Niemir, Niemirz, Niemierz – is a male
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'', ...
of
Old Slavic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic literary language.
Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other ...
origin, present in other
Slavic nations
Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, main ...
(in different forms and spellings).
The name is composed of ''nie-'' (a negation) as well as ''-mir'' ("peace", "good", "great", "famous"), present in a number of other Slavic given names such as ''
Mirogniew'' and ''
Mirogod'' and related to
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
naming element ''mērs'', ''-mir'', c.f.
Theode''mir'',
Vala''mir''.
Medieval texts from
Mazovia often substitute this given name in the form of ''Niemierza'' as
Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...
, a male given name derived from
Ancient Greek
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.
The
name day for Niemir is celebrated on
February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
.
[A. Wolff, ''Nazwy miejscowe na Mazowszu, cz. I'', :''Onomastica'', r. I, Wrocław 1955]
See also:
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Niemierzyn
*
Niemierze
Niemierze (german: Nehmer) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Siemyśl, within Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Siemyśl, south of Kołobrzeg, and north- ...
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Niemirowice
Niemirowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biała Rawska, within Rawa County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north of Biała Rawska, north-east of Rawa Mazowiecka, and east of the regional ca ...
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Niemirki
Niemirki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jabłonna Lacka, within Sokołów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Jabłonna Lacka, north-east of Sokołów Podlaski, and ...
*
NiNiemirów — 4 settlements in Poland and 2 in Ukraine (
Nemyriv)
*
Niemirówka — 1 settlement in Poland, 2 in Ukraine (
Nemyrivka), 1 in
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...
(
Nimereuca
Nimereuca is a commune in Soroca District, Moldova. It is composed of two villages, Cerlina and Nimereuca.
Nimereuca village
Nimereuca (russian: Немировка, Niemirovka, uk, Німереука, Nimereuka, pl, Niemirówka) lies on the nor ...
)
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