Tzavaras, the Glossary
According to genealogical researchers the surname Tzavaras (Greek: Τζαβάρας) can be classified as of patronymic / nickname origin.[1]
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67 relations: Albanian language, Antofagasta, Arcadia (region), Aromanians, Attica, Australia, Battle of Kosovo, Battle of Mouzaki, Battle of Valtetsi, Boeotia, Buenos Aires, Canada, Chicago, Comănești, Danubian Principalities, Epirus, Epirus (region), Filiatra, Gheg Albanian, Ghica family, Greek Americans, Greek Argentines, Greek Australians, Greek Canadians, Greek Civil War, Greek diaspora, Greek language, Greek name, Greek War of Independence, Greeks in Chile, Hellenization, Ionian Islands, Janissary, Kingdom of Hungary, Klepht, Kyparissia, List of islands of Greece, Los Angeles, Macedonia (Greece), Medieval Greek, Melbourne, Messenia, Metohija, Moldavia, New York City, Novo Brdo, Old Church Slavonic, OTE, Pavle Orlović, Peloponnese, ... Expand index (17 more) »
- Greek families
Albanian language
Albanian (endonym: shqip, gjuha shqipe, or arbërisht) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.
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Antofagasta
Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.
Arcadia (region)
Arcadia (Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese.
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Aromanians
The Aromanians (Armãnji, Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language.
Attica
Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Battle of Kosovo
The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad Hüdavendigâr.
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Battle of Mouzaki
The Battle of Mouzaki (Mάχη τουΜουζακίου) occurred on 4 May 1878 between Greek irregulars with the cover support of the Greek Army against the Ottoman Army.
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Battle of Valtetsi
The Battle of Valtetsi was fought on 24 May (N.S.), 1821 in Valtetsi between the Ottoman army and Greek revolutionaries.
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Boeotia
Boeotia, sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (Βοιωτία; modern:; ancient) is one of the regional units of Greece.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Comănești
Comănești (Kománfalva) is a town in Bacău County, Western Moldavia, Romania, with a population of 19,996 as of 2021.
Danubian Principalities
The Danubian Principalities (Principatele Dunărene, translit) was a conventional name given to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which emerged in the early 14th century.
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Epirus
Epirus is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania.
Epirus (region)
Epirus (translit) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region in northwestern Greece.
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Filiatra
Filiatra (Φιλιατρά), is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.
Gheg Albanian
Gheg or Geg (Gheg Albanian: gegnisht, Standard gegërisht) is one of the two major varieties of Albanian, the other being Tosk.
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Ghica family
The House of Ghica (Ghica; Gjika; Γκίκας, Gikas) was a noble family whose members held significant positions in Wallachia, Moldavia and later in the Kingdom of Romania, between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Greek Americans
Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί Ellinoamerikanoí Ελληνοαμερικάνοι Ellinoamerikánoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.
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Greek Argentines
Greek Argentines (Ελληνοαργεντινοί; Greco-argentinos) are Argentine citizens of Greek descent or Greek-born people who reside in Argentina.
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Greek Australians
Greek Australians (Ellinoafstralí) are Australians of Greek ancestry.
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Greek Canadians
Greek Canadians (Ελληνοκαναδοί) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Greek heritage or people who emigrated from Greece and reside in Canada.
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Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War (translit) took place from 1946 to 1949.
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Greek diaspora
The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Omogéneia), are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Greek name
In the modern world, Greek names are the personal names among people of Greek language and culture, generally consisting of a given name and a family name. Tzavaras and Greek name are Greek-language surnames.
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829.
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Greeks in Chile
There has been a community of Greeks in Chile since the sixteenth century.
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Hellenization
Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks.
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Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιαι Νῆσοι, Ionioi Nēsoi) are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece.
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Janissary
A janissary (yeŋiçeri) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops.
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.
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Klepht
Klephts (Greek κλέφτης, kléftis, pl. κλέφτες, kléftes, which means "thieves" and perhaps originally meant just "brigand": "Other Greeks, taking to the mountains, became unofficial, self-appointed armatoles and were known as klephts (from the Greek kleptes, "brigand").") were highwaymen turned self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.
Kyparissia
Kyparissia (Κυπαρισσία) is a town and a former municipality in northwestern Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.
List of islands of Greece
Greece has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (Makedonía) is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans.
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Medieval Greek
Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Messenia
Messenia or Messinia (Μεσσηνία) is a regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, in Greece.
Metohija
Metohija (Метохија) or Dukagjin (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit) is a large basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo.
Moldavia
Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Novo Brdo
Novo Brdo (Ново Брдо) or Novobërda and Artanë (Albanian indefinite form: Novobërdë or Artanë), is a town and municipality located in the Prishtina district of Kosovo.
Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.
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OTE
Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A. (OTE Group) is the largest technology company in Greece.
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Pavle Orlović
Pavle Orlović (Павле Орловић) is a semi-mythological hero of the Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic poetry; he was a Serbian knight, one of the military commanders under Prince Lazar that fell at the Battle of Kosovo (1389) against the Ottoman Empire.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
Phanariots
Phanariots, Phanariotes, or Fanariots (Φαναριώτες, Fanarioți, Fenerliler) were members of prominent Greek families in Phanar (Φανάρι, modern Fener), the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is located, who traditionally occupied four important positions in the Ottoman Empire: Voivode of Moldavia, Voivode of Wallachia, Grand Dragoman of the Porte and Grand Dragoman of the Fleet.
Romilly Jenkins
Romilly James Heald Jenkins (1907 – 30 September 1969) was a British scholar in Byzantine and Modern Greek studies.
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Sarakatsani
The Sarakatsani (Σαρακατσάνοι, also written Karakachani, каракачани) are an ethnic Greek population subgroup who were traditionally transhumant shepherds, native to Greece, with a smaller presence in neighbouring Bulgaria, southern Albania, and North Macedonia.
Serbian Empire
The Serbian Empire (Српско царство / Srpsko carstvo) was a medieval Serbian state that emerged from the Kingdom of Serbia.
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Serbian nobility
Serbian nobility (српска властела / srpska vlastela, српско властелинство / srpsko vlastelinstvo or српско племство / srpsko plemstvo) refers to the historical privileged order or class (aristocracy) of Serbia, that is, the medieval Serbian states, and after the Ottoman conquests of Serbian lands in the 15th and 16th centuries, Serbian noble families of the Kingdom of Hungary, Republic of Venice, and the Habsburg monarchy.
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Siege of Tripolitsa
The siege of Tripolitsa or fall of Tripolitsa (Álosi tis Tripolitsás), also known as the Tripolitsa massacre (Tripoliçe katliamı), was an early victory of the revolutionary Greek forces in the summer of 1821 during the Greek War of Independence, which had begun earlier that year, against the Ottoman Empire.
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Souliotes
The Souliotes were an Orthodox Christian Albanian tribal community in the area of Souli in Epirus from the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century, who via their participation in the Greek War of Independence came to identify with the Greek nation.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Stavropoleos Monastery
Stavropoleos Monastery (Mănăstirea Stavropoleos), also known as Stavropoleos Church (Biserica Stavropoleos) during the last century when the monastery was dissolved, is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for nuns in central Bucharest, Romania.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Thessaly
Thessaly (translit; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name.
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Vuk Branković
Vuk Branković (Вук Бранковић,, 1345 – 6 October 1397) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who, during the Fall of the Serbian Empire, inherited a province that extended over present-day southern and southwestern Serbia, entire Kosovo, the northern part of present-day Republic of North Macedonia, and northern Montenegro.
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Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (lit,; Old Romanian: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рꙋмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).
Western Greece
Western Greece Region (translit) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See also
Greek families
- Callimachi family
- Cangelari family
- Cantacuzino family
- Caradja
- Caradja family
- Chalkokondyles family
- Daimonoioannes family
- Drakos family
- Ephrussi family
- Giakoumelos
- Husainid dynasty
- Kallergis family
- Kanaris family
- Kandelaki
- Langoura family
- Lemos family
- Levidis family
- Londos family
- Maleinos family
- Mavrocordatos family
- Mavroleon family
- Mavromichalis family
- Mourouzis family
- Niarchos family
- Onassis family
- Papatsonis family
- Political families of Greece
- Ralli Brothers
- Skouzes family
- Soutzos family
- Tzavaras
- Tzavelas family
- Ypsilantis family
- Zosimades
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzavaras
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