Vasilije () is a
South Slavic masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
, a variant of
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
given name ''
Vassilios'' ("
Basil"). It may refer to:
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Vasilije, Serbian Patriarch (), Serbian cleric born Vasilije Jovanović-Brkić
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Vasilije Calasan (born 1981), French racing driver
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Vasa Čarapić (1768–1806), Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander)
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Vasa Jovanović (1874–1970), Serbian lawyer, politician, founder of the Chetnik movement and a founding member of the League of Nations
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Vasilije Krestić (born 1932), intellectual and historian, and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Vasilije Matić (1906–1981), forestry expert born in Srpske Moravice
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Vasilije Mokranjac (1923–1984), greatly influential and renowned Serbian composer
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Vasa Pelagić (1833–1899), Bosnian Serb writer, physician, educator, clergyman, nationalist and proponent of utopian socialism
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Vasilije Petrović
Vasilije Petrović ( sr-cyrl, Василије Петровић; 1709 – 10 March 1766) was the metropolitan bishop of Cetinje (Prince-Bishop of Montenegro), ruling with Sava Petrović (prince-bishop), Sava Petrović, his cousin. He was author o ...
(1709–1766), Prince Bishop of Montenegro
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Vasilije Popović (disambiguation), multiple people
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Vasilije Prodanović (born 1985), Serbian footballer
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Vasilije Radović (1938–2019), former Yugoslav football goalkeeper and manager
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Vasilije Šijaković (1929–2003), Montenegrin football player
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Vasilije Tomović (1906–1994), Montenegrin chess master
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Vasilije Trbić (1881–1962), Serbian Chetnik leader and politician
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Vasa Živković (1819–1891), Serbian poet and Orthodox priest
See also
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Monastery Saint Vasilije Ostroški, Serbian Orthodox monastery in the center of Bijeljina, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Serbian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Montenegrin masculine given names