His masterpiece, the opera Nikola Šubić Zrinjski, ever since its opening night in Zagreb in 1876, had not lost in popularity, partly because its heroic patriotism functions as a symbol of Croatia's victory.

Nikola Šubić Zrinski () or Miklós Zrínyi () ( Zrin, 1508 – Szigetvár, September 7, 1566 ), was a Croatian nobleman and general in service of Habsburg Monarchy, ban of Croatia from 1542 to 1556, and member of the Zrinski noble family.

The Order of Nikola Šubić Zrinski is one of the highest Croatian national decorations.

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The period of more significant economic and cultural growth of Čakovec is considered to have started in 1547, when Nikola Šubić Zrinski of Szigetvár became the owner of the area.

He was the son of Michele Veranzio, a Latin poet, and the nephew of Antonio (), archbishop of Esztergom ( 1504 – 1573 ), a diplomat and a civil servant, who was in touch with Erasmus ( 1465 – 1536 ), Philipp Melanchthon ( 1497 – 1560 ), and Nikola Šubić Zrinski ( 1508 – 1566 ), who took Fausto with him during some of his travels through Hungary and in the Republic of Venice.

The Croatian nobleman and general in service of Habsburg Monarchy Nikola Šubić Zrinski ( Miklós Zrínyi ), a member of the Zrinski noble family, had defeated Sanjak Bey Tirhal Mohammed, executing him and his son, and capturing 17, 000 ducats.

) The famed Nikola Šubić Zrinski, who died fighting and won the title of " Hero of Sziget ," became the first outstanding example of the epithet " bulwark of Christianity ".

* Nikola Šubić Zrinski ( also Nikola IV ), Ban of Croatia between 1542 and 1556

Count Nikola Šubić Zrinski ( born 1508 ) was the ban of Dalmatia, Slavonia and Croatia, the commander of Szigetvár ( from 1561 ) and the Habsburg commander in western Hungary ( from 1563 ).

The battle was fought between the defending forces of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy under the leadership of Croatian ban Nikola Šubić Zrinski (), and the invading Ottoman army under the nominal command of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ( Süleymān ).

" The battle is still famous in Croatia and Hungary and inspired both the Hungarian epic poem Siege of Sziget and the Croatian opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski.

His opposite number, Count Nikola Šubić Zrinski, was one of the largest landholders in the Kingdom of Croatia, a seasoned veteran of border warfare, and a Ban ( Croatian royal representative ) from 1542 to 1556.

Nikola Šubić Zrinski, preparing for the final battle, by Oton Iveković

Ivan Zajc's 1876 opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski is his most famous and popular work in Croatia.

Portrait of Nikola Šubić Zrinski by Oton Iveković

* Ivan Zajc, opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski ( famous aria U boj, u boj )

Nikola Šubić Zrinski

Prince Nikola III Zrinski thaler minted in Gvozdansko castle, Kingdom of Croatia ( Habsburg ) | Croatia, in the early 16th century ( until 1534 )

* November 18 – Nikola Zrinski, Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet ( born 1620 )

Nikola was born in 1508 as the son of Nikola III Zrinski and Jelena Karlović ( sister of future Croatian ban Ivan Karlović ) He distinguished himself at the siege of Vienna in 1529, and in 1542 saved the imperial army from defeat before Pest by intervening with 400 Croats, for which service he was appointed ban of Croatia.

He was the great-grandfather of Croatian Ban ( Viceroy ) and Croatian / Hungarian poet Nikola Zrinski, as well as his younger brother Petar Zrinski.

During the journey through Congo in 1882, he discovered huge waterfalls on the Kouilou River, ( or Kwil ), and named them the Zrinski chutes to honor the national family of rulers ( Nikola Zrinski and Petar Zrinski of Međimurje ) from his native country.

A Monument to Nikola Zrinski at the Republic Square

He is also working on a documentary about the rock band The Stooges and co-writing a non-traditional opera about the inventor Nikola Tesla.

* 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

His history with Nikola Tesla has also provided dramatic tension and is a theme returned to numerous times.

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913.

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Nicholas Nikola Ribic ( born 1974 ), is a former resident of Edmonton, Alberta, was arrested on February 20, 1999 in Mainz, Germany and then charged as a terrorist as part of the Bosnian-Serb army that captured United Nations peacekeepers and used them as human shields against NATO air strikes in 1995.

An inscription written in 1356 on a wall of a church in the Macedonian region of Tikveš, mentions a Nikola and a Marko as governors in that region, but the identity of this Marko is disputed.

The discovery of the rotating magnetic field is generally attributed to two inventors, the Italian physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris, and the Austrian / Serbian inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Its founder is Prince Nikola Petrović, great-grandson to King Nikola I.

The man who oversaw the women's detention in the school was Nikola Jorgic, a former police officer in Doboj, who has been convicted of genocide in Germany and is currently serving a life sentence.

To the American literary world Zmaj is known partly through the renderings of Robert Underwood Johnson, editor and publisher of New York City's Century Magazine and a good friend of Nikola Tesla.

Of all the cultural and historical monuments in Bar, the 19th-century King Nikola ’ s palace is the one that attracts the most attention. It was built in 1885 on the seashore.

An attraction for the tourists is the old olive tree at Mirovica and Ginkgo Biloba in the park of King Nikola ’ s palace.

It is a high power harmonic oscillator that Nikola Tesla intended for the wireless transmission of electrical energy.

* In JLA: Age of Wonder, Starman is portrayed as a fellow inventor alongside Superman, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla, who invents his cosmic rod with technology gleaned from the rocket ship which brought Superman to Earth.

Along the coast, the architecture is Mediterranean with a strong influence of renaissance architecture in major urban areas exemplified in works of Juraj Dalmatinac and Nikola Firentinac.

It is recorded that, in 1291, Nikola Frankopan, sent a delegation to Nazareth to measure the Holy House after the House had been saved, presumably by the Crusaders, and brought to Trsat, or Tersatto, on the Adriatic Coast where the Frankopans had a Castle.

Count Martino Zrinski or Sdrigna, was born in 1462 and was the son of Count Peter II and brother of Nikola III, father of Nikola IV, the one who is referred to in history as Nikola the Great Zrinski of Siget ( Szigetvár in Hungarian ).

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