Sokolovic
Overview
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
. It derives from the word sokol
Sokol (disambiguation)
Sokol is a Pan-Slavic physical education movement, with origins in the Czech lands.Sokol, Sokół, or Szokol meaning falcon in Slavic languages, may also refer to:- Other uses :...
meaning "falcon
Falcon
A falcon is any species of raptor in the genus Falco. The genus contains 37 species, widely distributed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America....
" and literally means "descendant of falcon".
Sokolović may refer to one of the following persons:
- Mehmed-paša SokolovićMehmed-paša SokolovicSokollu Mehmed Pasha was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman...
- Ottoman statesman (l. 1506-1579) - Makarije SokolovićMakarije SokolovicMakarije Sokolović was the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1557 to 1571. He was the first patriarch of the restored Serbian Patriarchate, after its lapse in 1463 that resulted from the Ottoman conquest of Serbia...
- Serbian Patriarch from 1557 to 1571 - Antonije Sokolović - Serbian Patriarch from 1571 to 1575
- Gerasim Sokolović - Serbian Patriarch from 1575 to 1586
- Savatije Sokolović - Serbian Patriarch 1587
- Ferhat-paša SokolovićFerhat-paša SokolovicFerhat-pasha Sokolović was an Ottoman general and statesman from Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Biography:Ferhat-pasha was born into the famous Bosnian family, which among others, also gave the Ottoman Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolović. Ferhat Pasha was governor of the sanjak of Klis between 1566 and...
- Ottoman statesman (d.
Quotations
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey, Newsweek, 17 April 1967.