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The Dubrovnik-Neretva County has set in motion plans for Dubrovnik Airport to be named after physicist Rudjer Bošković. Bošković was born in Dubrovnik in 1711 which was then the Republic of Ragusa. He produced the precursor to atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy. "This is another step in the implementation of a long-standing initiative to pay tribute to a famous and historically extremely important Croatian scientist born in Dubrovnik", an official from the Dubrovnik-Neretva County said in a statement.
Not a fan of adding names of dead old male people to infrastructure objects. Just leave it like "Zurich Airport", no worshipping of random guys that are impossible to pronounce to foreigners anyway.
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DeleteTotally agree, keep it simple and recognizable.
DeleteWhat does them being male have anything to do with this?
DeleteIf you feel like commemorating someone, just name some streets in your city after those persons but not the airports, which serve foreigners -who may not pronounce words/names in your language- as well as locals.
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DeleteAt least is not controversial as the capital airport in the same country.
DeleteGood observation
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DeleteI agree! It’s disastrous when they do that. Airports should be neutral places for people to meet, leave and go through. I love how the Brits never changed Heathrow despite it being a mega world airport. It’s so lame when you name an airport after a person. Any person!
His ethnicity is somewhat disputed. The only fact seemts to be that his mother was Italian. If his father was a Serb or Croat is not entirely clear. For me the name is ok, as he is definitely the greatest son of Dubrovnik. I also agree that foreigners will most probably completely misprounounce the name, something like Roger Boskowizz....
DeleteBritannica says he was an Italian.
ReplyDeleteAnd Queen Elisabeth II was german, my God. . .
DeleteNo it doesn't say that for QE II, that's not true.
DeleteFor Boskovic it clearly says Italian in the title:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruggero-Giuseppe-Boscovich
It does not says he was Italian.
DeleteHow about the fact the guy was actually Serbian? 🤔
Delete@Anon 17:25 If you tried to click on the link it says right in the subtitle:
DeleteRuggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
"Boscovich’s father was a Croat (some sources say Serb) and his mother was Italian."
DeleteYet airport plans to be renamed not after his father or monther but him. And he was Italian.
DeleteOr Serbian!
DeleteYet, mother is the only certain. Hmm.
Jesus, please don't do this. No one in the world knows him, plus it is very hard to pronounce it.
ReplyDeleteand what happend with Ragusa air?
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DeleteIt should be named “Tereza Kesovija”. Nezaboravna.
ReplyDeletemuzika i ti to je onaj svet u kojem sreću nađoh ja :)
DeleteI would prefer Tereza too
DeleteThe name used for DBV was Cilipi. The village next to the airport, part of Konavle. The same as Pleso in Zagreb or Surcin in Belgrade or Brnik in Ljubljana. And Tereza, one and only, is Konavoka from Cilipi. And I would prefer as well the airport to be named after her.
DeleteDubrovnik Rudjer Bošković Airport.... nah... doesn't fit... leave it as is.... Dubrovnik Airport....
ReplyDeleteThe people of the county should have a say. A referendum should be held or at least a representative poll should be conducted. I doubt many would support this.
DeleteWhy not, if we have JFK, GRU CDG?
ReplyDeleteBecause it’s idiotic. We don’t have to follow every idiotic thing others do. When LJU was renamed Jože Pučnik everyone was against it: the people, his own family! And it’s been called that for 16 years yet people still say: “are you flying out of Brnik?”
DeleteAnd I was so proud of Croatia for not renaming their airports. It seemed so cool to me. Unfortunately it began with ZAG, thought it would end there. Doesn’t look like it. Croatia still hanged on the longest, though. All of Eastern Europe rushed to put names of people on their airports. People whose success had often been achieved abroad, ironically!
ReplyDeleteNot too far from Skoplje and Niš naming their airports after ancient figures with merely a vague affiliation with the general area
DeleteDear Anon 01.42, Konstantin the Great has been born in Niš, or Naisus as Romans would say, so he has a lot to do with the area! You better read something. Noone said he has been Serbian of origin, but he has been born in what nowadays is Serbia like 17 of others Romanr empators. Nothing wrong that Serbia is proud of them!
DeleteWhat happened to Ćilipi? I guess went to same place as Surčin, Pleso, Butmir...
ReplyDeleteBoskovic and Tesla at least were respectable persons which contributed to society .
ReplyDeleteYou can not say that from some other guys in Ex-Yu that got airports named after them .
But generally airports should not get named after persons which is an issue on which most people seem to agree (thankfully).
Podgorica should be Dejo Savicevic”
ReplyDeleteMy favorite ex-yu airport name is Morava for Kraljevo.
ReplyDeleteShould name airports after local football clubs. Split can be Hajduk, Zagreb Dinamo etc. lol
ReplyDeleteThe people of Dubrovnik should have decided. Or it could have been called Jadran because Dubrovnik is called the "pearl of the Adriatic" by the outside world.
ReplyDeleteIt just politic thing, nothing else. If they want to change the name, it should be commercial, like football stadium.
ReplyDeleteNiš should be Belgrade south 🙃 (by ryan standards)
ReplyDelete"What does them being male have anything to do with this?"
ReplyDeleteReply: Because ALL airports other than two (Clinton, Gökcek) have men's names. Even though women are the majority in this world. Feels a bit off, no?
Clinton?
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