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Smilja
Smilja is a South Slavic feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Smilja Avramov (1918–2018), Serbian legal scholar and activist * Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić (born 1963), Serbian historian * Smilja Mučibabić (1912–2006), Bosnian Serb biologist * Smilja Tišma (born c. 1929), Serbian politician * Smilja Vujosevic (1935–2016), Canadian chess player of Serbian origin See also * * Smiljan (given name) Smiljan is a South Slavic masculine given name. Its origin is usually associated with the common name for plants which produce "everlasting"-type blooms, many of which are known as and , 'immortelle' (that is, 'everlasting' lower in South Slavic la ... {{given name Serbian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilja Avramov
Smilja Avramov ( sr-Cyrl, Смиља Аврамов; 15 February 1918 – 2 October 2018) was a Serbian academic, legal scholar, social activist and educator in international law. She was a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska from 1996 to 2009. Before she retired she was a Professor of International law at the Law Faculty at Belgrade University. Education and career Avramov finished high school in Sušak, Rijeka, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in 1936. She was maternally related to Petar Preradović and Pavle Solarić. During World War II in Yugoslavia, eleven members of her family were murdered at Jasenovac concentration camp. She graduated in the Zagreb Law Faculty in 1947. She received her master's degree in London and a PhD in Belgrade in 1950. She also studied at the Vienna, Harvard and Columbia Universities. Since 1949 until her retirement, Avramov worked as an assistant and a professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Law where she was also head of the Department for Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiljan (given Name)
Smiljan is a South Slavic masculine given name. Its origin is usually associated with the common name for plants which produce "everlasting"-type blooms, many of which are known as and , 'immortelle' (that is, 'everlasting' lower in South Slavic languages. The plant species generally associated with the personal name are ''Antennaria dioica'' ( or , the 'bald–' or 'mountain–everlasting'), and '' Helichrysum arenarium'' (, the 'sand–everlasting'). The Lika-region town, Smiljan, Croatia, traditionally shares its name's etymology with the anthroponym—both the placename and personal name being arrived at through the botanic association. An alternative derivation has, however, been suggested for the town: The Croatian linguist and onomatologist, Petar Šimunović believed that the town was named as a patronymic of Smiljan, which over time was abbreviated, losing the patronymic word-element. In Slovenia, the incidence of baby boys being registered with the name ''Smiljan'' has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilja Mučibabić
Smilja Mučibabić (14 October 1912 – 12 August 2006) was a Bosnian biologist. She was among the most distinguished biologists in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th century. She was born in Mostar and died in Sarajevo. She was: * first Bosnia-Herzegovinian PhD in biological science (Cambridge, 1953), * founder and first head of the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo (1953), * co-founder of the Faculty of Science University of Sarajevo (1954), * the first dean of the Faculty of Science in Sarajevo (1960), * founder, first and long-time head of the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Science in Sarajevo (1960), and * co-founder and first president of several professional and scientific associations and their journals (in Bosnia and Herzegovina and former Yugoslavia. Biography Smilja Mučibabić was born in |
Smilja Vujosevic
Smilja Vujosevic (9 June 1935 – 30 July 2016) was a Canadian chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1977). She was a Canadian Women's Chess Championship winner (1975) and 7th Chess Olympiad (women) individual bronze medal winner (1976). Biography Smilja Vujosevic was born in the northern Serbian village of Ogar. Vujosevic was seriously involved in chess in Yugoslavia, where she participated in the Yugoslav team championships. She played for Partizan Belgrade team on woman's board. In 1967, Vujosevic arrived in Canada. She worked as bookkeeper. From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, Vujosevic was one of Canada's leading chess players. In 1975, she won Canadian Women's Chess Championship, and in 1989 she won silver medal in this tournament. Vujosevic also showed best result among women in the Canadian Open Chess Championship six times (1970, 1973, 1976, 1988, 1991, 1993). In 1976, she participated in the Tbilisi Interzonal tournament, from whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilja Tišma
Smilja I. Tišma ( sr-Cyrl, Смиља И. Тишма; born circa 1929) is a retired Serbian politician who served in the Serbian national assembly from 2020 to 2022. She was elected on the list of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), but she is not a member of any party. Tišma was a child prisoner in the fascist Independent State of Croatia during World War II. She survived the concentration camp system and has shared her account of the war years through a series of oral history interviews. Early years and childhood during World War II Tišma was born to an ethnic Serb family in the village of Zrinska in western Slavonia and raised in the community. At the time, the village was located in the Sava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia; it is part of Croatia today. Official documents say that she was born on 9 June 1929, although she discovered in the post-World War II period that neither the year nor the date is accurate. In a 2010 interview, she said that she was born on an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić
Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić ( sr-cyr, Смиља Марјановић-Душанић; born 29 March 1963) is a Serbian historian and professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. She is specializing in medieval studies. Marjanović-Dušanić was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. She received her Master's degree in 1986, and Master of Advanced Studies in 1991, from the University of Belgrade. Awarded with a Doctorate in 1996 with the work ''Vladarska ideologija Nemanjića: diplomatička studija'', she started working as a Docent The term "docent" is derived from the Latin word , which is the third-person plural present active indicative of ('to teach, to lecture'). Becoming a docent is often referred to as habilitation or doctor of science and is an academic qualifi ... in the Department of History at the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy the next year. She was re-elected Docent in 2003. Works *''Vladarske insignije i državna simbolika u Srbiji od ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Feminine Given Names
Serbian may refer to: * Pertaining to Serbia in Southeast Europe; in particular **Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans ** Serbian language ** Serbian culture **Demographics of Serbia, includes other ethnic groups within the country *Pertaining to other places **Serbia (other) **Sorbia (other) *Gabe Serbian (1977–2022), American musician See also * * * Sorbs * Old Serbian (other) Old Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to the Old Serbia, a historical region * Old Serbian language, a general term for the pre-modern variants of Serbian language, including: ** the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic la ... {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |