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Name Kosara
Gender Feminine
Usage Bulgarian, Serbian, Medieval Slavic
Scripts Косара(Bulgarian, Serbian)
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Meaning & History
Derived from Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian коса (kosa) meaning "hair", and referring to hair as a symbol of youth and good health.
Kosara (in modern scholarly literature often referred to as Theodora Kosara) was an 11th-century Bulgarian noblewoman, related to Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria. Kosara was married ca. 1000 with Jovan Vladimir, Prince of Duklja, who had been defeated and taken prisoner of Tsar Samuel. An oral tradition recorded in the 12th-century in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja turns the marriage into a romantic tale of Kosara visiting Vladimir in his prison cell, eventually falling in love and asking to be married to him. This love story is the subject of one of the most romantic tales of early Serbian literature.
Kosara (in modern scholarly literature often referred to as Theodora Kosara) was an 11th-century Bulgarian noblewoman, related to Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria. Kosara was married ca. 1000 with Jovan Vladimir, Prince of Duklja, who had been defeated and taken prisoner of Tsar Samuel. An oral tradition recorded in the 12th-century in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja turns the marriage into a romantic tale of Kosara visiting Vladimir in his prison cell, eventually falling in love and asking to be married to him. This love story is the subject of one of the most romantic tales of early Serbian literature.