Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
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Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
variant form of the
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
Zaharia family
The Zaharia family was an Albanian noble family of the 14th and 15th centuries.
History Nicholas Zakarija
The Zaharia family is mentioned for the first time in the 14th century. A certain Nicholas Zakarija is first mentioned in 1385 as a Balši ...
, an Albanian noble family
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Koja Zaharia
Koja Zaharia or Koja Zakaria ( it, Coia Zaccaria) (? – before 1442) was an Albanian nobleman and a member of the Zaharia family.
Name
In Ragusan documents he is referred to as Kojčin or Gojčin. Because of that, many scholars like Nicolae ...
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Lekë Zaharia
Lekë Zaharia (? – 1444), was an Albanian nobleman from Zaharia family. He was the only son of his father Koja Zaharia and mother Bosa who also had one daughter, Bolja, who named her son Koja after her father.
League of Lezhë
In 1444 h ...
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Elia Zaharia
Elia, Princess of Albania (''née'' Zaharia; born 8 February 1983) is an Albanian actress, former singer and wife of Leka, Prince of Albania. They married on 8 October 2016 in Tirana.
Early life and education
She was born on 8 February 1983 in T ...
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Alexandru Zaharia
Alexandru Florian Zaharia (born 25 May 1990) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for CSM Focșani.Alejandro Argudín-Zaharia, Romanian-Cuban athlete
* Alin Zaharia, Romanian footballer
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Dorel Zaharia
Dorel Zaharia (born 21 February 1978) is a former Romanian football striker.
He was Gloria Bistriţa's top scorer in the 2006–07 season with 11 goals, and the Intertoto Cup he scored a goal against Atlético Madrid, Gloria winning with 2–1 ...
, Romanian footballer
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Dorin Liviu Zaharia
Dorin Liviu ''Chubby'' Zaharia (; September 25, 1944 – December 3, 1987) was a Romanian musician, composer, poet, essayist, and philosopher.
A "completely unclassifiable", "nearly mythical figure", Zaharia was an autodidact in all he undertook ( ...
, Romanian singer
* Maria Zaharia, Romanian girl killed in World War I
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Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark.
As of April 2022, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd- richest people in Romania with a net worth of $1.6 billion.
Biography
Zaharia g ...
, Romanian-Canadian computer scientist
* Radu Zaharia, Romanian footballer
Notable people with this given name
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Zaharia Bârsan
Zaharia Bârsan ( – December 13, 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian playwright, poet and actor.
He was born in Sânpetru, Brassó County, in what was then the Transylvania region of Austria-Hungary. His parents were Zaharie Bârsan ...
, Romanian actor and playwright
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Zaharia Carcalechi
Zaharia Carcalechi (1784 or 1787—1856) was an Imperial Austrian-born Wallachian publisher.
Born into an Aromanian family in Oradea, his father, a merchant, later moved the family to Brașov. Zaharia, after settling in the Hungarian capita ...
, Romanian publisher
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Zaharia Stancu
Zaharia Stancu (; October 7, 1902 – December 5, 1974) was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher. He was also the director of the National Theatre Bucharest, the President of the Writers' Union of Romania, and a titular memb ...