Jelena

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Jelena or Yelena ( Cyrillic , Russian Елена , Serbian : Јелена ) is a Russian female given name. It is heard a lot in Belarus , Serbia , Latvia , and especially in Russia .

Origin, meaning and occurrence in the past

Evelyn de Morgan : Helen of Troy (1898). The mirror, the beaking doves and the fortress Troy mark Helena as vain femme fatale .

The name Jelena is the Russian form of the ancient Greek name Helena , which is derived from ήλιος ( helios , "sun"). According to the origin, the name means female beings who shine with beauty or who are even the embodiment of feminine beauty. From the oldest written sources until today, the name Helena is very common among the Christian peoples. He is best known for Homer's saga Iliad , in which Helena , wife of the Spartan King Menelaus and supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world, is kidnapped by the Trojan prince Paris . Your kidnapping triggers the long and bloody Trojan War .

Another Helena has entered the calendar: the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great , who with the Edict of Milan in 313 proclaimed religious tolerance and was the first to stop the persecution of Christians .

In the Serbo-Croatian language , the name always starts with the letter J, while all other European languages ​​start with an H or E (although the Russian Е is pronounced as Je ). Incidentally, the Slavic word jelen means deer .

The earliest mention of the name Jelena in the historical sources of Balkan Slavs is that of the daughter of the Hungarian king, Béla I , Jelena the Beautiful ( Croatian Jelena Lijepa ). From 1063 she was married to Svinimir, called Dmitar , the Ban of Slavonia and later King of the Croatian Slavs. The name is also very common among the Serbian nobility. For example, a Jelena of Serbia was the daughter of the great chaplain Uros II, who in 1130 became the wife of the Hungarian King Béla II .

name day

18th of August

variants

Minor forms and variants of Jelena include Alena , Alenka , Alina , Aljona , Ela, Elena, Ena, Jela, Jele, Jeca, Jelica, Jelinka, Jelka, Jelenica, Jelenka, Jelence, Lela, Lena , Lenka , Lenotshka, Olena, Yelena

Name bearers

Others

  • Jelena (film) , Russian drama directed by Andrei Svyagintsev from 2011

source

Stevanovic, Petar: Onomastikon. Ime znati izabrati. Tumacenje popularnih licnih imena sa istorijskim osvrtom ( Name research. Finding a name to know. Explanation of popular first names in historical retrospect ), Orfelin Verlag, Belgrade, 2001