Cao Radonic,
Some things are not just local. Like the beauty and heroic history. Greece have bothI was seriously moved to read this. Thank you. I really hope to learn more about Serbian history in the future (I am a little ignorant and I feel sorry for this) and to visit the country once soon! I can imagine it is also very beautiful!
Well this is very intheresting. Do you more about part who moved in Montenegro and Slovenia?
We have some surnames wich sound Greek to us, but we haven't have nobody to ask about them . Does Macura, Mataruga and Krič (Krich) sound familiar to you and do they have some meaning on Greek?No, I don't know much about them yet. But I could ask some more information to my newly discovered relative. Their surname sounds Yugoslavian though.
We have the surname Masouras in Greece (from masouri: a sort of knot made of thread where they used to keep their money in, in the past, word of Turkish origin). Also the surname Mataragas with an "A". This must be an Arvanite surname coming from the name of an Albanian feudarch as I read. There are also a few villages/towns all over Greece, called Mataraga or names derived from it. Lastly, there is the surname Kritsis (coming mainly from Thessaloniki it seems). So, yes theoretically there might be some connection.
That would be intheresting. Unfortunatly, I haven't saw many Arvanit haplotypes. I imagine that one would have to look at the dominant Albanian haplotypes, right? And if there is such a division, especially at the Tosk ones, since the Arvanites are said to have been Tosks.
Pozdrav!
P.S: I will try to start another thread on the Slavic presence in our area in Ioannina (I seem to have many questions about this issue too ;-) )