A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later...
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Valerio Urea (December 20, 1920 – October 2, 2013), commonly known as Monica Boyar, was a Dominican-born American nightclub singer, who was popular in the...
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Irving "Sully" Boyar (December 14, 1923 – March 23, 2001) was an American actor of Russian-Jewish descent. Boyar was one of seven children, some of whom...
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Boyar is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Burt Boyar (1927–2018), American voice actor and theatre writer Joan Boyar (born 1955), American-Danish...
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Duma (redirect from Boyar Duma)
is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions. The term boyar duma is used to refer to advisory councils in Russia from the 10th to 17th...
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Lombardo Boyar (born December 1, 1973) is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Chuy in The Bernie Mac Show and for voicing Lars...
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The Seven Boyars (Russian: Семибоярщина, the Russian term indicates "Rule of the Seven Boyars" or "the Deeds of the Seven Boyars" or (potentially slightly...
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Boyar scions (Russian: дети боярские, сыны боярские; transliteration: deti/syny boyarskie) were a rank of Russian gentry that existed from the late 1300s...
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Boya (caste) (redirect from Boyar caste)
The Boya (also referred to as Naidu, Boya Naicker, Bedar Nayakas) is a disparate Indian community found in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana...
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The boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia were the nobility of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The title was either inherited or granted...
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The boyar hat (Russian: боярская шапка, more correct Russian name is горлатная шапка, gorlatnaya hat) was a fur hat worn by Russian nobility between the...
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Ιβαγκός), also referred to by some scholars as Ivanko-Alexius, was a Vlach boyar who killed his cousin Ivan Asen I, the ruler of the renascent Second Bulgarian...
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The boyars of Fogaras (now Făgăraș in Romania) were a group of Vlach (or Romanian) conditional nobles in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and the Principality...
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"Good Tsar, bad Boyars" (Russian: Царь хороший, бояре плохие, romanized: Tsar khorosiy, boyarie plokhiye), sometimes also known as Naïve Monarchism, is...
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Marion Boyars Publishers is an independent publishing company located in Great Britain, publishing books that focus on the humanities and social sciences...
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Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017) was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher. His...
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Boyars is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Arthur Boyars (1925–2017), British poet, musicologist, and publisher, married to Marion Marion...
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series of boyar coalitions against established princes. Victorious in 1431 (the year when the boyar-backed Alexander I Aldea took the throne), boyars were...
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Joan Faye Boyar (born 1955, also published as Joan Boyar Plumstead) is an American and Danish computer scientist whose research interests include online...
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The Chelyadnin family (Челяднины) were an old and influential Russian boyar family who served the Grand Princes of Moscow in high and influential positions...
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Sobor, a national assembly of boyars, church officials, and commoners, which proclaimed him tsar, although various boyar factions refused to recognize...
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Russian boyar and voyevoda Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui) (?–1682), Russian boyar Ivan Ivanovich Khovansky (?– 1701), Russian boyar Ivan Nikitich...
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the first Russian Generalissimo (1696), boyar, great-grandson of Mikhail Shein. Shein originated from an old boyar family, which, however, after the execution...
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Burt Boyar (November 30, 1927 – April 4, 2018) was a Broadway columnist, voice actor, and author. He voiced the title character of Archie Andrews for...
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Burt and Jane Boyar) (1965), ISBN 0-374-52268-5 Why Me? (with Burt and Jane Boyar) (1989), ISBN 0-446-36025-2 Sammy (with Burt and Jane Boyar) (2000), ISBN 0-374-29355-4;...
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Międzyrzec Boyars were an ethnographic group of Polish people, that in 19th century, inhabited the rural areas near Międzyrzec Podlaski, in the region...
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The two were not important boyars, but the first one belonged to the clan of Boris Godunov and would achieve the rank of boyar and dvoretsky shortly after...
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A Boyar Wedding Feast was painted in 1883 by Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915). The painting shows a toast at a wedding feast following a...
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Troubetzkoy left, Prince Yuriy Troubetzkoy, returned to Moscow and was given a boyar title by Tsar Alexis of Russia of the House of Romanov. All the branches...
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Fedor Mstislavsky (category Boyars)
(died: 16 December 1622) was a Russian boyar, one of the leaders of the Duma aristocracy, leader of the Seven Boyars (who governed Russia for a brief period...
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