Anica ( sr, Аница) is a female
given name
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used among
Romanians
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Serbs
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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
,
Slovenes
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,
Croats
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, etc. It is derived from
Anna
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221)
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. Notable people with the name include:
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Anica Bošković
Anica Bošković (born 1714 in Republic of Ragusa – died 13 August 1804 in Ragusa) was a Republic of Ragusa, Ragusan writer. She wrote a pastoral song and translated from the Italian language. Christian themes permeate her work. Hers was one ...
(1714–1804), Ragusan writer
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Anica Černej
Anica Černej (3 April 1900, in Čadram, Oplotnica – 3 May 1944, in Neubrandenburg) was a Slovenes, Slovene author and poet.
Career
Černej worked at college of education in Ljubljana, where her main interests were social and pedagogical subjec ...
(1900–1944), Slovene author and poet
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Anica Dobra
Anica Dobra ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Добра; born June 3, 1963) is a Serbian film and theatre actress.
Early life and education
Dobra was born on June 3, 1963, in Belgrade, where she completed primary education before moving to Frankfurt on M ...
(born 1963), Serbian film actress
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Anica Kovač
Anica Kovač (; , ; born 3 March 1976) is a Croatian former model best known for being the First Runner-up in the Miss World 1995 competition and for her marriage to the Croatian football player Robert Kovač.
Kovač was born to Croatian gastarbe ...
née Martinović, Croatian model, Miss Croatia 1995
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Anica Neto
Anica Manuel João Neto a.k.a. Nequita (born December 27, 1972) is a former Angolan handball player. Neto was a member of the Angola women's handball team and played in three different olympic tournaments, namely in 1996, 2000 and 2004
2 ...
(born 1972), Angolan handball player
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Anica Nonveiller
Anica Lazin Nonveiller (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Лазин Нонвеје; born 1957) is a Serbian Canadian journalist, writer and producer. She is the sister of a Parisian theatre director Miloš Lazin. In 1991 she was fired from a state-own ...
, Serbian-born Canadian journalist, writer and producer
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Anica Savić Rebac
Anica Savić-Rebac ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Савић-Ребац; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njego ...
(1892–1953), Serbian writer, classical philologist and translator
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Anica Mrose Rissi
Anica Mrose Rissi is an American author of children's books and young adult novels. Her first book, ''Anna, Banana, and the Friendship Split'', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. Her nonfiction pieces have been published by the ''New York ...
, American author
See also
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Anicka Anicka is a feminine given name which may refer to:
* Anicka Castañeda (born 1999), Filipina footballer
* Anicka Delgado (born 2002), Ecuadorian swimmer
* Anicka van Emden (born 1986), Dutch retired judoka
* Anicka Newell (born 1993), Canadian tra ...
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Anika
Anika (Devanagari: ) is a female given name of Sanskrit, German, Arabic, Swedish, Dutch, Hebrew, and Māori origin and is also an alternative spelling of the name Annika or Anikha
Meanings
The meaning of the name "Anika" is different in several ...
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Romanian feminine given names
Serbian feminine given names