Zaharija ( sr-cyr, Захаријa) is a Serbian name, a variant of the Biblical name
Zachary
Zachary is a male given name, a variant of Zechariah – the name of several Biblical characters.
People
*Pope Zachary (679–752), Pope of the Catholic Church from 741 to 752
* Zachary of Vienne (died 106), bishop of Vienne (France), martyr a ...
, through Greek ''
Zacharias''.
Variant transliterations into the Latin alphabet include Zaharia and Zaharije.
Notable people with this name
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Zaharija Dečanac, Metropolitan of Raška and Prizren (1819–1830)
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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 ...
(d. before 1442) and his son
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 ...
(d. 1444), Albanian noblemen, members of the
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 ...
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Zaharija of Serbia (890s–924), medieval Prince
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Zaharije Orfelin
Zaharije Orfelin ( sr-Cyrl, Захаријe Орфелин; 1726 – 19 January 1785) was a Serbian polymath who lived and worked in the Austrian Monarchy and Venice.
Works
*''Pesan novosadelanuje za gradjanku gospodicnu Femku'', between ...
(1726–1785), Serb polymath
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Zaharija Trnavčević, leader of current Serbian political party
Rich Serbia
See also
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Zaharia
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Serbian masculine given names