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Miervaldis Ramāns
Miervaldis is a Latvian masculine given name, borne by some 600 men in Latvia. Miervaldis is one of the relatively few names still in modern use from among the very many Latvian names of indigenous origin either revived from their previous occurrence in the Middle Ages, or invented, during the first in the late 19th century. The second element ''-valdis'' ("ruler") was a particular favourite and featured in a large number of names now rare or obsolete. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian Masculine Given Name
Latvian names, like in most European cultures, consist of two main elements: the given name (''vārds'') followed by family name (''uzvārds''). During the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet occupation (1940–1941; 1944–1991) the practice of giving a middle name (''otrais vārds'') was discouraged, but since the restoration of independence, Latvian legislation again allows the giving of up to two given names and it has become more common to give a middle name to children. Latvian male names end in Latvian declension#Masculine declensions, 1st or 2nd declension masculine endings, either ''-s/-š'' or ''-is'' (with a handful of mostly foreign exceptions ending in indeclinable ''-o'', such as ''wikt:Ivo#Latvian, Ivo'', ''Raivo'', ''Gvido'', ''Bruno'', ''Oto'' and only a few belonging to the 3rd declension ending in ''-us'', such as ''Ingus'', ''Mikus'', ''Edžus'', ''Zemgus''). Latvian female names have the Latvian declension#Feminine declensions, feminine 4th or 5th declens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9million. The country has a Temperate climate, temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian language, Latvian. Russians in Latvia, Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian language, Russian as their native tongue. After centuries of State of the Teutonic Order, Teutonic, Swedish Livonia, Swedish, Inflanty Voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian National Awakening
The Latvian National Awakening () refers to three distinct but ideologically related national revival movements: * the First Awakening refers to the national revival led by the Young Latvians from the 1850s to the 1880s * the Second Awakening or " New Current" was the movement that led to the proclamation of Latvian independence in 1918 * the Third Awakening was the movement that led to the restoration of Latvia's independence in the " Singing Revolution" of 1987–1991 Application of the term Although the term "Awakening" was introduced by the Young Latvians, its application was influenced by the nationalist ideologue Ernests Blanks and later by the academician Jānis Stradiņš. Stradiņš was the first person to use the term "Third Awakening" (at the expanded plenum of the Writers' Union of the Latvian SSR in June 1988), opposing those who had begun to call the national revival in the period of glasnost the Second Awakening (the first being that of the Young Latvians). B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valdis
Valdis is a Latvian language masculine given name. It is derived from two possible sources; from the Latvian word ''valdīt'' ("rule") or as a shortened form of Valdemārs, the Latvian form of Waldemar. Valdis may refer to the following: *Valdis Birkavs (born 1942), Latvian politician and Prime Minister of Latvia * Valdis Celms (born 1943), Latvian artist and neopagan leader *Valdis Dombrovskis (born 1971), Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (2009–2013) * Valdis Ģīlis (born 1954), Latvian politician * Valdis Mintals (born 1979), Estonian figure skater *Valdis Muižnieks (1935–2013), Latvian basketball player *Valdis Muktupāvels (born 1958), Latvian ethnomusicologist, composer, musician and teacher * Valdis Pelšs (born 1967), Latvian-born Russian television personality, musical artist and actor * Valdis Pultraks (1922–1972), Latvian footballer *Valdis Valters (born 1957), Latvian basketball player *Valdis Zatlers (born 1955), Latvian politician, President of Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, until it diverged into the Russian language, Russian and Ruthenian language, Ruthenian languages. Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian language, Belarusian, Rusyn language, Rusyn, and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian languages. Terminology The term ''Old East Slavic'' is used in reference to the modern family of East Slavic languages. However, it is not universally applied. The language is also traditionally known as ''Old Russian''; however, the term may be viewed as anachronistic, because the initial stages of the language which it denotes predate the dialectal divisions marking the nascent distinction between modern East Slavic languages, therefore a number of authors have proposed using ''Old East Slavic'' (or ''Common East Slavic'') as a more appropriate term. ''Old Russian'' is also used to descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir (name)
Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology The Old East Slavic form of the name is Володимѣръ ''Volodiměr'', while the Old Church Slavonic form is ''Vladiměr''. According to Max Vasmer, the name is composed of Slavic владь ''vladĭ'' "to rule" and ''*mēri'' "great", "famous" (related to Gothic element ''mērs'', ''-mir'', cf. Theode''mir'', Vala''mir''). The modern ( pre-1918) Russian forms Владимиръ and Владиміръ are based on the Church Slavonic one, with the replacement of мѣръ by миръ or міръ resulting from a folk etymological association with миръ "peace" or міръ "world". Max Vasmer, ''Etymological Dictionary of Russian Language'' s.v. "Владимир"starling.rinet.ru [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English language, English, is also the world's most List of languages by total number of speakers, widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia, History of Germany#Iron Age, Iron Age Northern Germany and along the North Sea and Baltic coasts. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English language, English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich (given Name)
Friedrich is a German given name and the origin of the English Frederick (given name), Frederick. People with the name include: Arts * Friedrich Silaban (1912–1984), Indonesian architect. * Friedrich Goldscheider (1845–1897), Bohemia-born Austrian entrepreneur, and a manufacturer of ceramics and bronze *Friedrich Gorenstein (1932–2002), Russian author and screenwriter *Friedrich Hohe (1802–1870), German lithographer and painter *Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet, one of the key figures in German Romanticism *Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Friedrich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Austrian artist and architect, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser *Fritz Lang, Friedrich "Fritz" Lang (1890–1976), film maker *Otto Friedrich Walter (1928–1994), Swiss journalist, author and publisher *Novalis, Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), German poet and philosopher, better known as Novalis *Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet and philosopher Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miervaldis Birze
Miervaldis Birze (born Augusts Miervaldis Bērziņš; 21 March 1921 – 6 July 2000) was a Latvian writer, publicist, and physician. Biography Birze was born into the family of a municipal employee in Rūjiena. He completed primary school in 1933. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, Birze joined the Young Communist League. He was arrested in July 1941, after the Occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany. He was first held in prison in Valmiera, then transferred to the Salaspils concentration camp. After this, he was assigned to do forced labor in the construction of a hangar at the Spilve Airport in Riga. In July 1944, he was among 1,200 people transported to Germany and interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In April 1945, during the evacuation of the camp, Birze managed to escape. He tried to return home through Poland, where he was arrested and held from May until September in an NKVD filtration camp in Hrodna. The time he spent in these camps and prisons i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miervaldis Adamsons
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross () and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of reasons and across all ranks, from a senior commander for skilled leadership of his troops in battle to a low-ranking soldier for a single act of extreme gallantry. A total of 7,321 awards were made between its first presentation on 30 September 1939 and its last bestowal on 17 June 1945. This number is based on the analysis and acceptance of the Blue-ribbon panel, order commission of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR). Presentations were made to members of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht—the German Army (Wehrmacht), Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German national militia). There were also 43 List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
