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Horvát
Horvat is a surname of Croatian origin. It is the most frequent surname in Croatia and the second most frequent in Slovenia. Its variant Horvath is very frequent in Hungary and Slovakia. The variant Horvatić is the fifth most common name in Brckovljani.https://web.dzs.hr/eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/e01_01_31/e01_01_31_zup01.html The surname originates in Croatia, ''Horvat'' being the older version of the word '' Hrvat'', an autonym used by Croats. In speaches of central Croatia, people still call themselves ''Horvati'' and their country ''Horvatska''. In the 2011 census, it was the most common last name in the City of Zagreb, Zagreb County, Krapina-Zagorje County, Varaždin County, Koprivnica-Križevci County, Bjelovar-Bilogora County, and Virovitica-Podravina County. In Croatia, majority of Croats with surname Horvat live in the Kajkavian dialect region in Croatia proper. Apart from them, there is a certain number of ethnic Serbs with surname Horvat in the Baranja r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horváth
Horváth is a common Hungarian surname. "Horváth" is the 2nd or 4th most common surname in Hungary as well as the most common in Slovakia. It's thought to derive from Hungarian horvát ("Croat") spelled without the final h in old orthography. The related Croatian surname Horvat, which is derived from an older version of the noun "Hrvat" ("Croat"), is the most common surname in Croatia or the Croatian diaspora. Members of this family can be found across the world, and are most numerous in the United States. Variations of the name include Horvat, Horvaty, Hrvat, Chorbadi, Orbath, Orvath, Orvat. The spelling of Horváth is of exclusive Hungarian origin. People named Horváth or Horwath *Aaron Horvath (born 1980), American animator *Ádám Horváth (born 1981), Hungarian chess grandmaster * Adrián Horváth (born 1987), Hungarian footballer * Adrian Pavel Horvat (born 1990), Romanian footballer *Adrienne Horvath (1925–2012), French politician * Alexander Horváth (1938–2022), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Horvát
Alexander Horvát (born 25 September 2000) is a Slovak footballer who plays as a midfielder for Malženice. Club career Horvát made his professional Slovak league debut for Spartak Trnava against AS Trenčín AS Trenčín () is a Slovak sports club in the town of Trenčín, most known for its football department. The first team currently plays in the Slovak First Football League after winning the 2010–11 Slovak First League. The club plays its hom ... on 8 December 2018. 08.12.2018, soccerway.com References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary lies within the drainage basin of the Danube, Danube River and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of 9.6 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians, Hungarians (Magyars) and a significant Romani people in Hungary, Romani minority. Hungarian language, Hungarian is the Languages of Hungary, official language, and among Languages of Europe, the few in Europe outside the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Budapest is the country's capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, largest city, and the dominant cultural and economic centre. Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjelovar-Bilogora County
Bjelovar-Bilogora County (; ) is a Counties of Croatia, county in central Croatia. The central city of Bjelovar was first mentioned in 1413, and it only gained importance when a new fort was built in 1756 to defend against the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman invasions. The town was pronounced a free royal town in 1874. The other part of the county name is for the hill of Bilogora that stretches along the northern edge of the county. Other towns in the county are Daruvar, Garešnica, Čazma, and Grubišno Polje. The Bjelovar-Bilogora County borders on the Koprivnica-Križevci County in the north, Virovitica-Podravina County in the northeast, Požega-Slavonia County in the southeast, Sisak-Moslavina County in the southwest, and Zagreb County in the west. Alongside the City of Zagreb and Požega-Slavonia County, it is the only Croatian county that does not border another nation. Administrative division Bjelovar-Bilogora County is further divided into 5 towns (''grad'', pl. ''gradovi'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Horvat
Branko Horvat (24 July 1928 – 18 December 2003) was a Croatian economist and politician. Horvat was born in Petrinja on 24 July 1928. In 1944 during World War II, Horvat and his father Artur Horvat joined the Partisan movement in Croatia. He worked a long time at the Institute of Economic Sciences, the former Planning Institute of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was the editor of the journal ''Economic Analysis and Worker’s Self-Management'', and collaborator of the journal ''Praxis'' (of the Praxis School), to which he contributed much from an economic viewpoint, though he was never a member of the group. He was also a member of the Economic Institute of Zagreb. Horvat tried to unite democratic forces on a common platform, but without much success. He was highly critical of the economic policy of the Franjo Tuđman government (as he was before of the communist). A democratic socialist, he advocated a model of market socialism, dubbed the ''Illyrian model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Horvat
Bowie William Horvat (born April 5, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), centre and Captain (ice hockey)#Alternate captains, alternate captain for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected ninth overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2013 NHL entry draft, where he served as Captain (ice hockey), captain from 2019–20 Vancouver Canucks season, 2019 until his trade to the Islanders in 2022–23 NHL season, 2023. During his junior ice hockey, junior career in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), he won the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award as playoff MVP in 2012-13 OHL season, 2013, as well as two J. Ross Robertson Cup titles with the London Knights. Internationally, he has played for Hockey Canada, Team Canada at the 2012 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament (under-18), 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, 2014 IIHF U20 Championships and the 2018 IIHF World Championship. Early life Horvat was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubljana
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Lower Styria
Styria (, ), also known as Slovenian Styria (; ) or Lower Styria (; ) to differentiate it from Austrian Styria, is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria. The population of Styria in its historical boundaries amounts to around 705,000 inhabitants, or 34.5% of the population of Slovenia. Its largest city and urban center is Maribor, with other urban centers including Celje, Velenje, Ptuj and Trbovlje. Use of the term In the 19th century, the Styrian duchy, which existed as a distinct political-administrative entity from 1056 to 1918, used to be divided into three traditional regions: Upper Styria (''Obersteiermark''; ''Zgornja Štajerska''), Central Styria (''Mittelsteiermark''; ''Srednja Štajerska''), and Lower Styria, stretching from the Mur River and the Slovene Hills in the north down to the Sava. Upper Styria and Central Styria, predominantly German-speaking, today form the Austrian state of Styria ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prekmurje
Prekmurje (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; ) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarians in Slovenia, Hungarian minority, lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley (the Drainage basin, watershed of the Rába (river), Rába; ) in the westernmost part of Hungary. It covers an area of and has a population of 78,000 people. Its largest town and urban center is Murska Sobota, the other urban center being Lendava. Name It is named after the Mur (river), Mur River, which separates it from the rest of Slovenia. The name ''Prekmurje'' literally means 'area beyond the Mur' (''prek'' 'beyond, on the other side' + ''Mura'' 'Mur River' + ''je'', a collective suffix). In Hungarian language, Hungarian, the region is known as ''Muravidék'', and in German language, German as ''Übermurgebiet''. The name Prekmurje was introduced in the twentieth century, although it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baranya (region)
Baranya or Baranja (, ; , ) is a geographical and list of historical regions of Central Europe, historical region between the Danube and the Drava rivers located in the Pannonian Plain. Its territory is divided between Hungary and Croatia. In Hungary, the region is included in Baranya (county), Baranya county, while in Croatia, it is part of Osijek-Baranja county. Name The name of the region come from the Slavic languages, Slavic word 'bara', which means 'marsh', 'bog', thus the name of Baranya means 'marshland'. Even today large parts of the region are swamps, such as the natural reservation Kopački Rit in its southeast. Another theory states that the name of the region comes from the , an adaptation of Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Slavic 'ram'. History Historically, the region of Baranya was part of the Roman Empire, the Huns, Hunnic Empire, the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths, the Kingdom of the Lombards, the Avars (Carpathians), Avar Kingdom, the Frankish Empire, the Balaton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
