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Melania

Melania derives from the Greek word μελανία (melania) meaning "black, dark" and may refer to:

  • Melania Albea (born 1980), Swiss figure skater who also competed internationally for Spain
  • Melania Carolina Hotu Hey, the provincial governor of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), in Chilean Polynesia
  • Melania Grego (born 1973), female water polo forward from Italy, Olympic gold medallist in 2004
  • Melania the Elder (350–410), an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement
  • Melania the Younger (383–439), a Christian saint who lived during the reign of Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius
  • Melania Trump (born 1970), Slovenian model and an American socialite
  • Melania Lamarck, 1799 is a synonym for Thiara Röding, 1798, a genus of gastropods
  • Melania Wallengren, 1863 is a synonym for Siccia Walker, 1854, a genus of lepidoptera

Usage examples of "melania".

One day, reporting to me, Ewig chanced to mention that a Caia Melania, a widow newly come to Rome, had purchased a fine old house on the Esquiline Hill and had hired a goodly number of artisans to renovate it.

And no client will be admitted until he has sat down in an antechamber face to face with Caia Melania herself.

Jewel-box pretensions this one might have, but it would be just another house full of whores, and the Caia Vidua Melania just another mercenary old lena.

Caia Melania was half sitting, half reclining on the bench facing me and the door through which I had entered.

Caia Melania, that you have already judged me unqualified for the one famously invaluable gem in your jewel box.

I returned to find Alypius and Melania dead, and the neighbors told me also that my father was a captive, probably taken to die as well.

I learned when I was an apprentice with Melania of the White Winds Adepts.

Paula, Bishop Eucherius, and Melania, tread the same path and stop at the same points, but three or four of them distinctly add some fresh knowledge to the ordinary results.

Soon afterward, the emperor Honorius decreed that their possessions should be sold by government agents, and that the proceeds should go to Melania and Pinian.

Later they visited the monks in Egypt and Jerusalem, where Melania constructed a monastery for ninety women.

When Pinian died, Melania settled on the Mount of Olives in a tiny cell, where she prayed and meditated.

Tharik males were crazy, for Igor had been a good Czar until the death of Melania, his first Czarina.