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Aleksandra Melnichenko ( née Nikolić; Serbian: Александра Мељниченко, née Николић, romanized : Aleksandra Meljničenko; born 21 April 1977), also known as Sandra Meljničenko ( Serbian Cyrillic: Сандра Мељниченко ), is a Serbian [1] philanthropist and a former singer and model. She is married to the ...
A Greek lithograph of the Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas. The Balkan Wars were two wars that took place in the Balkans in 1912 and 1913. Four Balkan states defeated the Ottoman Empire in the first war; one of the four, Bulgaria, was defeated in the second war. The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its holdings in Europe.
The Balkans ( / ˈbɔːlkənz / BAWL-kənz, / ˈbɒlkənz / BOL-kənz [1] ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. [2] [3] [4] The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria. [5]
Balkan brass, popularly known by the Serbianname Truba(Serbian Cyrillic: Труба, "Trumpet"), is a distinctive style of music[1]originating in the Balkan region as a fusion between military music and folk music.[2] In recent years[when?], it has become popular in a techno-synth fusion throughout Europe, and in pop music in the Anglo-American ...
This list of most-liked Instagram posts contains the top 20 posts by number of likes on the photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram. The most-liked post as of August 2024 [update] is a carousel of the Argentine footballer Lionel Messi and his teammates celebrating the 2022 FIFA World Cup win at Lusail Stadium in Lusail ...
Prince Frederik as an infant in the arms of his mother, 1968. Frederik was born by emergency caesarean section at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital in Copenhagen, on 26 May 1968 at 23:50 [5] to the then Princess Margrethe, oldest daughter of Frederik IX and heir presumptive to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik.
Ramiz Delalić. Around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, 1 March 1992, a Serbwedding procession in Sarajevo's old Muslim quarter of Baščaršijawas attacked, resulting in the death of the father of the groom, Nikola Gardović, and the wounding of a Serbian Orthodoxpriest. The attack took place on the last day of a controversial referendumon Bosnia and ...
Balkan sworn virgins (in Albanian: burrnesha) are people who are assigned female at birth and who take a vow of chastity and live as men in patriarchal northern Albanian society, Kosovo and Montenegro. To a lesser extent, the practice exists, or has existed, in other parts of the western Balkans, including Bosnia, Dalmatia (Croatia), Serbia and ...