Sava (name)
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Sava is a common male personal name in south Slavic languages
. Perhaps the most famous example is the Serbia
n medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava. In Bosnia
Sava could also be a female name, a result of the tradition of naming female children like rivers – in this case, after the river Sava.
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
. Perhaps the most famous example is 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...
n medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava. In Bosnia
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...
Sava could also be a female name, a result of the tradition of naming female children like rivers – in this case, after the river Sava.
People
- Saint SavaSaint SavaSaint Sava was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law and literature, and a diplomat. Sava was born Rastko Nemanjić , the youngest son of Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja , and ruled the appanage of Hum briefly in...
, Serbian saint - Sava II Petrović-NjegošSava II Petrovic-NjegošSava II Petrović Njegoš was the Vladika of Montenegro, of the Petrović-Njegoš Dynasty. He succeeded Danilo I as Vladika in 1735....
, Montenegrin monarch - Sava AntićSava AnticSava Antić was a Serbian football player and manager.He won the Yugoslav Cup 3 times, in 1953, 1955, and 1962, being the scorer in all the 3 cup finals. He started his career as a football player in FK Brodarac in 1945. In 1948 he moved to Red Star where he played 36 games and scored 22 goals...
, Yugoslav footballer - Sava BabićSava BabicSava Babić , is a Serbian writer, poet, translator and university professor.-His life:Sava Babić's parents arrived to Vojvodina from Hercegovina.From the autumn of 1941 he studied at a Hungarian school....
, Serbian writer - Sava BjelanovićSava BjelanovicSava Bjelanović was an Adriatic Serbian writer and politician, the leader of the coastal Serb Party and the most prominent Dalmatian Serb of the 19th century....
, Serbian politiican - Sava DobroplodniSava DobroplodniSava Dobroplodni , born Sava Hadzhiiliev , was a Bulgarian writer, teacher and theatrical worker of the Bulgarian National Revival and an honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....
, Bulgarian writer - Sava DumitrescuSava DumitrescuSava Dumitrescu is a Romanian pharmacologist and professor at the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iaşi, Romania. He also served as rector of the university. He retired from teaching in 1993, but continued his research activities....
, Romanian pharmacologist - Sava GrujićSava GrujićGeneral Sava Grujić was a Serbian military, diplomat and a Radical Party politician....
, Serbian soldier, statesman and diplomat - Sava GrozdevSava GrozdevSava Grozdev is a mathematician and educator. He currently holds positions as Professor in Mathematics and Professor in Mathematical Education.-Biography:...
, Bulgarian mathematician - Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav partisan
- Sava MrkaljSava MrkaljSava Mrkalj was a Serbian linguist, grammarian, philologist, and poet known for his attempt to reform the Serbian language before Vuk Karadžić....
, Serbian linguist - Sava MutkurovSava MutkurovSava Atanasov Mutkurov was a Bulgarian officer and politician. One of only three recipients of the Order of Bravery 1st grade, he was among the chief architects of the Bulgarian unification and, as an officer in the young Bulgarian Army, one of its defendants in the Serbo–Bulgarian War...
, Bulgarian officer and politician - Sava SavanovićSava SavanovicSava Savanović is one of the most famous vampires in Serbian folklore.-Legend:Sava Savanović was said to have lived in an old watermill on the Rogačica river, at Zarožje village in the municipality of Bajina Bašta. It was said that he killed and drank the blood of the millers when they came to...
, alleged vampire - Sava ŠumanovićSava ŠumanovicSava Šumanović was a 20th-century Serbian painter.Sava Šumanović was born in Vinkovci, today's Croatia in 1896. He graduated from High School in Zemun, across the Danube from Belgrade, where he was first introduced to the art of painting. He later enrolled in the College of Arts in Zagreb then...
, Serbian painter - Sava TekelijaSava TekelijaSava Tekelija was the first Serbian doctor of law, president of the Matica srpska, philanthropist, noble, and merchant. Tekelija founded in Budapest the Tekelijanum in 1838 for Serb students studying in the city. Tekelija, the patron of the Matica Srpska, opened also a Matica library in the...
, Serbian philanthropist - Sava VladislavichSava VladislavichCount Savva Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky was a Serbian merchant-adventurer in the employ of Peter the Great who conducted important diplomatic negotiations in Constantinople, Rome and Beijing...
, Serbian merchant-adventurer in Russian service