Vuksan

Vuksan (Serbian Cyrillic: Вуксан) is a Slavic masculine given name, derived from Slavic noun vuk, "wolf". It is a hypocoristic, possibly of the name Vukoslav.[1]{{|pg|60}} It is attested in the Middle Ages,[a] and Serbian epic poetry.[2] It is also used as a surname. The patronymic surname Vuksanović is derived from the name. It may refer to:

Given name

  • Vuksan Bilanović, Serbian pop lyrics writer (Kraj i tačka)
  • Vuksan (fl. 1477), Rovca knez[3] and epic character (Vuksan od Rovaca)
  • Vuksan Gela (or Gelja), legendary founder of the northern Albanian Gruda tribe
  • Vuksan Lukovac (1939–1993) Yugoslav and Serbian film editor

Surname

  • Dušan Vuksan (1881–1944), Yugoslav historian and educator
  • Pekisha Vuksan (1905–1941), participant in the Spanish Civil War and the National Liberation War and a national hero of Yugoslavia
  • Radoje M. Vuksan (fl. 1898), Austro-Hungarian Serb educator and writer[4]

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Vuksan

Notes

  1. ^
    Such as in the 1477 register of the newly conquered lands of the Duchy of St. Sava,[3] and 1485 defter in the Sanjak of Scutari.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Grković, Milica (1977). Rečnik ličnih imena kod Srba. Belgrade: Vuk Karadžić.
  2. ↑ Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1833). Narodne srpske pjesme: Različne junačke pjesme. U štampariji Brejtkopfa i Eršla. p. 283.
  3. 1 2 др Слободан Зечевић. Гласник Етнографског музеја у Београду књ. 45: Bulletin of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade. Etnografski muzej u Beogradu. p. 196. GGKEY:FWHZ5Y2J8NF.
  4. ↑ Bosanska vila. Nikola T. Kašiković. 1898. p. 128.
  5. ↑ Никола Пантелић. Гласник Етнографског музеја у Београду књ. 47. Etnografski muzej u Beogradu. pp. 61–. GGKEY:66N5JNKFLFP.
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