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Nicolaas is the Dutch equivalent of the masculine given name Nicholas. Before the 19th century the name was also written Nicolaes , while Nikolaas is an uncommon variant spelling. Most people with the name use a short form in daily life, like Claas , Claes , Klaas , Nico , and Niek .
The original spelling in three words Sankt-Piter-burkh (Санкт-Питер-Бурх) uses Latin: Sankt, as in Sankt Goar and some other European cities (it is a common misconception about the "Dutch cultural origin"; for local versions, there are Sant [2] or Sint in modern Dutch. Besides Netherlands, Peter the Great also spent three months ...
Bouwman – in modern Dutch it means building man (mason or construction worker), but in older Dutch it meant farmer; Braam – Blackberry; Brouwer – Brewer; Bruin, de (Bruijn, de) – brown; Buskirk, van – literally "bush church", or "church in the woods" Byl, van der – archaic spelling, Afrikaans, or Americanization of "van der Bijl"
Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), known as Peter the Great, [note 1] was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
The Czar Peter House (Dutch: Czaar Peterhuisje) is a historical building in Zaandam, the Netherlands. It is best known as the place where Tsar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy. The building was constructed in 1632. [1] Peter had met the Zaandam blacksmith and craftsman Gerrit Kist when Kist had worked for the tsar in ...
Nicolaas Bidloo (c. 1673/74 – 23 March 1735) was a Dutch physician who served as the personal physician of Tsar Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great). Bidloo was the director of the first hospital in Russia as well as the first medical school in Russia, and is considered one of the founders of Russian medicine.
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek Πέτρος , Petros (an invented, masculine form of Greek petra , the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic Kefa ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon bar Jonah . [ 1 ]
Modern Dutch spelling still retains many of the details of the late Middle Dutch system. The distinction between checked and free vowels is important in Dutch spelling. A checked vowel is one that is followed by a consonant in the same syllable (the syllable is closed) while a free vowel ends the syllable (the syllable is open).