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Balabanov and their derivatives (-ovs, -ich, etc.) are common last names in Serbia

Serbia

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, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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and Russia

Russia

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Prominent Balabanovs

Angelica Balabanov (1878-1965), a Russian-Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Marxist revolutionary, Comintern
Comintern
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...

secretary in 1919-1921
Vasile Balabanov (1873-1947), a Provincial Administrator of Imperial Russia.
Aleksei Balabanov
Aleksei Balabanov
Aleksei Balabanov is a popular Russian filmmaker. Balabanov is best known for the 1997 crime film Brat , and its more action-oriented sequel, Brat-2 , both of which starred the late Sergei Bodrov Jr. as a novice hit man...

(b. 1959), a Russian filmmaker.
Kostantyn Balabanov
Kostantyn Balabanov
Kostyantyn Oleksiyovych Balabanov is a Ukrainian football player who last played for FC Chornomorets Odesa. Balabanov was born in Kiliya, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union . He is a graduate of Chornomorets academy. In 2005 he was transferred to FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk...

(b. 1982), a Ukrainian football player.

Origins of the name

Possible origins of the name according to Dr. Tudor Balabanov:

1. in the Kazakh

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

Mountains there is an eagle called Balaban from which the name may be derived.

2. One of the recipients of this name may have been the Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

s that around 4000 years ago started naming the leading three soldiers of a battalion, namely: the one with the flag, those with a drum, and the one with a blow instrument - the Balabans.

3. The Turks

Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...

may have taken over this name and given it to the relatively tall non-Muslim men from their territories.

Prominent Balabanovs

Origins of the name

See also