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[Facts] Re: Can "Marina" be Russian?
by
Cleveland Kent Evans
(clevelandkentevans)
12/4/2007, 2:10 PM
in reply to
a message by Jaxxie
Kate
is certainly correct. As for how
Marina
came to be "Russian" -- the majority of names used in Russia historically were the names of saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, and most of those go back to Greek and Latin originally.
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