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Radovan
Radovan Radovan is a name of cheerful Slavic vitality — its root in joy and gladness suggests a character who brings warmth into his social environment, though the name also carries darker resonances in recent history through the war crimes trial of Radovan Karadžić. In Czech and Slovak fiction it retains its original sense of an open, sociable man of the people.
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