donnie
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Post by donnie on May 2, 2010 16:23:55 GMT -5
from Kosova, or more precisely, from Mitrovica and vicinity (my home). By this, I mean Drenica (my origins), Shala mountains, muhaxhirs, those from the Kosova plain (also to a great extent muhaxhirs) and some old "qytetars", basically northern and northwestern Kosova. Some from Mitrovica are also from more distant cities/regions originally, esp. Gjakova, who exported alot of teachers, being an intellectual center. sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs076.snc3/14339_174566595919_145017380919_2974043_2087108_n.jpg[/img]
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Patrinos
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Post by Patrinos on May 2, 2010 17:04:15 GMT -5
what are the muhaxhirs and qytetars? about the pics, i can't find one that i can see him as typical albanian. most look central-east european, roughly like Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs, Germans etc... Especially this guy looks alien for Balkans:
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Post by donnie on May 2, 2010 17:17:42 GMT -5
"Muhaxhir" is a Turkish/Arabic word meaning refugee. These are the Albanians who fled from what is now Southern Serbia during the period of the 1870s from Serb terror. The Turkish spelling would be "muhacir", pronounced muhajeer.
Qytetar on the other hand means someone living in the city. Technically this would qualify all who live in the city, but in our language it has a dual function; on one hand it means citizen, and on the other hand it means one whose origin is completely urban, as opposed to those with recent roots from the village.
These are nearly all of the candidates for the municipal elections in Mitrovica. They are quite typically Albanian, nothing 'non-Balkanian' about them. Similiar types are also found among local Serbs, Bosnians, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Turks etc.
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Post by todhrimencuri on May 2, 2010 22:23:10 GMT -5
Majority of Albanians have more closer kinship to central Europeans (beginning with Serbs and lessening as they go more up).
Btw, the first guy looks very German.
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