Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Berislav, Bogdan, Bogomil (name), Bojan (name), Boleslaw (given name), Boris (given name), Boyan (given name), Bo idar, Branimir, Ctibor (name), Czeslaw, Dalibor (name), Davor (name), Dobrogost, Dobromil (given name), Dobromir (given name), Dobroslaw (name), Dragan, Dragomir, Dra ko, Du an, Godzimir, Jaromir, Lubomir (given name), Ludomir, Milivoj, Milomir, Milorad, Milosz, Milovan, Miodrag, Miroslav (given name), Neboj a, Nemanja, Nenad, Predrag, Radomir (given name), Radovan, Ratimir, Ratko, Sava (name), Slavisa, Slavoljub, Stanimir, S awomir, Tihomir, Velimir, Vitomir, Vladan, Vladimir (name), Vuka in, Zdravko, ivko, Zlatan, Zvonimir (name). 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 abbreviated form of the Slavic name Borislav, which means "one who fights for glory" from bor, battle combined with slav, glory. Boris is first found in written records in the case of the Bulgarian ruler Prince Boris I (852-889), who adopted Christianity in 864 AD and imposed it on his people. His name came to be known in Europe in relation to this particular act. Moreover, after his death in 907 AD he was proclaimed the first Bulgarian saint, and traces of his cult during this period can be found as far away as Ireland. The Patriarchate of Constantinople recognized the canonization of St. Boris in 923 AD. However, Prince Boris was not a Slav. He came from the Bulgars. Among the Bulgars the name was known in its two forms - Boris and Bogoris. Boris owes its worldwide usage to its adoption by the Rus' Slavs. It is known that the name of the Bulgarian saint reached the Rus in the late 10th century, likely during the reign of Boris II of Bulgaria (969-977), great-grandson of Boris I. In 967 the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Phocas sent to the Rus ruler Sviatoslav I of Kiev his agent, with the task of talking Sviatoslav i