Sebastijan

Sebastijan is the South Slavic form of the Latin name Sebastianus, itself derived from the Greek Sebastianos, meaning "from Sebastos," a city in Asia Minor whose name carried the sense of "venerable" or "august." The name gained widespread Christian use through Saint Sebastian, a third-century Roman martyr whose legend of survival under arrows made him a popular devotional figure throughout medieval Europe. Variant forms across other languages include Sebastián, Sébastien, Sebastian, and Sebastiano.