Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Душан) is a

Slavic given name Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries. The main types of Slavic names: * Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...

primarily used in countries of

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

; and among Slovaks and

Czechs The Czechs ( cs, Češi, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, ...

. The name is derived from the Slavic noun ''duša'' "soul".

Occurrence

Car Dušan, Manastir Lesnovo, XIV vek, Makedonija

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

, it was the 29th most popular name for males, as of 2010.Število moških z imenom DUŠAN: 8.318 (ali 0,8 % vseh moških)
(in Slovenian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.

People

Stefan Uroš IV Dušan Stefan may refer to: * Stefan (given name) * Stefan (surname) * Ștefan, a Romanian given name and a surname * Štefan, a Slavic given name and surname * Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writ ...

Emperor An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...

of the

Serbian Empire The Serbian Empire ( sr, / , ) was a medieval Serbian state that emerged from the Kingdom of Serbia. It was established in 1346 by Dušan the Mighty, who significantly expanded the state. Under Dušan's rule, Serbia was the major power in the ...

*Dušan Bajević, Serbian footballer and football manager *Dušan Bařica, Czech ice hockey player *Dušan Basta, Serbian footballer *Dušan Bogdanović, Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist *Dusan Djuric, Swedish international footballer of Serbian descent *Dušan Domović Bulut, Serbian 3x3 basketball player *Dušan Džamonja, Croatian sculptor *Dušan Fitzel, Slovak footballer and football manager *Dušan Galis, Slovak footballer and football manager *Dušan Kalmančok, Slovak astronomer *Dušan Kerkez, Serb footballer *Dušan Kovačević, Serbian playwright *Dušan Lajović, Serbian tennis player *Dušan Mandić, Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion *Dušan Matić, Serbian poet *Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director *Dušan Mihajlović (politician), Dušan Mihajlović, Serbian politician *Dušan Mihajlović (footballer), Dušan Mihajlović, Serbian footballer *Dušan Otašević, Serbian painter and sculptor *Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player *Dušan Petković (footballer born 1974), Serbian former footballer *Dušan Petković (footballer born 1903) (1903–1979), Serbian and Yugoslav football forward *Dušan Petronijević, Serbian footballer *Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and resistance fighter *Dušan Popović (disambiguation), Dušan Popović, several people *Dušan Radović, Serbian journalist and writer *Dušan Repovš, Slovenian mathematician *Dušan Ristanović, Serbian biophysicists *Dušan Salfický, Czech ice hockey player *Dušan Šestić, Bosnian musician, composer of the Bosnian national anthem *Dušan Slobodník, Slovak literary theoretician, translator and politician *Dušan Švantner, Slovak politician *Dušan Tadić (football), Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer *Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian *Dušan Uhrin, Slovak footballer and football manager *Dušan Vemić, Serbian tennis player *Dušan Vlahović, Serbian footballer *Dušan Uhrin Jr , Slovak football manager and the Son of Dušan Uhrin

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