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Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...

: Вељко) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It may refer to: * FK Hajduk Veljko, Serbian football club based in Negotin, Serbia *

Hajduk Veljko Petrović Veljko Petrović ( sr-cyr, Вељко Петровић, ; Wiktionary:circa, c. 1780 – 1813), known simply as Hajduk Veljko (Хајдук Вељко, ǎjduːk v̞ɛ̌ːʎkɔ, was one of the ''vojvodas'' (military commanders) of the Serbian ...

(1780–1813), Vojvoda of the First Serbian Uprising rebellion against the Ottoman Empire *

Veljko Čubrilović Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range whil ...

(1886–1915), involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria *Veljko Popić (born 2005), Serbian war hero *

Veljko Bakašun Veljko Bakašun (June 14, 1920 – July 17, 2007) was a Croat water polo player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He died in Korčula. Bakašun was part of the Yugoslav team which ...

(1920–2007), Croat water polo player * Veljko Bulajić (born 1928), Yugoslavian film director and actor from Montenegro * Veljko Despot, born March 4, 1948 in Belgrade *

Veljko Kadijević Veljko Kadijević ( sr-Cyrl, Вељко Кадијевић; 21 November 1925 – 2 November 2014) was a Serbian general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He was the Minister of Defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 until his resignatio ...

(born 1925), former General of the Army in the Yugoslav People's Army * Veljko Milatović (1921–2004), Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman * Veljko Nikitović (born 1980), Serbian footballer who currently plays for Górnik Łęczna * Veljko Paunović (born 1977), former Serbian footballer * Veljko Petković (born 1977), Serbian volleyball player * Veljko Petrović (poet) (1884–1967), leading Post-Modernist Serbian poet * Veljko Stanojević (1892–1967), Serbian painter * Veljko Uskoković (born 1971), Montenegrin water polo player * Veljko Vlahović (1914–1975), Montenegrin member of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935

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