Juliana

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Juliana or Yuliana is a female name. It is a feminized version of Julius as in Julius Caesar (or Julus). It can also refer to:

Medieval women
  • St. Juliana of Nicomedia, Christian martyr during the Diocletian persecution in 304
  • St. Juliana of Liège (1193 – April 5, 1252), nun and visionary from Retinnes in Fléron in the Bishopric of Liège, now in Belgium
  • St. Juliana Falconieri (1270 – June 12, 1341), Italian foundress of the Servite Third Order
  • Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416), one of the greatest English mystics
  • Juliana Holszanska (1375 – 1448), third wife of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania
  • Sts. Juliana and Semproniana are martyrs associated with the legend of Saint Cucuphas
Modern women
Other
  • Lady Juliana (ship), a convict ship dispatched in 1789 from Britain to Australia
  • Juliana Republic, a short-lived state in the Brazilian province of Santa Catarina from July 24, 1839 to November 15, 1839
  • Juliana (poem), one of the four signed poems ascribed to the mysterious poet, Cynewulf
  • Juliana, or The Princess of Poland, a play by John Crowne