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Brlić Noble Family
Brlić is a Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrija Torkvat Brlić (1826–1868), Croatian writer, linguist, politician, and lawyer * Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938), also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian literature, Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. Early life She was born ... (1874–1938), Croatian children's writer {{surname Surnames of Croatian origin ...
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Croatian Surname
Croatian names follow complex and unique lettering, structuring, composition, and naming customs that have considerable similarities with most other European name systems and with those of other Slavic peoples in particular. Upon the Croatian populace's arrival on what is currently modern-day continental Croatia in the early 7th century, Croats used Slavic names and corresponding naming customs. Naming customs have been a part of Croatian culture for over 500 years, with the earliest dating back to the 12th century. With modernization and globalization in the 20th century, given names and surnames have expanded past typical Slavic traditionalism and have included Croatian Americans, borrowed names from all over the world. However, although given names vary from region to region in Croatia and can be heavily influenced by other countries' names, surnames tend to be Slavic. Croatian names usually, but not always, consist of a given name, followed by a family name; however certain ...
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Andrija Torkvat Brlić
Andrija Torkvat Brlić ( sr-Cyrl, Андрија Торкват Брлић; 15 May 1826 – 21 May 1868) was a writer, linguist, politician and lawyer from Croatia at the time it was in the Austrian Empire. A follower of the Illyrian movement, Brlić was one of the most prominent advocates of unification of South Slavs in the 19th century. Biography Andrija Torkvat Brlić was born on 15 May 1826 in Brod na Savi, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was a descendant of the Republic of Ragusa, Ragusan Brlić family. There is a tradition of considering them a Herzegovina family, with a mention of a Zahumlje prince named Brlić in 1393, and it's reasonable to assume this family would be their descendents, but the historical sources for them start in the early 18th century in the village of Svinjar (today's Davor, Croatia, Davor). His mother Katarina () hailed from Vukovar while his father Ignjat Alojzij Brlić, was a merchant, linguist, publicist and translator. Ignjat Alojzije Brl ...
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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938), also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian literature, Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. Early life She was born on 18 April 1874 in Ogulin into a well-known Croatian family of Mažuranić. Her father Vladimir Mažuranić was a writer, lawyer and historian who wrote ''Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik'' (Croatian dictionary for history and law) in 1882. Her grandfather was a politician, the Ban of Croatia and poet Ivan Mažuranić, while her grandmother Aleksandra Demeter was the sister of well-known writer and one of keypersons of Illyrian movement, Croatian national revival movement, Dimitrija Demeter. Ivana was largely home-schooled. With the family she moved first to Karlovac, then to Jastrebarsko, and ultimately to Zagreb. Upon marriage to Vatroslav Brlić, a politician and a prominent lawyer in 1892, she moved to Slavonski Brod, Br ...
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