Zlata () is a female

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of South Slavic origin meaning "golden". It is common amongst all South Slavic countries in the

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, such as

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and

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. The name is popular in Bosnia because it is considered ethnically neutral amongst the three dominant Bosnian ethnicities:

Bosniaks The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry ...

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and

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. The name is derived from the South Slavic word ''zlato'' - from the

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 ...

root ''zolto'' (gold). Notable people with the name include: *

Zlata Adamovská Zlata Adamovská (born March 9, 1959) is a Czech actress. Born in Prague, she has starred in a number of films and TV series including ''Sanitka'' and '' Noc smaragdového měsíce'', which was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festi ...

(born 1959), Czech actress *

Zlata Bartl Zlata Bartl ( Dolac, 20 February 1920 – Koprivnica, 30 July 2008) was a Bosnian Croat scientist and is the creator of Vegeta. Bartl finished school in Sarajevo and went to Zagreb to study natural sciences, engineering, medicine and health, biote ...

(1920–2008), Bosnian scientist *

Zlata Bizova Zlata Nikolaevna Bizova (russian: Зла́та Никола́евна Бызо́ва; 29 March 1927, Leningrad, USSR - 8 August 2013) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Lening ...

(born 1927), Russian painter *

Zlata Filipović Zlata Filipović (born 3 December 1980) is a Bosnian-Irish diarist. She kept a diary from 1991 to 1993 when she was a child helping in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. She and her family survived the war and moved to Paris where they lived for a ...

(born 1980), Bosnian writer *

Zlata Kolarić-Kišur Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (29 October 1894 – 24 September 1990) was a Croatian writer. Kolarić-Kišur was born in Slavonski Brod, but she moved with her family to Požega. She described her childhood in book ''Moja Zlatna dolina'' (My Golden Va ...

(1894–1990), Croatian writer *

Zlata Ognevich Inna Leonidivna Bordiuh ( uk, Інна Леонідівна Бордюг, Inna Leonidivna Bordiuh, ; born 12 January 1986), known professionally as Zlata Ognevich ( uk, Злата Огнєвіч, Zlata Ohnievich, links=no, ), is a Ukrainian sing ...

(born 1986), Ukrainian singer and politician *

Zlata of Maglen Saint Zlata of Maglen ( mk, Света Великомаченичка Злата Мегленска, bg, Света Великомъченица Злата Мъгленска, el, Ἁγία Χρυσή; died October 18, 1795) is an 18th-century ...

(died 1795), Bulgarian saint *

Zlata Petković Zlata Petković ( sr-Cyrl, Злата Петковић; 11 February 1954 – 3 December 2012) was a Serbian actress, model, television host and singer. She was Miss Yugoslavia 1971 and is best known for her role as Marija in the 1970s Yugoslav te ...

(1954–2012), Serbian actress *

Zlata Petrović Zlata Petrović (Злата Петровић; born 13 July 1962) is a Serbian Pop-folk singer. She was born in Šabac, Serbia, to a Montenegrin father and a Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Norther ...

(born 1962), Serbian singer *

Zlata Razdolina Zlata Razdolina (Rozenfeld, russian: Злата Абрамовна Раздолина) is a Russian Jewish composer, singer-songwriter and music performer. She is best known as being the author of the music for Requiem by Anna Akhmatova, ''The Son ...

(born 1959), Russian musician *

Zlata Sarafova Zlata () is a female given name of South Slavic origin meaning "golden". It is common amongst all South Slavic countries in the Balkans, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia and Serbia. The name is popular in Bosni ...

(born 1879), Bulgarian public figure

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