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1601Mar, 31

Jakov Mikalja

Jakov Mikalja, Italian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1654)
Giacomo Micaglia (Latin: Jacobus Micalia) (March 31, 1601 – December 1, 1654) also Jakov Mikalja in Croatian, was an Italian linguist and lexicographer, of Slavic ancestry. He was born in the town of Peschici (Apulia), at that time under the Kingdom of Naples. He said about himself to be "an Italian of Slavic language".

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