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Post by todhrimencuri on Feb 2, 2010 13:49:51 GMT -5
Lol, I know what thats like. ive been fighting a 20 year court case to reclaim old property in my own country... I doubt my family wants to go throught that again... Even if it is my one of my mother's favorite cities: Stamboll.
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Post by hellboy87 on Feb 2, 2010 14:00:46 GMT -5
I remembered reading in a book,that when it came to surnames,a book of surnames was passed throughout the country for people to select a surname.This was also to make sure that they get a Turkish one.Part of the Western and Turkification process.
I wonder how did the Turkish given names were introduced to the public,part of that same book too?
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 2, 2010 14:06:36 GMT -5
I have never heard of a surname book ever. Perhaps at the point where people couldn't think of a surname to use they had a book to help them. Everyone went themselves to the registration place and stated their own surname, usually taken from there family employment history.
Eg. Kahvecioglu - son of the coffeemaker Demirci - Ironmaker haciosmanoglu - sons of Osman who has been to mecca and become a haji.
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Post by rusebg on Feb 2, 2010 15:55:34 GMT -5
Falcon, more precisely.
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 2, 2010 16:21:48 GMT -5
thanks Ruse, bulgar Turk or not, you are very wise
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Post by rusebg on Feb 2, 2010 16:52:15 GMT -5
Cheers Desire, Turkish Bulgarian or not, you are always brilliant.
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Post by donnie on Feb 2, 2010 17:26:55 GMT -5
Pure turkish names, - not influenced by arabic persian or other languages Oguz Kaan. Dogukan Efekaan Turker Cengiz Attila there are many more, these are just to give you the gist... Cengiz, isn't that a Mongolian name originally?
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Post by thracian08 on Feb 2, 2010 18:03:32 GMT -5
Cengiz means ruler of the ocean.
It's in both languages..
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Post by todhrimencuri on Feb 2, 2010 18:24:44 GMT -5
Attila is just the westernized way of say the name. It actually a Latinized pronouncation. We dont really know the Huns truly spelled the name out. In Norse languages they inherited the name as Atla. Probably its strongly related to the modern Turkish word for father, Ata, and possibly uses a suffix similar to Turkish to form -lik(atalik). However we cannot be sure of any of that or the etymology of the word. In its current form it, the word does not seem to come out as "pure"... it seems inherited through the nationalist period.
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 2, 2010 18:34:29 GMT -5
Ata is also a Turkish name used, along with Attila, or Atilla however you want to spell it.
Some more Originally Turkish names: ALPASLAN ARAL ATAKAN BARKAN
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Post by Vizier of Oz on Feb 3, 2010 9:09:51 GMT -5
Omurtag: young eagle. Atilla: one from Itil or Volga. Kubrat: the founder. Zilant: Snake or dragon. Bulgar: insurgent or copperhead.
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