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Re: my name
The name Sophronia is Ancient Greek and it means "of sound mind", hence, "discreet, prudent". It is the feminine of Sophron and it derives from the word "sophron", combined by the words "soos" (safe and sound, alive and well, in good case) and "fren" (in this case meaning: mind, as seat of the mental faculties, perception, thought). Click here:http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%23102118Also LGPN (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk), covers 22 variations of the name, shared between 242 people in ancient times.Both names (Sophron, Sophronia) are still in use in Greece.
"Until the day that an ancient inscription will be found with the name "Alexandrovski" (or "Alexandrev" or "Alexandrov") written on it instead of "Alexander", true Macedonia and true Macedonians will remain Greek, as they always were."

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