Vasile (name)
Encyclopedia
The male name Vasile is of Greek origin and means "King".
Vasile is a male Romania
n given name
or a surname
. It is equivalent to the English
name Basil
.
Vasile is a male Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n given name
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...
or a surname
Surname
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. It is equivalent to the English
English language
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name Basil
Basil (name)
The name Basil , , has origins from the male Greek name Vassilios which first appeared during the Hellenistic period. It is derived from "basileus" a Greek word of pre-Hellenic origin meaning "king", from which words such as basilica and basilisk , as well as the eponymous herb derive, and the...
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As a first name
- Vasile AlecsandriVasile AlecsandriVasile Alecsandri was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia....
, poet - Vasile BlagaVasile BlagaVasile Blaga is a Romanian politician and the current Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, and a former Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice former Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs....
, politician - Vasile BuhăescuVasile BuhaescuVasile Buhăescu is a Romanian football player, currently at FC Vaslui. He started his career at the second team of the Vaslui, FCM Husi, but in October 2005, he was selected by Mircea Rednic to play in the first team. His first match was against Pandurii Targu-Jiu, and he was seen then as a great...
, soccer player - Vasile CârlovaVasile CârlovaVasile Cârlova was a Wallachian officer and early Romantic poet.-Biography:Born into a low-ranking Romanian boyar family in Buzău, Cârlova remained an orphan in 1816, and, after being adopted by an aunt, moved to Craiova...
, WallachiaWallachiaWallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
n officer and poet - Vasile ContaVasile ContaVasile Conta was a Romanian philosopher, poet, and politician.He was born in Ghindăoani, a village in Bălţăteşti commune, Neamţ County....
, philosopher - Vasile DîncuVasile DîncuVasile Dincu is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.In his party he belongs to the so-called...
, politician - Vasile DumitrescuVasile DumitrescuVasile Dumitrescu is a Romanian bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1934 FIBT World Championships in Engelberg.-References:*...
, bobsledder - Vasile GergelyVasile GergelyLászló Vasile Gergely is a Romanian former football player.-Career:Gergely played for CSM Baia Mare , Viitorul Bucharest , Dinamo Bucharest in Romania and Hertha BSC Germany, and Durban City in South AfricaHe played a total of 145 games in Divizia A, scoring seven goals and 35 games in Bundesliga...
, soccer player - Vasile GhindaruVasile GhindaruVasile Ghindaru is a Romanian football player, currently under contract at CSMS Iași. He pays as a Defensive Midfielder.-Geylang United FC:...
, soccer player - Vasile GodjaVasile GodjaVasile Ioan Godja is a Romanian former pro football player and football coach.Godja was head-coach of Teraktor Sazi F.C. an Iranian football club during the early 1990s, while working for Iran Tractor Manufacturing Co. , one of the industries in Tabriz, Iran...
, soccer coach - Vasile GoldişVasile GoldisVasile Goldiş was a Romanian politician and member of the Romanian Academy.-Early life:He was born on 12 November 1862 in his grandfather's house in the village of Mocirla. His parents were Isaia and Floarea Goldiş. The family of his father had its origins in the Chişcău village, Bihor County...
, politician - Vasile HutopilăVasile HutopilaVasile Hutopilă born March 17, 1953 in Izvoarele Sucevei , Suceava County, Bukovina, Romania, is a contemporary Romanian painter of Ukrainian ethnicity. His works belong to impressionism.- Early years :...
, Hutsul painter - Vasile IordacheVasile IordacheVasile Iordache is a former Romanian football goalkeeper and current assistant coach at Steaua Bucureşti, being responsible with goalkeepers' training.-Career:...
, soccer player - Vasile JulaVasile JulaVasile Ilie Jula is a Romanian footballer currently playing for FC Zalău. Jula began his career at Universitatea Cluj, playing in the 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup. He later went on to play for Gloria Bistriţa before moving to CFR Cluj during the summer of 2004.Jula plays as a centre back.In 2005 he was...
, soccer player - Vasile Kogălniceanu, politician
- Vasile LucaVasile LucaVasile Luca was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party from 1945 and until his imprisonment in the 1950s...
, communist politician - Vasile LucaciuVasile LucaciuVasile Lucaciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights with the Hungarians in Transylvania....
, Greek-Catholic priest - Vasile LupuVasile LupuVasile Lupu was a Moldavian Voivode between 1634 and 1653. Vasile Coci surnamed "the wolf" who ruled as Prince of Moldavia had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years. Vasile was of Albanian origin and Greek education...
, 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...
n Voivode - Vasile MafteiVasile MafteiVasile Maftei is a Romanian football player currently playing at CFR Cluj. He is a centre-back.-International goals:*He made his international debut on 28 February 2006.-References:...
, soccer player - Vasile MileaVasile MileaVasile Milea was Nicolae Ceauşescu's minister of defense during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and was involved in the reprisal phase of the revolution that took 162 lives....
, communist Minister of Defense - Vasile MiriuţăVasile MiriutaVasile Miriuţă is a Romanian-born Hungarian retired football player who played in Romania for FC Baia Mare, Dinamo Bucureşti and Gloria Bistriţa, in Hungary for Győri Rába ETO, Videoton FC Fehérvár, Ferencváros Budapest, Újpest FC and Budapest Honvéd FC, in France forFC Bourges and in Germany for...
, soccer player - Vasile OpreaVasile OpreaVasile Oprea is a former Romanian handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Romanian handball team which won the bronze medal. He played all six matches and scored seven goals....
, handball player - Vasile PăcuraruVasile PacuraruVasile Păcuraru is a Romanian professional football player.-External links:*...
, soccer player - Vasile PârvanVasile PârvanVasile Pârvan was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.He studied history in Bucharest, with Nicolae Iorga as one of his professors. He continued his studies in Germany. His Ph.D. thesis, written in 1909, was titled The nationality of merchants in the Roman Empire...
, historian - Vasile PogorVasile PogorVasile Pogor , was a Romanian poet, translator, politician, and founding member of the Junimea literary society....
, poet - Vasile PopescuVasile PopescuVasile Popescu was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches....
, basketball player - Vasile M. PopovVasile M. PopovVasile Mihai Popov is a leading systems theorist and control engineering specialist. He is well known for having developed a method to analyze stability of nonlinear dynamical systems, now known as Popov criterion.- Biography :...
, systems theorist - Vasile RoaităVasile RoaităVasile Roaită was a Romanian railway worker for Căile Ferate Române, shot during the Griviţa Strike of 1933 and later touted as a proletarian hero under the Communist regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.-Notes:...
, railway worker - Vasile StatiVasile StatiVasile Stati is a Moldovan politician and linguist.- Biography :He studied history and philology at the Moldovan language Department of the State University of Chişinău....
, MoldovaMoldovaMoldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
n politician - Vasile StîngăVasile StîngaVasile Stîngă is a former Romanian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics....
, handball player - Vasile StoicaVasile StoicaVasile Stoica was a Romanian political writer, diplomat, and close assistant of European statesmen Tomáš Masaryk and Ion I.C. Brătianu.-Early life and education:...
, writer and politician - Vasile SuciuVasile SuciuVasile Suciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop of the Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, considered to be the most important theologian of the Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania.After completing high school in Blaj, he pursued his theological studies in Rome at the ...
, bishop - Vasile TarlevVasile TarlevVasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...
, Moldovan politician - Vasile TomoiagăVasile TomoiagaVasile Tomoiagă was a 1984 Olympic Silver Medallist, along with fellow Romanians Dumitru Răducanu and Dimitrie Popescu. Their team competed in the Men's Rowing event, in the Coxed Pairs division....
, rower - Vasile Ursu NicolaVasile Ursu NicolaVasile Ursu Nicola, known as Horea, was a Transylvanian Romanian leader of the Revolt of Horea, Cloşca and Crişan in 1784-85. After the revolt was defeated, he was executed by being broken on the wheel....
(Horea), leader of peasant revolt - Vasile VoiculescuVasile VoiculescuVasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.-Early life and education:Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleşcoi, a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent...
, writer - Vasile ZavodaVasile ZavodaVasile Zavoda , commonly known as Zavoda II or Tigrul Akbar, is a former Romanian football player.- Overview :He played for Metalul Baia Mare between 1947 and 1951, before joining Steaua Bucureşti...
, soccer player - Vasile Zetu, Poet
- Vasile Zottu, Chief of General Staff
As a surname
- Cornelia Vasile, violinist
- Cristian VasileCristian VasileCristian Vasile was a Romanian, well-known tango-romance singer between 1928 and 1949, famous for songs like "Zaraza", "Aprinde o ţigară", "Ce să-ţi mai scriu", "Pentru tine am făcut nebunii", "Nunuţo". He died in 1974 in Sibiu...
, tango-romance singer - Niculina VasileNiculina VasileNiculina Vasile is a retired high jumper from Romania, who set her personal best on 2 June 1985, jumping 1.98 metres at a meet in Bucharest. A three-time national champion , Vasile competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California), where she finished in 11th place .-References:* *...
, high jumper - Radu VasileRadu VasileRadu Vasile is a Romanian politician, historian and poet.-Education and Professional Activity:*1967 - Graduate, with exceptional results, of the Faculty of History - University of Bucharest...
, politician and Prime Minister of Romania - Florian Vasile, sailor
Other uses
- Pârâul lui VasilePârâul lui VasileThe Pârâul lui Vasile River or Chisălău River is a tributary of the Miletin River in Romania.-References:* Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - Bucureşti...
, a river in Romania - Valea lui VasileValea lui Vasile RiverThe Valea lui Vasile River is a tributary of the Topa River in Romania.-References:* Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - Bucureşti* Institutul de Meteorologie şi Hidrologie - Rîurile României - Bucureşti 1971-Maps:...
, a river in Romania