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Balik

Balik may refer to:

  • Balik (name)
  • Balik (ruler) (died 1347), Bulgarian

Toponyms:

  • Balik, Azerbaijan
  • Balik, Iran
  • Balık, lake in Turkey
Balik (name)

Balik is a name.

Balik Name Meaning Polish and Slovak (Balík): from a pet form of Bal, a short form of the personal name Baltazar or of Hungarian Balázs (see Balazs).Hungarian: perhaps from Turkish balyq ‘fish’.

Those bearing it include:

  • Balik (died 1347), Bulgarian ruler
  • Jiri Balik (born 1953), Czech agroscientist
  • Balık Sisters (born 1974), Turkish twin singers
Balik (ruler)

Balik (, Byzantine Greek: ; fl. c. 1320 and died 1347) was a noble of the Second Bulgarian Empire who increased the autonomy of his province and became despot of the Principality of Karvuna. During the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 he supported the regent Anna of Savoy against pretender John VI Kantakouzenos. Balik died in 1347, either during an outbreak of the Black Death or killed during a retaliation campaign led by Umur Beg, on behalf of John V Palaiologos, that destroyed Dobruja's seaports. His brother Dobrotitsa succeeded him.

Category:1347 deaths Category:Medieval Bulgarian nobility Category:14th-century Bulgarian people Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Medieval Dobruja