I Balen in Croazia

I Balen 

I Balen, conosciuti sin dal 17 ° secolo, come Balenović, si trasferirono a Lič nel 1605; quattro anni dopo (1609) si trovano nei villaggi di Šator e Podomar, dove sono rimasti.  
Parte dei Balen si portò in seguito a Balensku Dragu, e successivamente a Lovinac (Lika).  
Nel 1745 giunsero a Skočaj e Sveti Rok.  
I Balen sono un importante clan bunjevačko croato, che oggi troviamo in diversi luoghi.  
Molti risiedono (come "Balenovic") a Slavonski Brod.

Baleni
Balene poznajemo još od ranog 17. stoljeća kao Balenoviće, 1605. sele u Lič, četiri godine kasnije (1609) nalazomo ih u selima Šator i Podomar, gdje su se još zadržali. Dio Balena kasnije odlazi u Balensku Dragu, a kasnije i u Lovinac (Lika). 1745. dolaze u Skočaj i Sveti Rok. Baleni su snažno bunjevačko hrvatsko pleme koje danas nalazimo po mnogim mjestima. Mnogo ih je (kao Balenovića) kod Slavonskog broda.

[dal sito https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunjevci ]

Surname Balen in modern Croatia

Balen families are Croats and they are mostly from Obrovac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Obrovac area.
About 950 people with faimily name Balen live in Croatia today, in 440 households. There were 790 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 56 cities and 89 other places, mostly in Zagreb (280), Fiume (Rijeka) (85), Slavonski Brod (30), Sisak (30), and in Djakovo (25).
At least 40 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (12), the United States (10), Canada (10), Switzerland (3), Argentina (3), Norway (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Balen (including: Ballen , Baalen , Bahlen , Ballien , Bhalen , Baleen and Balhen ) is present in 63 countries worldwide. "Ballen " is used by some 20000 people in Colombia , about 1000 in the United States , and some 700 people in Venezuela. "Bahlen " is used by small number of people in the Netherlands and small number in the United States. "Ballien " is used by some 70 people in the United States.
[dal sito https://actacroatica.com/en/surname/Balen/ ]

Céline van Balen

Fotografa olandese

"Céline van Balen (Amsterdam, 1965) is in Nederlânske fotograaf dy't yn Amsterdam wennet en wurket. Yn 1991 komt se fia in kursus foar wurkleazen in oanrekking mei de fotografy. Se ûntwikkeld in foarkar foar portretfotografy en se hat dêrby benammen each foar minsken dy't troch de mienskip negearre wurde. Se is dêrby ynspirearre troch de New Yorkse fotograaf Weegee, dy't yn de 40-er en 50-er jierren de outcasts yn syn stêd fotografearre.
Céline van Balen folget fan 1995 oant 1997 in oplieding oan de Rietveld Akademy. Yn 1999 krijt se har earste opdracht yn it kader fan it projekt "Dokumint Nederlân": Kinderen van Zeven, in searje fan 28 foto's fan sânjierrige bern. Se hat dêrnei eksposysjes yn binne- en bûtelân.
Yn 2003 wurdt it fotoboek 'Céline van Balen' bekroane mei de Foto Kees Scherer Priis."
Celine van Balen - foto

Tuur van Balen

artista internazionale.
Opera in coppia con Revital Cohen.
Tuur van Balen

Linde van Balen

criminologa olandese

"is a criminology graduate and took part as researcher of the HOTT project. She conducted the transplant tourism study and provided administrative support with the overall  coordination of the project."
Linde van Balen

The given name Balen

Balen it's a masculine given name.
Derived from the Arthurian Legend. Brother of Balaan.

Robin Balen

imprenditore inglese

"Robin Balen is an English entrepreneur who has a net worth of $16 million. He's best known as the managing director of Gyron Internet and is currently based in Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom. The company offers specialist data center services for nearly 100 companies, and is based in five facilities in the South East of England. Some of their customers include Adobe, BSkyB, NTT Europe, Salesforce, Spotify and Symantec. Gyron's data centers are supported 24/7 by on-site teams of IT technicians, electrical and mechanical engineers and security officers. All of the energy is supplied from 100% green renewable power sources, and covered by 100% uptime service level guarantees. On June 1, 2012, NTT Communications acquired an 85% stake in Gyron. NTT Communications is the long distance and international communications and ICT solution provider of NTT. The infrastructure, which reaches across the world, includes its own Global Tier-1 IP Arcstar Universal One VPN Network. It serves over 190 countries and regions and more than 150 secure data centers."

Robin Balen

Sanja Balen

Pittrice croata

"Sanja Balen was born on 14.10.1963 in Zagreb.

In 1982. she graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, the department of painting.
She studied in the painting department at the Academy of Arts in Zagreb from which she graduated in 1986.
In 1988. she was a guest-student at the Academy of Arts, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
From 1994.-1998. she taught drawing and painting at the School for Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb.
She worked as a freelance artist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 1998.-2008.
Her work has been exhibited several times in Croatia, Slovenia, Germany and the Netherlands.
She now lives in Zagreb, working as an art teacher at the School for Applied Arts and Design.
Her recent work dates from 1986-2013. and consists of cityscapes of Amsterdam and Zagreb, human figures in interiors, and portraits, executed in pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas.
She also does personal portraits to order in various techniques.

 Sanja Balen