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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Albin (given name), Andrzej, Antek, Bogdan, Bogomil (name), Bogus aw (given name), Bohumil, Boleslaw (given name), Boris (given name), Bo idar, Branimir, Casimir, Cezary, Ctibor (name), Ctirad (name), Czeslaw, Dalibor (name), Dobrogost, Dobromil (given name), Dobromir (given name), Dobroslaw (name), Feliks, Godzimir, Jaromir, Karol, Krasimir, Krzysztof, Lech (name), Leszek, Lubomir (given name), Ludomir, Maciej, Maksymilian, Marian (given name), Mateusz, Micha, Mieczys aw, Mieszko, Milomir, Milorad, Miloslav, Milosz, Miros aw (given name), M ciwoj, Mstislav (given name), Przemysl (name), Przemys aw, Radomir (given name), Rafa, Ratimir, Rostislav (given name), Sava (name), Slavek, Stanimir, Stanislav (given name), S awoj, S awomir, Velimir, Vitomir, Vladislav, Vlastimil, Vojislav, Walery (name), Wies aw, Wojciech, W adys aw, W odzimierz (given name), Zbigniew, Zbylut (given name), Zbyszko, Zdzis aw (given name), Ziemowit (given name), ukasz. Excerpt: Boris, Borys or Barys (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian: Belarusian: ) is a male name, with Bulgarian roots. Nowadays, it is most widely represented in Russia, (by the number of the name carriers), almost equally in Belarus, less in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine. In recent generations it has also been used among speakers of Germanic and Anglo-Saxon languages, even without any Slavic background. The most common theory is that this name comes from the Bulgar language with meanings according to the different interpretations: wolf, short or snow leopard. Some authors, which support the Iranian theory about the origin of the Bulgar language derive Bogoris from the Iranian word bog, which could mean godlike. Another theory is that this name is an...