Nikola
Encyclopedia
Nikola is a male given name
, derived from Greek Nikolaos
(Νικόλαος), common in Bosnia and Herzegovina
, Bulgaria
, Croatia
, Macedonia, Montenegro
, Serbia
, Czechia
and Slovenia
. Besides the name "Nikola", in Macedonia there is a name "Nikolče" (Николче), which is a diminutive of the name "Nikola".
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, derived from Greek Nikolaos
Nikolaos
Nikolaos is a common Greek first name which some believe means " victory of the people", Nikolaos means "victorious over the people" . Composed from Niko and Laos . In addition, Laos originates from the greek root "-las", as found in word "λα-τομείο" meaning stone...
(Νικόλαος), common in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Macedonia, Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, Czechia
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
and Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
. Besides the name "Nikola", in Macedonia there is a name "Nikolče" (Николче), which is a diminutive of the name "Nikola".
People
- Nikola Mirosavljević (13th century), Serbian nobility
- Nikola AltomanovićNikola AltomanovicNikola Altomanović was Serbian župan from 14th century. He ruled vast areas from Rudnik, over Polimlje, Podrinje, east Herzegovina with Trebinje, till Konavle and Dračevica, neighboring the Republic of Dubrovnik...
(fl. 1371-1373, Serbian nobility - Nikola SkobaljićNikola SkobaljićNikola Skobaljić was a mid 15th-century Serbian voivode who ruled a region around Leskovac, Southern Serbia, during the rule of Đurađ Branković...
(fl. 1454), Serbian voivode - Nicholas I of MontenegroNicholas I of MontenegroNikola I Mirkov Petrović-Njegoš was the only king of Montenegro, reigning as king from 1910 to 1918 and as prince from 1860 to 1910. He was also a poet, notably penning "Onamo, 'namo!", a popular song from Montenegro.-Early life:Nikola was born in the village of Njeguši, the ancient home of the...
, King of Montenegro - Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (1928–1954), Serbian prince
- Nikola, Crown Prince of MontenegroNikola, Crown Prince of MontenegroNikola II Petrović-Njegoš, Crown Prince of Montenegro is the Head of the House of Petrović-Njegoš which once reigned over Montenegro. He is Hereditary Grand Master of the Dynastic Orders of Petrović-Njegoš, St...
(born 1944), Montenegrin prince - Nikola AvramovNikola AvramovNikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....
, Bulgarian painter - Nikola BrejchováNikola BrejchováNikola Brejchová, née Tomečková is a female javelin thrower from the Czech Republic. Her personal best throw is 65.91 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Linz.-Achievements:-External links:*...
, Czech athlete - Nikola FrankopanNikola FrankopanNikola IV Frankopan was the Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia from 1426 to 1432. He was one of the first of his clan to make this name famous in Croatian history. Even before he became Banus, he owned the Island of Krk, the districts of Vinodol, Modruš, Senj, Gacka and Lika in Croatia. His properties...
, Croatian ban - Nikola GrbićNikola GrbicNikola Grbić is a Serbian volleyball player. He was born at Klek, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, now part of Serbia. Standing at 1,95 m, he plays setter. He is the younger brother of Vladimir Grbić, who also played volleyball on the highest level....
, Serbian volleyball player - Nikola GruevskiNikola GruevskiNikola Gruevski has been Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia since 27 August 2006. He has led VMRO-DPMNE since May 2003. He was Minister of Finance in the VMRO-DPMNE government led by Ljubčo Georgievski until September 2002.- Personal life :...
, Macedonian Prime minister - Nikola JerkanNikola JerkanNikola Jerkan is a former football defender from Croatia.Jerkan was born in Split and started playing football professionally for NK Zagreb. In 1983 he moved to Dinamo Vinkovci where he would spend three years before moving to Hajduk Split in 1986. In 1988 he started playing for the first team and...
, Croatian footballer - Nikola JorgicNikola JorgicNikola Jorgic is a Bosnian Serb from the Doboj region who was the leader of a paramilitary group located in the Doboj region. In 1997, Nikola was convicted of genocide in Germany. This was the first conviction won against participants in the Bosnian Genocide...
, Bosnian Serb soldier - Nikola JovanovićNikola JovanovicNikola "Nikki" Jovanović is a retired Montenegrin footballer.-Club career:Jovanović was one of the most successful players of, then Yugoslav, giant Red Star where he played as a defender and had an impressive overall record of 359 matches and 50 goals for the Belgrade side...
, Montenegrin footballer - Nikola JurčevićNikola JurcevicNikola Jurčević is a retired Croatian football player who is now a coach.He played for clubs Dinamo Zagreb , in Belgium with R. Antwerp F.C. , NK Zagreb , in Austria with SV Austria Salzburg , and in German Bundesliga with SC Freiburg...
, Croatian footballer - Nikola KarabatićNikola KarabaticNikola Karabatić ) is a French team handball player, born to a Croatian father and Serbian mother.He was part of the French national handball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship. He was top scorer at the championship together with Ivano Balić and Lars...
, French team handball player - Nikola KarevNikola KarevNikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...
, Macedonian revolutionary - Nikola KavajaNikola KavajaNikola Kavaja was a Montenegrin Serb nationalist and anti-communist known for his 1979 bombing of a Yugoslav consul’s home and the American Airlines Flight 293 hijacking.-Youth:...
, Serbian anti-communists - Nikola KljusevNikola KljusevNikola Kljusev was a Macedonian academician and politician. Kljusev served as the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia from January 27, 1991 until August 17, 1992, following the country's independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.-Early life:Nikola Kljusev was born in Štip,...
, Macedonian politician - Nikola Kochovski, Macedonian footballer
- Nikola KojoNikola KojoNikola Kojo is a Serbian actor.Kojo grew up in front of the camera and acted in his first movie at the age of 11. Since then he has been featured in more than 45 movies and TV series, including "Mi nismo anđeli" being one of his most notable films...
, Serbian actor - Nikola KotkovNikola KotkovNikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....
, Bulgarian footballer - Nikola KovachevNikola KovachevNikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...
, Bulgarian footballer - Nikola KuljačaNikola KuljacaNikola Kuljača is a Serbian water polo goalkeeper who played for the team of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro on the bronze medal squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the silver medal squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
, Serbian waterpolo goalkeeper - Nikola Langer, manager of Czech singer Aneta LangerováAneta LangerováAneta Langerová is a Czech pop singer. She first rose to fame at age 17 as the first winner of Česko hledá SuperStar, the Czech version of Pop Idol, in June 2004 and later that year released her first album, Spousta andělů, which would go on to become the best-selling record in Czech music history...
- Nikola Lashley, British journalist
- Nikola LazetićNikola LazeticNikola Lazetić is a Serbian football midfielder who plays for Serbian club FK Vojvodina.-Football career:...
, Serbian footballer - Nikola LjubičićNikola LjubicicNikola Ljubičić was the President of the Presidency of Serbia , a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , and the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia...
, Serbian politician - Nikola Bizumić, Serbian barber who invented the manual hair clipper
- Nikola MandićNikola MandicNikola Mandić , was a Croatian politician.Mandić was born in what was then Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina in Travnik in 1869 . Mandić finished gymnasium in Sarajevo. He later doctored in law at Vienna in 1894...
, Croatian politician - Nikola MartinovskiNikola MartinovskiNikola Martinoski , sometimes mentioned as Nikola Martinovski was a Macedonian painter with a rare gift for art.-The Early Days:He was born in Kuruşova in 1903, and died in 1973 in Skopje....
, Macedonian painter - Nikola MijailovićNikola Mijailović (singer)Nikola Mijailovic is a Serbian baritone who has had a prolific international opera career since the mid 1990s. He is particularly admired for his portrayals in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi...
, Serbian opera singer - Nikola Mijailović (footballer), Serbian footballer
- Nikola MilojevićNikola MilojevicNikola Milojević is a Serbian football goalkeeper playing with FK Borac Čačak in the Serbian SuperLiga since summer 2010.-Career:...
, Serbian football goalkeeper - Nikola Milošević, Serbian intellectual
- Nikola ModruškiNikola ModruškiNikola Modruški , born in Boka Kotorska, was a bishop of Modruš in Lika, the Pope's representative at the court of Stefan Tomašević in Bosnia, and on the court of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus in Buda in 1463–1464...
, Croatian catholic priest - Nikola MoravčevićNikola MoravcevicNikola Moravcevic is a University Professor, Critic and academic writer. He was born in Zagreb, in a family of Serbian officer of Yugoslav Royal Army on December 10, 1935....
, Serbian academic - Nikola MoushmovNikola MoushmovNikola Moushmov was a noted Bulgarian historian and numismatist.He wrote some of the great classics of numismatics, including the report of the Reka Devnia hoard, and...
, Bulgarian historian - Nikola MushanovNikola MushanovNikola Stoykov Mushanov was a Bulgarian liberal politician who served as Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party....
, Bulgarian politician - Nikola Navrátil, Czech actor
- Nikola NeškovićNikola NeškovicNikola Nešković was the most famous Serbian religious painter of the 18th century. He is the author of over a thousand works, including many icons, frescos, and portraits.-External links:**...
, Serbian painter - Nikola NikezićNikola NikezicNikola Nikezić is a Montenegrin football player who last played for FC Kuban Krasnodar, a Russian side.-Career:...
, Montenegrin footballer - Nikola NikićNikola NikicNikola Nikić - Folcika is a Bosnian football manager and former player. He is currently employed as a manager of a Bosnia-Herzegovina national U21 team....
, Bosnian Serb footballer - Nikola NimacNikola NimacNikolai Nimac is a Croatian skeleton racer who has competed since 2002. He finished 26th in the men's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.-References:***...
, Croatian racer - Nikola ObreshkovNikola ObreshkovNikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....
, Bulgarian mathematician - Nikola PašićNikola PašicNikola P. Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat, the most important Serbian political figure for almost 40 years, leader of the People's Radical Party who, among other posts, was twice a mayor of Belgrade...
, Serbian politician and diplomat - Nikola PetroffNikola PetroffNikola Petrov , better known as Nikola Petroff, was a Bulgarian wrestler.He was born in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria. On 20 July 1898, in New York, he earned the title "Champion of America". In the next year in Vienna, he became the European Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling...
, Bulgarian wrestler - Nikola PilićNikola PilicNikola "Niki" Pilić is a retired Croatian professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He was one of the Handsome Eight.-Biography:...
, Yugoslav Croat professional tennis player - Nikola Rakočevič, Serbian actor
- Nikola ResanovicNikola ResanovicNikola Resanovic is an American composer and professor of music. He is the winner of the 2003 Cleveland Arts Prize in Music and is one of Ohio's best known living composers....
, Serbian-American composer - Nikola Ristanovski, Macedonian actor
- Nikola SarcevicNikola SarcevicNikola Šarčević is the bassist, vocalist, and primary songwriter in the punk rock band Millencolin. He lives in Gothenburg, Sweden with his wife Lisa, and three daughters....
, Swedish rock musician - Nikola ŠećeroskiNikola ŠeceroskiNikola Šećeroski , was a candidate for Serbian presidency. He was born in 1934 in Radožda, a village on the shore of Lake Ohrid in the south-west of Yugoslavia, now the Republic of Macedonia...
, Serbian politician - Nikola StojićNikola Stojic1998-20032003-20062007-presentNikola Stojić is a rower from Serbia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. He won the silver medal in the Men's Single Sculls event at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.In 2006 Olympic Committee of Serbia has declared for...
, Serbian rower - Nikola ŠpirićNikola ŠpiricDr. Nikola Špirić born September 4, 1956 in Drvar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb politician and is the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina elected on 4 January 2007....
, Bosnian Serb politician - Nikola Šubić ZrinskiNikola Šubic ZrinskiNikola Šubić Zrinski , was a Croatian nobleman and general in service of Habsburg Monarchy, ban of Croatia from 1542 to 1556, and member of the Zrinski noble family...
, Croatian-Hungarian ban - Nikola SudováNikola SudováNikola Sudová is a Czech freestyle skier known for moguls. She has two World Cup victories and competed for the Czech Republic at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is set to compete in ladies moguls for the Czech Republic at the 2010 Winter Olympics.- References :...
, Czech freestyle skier - Nikola TeslaNikola TeslaNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
, Croatian-Serbian inventor, physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, and mechanical engineer - Nikola UzunovićNikola UzunovicNikola Uzunović was a Serbian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from April 8, 1926 until April 17, 1927 and from January 1934 to December 1934....
, Serbian politician - Nikola VaptsarovNikola VaptsarovNikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...
, Bulgarian poet - Nikola VignjevićNikola VignjevicNikola Vignjević is a former Serbian soccer player, who currently works as Technical coach by Alberta Golden Bears and the Greater St.Albert Sports Acadamey...
, Serbian footballer - Nikola Vitov GučetićNikola Vitov GuceticNikola Vitov Gučetić was a ragusan statesman, philosopher, science writer from the Republic of Ragusa and author of one of the first scientific dissertations regarding speleology.-Life:...
, Ragusian statesman - Nikola Velevski, Macedonian bassist in the band Unending Fury
- Nikola VujčićNikola VujcicNikola Vujčić is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is 2.11 m tall. He can play at both the center and power forward positions. He last played for Efes Pilsen SK for the 2010–11 season.-Player profile:...
, Croatian basketball player - Nikola ZhekovNikola ZhekovNikola Todorov Zhekov was the Minister of War of Bulgaria in 1915 and served as Commander-in-Chief from 1915 to 1918 during World War I.-Biography:...
, Bulgarian military - Nikola ŽigićNikola ŽigicNikola Žigić is a Serbian footballer who plays for English club Birmingham City as a centre forward.At , Žigić is among the tallest professional players in the world...
, Serbian footballer - Nicholas Nikola Ribic, Serbian-Canadian convicted for hostage-taking