1461 when Trebizond was overturned by Sultan Mehmet II and Vona was brought into the Ottoman Empire, although there wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |