Bogdan
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Bogdan or Bohdan - is a Slavic masculine name. It is derived from the Slavic
words Bog/Boh (Cyrillic: Бог), meaning "god", and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning "given". Other names with similar meaning include South Slavic Božidar, Polish Bożydar, Greek Theodore, Hebrew Nathanael
and Jonathan, Latin Deodatus and French Dieudonné
. Nicknames include Boguś (in Polish), Bogdi, Bo, Bobby, Bogy, Bogie, Dan, Dante, Boca, Boci, Boća, Boša. The feminine form is Bogdana or Bohdana. The h-mutation occurs in the Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, and Belarusian languages. It does not occur in Polish, however, Bohdan is accepted alongside Bogdan in Poland.
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...
words Bog/Boh (Cyrillic: Бог), meaning "god", and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning "given". Other names with similar meaning include South Slavic Božidar, Polish Bożydar, Greek Theodore, Hebrew Nathanael
Nathanael
Nathaniel is a male name and surname. It comes from the Hebrew name נְתַנְאֵל/Nethan'el meaning "God has given"...
and Jonathan, Latin Deodatus and French Dieudonné
Dieudonné
Dieudonné is the name of:* Albert Dieudonné , French actor and film director* Jean Dieudonné , French mathematician* Nabatingue Tokomon Dieudonné , often shortened to Nabatingue Toko, Chadian football player...
. Nicknames include Boguś (in Polish), Bogdi, Bo, Bobby, Bogy, Bogie, Dan, Dante, Boca, Boci, Boća, Boša. The feminine form is Bogdana or Bohdana. The h-mutation occurs in the Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, and Belarusian languages. It does not occur in Polish, however, Bohdan is accepted alongside Bogdan in Poland.
Name days
- Czech: 9 November
- Bulgarian: 6 January
- Polish: 19 March, 17 July, 10 August or 9 October
- Slovak: 18 January
Rulers of Moldavia
- Bogdan I of MoldaviaBogdan I of MoldaviaBogdan I the Founder was the third or fourth voivode of Moldavia . He and his successors established the independence of Moldavia, freeing the territory east of the Carpathian Mountains of Hungarian and Tatar domination....
(1359–1365), and the House of Bogdan-MuşatHouse of Bogdan-MusatThe House of Bogdan, commonly referred to as the House of Mușat, was the ruling family which established the Principality of Moldova with Bogdan I , giving the country its first line of Princes, one closely related with the Basarab rulers of Wallachia by several marriages through time...
- Bogdania was an early name for the principality of MoldaviaMoldaviaMoldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...
(named after Bogdan I).
- Bogdania was an early name for the principality of Moldavia
- Bogdan II of MoldaviaBogdan II of MoldaviaBogdan II was the Prince of Moldavia between October 12, 1449 and October 17, 1451, when he was assassinated by Petru Aron. The assassination put Moldavia into a civil war which lasted until his son Stephen gained the Moldavian throne in 1457....
(1449–1451) - Bogdan III cel OrbBogdan III cel OrbBogdan III the One-Eyed or Bogdan III the Blind Voivode of Moldavia from July 2, 1504 to 1517.-Family:He was born in Huşi as the son of Voivode Ştefan cel Mare and his wife Maria Voichiţa...
(1504–1517)
Other persons
- Bogdan BogdanovićBogdan BogdanovićBogdan Bogdanović was a Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist. He taught architecture at the University of Belgrade, where he also served as dean...
, Serbian architect - Bogdan BorusewiczBogdan BorusewiczBogdan Michał Borusewicz, is the Speaker in the Polish Senate since 20 October 2005. Borusewicz was a democratic opposition activist under the Communist regime, a member of the Polish parliament for three terms and first Senate Speaker to serve two terms in this office.Borusewicz briefly served...
, Polish politician - Bogdan Bułakowski, Polish race walker
- Bogdan DobrescuBogdan DobrescuMihai Bogdan Dobrescu is a boxer from Romania, who won the silver medal in the Men's Flyweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland...
, Romanian boxer - Bogdan DiklićBogdan DiklicBogdan Diklić is a Serbian actor and star of over one hundred Yugoslavian movies and television series.He and Goran Marković made 10 movies....
, Serbian actor - Bogdan FilovBogdan FilovBogdan Dimitrov Filov was a Bulgarian archaeologist, art historian and politician. He was Prime Minister of Bulgaria during World War II. During his service, Bulgaria became the seventh nation to join the Axis Powers....
, Bulgarian archeologist and politician - Bogdan GavrilovićBogdan GavrilovicBogdan Gavrilović was a highly prolific and prominent Serbian mathematician, philosopher, and educator. He received his doctorate in sciences mathematiques from the University of Budapest in 1887. He served twice as the Rector of the University of Belgrade.-External links:*...
, Serbian mathematician - Bohdan KhmelnytskyBohdan KhmelnytskyBohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state...
, Ukrainian hetman - Bogdan LalićBogdan LalicBogdan Lalic is a Croatian-English Grandmaster of chess. He was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1964. FIDE awarded him the International Grandmaster title in 1988. He finished equal first at the Pleven 1987 and Sarajevo 1988 tournaments. Although registered with the Croatian Federation, he...
, Croatian chessmaster - Bohdan LepkyBohdan LepkyBohdan Lepky, pen name: Marko Murava was a prominent Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, artist and patriot.It seems symbolic today that the future writer was born on November 9, 1872, in the picturesque village of Zhukiv, in the same house where the famous Polish insurgent Bogdan...
, Ukrainian writer - Bogdan LobonţBogdan LobontBogdan Ionuț Lobonț is a Romanian goalkeeper playing for A.S. Roma and the Romanian national team. Lobonț has been popularly nicknamed "Pisica" in Romania due to his quick reflexes, compared to that of a cat....
, Romanian footballer - Bogdan MaglichBogdan MaglichBogdan Castle Maglich is a nuclear physicist and the leading advocate of a purported non-radioactive aneutronic fusion energy source. Maglich's Migma fusion would use colliding ion beams. He is the son of a lawyer and elected member of the Yugoslav Royal Parliament...
, American physicist - Bogdan Niculescu-DuvăzBogdan Niculescu-DuvazBogdan Niculescu-Duvăz is a Romanian politician and architect. A former member and twice minister of the Democratic Party , he joined the Social Democratic Party in 2003, and was again a minister in 2004...
, Romanian politician - Bogdan OlteanuBogdan OlteanuBogdan Olteanu is a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was the president of the Chamber of Deputies between 2006 and 2008....
, Romanian politician - Bogdan Petriceicu HasdeuBogdan Petriceicu HasdeuBogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Hasdeu is considered to have been able to understand 26 languages .-Life:...
, Romanian historian, philologist and politician - Bogdan RaczynskiBogdan RaczynskiBogdan Raczynski is a Polish braindance artist. His work includes a song with Icelandic artist Björk.-Biography:Bogdan Raczynski was born around 1977 in Poland, but later moved to the United States with his family...
, Polish electronic musician - Bogdan SteleaBogdan SteleaBogdan Gheorghe Stelea is a retired Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Having played professionally into his 40's, he played for all three major first division clubs in his country's capital, and also spent a vast part of his career in Spain, mainly with Salamanca.-Club career:Stelea...
, Romanian footballer - Bogdan TanjevićBogdan TanjevicBogdan Tanjević is an ex-Yugoslav, naturalized Italian, Bosnian, and Turkish basketball coach last managed Turkish national basketball team between 2004-10 and Fenerbahçe Ülker between 2007-10...
, Montenegrin basketball coach - Bogdan TirnanićBogdan TirnanicBogdan Tirnanić was one of the most prominent Serbian journalists, essayists and movie critics. He was born in Belgrade, present-day Serbia. He wrote columns for some of the most popular newspapers in the SFR Yugoslavia and Serbia...
, Serbian journalist and essayists - Bohdan SlámaBohdan SlámaBohdan Sláma is a Czech film director. He studied at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague .- Filmography :* 2008 – Venkovský učitel...
, Czech director - Bohdan UlihrachBohdan UlihrachBohdan Ulihrach is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Ulihrach turned professional in 1993. He won his first top-level singles title in July 1995 at Prague, where he defeated Javier Sánchez in the final...
, Czech tennis player - Bohdan WarchalBohdan WarchalBohdan Warchal was a Slovak violinist, a member of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and founder, chief conductor and soloist of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra....
, Slovak violinst and dirigent - Bohdan StupkaBohdan StupkaBohdan Stupka is a popular Ukrainian actor. He was born in Kulykiv, which is in Lviv oblast , Ukraine.Stupka is recognized as the most famous living Ukrainian actor. He has played more than hundred roles in films and over fifty in theaters. Stupka has been awarded the title Artist of Ukraine and...
, Ukrainian actor - Bohdan WarchalBohdan WarchalBohdan Warchal was a Slovak violinist, a member of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and founder, chief conductor and soloist of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra....
, Slovak violinist and dirigent
Surname
- Alexandru Bogdan-PiteştiAlexandru Bogdan-PitestiAlexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was a Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, and art and literary critic, who was also known as a journalist and left-wing political agitator. A wealthy landowner, he invested his fortune in patronage and art collecting, becoming one of the main local promoters of modern art,...
, Romanian activist, art collector and painter - Angela BogdanAngela BogdanAngela Bogdan is a current Canadian diplomat. She was concurrently appointed High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives.Bogdan joined the Foreign Affairs Canada in 1984 and has served in different postings around Europe, including the Canadian delegation to NATO.- External links :* *...
, Canadian diplomat - Jakub Bogdan, Slovak painter
- Srećko BogdanSrecko BogdanSrećko Bogdan is a retired Croatian footballer who played a defender. He is now a youth coach in NK Inter Zaprešić.-Playing career:...
, Croatian footballer - Zvonko BogdanZvonko BogdanZvonko Bogdan is an eminent performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Romania. Apart from being famous as a singer, he is also a composer, painter and harness racer...
, Serbian composer and singer
Other
- Bogdan groupBogdan groupBogdan Corporation or Bohdan Corporation is an Ukrainian automobile-manufacturing group including several car- and bus-makers of the country...
, Ukrainian automobile manufacturer - Bogdan (bus)Bogdan (bus)Bohdan is the brand of the Ukrainian buses and trolleybuses made by Bogdan Corporation. The original two front-engine/rear-wheel drive models are powered by Isuzu and marketed outside Ukraine under Isuzu brand. Large city buses, such as the rear-engined Bohdan A145 and Bohdan A1445, are also...
, brand of buses made by the Bogdan group - Bohdan, Podlaskie VoivodeshipBohdan, Podlaskie VoivodeshipBohdan is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobrzyniewo Duże, within Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Dobrzyniewo Duże and north-west of the regional capital Białystok....
, a village in north-east PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... - BogdanciBogdanciBogdanci is a small town in Republic of Macedonia, close to the border with Greece. It is located at around , and is the seat of Bogdanci Municipality.-Location:...
, town in Republic of MacedoniaRepublic of MacedoniaMacedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991... - Bogdan, name of the highest peak of Sredna goraSredna GoraSredna Gora is a mountain range in central Bulgaria, situated south of and parallel to Balkan mountain range and extending from the river Iskar to the west and the elbow of Tundzha north of Yambol to the east. Sredna Gora is 285 km long, reaching 50 km at its greatest width...
mountain in central BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , 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... - Bogdanje, village in the RaškaRaška DistrictThe Raška District expands in the south-western part of Serbia. It has a population of 300,274. Its seat is in the city of Kraljevo.-Municipalities:It encompasses the municipalities of:*Kraljevo*Vrnjačka Banja*Raška...
county, near TrstenikTrstenikTrstenik is a town and municipality located in the Rasina District of Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 15,329, while population of the municipality was 42,989. It lies on the West Morava. The town is known for its industry of hydraulics and pneumatics company, Prva...
, SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , 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... - BogdanovciBogdanovciBogdanovci is a municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in Croatia. It is located a few kilometers south of Vukovar in eastern Slavonia.-Population:...
, municipality in the Vukovar-Srijem county in CroatiaCroatiaCroatia , 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 ...
See also
- BogdaniBogdaniBogdani is an Albanian and Hungarian surname meaning 'son of Bogdan'. It may refer to these people:*Erjon Bogdani, Albanian footballer*Pjeter Bogdani, Albanian writer*Jakob Bogdani, Hungarian artist...
, surname meaning son of Bogdan - BogdanovBogdanovBogdanov or Bogdanova is a common Russian surname and may refer to:-Bogdanov:*Alexander Bogdanov , Belarusian-Russian physician, philosopher, economist, writer and revolutionary...
, surname meaning son of Bogdan - BogdanovichBogdanovichBogdanovich a Slavic surname found across the Slavic speaking world, meaning "son of Bogdan", spelt Богданович transliterated Bogdanovich or Bohdanovych , Bahdanovič , Bogdanowicz , and Богдановић transliterated Bogdanović .-People with this name:*Alex Bogdanović Bogdanovich a Slavic surname found...
(Bogdanović), surname meaning son of Bogdan - Bogusław (given name)Bogusław (given name)Bogusław, also Bogosław, Bohusław, Bogsław is a Slavic men's name made from the roots Bogu- and -sław . It is one of the few Slavic given names that are present throughout the Slavic language family, and is known in Poland since the beginning of the 13th century...
- Slavic names