Demetrius is the
Latinized form of the
Ancient Greek
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male
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A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to ...
given name
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''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess
Demeter
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (; Attic: ''Dēmḗtēr'' ; Doric: ''Dāmā́tēr'') is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although s ...
".
Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro,
Dimitri, Dimitrie,
Dimitar Dimitar ( bg, Димитър; Macedonian: Димитар) is a South Slavic masculine given name. It is widely found in Bulgaria and North Macedonia. Dimitar is derived from Saint Demetrius (280–306), alternate form of Demetrius. Containing the ...
, Dumitru, Demitri, Dhimitër, and
Dimitrije Dimitrije (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије) is a masculine given name. Dimitrije is a Serbian variant of a Greek name Demetrius. It may refer to:
* Dimitrije Ljubavić (1519–1564), Serbian Orthodox deacon, humanist, writer and printer
* Patr ...
,
in addition to other forms (such as
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
Dmitry
Dmitri (russian: Дми́трий); Church Slavic form: Dimitry or Dimitri (); ancient Russian forms: D'mitriy or Dmitr ( or ) is a male given name common in Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christian culture, the Russian version of Greek language, Greek De ...
) descended from it.
Demetrius and its variations may refer to the following:
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Demetrius of Alopece Demetrius of AlopeceAlopece (Ἀλωπεκή) was a deme of Classical Athens. ( el, Δημήτριος), was a Greek sculptor of the early part of the 4th century BC, who is said by ancient critics to have been notable for the lifelike realism of hi ...
(4th century BC), Greek sculptor noted for his realism
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Demetrius of Phalerum
Demetrius of Phalerum (also Demetrius of Phaleron or Demetrius Phalereus; grc-gre, Δημήτριος ὁ Φαληρεύς; c. 350 – c. 280 BC) was an Athenian orator originally from Phalerum, an ancient port of Athens. A student of Theophrast ...
( – BC)
*
Demetrius
Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter".
Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...
,
somatophylax
''Somatophylakes'' ( el, Σωματοφύλακες; singular: ''somatophylax'', σωματοφύλαξ) were the bodyguards of high-ranking people in ancient Greece.
The most famous body of ''somatophylakes'' were those of Philip II of Macedon a ...
of
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
(d. 330 BC)
*Demetrius - brother of
Antigonus I Monophthalmus
Antigonus I Monophthalmus ( grc-gre, Ἀντίγονος Μονόφθαλμος , 'the One-Eyed'; 382 – 301 BC), son of Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian Greek nobleman, general, satrap, and king. During the first half of his life he serv ...
, king of Macedonia 306-301 BC
*
Demetrius I of Macedon
Demetrius I (; grc, Δημήτριος; 337–283 BC), also called Poliorcetes (; el, Πολιορκητής, "The Besieger"), was a Macedonian nobleman, military leader, and king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Antigonid dynast ...
(337–283 BC), called ''Poliorcetes'', son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, King of
Macedonia 294–288 BC
*
Demetrius the Fair
Demetrius I the Fair or the Handsome ( gr, Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός, c. 285 BC–249 BC), known in modern ancient historical sources as Demetrius of Cyrene, was a Hellenistic king of Cyrene, who succeeded Magas I.
Family
Dem ...
(Demetrius the Handsome, Demetrius of Cyrene) (285 BC-249/250 BC) -
Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
king of
Cyrene
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Demetrius II Aetolicus
Demetrius II Aetolicus (Greek: Δημήτριος ὁ Αἰτωλικός) was the son of Antigonus II Gonatas and Phila who reigned as king of Macedonia from the winter of 239 to 229 BC.
Biography
Demetrius II belonged to the Antigonid dynasty ...
, son of Antigonus II, King of Macedonia 239–229 BC
*
Demetrius
Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter".
Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...
, son of
Philip V of Macedon
Philip V ( grc-gre, Φίλιππος ; 238–179 BC) was king ( Basileus) of Macedonia from 221 to 179 BC. Philip's reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic. He would lead Macedon ag ...
*
Demetrius of Pharos
Demetrius of Pharos (also Pharus) ( grc, Δημήτριος ἐκ Φάρου and Δημήτριος ὁ Φάριος) was a ruler of Pharos involved in the First Illyrian War, after which he ruled a portion of the Illyrian Adriatic coast on beha ...
- ruler of
Pharos
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, contemporary Koine ), was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the re ...
c. 222 – 219 BC, involved in the
First Illyrian War
The Illyro-Roman Wars were a series of wars fought between the Roman Republic and the Ardiaei kingdom. In the ''First Illyrian War'', which lasted from 229 BC to 228 BC, Rome's concern was that the trade across the Adriatic Sea increased after the ...
*
Demetrius the Chronographer Demetrius the Chronographer (or ''Demetrius the Chronicler''; grc-gre, Δημήτριος) was a Jewish chronicler (historian) of the late 3rd century BC, who lived probably in Alexandria and wrote in Greek.
Works
His text is almost lost and only ...
(late 3rd century BC), Jewish chronicler (historian)
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Demetrius I Soter
Demetrius I (Greek: ''Δημήτριος Α`'', 185 – June 150 BC), surnamed Soter (Greek: ''Σωτήρ'' - "Savior"), reigned as king (basileus) of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire from November 162 – June 150 BC. Demetrius grew up in Rome a ...
(185–150 BC), king of
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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Demetrius I of Bactria
Demetrius I Anicetus ( grc, Δημήτριος Ἀνίκητος, Dēmētrios Anikētos, "the unconquered"), also called Damaytra was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek king (Yona in Pali language, "Yavana" in Sanskrit) (reigned c. 200–167 B ...
(d. 180 BC), Greek king of
Bactria
Bactria (; Bactrian: , ), or Bactriana, was an ancient region in Central Asia in Amu Darya's middle stream, stretching north of the Hindu Kush, west of the Pamirs and south of the Gissar range, covering the northern part of Afghanistan, southwe ...
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Demetrius II of India
Demetrius II (Greek: ) was an Indo-Greek king who ruled briefly during the 2nd century BC. Little is known about him and there are different views about how to date him. Earlier authors such as Tarn and Narain saw him as a son and sub-king of Dem ...
(fl. early 2nd century BC), possible relative of the above
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Demetrius II Nicator
Demetrius II ( grc, Δημήτριος Β`, ''Dēmḗtrios B''; died 125 BC), called Nicator ( grc, Νικάτωρ, ''Nikátōr'', "Victor"), was one of the sons of Demetrius I Soter. His mother may have been Laodice V, as was the case with his ...
(d. 125 BC), son of Demetrius I Soter
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Demetrius III Aniketos
Demetrius III Aniketos (Greek: ; epithet means "the Invincible") is an Indo-Greek king who reigned in the area of Gandhara and Punjab.
Controversy about time of reign
The coins of Demetrius III are few and rather crude. He copies some of his ima ...
, Indo-Greek king BC
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Demetrius III Eucaerus
Demetrius III Theos Philopator Soter Philometor Euergetes Callinicus ( grc, Δημήτριος θεός Φιλοπάτωρ σωτήρ Φιλομήτωρ Εὐεργέτης Καλλίνικος, surnamed Eucaerus; between 124 and 109 BCafter 8 ...
(d. 88 BC), son of Antiochus VIII Grypus, Seleucid King
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Demetrius the Cynic
Demetrius ( el, Δημήτριος; fl. 1st century), a Cynic philosopher from Corinth, who lived in Rome during the reigns of Caligula, Nero and Vespasian (37–71 AD).
Biography
Demetrius was the intimate friend of Seneca, who wrote about him o ...
(1st century),
Cynic philosopher
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Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria
Demetrius I (died 22 October 232), 12th Bishop and Patriarch of Alexandria. Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the Bishoprice of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop from Mark in the tenth year of Roman Emperor Co ...
, ruled in 189–232
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Demetrius of Thessaloniki
Saint Demetrius (or Demetrios) of Thessalonica ( el, Ἅγιος Δημήτριος τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης, (); bg, Димитър Солунски (); mk, Свети Димитрија Солунски (); ro, Sfântul Dumitru; sr ...
(died 306), Christian martyr and saint
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Demetrius of Bulgaria
Demetrius ( cu, Димитрїи Блъгарьскъ bg, Димитрий Български) was the second Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the first one to have been recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as a r ...
was the second
Patriarch
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certai ...
of the
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( bg, Българска православна църква, translit=Balgarska pravoslavna tsarkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria ( bg, Българска патриаршия, links=no, translit=Balgarsk ...
between c. 927 and c. 930, and the first one to have been recognized by the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...
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Demetrius Zvonimir
Demetrius Zvonimir ( hr, Dmitar Zvonimir, ; died 1089) was a King of Dalmatia and Croatia from 1076 until his death in 1089. He was crowned as king in Solin on 8 October 1076. Zvonimir also served as Ban of Croatia (1064–1074), and was named ...
(died 1089), King of
Croatia
, image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg
, image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg
, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
, image_map =
, map_caption =
, capit ...
1075–1089
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Demetrius I of Georgia
Demetrius I ( ka, დემეტრე) ( 1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1156. He is also known as a poet. He was King of United Georgian kingdom two times, first in 1125 to 1154 and second in 1155 b ...
, son of
David IV of Georgia
David IV, also known as David the Builder ( ka, დავით აღმაშენებელი, ') (1073–1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 5th king of United Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125.
Popularly considered to be ...
the Great, (1125–1156)
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Dhimitër Progoni
Demetrio Progoni ( sq, Dhimitër Progoni) was an Albanian leader who ruled as '' Prince of the Albanians'' from 1208 to 1216 the Principality of Arbanon, the first Albanian state. He was the successor and brother of Gjin Progoni and their father, ...
(1208-1216), medieval Albanian prince
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Dmitry Donskoy
Saint Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy ( rus, Дми́трий Ива́нович Донско́й, Dmítriy Ivanovich Donskóy, also known as Dimitrii or Demetrius), or Dmitry of the Don, sometimes referred to simply as Dmitry (12 October 1350 – 1 ...
(1350–1389), Russian prince
*Pseudo-Demetrius I, also known as
False Dmitry I
False Dmitry I ( rus, Лжедмитрий I, Lzhedmitriy I) (or Pseudo-Demetrius I) reigned as the Tsar of Russia from 10 June 1605 until his death on 17 May 1606 under the name of Dmitriy Ivanovich ( rus, Дмитрий Иванович). A ...
, Tsar of Russia, ruled 1605–1606
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Demetrius the Neomartyr (1779–1803), Orthodox Christian martyr and saint
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Pope Demetrius II of Alexandria
Pope Demetrius II of Alexandria, 111th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
He was born in the village of Galda, the governorate of El-Minya, Egypt. He became a monk in the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great. When the abb ...
, ruled in 1861–1870
*
Demetrius Stefanovich Schilizzi (1839–1893)
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Demetriu Radu
Demetriu Radu (26 October 1861 – 8 December 1920) was between 1897 and 1903 the Greek Catholic Bishop of Lugoj, and from 1903 to 1920 the Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea Mare.
Origins and studies
Demetriu Radu was born of peasant parents ...
(1861–1920), Romanian Greek Catholic bishop
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes transliterated as Mendeleyev or Mendeleef) ( ; russian: links=no, Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, tr. , ; 8 February Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._27_January.html" ;"title="O ...
(1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the first
periodic table
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Hadzhi Dimitar
Dimitar Nikolov Asenov ( bg, Димитър Николов Асенов ; 10 May 1840 – 10 August 1868), better known as Hadzhi Dimitar ( ), was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivode and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulg ...
(Dimitar Nikolov Asenov) (10 May 1840 – 10 August 1868), prominent Bulgarian
voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...
and revolutionary
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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(1906–1975), Russian composer
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Demetrios Trakatellis (born 1928), Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America and Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In office since 1999.
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Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...
(born 1965), Prime Minister of Russia
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Dimitrije Avramović
Dimitrije "Mita" Avramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Мита Митриновић; 15 March 1815 – 1 March 1855) was a Serbian writer, iconographer, caricaturist and painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preem ...
, Serbian painter
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Dimitrije Bašičević
Mangelos (born Dimitrije Bašičević; 21 April 1921 – 18 December 1987) was a Yugoslavian artist, curator and art critic whose artistic production included handmade books, sculptures and paintings. His work and research contributed greatly to t ...
, Serbian painter
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Dimitri Davidović
Dimitrije "Dimitri" Davidović (; born 21 May 1944) is a Serbian–Belgian football manager and former player.
Playing career
Davidović was a professional soccer player during 16 years in the first divisions of Europe.
Partizan
Born in Belgra ...
, Serbian footballer
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Demetri Martin
Demetri Evan Martin ( el, Δημήτριος Ευάγγελος Μάρτιν, ''Dimitrios Evangelos Martin''; born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, writer, director, cartoonist and musician. He was a contributor on ''The Daily Show'' ...
, American comedian
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Demetri McCamey
Demetri McCamey, Jr. (born February 21, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Austin Spurs of the NBA G League. His prior professional experience includes time with the NBA Development League's Erie BayHawks, Rio Grande Val ...
, American basketball player
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Dimitri Kitsikis
Dimitri Kitsikis ( el, Δημήτρης Κιτσίκης; 2 June 1935 – 28 August 2021) was a Greek Turkologist, Sinologist and Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics. He also published poetry in French and Greek.
Life
Dimitri K ...
, Greek geopolitician
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Dimitrije Banjac
Dimitrije Banjac ( sr-cyr, Димитрије Бањац; born 6 July 1976) is a Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter. Together with Nikola Škorić and Dejan Ćirjaković he is the creator and actor of several popular Serbian television s ...
, Serbian actor
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Dimitrios Salpingidis
Dimitris Salpingidis ( el, Δημήτρης Σαλπιγγίδης ; born 18 August 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a winger or a striker. He was known to be "a very quick and useful tool on the counter attack."
...
, Greek footballer
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Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
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Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov ( bg, Димитър Иванов Бербатов; born 30 January 1981) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer. A striker, he captained the Bulgaria national team from 2006 to 2010, and is the country's all-ti ...
, Bulgarian footballer
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Dimitrije Injac
Dimitrije "Dima" Injac ( sr-Cyrl, Димитрије Ињац; born 12 August 1980) is a Serbian Association football, football midfielder.
Club career
His former clubs were OFK Kikinda, FK Kabel, FK Vojvodina, FK Bečej and FK Slavija Sarajevo.
...
, Serbian footballer
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Demetrious Johnson
Demetrious Johnson (born August 13, 1986) is an American mixed martial artist. He currently competes in ONE Championship, where he is the current ONE Flyweight Champion (135 lb). He is the inaugural and former UFC Flyweight Champion. Known fo ...
(born 1986), American
mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, inc ...
fighter
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Dimitrij Kotschnew
Dimitrij Kotschnew (born July 15, 1981) is a Kazakhstani-born German former professional ice hockey goaltender.
Kotschnew played six seasons for the Iserlohn Roosters over two spells. From 2004 to 2007, he served as their starting goaltender. H ...
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Dimitrije T. Leko
Dimitrije "Mita" T. Leko ( sr-cyr, Димитрије Т. Леко; January 22, 1863 – September 24, 1914) was a Serbian architect and urbanist.
Biography
He spent most of his life outside Serbia and finished high school in Winterthur before s ...
, Serbian architect
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Dimitrije Ljotić
Dimitrije Ljotić ( sr-cyr, Димитрије Љотић; 12 August 1891 – 23 April 1945) was a Serbian and Yugoslav fascist politician and ideologue who established the Yugoslav National Movement (Zbor) in 1935 and collaborated with Ge ...
, Serbian politician
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Dimitrij Nonin
Dimitrij Nonin (born 5 April 1979) is a German gymnast. He finished 21st in the all around at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2 ...
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Dimitrije Pejanović
Dimitrije Pejanović (; born 9 July 1974) is a Serbian former handball player.
Club career
Over the course of his career that spanned more than two decades, Pejanović spent 11 seasons in Spain. He played for four Liga ASOBAL teams, namely Almer ...
, Serbian handballer
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Dimitrije Mitrinović
Dimitrije "Mita" Mitrinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Мита Митриновић; 21 October 1887 – 28 August 1953) was a Bosnian Serb philosopher, poet, revolutionary, mystic, theoretician of modern painting and traveler.
Biog ...
, Serbian writer
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Dimitri Nanopoulos
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, Greek physicist
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Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...
, Serbian writer
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Demetrius Rhaney
Demetrius Rhaney (born June 22, 1992) is a former American football center. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee State, having also played at Ellsworth Community ...
(born 1992), American football player
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Dimitrij Rupel
Dimitrij Rupel (born 7 April 1946) is a Slovenian politician.
Early life and education
Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the PR Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (his ...
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Dimitrije Ruvarac
Dimitrije "Mita" Ruvarac ( sr, Димитрије Руварац; Stari Banovci, Austria Hungary October 25, 1842 — Sremski Karlovci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia December 16, 1931) was Serbian historian, Orthodox priest, academic and publisher. He is k ...
, Serbian writer
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Serbian Patriarch Dimitrije
Dimitrije ( sr, Димитрије; 28 October 1846 – 6 April 1930) was the first Patriarch of the reunified Serbian Orthodox Church, from 1920 until his death. He was styled "His Holiness, the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and ...
of the
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
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Dimitrios Siovas
Dimitrios Siovas ( el, Δημήτριος Σιόβας; born 16 September 1988) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Eredivisie club Fortuna Sittard.
Club career
Early career & Panionios
Siovas was born and rai ...
, Greek footballer
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Dome Sztojay
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, Serbian politician
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Demetrius Treadwell
Demetrius "Tree" Treadwell (born 10 November 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan of the Israeli Liga Leumit (basketball). He played college basketball for the Akron Zips, before playing professionally in ...
(born 1991), American basketball player for
Hapoel Gilboa Galil
Hapoel Gilboa Galil ( he, הפועל גלבוע גליל) is a professional basketball club that is based in north-east Israel. The club plays its home game in the Israeli Basketball Premier League (the top tier of Israeli basketball) in a 2,250 ...
of the Israeli League
Liga Leumit
Liga Leumit ( he, ליגה לאומית, lit. ''National League'') is the second division of the Israeli Football League, and below its Premier League.
Structure
There are 16 clubs in the league. At the end of each season, the two lowest-place ...
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Dimitrije Tucović
Dimitrije "Mita" Tucović ( sr-Cyrl, Димитрије Туцовић, ; 13 May 1881 – November 1914) was a Serbian theorist of the socialist movement, politician, writer and publisher. He was founder of the Serbian Social Democratic Par ...
, Serbian politician
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Lucia Demetrius
Lucia Aurora Demetrius (February 16, 1910–July 29, 1992) was a Romanian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
Life
Born in Bucharest, her parents were the writer Vasile Demetrius and his wife Antigona (''née'' Rabinovici). Her father ...
, Romanian writer
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Vasile Demetrius
Vasile Demetrius (pen name of Vasile Dumitrescu; October 1, 1878–March 15, 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian prose writer, poet and translator.
Born in Șcheii Brașovului, his parents were Dumitru Ogea, who built and maintained ...
, Romanian writer
Fictional characters
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Demetrius (Shakespeare)
Demetrius is one of the lovers in William Shakespeare's play ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream''. He is a young man who is engaged to a young woman, Hermia, who is in love with Lysander.
Role in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''
After Hermia has confided ...
, a main character in William Shakespeare's play, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''; Demetrius is also a villainous character in Shakespeare's revenge tragedy, ''Titus Andronicus''
*Demetrius, a character in Mira Nair's ''
Mississippi Masala
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''
*Demetrius, a Greek slave in the Lloyd C. Douglas Christian novel ''
The Robe
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'' and its film sequel below
*''
Demetrius and the Gladiators
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'', a 1953 20th Century Fox film
*Demetrius, one of the Titans in the two-part ''
Charmed
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'' episode "Oh My Goddess!"
*Demetrios, a character in ''
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
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''
*Demetri, a fictional character in the ''
Twilight
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'' fantasy series
*
Demitri Maximoff
is a fictional character in Capcom's '' Darkstalkers'' series. Making his first appearance in '' Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors'' in 1994, he is the series' male protagonist.
Appearances In video games
Demitri is a mighty Romanian vampire lord ...
, a vampire from the Capcom video game series ''Darkstalkers''
*Dmitri Kissoff, a character in Stanley Kubrick's ''
''
*Dimitri Petrenko, a character in the first-person shooter ''
Call of Duty: World at War''
In other languages
* al, Dhimitër
* be, Зьміцер, Дзмітрый (Źmicier, Dz'mitry)
* bg, Димитър (Dimitar)
* nl, Dimitri
* fi, Mitri, Mitro, Dimitri
*french: Dimitri
* ka, დემეტრე (
Demetre
Demetre is an Old Greek male name.
Examples
*Demetre Chiparus
*Demetre II of Georgia
*Demetre I of Georgia
* Demetre Kantemir
* Demetre of Guria
* Demetres Koutsavlakis
*Demetrescu-Tradem
Traian Rafael Radu Demetrescu (; also known under h ...
), დიმიტრი (Dimitri)
*german: Demetrius
*Modern el, Δημήτρης, Δημήτριος, Μήτρος, Μήτσος, Μητσάρας, Ντίμης (
Dimitris Dimitris (Δημήτρης) is the Modern Greek form of the older forms Demetrios, Dimitrios (Δημήτριος, usually Latinized as Demetrius) and may refer to:
*Dimitris Arvanitis (born 1980), Greek professional football defender who plays for ...
, Dimitrios, Mitros, Mitsos, Mitsaras,
Jimmy
Jimmy may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Jimmy'' (2008 film), a 2008 Hindi thriller directed by Raj N. Sippy
* ''Jimmy'' (1979 film), a 1979 Indian Malayalam film directed by Melattoor Ravi Varma
* ''Jimmy'' (2013 f ...
)
* he, (Demetrius) דמיטריוס ,(Dima) דימה ,(Dmitriy) דמיטרי
* hu, Dömötör
* it, Demetrio, Dimitri
* pl, Dymitr, Demetriusz
* pt, Demétrio
* ro, Dumitru, Dimitrie
*russian: Дмитрий, Митя (Dmitriy, Mitja)
* sk, Demeter
* sl, Dimitrij, Mitja
* tr, Demeter
* es, Demetrio
* uk, Дмитро (Dmytro)
*
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
: Димитрије (Dimitrije), Дмитар (Dmitar), Митар (Mitar)
*
Croatian:Dmitar
**
References
DemetriusDictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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{{given name
Given names of Greek language origin
Greek masculine given names
English masculine given names
Theophoric names
Demeter