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Giuseppina Grassini as Zaire in Winter's 1805 opera based on Voltaire's play. Disappointed with the relative failure of his tragedy, Eriphyle, in March 1732, Voltaire began writing Zaïre in response to critics who had reproached him for not having love stories as the centrepieces of his plays. [5]
The surname Story (and its variant spelling Storey) is English, but Old Norse in origin. [1] The name originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. It has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”.
Zara is a feminine given name and a surname.. It is a spelling variant of the Arabic female name Zahra. [1] which means beautiful, radiant, and divine. [2]It is possible that the name has Hebrew origins in the word saraja, translating to sovereign, ruler, or a woman of high rank.
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa , it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria , and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
Zaire Anderson (born 1992), American football player; Zaire Barnes (born 1999), American football player; Zaire Bartley (born 1998), Jamaican footballer; Zaire Franklin (born 1996), American football player; Zaire Lewis (born 1980), member of hip hop producer duo Keelay and Zaire; Zaire Mitchell-Paden (born 1999), American football player
Africanization has referred to the modification of placenames and personal names to reflect an "African" identity. In some cases, changes are not only of transliteration but of the European name. [2] In many cases during the colonial period, African placenames were Anglicized or Francized.
Colin Macmillan Turnbull (23 November 1924 – 28 July 1994) [1] was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.
Zaire (name), includes a list of people with the given name or surname; Zaire (currency), the currency of Congo and later Zaire from 1967 to 1997; Zaire, a 1732 play by Voltaire; Zaïre. Revue Congolaise—Congoleesch Tijdschrift, Belgian African studies journal; Zaïre-FPAC, a decentralized Hema militant group