Jaroslav

This article is about a Slavic given name. For locations in Poland, see Jarosław (disambiguation). For locations in Russia, see Yaroslavl (inhabited locality).
Jaroslav Pašmik, a university teacher and politician. Since 2022 he has been the mayor of the Prague 5 municipal district for Prague 5 Sobě, in coalition with Pirates and SEN 21.

Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław in other Slavic languages) is a Czech and Slovak first name, pagan in origin. Its feminine form is Jaroslava.

There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the name referred to Jarilo - male Proto-Slavic deity of the sun, spring, and fertility, and slav meaning glory, i.e. "glory of the sun". However, with the adoption of Christianity in the Slavic countries the name began to be commonly understood not as a reference to a pagan deity, but rather to the "fervent worship of God"1 of the Bible.

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