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Milica Đurđević
Milica ( sr-Cyrl, Милица; pronounced 'Millitsa') is a feminine name popular in Balkan countries. It is a diminutive form of the given name Mila, meaning 'kind', 'dear' or 'sweet'. The name was used for a number of queens and princesses, including Milica of Serbia, wife of Tsar Lazar, who is honored as a saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Milica has been the most popular name for girls born in Serbia since 1991, and is overall the most common female given name in the country. The English version of the name is Milicent. The name of Princess Milica of Montenegro was often translated as Milizza in English language publications. Individuals named Milica * Milica of Serbia (1335–1405), Princess of Serbia, wife of Lazar of Serbia * Milica Despina (1485–1554), Princess consort of Wallachia, wife of Neagoe Basarab * Milica of Montenegro (1866–1951), Montenegrin princess * Milica Branković (died 1464), Serbian princess, wife of Leonardo III Tocco * Milica Čubrilo (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Milica Of Serbia
Princess Milica Hrebeljanović née Nemanjić ( · ca. 1335 – November 11, 1405) also known as Empress (''Tsaritsa'') Milica, was a List of Serbian consorts, royal consort of Serbia by marriage to Prince Lazar, who fell in the Battle of Kosovo. After her husband's death, she took the role as Queen Regent, queen regent of Serbia from 1389 to 1393, until her son, Despotes, despot Stefan Lazarević came of age. She later became a Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox nun under the name Jevgenija. She is the author of "''A Mother's Prayer''" () and a famous poem of mourning for her husband, ''My Widowhood's Bridegroom'' (). Biography Early life She was the daughter of Prince Vratko Nemanjić (known in Serb epic poetry as ''Jug Bogdan''), who as a great-grandson of Vukan Nemanjić, Grand Principality of Serbia, Grand Prince of Serbia (ruled 1202–1204), was part of the collateral, elder branch of the Nemanjić dynasty. She was the fourth cousin once removed of Stefan Uroš ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Dabović
Milica Dabović ( sr-cyr, Милица Дабовић; born 16 February 1982) is a former Serbian professional women's basketball player. She represented the Serbian national basketball team, winning Olympic bronze with the team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Standing at , she played at the point guard position. Club career Dabović played for Partizan until August 2013, being part of the team which went the whole of the 2012–13 season unbeaten. She subsequently moved to Croatian side Novi Zagreb, signing a one-year contract in order to play in the EuroLeague Women. International career Dabović captained the Serbia team at the EuroBasket 2015 in Budapest, picking up an elbow injury in the final which prevented her from taking part in the second half of the game. Despite her injury, Serbia defeated France in the final to win the gold medal, and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first in the history for the Serbian team. In 2016, she announced her retirement from pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Pap
Milica Pap (born December 14, 1973, in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) is a classical pianist of Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Serbian and Croatian descent. Biography Pap is a Balkan pianist and music teacher. Her father Ljudevit Pap (or Lajos Papp to use the Hungarian spelling) was a violinist and professor of music at the University of Belgrade. He was a founding member of the Association of Serbian Musicians and the first violinist and leader of the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra and the Sarajevo Radio Orchestra. He is also credited with forming the first professional string quartet in Sarajevo. He died when Pap was 14. Her mother is the Serbian-Montenegrin pianist Angelina Bojovic, who still teaches at the Music Academy in Sarajevo. Her pupils include the pianists M. Karacic (US), B. Hrovat (Canada), M. Olenjuk (Germany) and S. Kulenovic (Slovenia). By the age of 10, Pap could play. She gave her first public recital at the age of 14. The Boznian-Herzgovinian authorities awarded her a schol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Ninković
Milica Ninković (30 January 1854 – 18 November 1881) was a Serbian feminist, translator and editor. Life Milica Ninković was born on 30 January 1854 in Újvidék, in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Novi Sad, Serbia). She attended the School of Pedagogy of the University of Zurich from 1872 to 1874 with her sister Anka. Upon leaving Switzerland in 1874, they decided to establish a private high school for girls in Kragujevac, Serbia, but permission was not granted by the government and they were threatened with expulsion from Serbia. Ninković avoided this by marrying the journalist and future politician Pera Todorović. During the Serbian–Ottoman War of 1876–78, she volunteered as a nurse. After the war, she worked for the British Legation in Belgrade, Serbia, until pressure from the Serbian government forced the British to fire her. Ninković then left the country to study medicine abroad, but caught tuberculosis and died in Kragujevac on 18 November 1881.Pantelić, pp. 37 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political science and law. He then moved to Montreal and gained prominence as a labour lawyer. After placing third in the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election, he was appointed president of the Iron Ore Company of Canada in 1977. He held that post until 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election, 1983, when he became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservatives. He led the party to a landslide victory in the 1984 Canadian federal election, 1984 federal election, winning the second-largest percentage of seats in Canadian history (at 74.8 percent) and receiving over 50 percent of the popular vote. He later won a second majority government in 1988 Canadian federal election, 1988. Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mila Mulroney
Milica "Mila" Mulroney (née Pivnički; Serbian Cyrillic: Милица "Мила" Пивнички; born July 13, 1953) is the widow of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. She was notable for taking on a greater role during her husband's tenure than previous spouses of Canadian prime ministers and for her work for children's charities; she was also criticized for her lavish spending habits. She is the chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where her late husband attended. Early life Mulroney was born Milica Pivnički to Serbian Orthodox parents and Bogdanka (née Ilić) in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. Her first years were spent in the city of Sarajevo where her father practised medicine. In 1956, Dr. Pivnički took a research fellowship position at the Royal Victoria Hospital's Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry in Montreal. While his pregnant wife Bogdanka waited to join him, she moved with young Milica back to their ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Miljanov
Milica Miljanov ( sr-cyrl, Милица Миљанов; c. 1860 – 1950) was a Montenegro, Montenegrin soldier and war heroine in World War I. She was on active service at an age when even men were relieved from active duty, and fought across the Balkan warfront. Her daughter was Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, wife and associate of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Biography Milica Miljanov was born in Medun, around 1860. She was one of three daughters of the Montenegrin duke, Marko Miljanov. She married Ivan Lazović. Her father had no sons, and Miljanov volunteered to the army in 1914 as a mother and at an age when even men are relieved from active duty, fighting all across the Balkan warfront. Unlike other women, for instance Antonija Javornik, who joined the army, she did not change her identity and name, and was able to fight as a woman till the end of the war. Her daughter, Olgivanna Lloyd WOlga, born in 1898, was a writer, dancer, composer, philosopher and teacher, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Mićić Dimovska
Milica Mićić Dimovska(1947–2013) was a Serbian writer. She has written numerous novels and collections of short stories and won a number of awards. Her works have been translated into English, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, and Swedish. Personal life While Dimovska spent most of her life in Novi Sad, she studied literature in Belgrade, at the University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me .... Her first publications came in the 1970s. While in Belgrade, she became very closely connected with a group of writers whose style was considered “new style fiction” (''proza novog stila'') or “hard-boiled fiction” (''stvarnosna proza''). This group focused their works on the people in the “social margin”, often women, yet Mićić Dimovska was almo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Mandić
Milica Mandić ( sr-cyr, Милица Мандић, born 6 December 1991) is a Serbian retired taekwondo athlete. She is a two-time Olympic champion in the Women's +67 kg category, having won gold medals at the 2012 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She was also the 2017 world champion in the 73 kg category. Career Mandić won a bronze medal in the middleweight category (under 73 kg) at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships and a silver medal at the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Mandić beat European Championship gold medallist Anastasia Baryshnikova in the semi finals, before defeating top-seeded Anne-Caroline Graffe of France in a 9–7 win, becoming the first gold medalist for independent Serbia. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in quarterfinals by British Bianca Walkden. At 2017 World Taekwondo Championships she won gold medal, beating South Korean Oh Hye-ri. In April 2020, she announced that she would retire after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Majstorović
Milica Majstorović (; born 9 October 1989) is a Serbian singer. She came to media attention as a contestant in regional television show '' Operacija Trijumf'', while her debut single "Savršeni par" was released on 6 January 2009. On 20 February 2010, it was reported Majstorović tried to commit suicide due to professional disappointments,Tračarenje.comMilica Majstorović pokušala da se ubije?(20 February 2010)Vesti OnlineMilica Majstorović pokušala samoubistvo?(23 February 2010) which she confirmed on 2 March 2010.SrbijaNet (2 March 2010)'' Story''Milica Majstorović: Istina o pokušaju samoubistva (22 March 2010)''Alo!''Pokušala da se ubije zbog posla? (16 March 2010) Life and career Early life and career: 1989–2008 Milica Majstorović was born on 9 October 1989, in Kragujevac Serbia former SFR Yugoslavia. She has been playing the piano and the flute since she was ten, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Kacin Wohinz
Milica Kacin Wohinz (née Brezigar; 12 October 1930 – 29 December 2021) was a Slovenian historian best known for her seminal study on the history of the forceful Italianization of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) that took place between 1918 and 1943. Life Wohinz was born in the Slovene Littoral, which was annexed by the Kingdom of Italy after World War I. At the age of twelve, she was expelled from school by the Italian Fascist regime as punishment for her father's resistance to Italianization. During World War II, she joined the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, helping Slovene partisans. After World War II and the annexation of the Slovenian Littoral to Yugoslavia in 1947, she attended the Slovene-language high schools in Postojna and Ljubljana. In 1952, she enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where she studied history. She obtained her PhD in 1970 under the supervision of Vasilij Melik. From 1959 onward, she worked at the Institute of Contem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milla Jovovich
Milica Bogdanovna Jovović; ; ( ; born December 17, 1975), known professionally as Milla Jovovich (), is an American actress and former fashion model. Her starring roles in numerous science fiction film, science-fiction and action films led the music channel VH1 to deem her the "reigning queen of kick-butt" in 2006. In 2004, ''Forbes'' determined that she was the highest-paid model in the world. Born in Kiev (now Kyiv) and raised in Los Angeles, Jovovich began modeling when Herb Ritts photographed her for the cover of the Italian magazine ''Lei'' in 1987. Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In 1988, she made her screen debut in the television film ''The Night Train to Kathmandu'' and appeared in her first feature film, ''Two Moon Junction''. Jovovich gained attention for her role in the 1991 romance film ''Return to the Blue Lagoon''. She was considered to have a breakthrough with her role in the 1997 French science-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
