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Hey guys,I see you are both experts in things concerning clans and their origins. I wonder if you could help me with something, there is a Greek albanian-centrist blog which connects one surname I'm interested in ,In Greek it's called "Drakos" with other similar surnames around the Balkans and I'm not sure how true the findings are since I couldn't find foreign sources about it neither Greek ones about some of the statements,tbh to me some seem exaggerated and only linked because of the similarity of surnames.
Anyways some parts say "Drakos clan was a traditional family of Souli in Epirus,the first originator of Souliote Drakos clan was the armatolos cοmmander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatoloi) Poulios Drakos,son of Markos Poulios, in 1578 he started a revolution in Epirus and Aetolia-Acarnania against the Turks.
Drakos clan also appeared to be called Iskenderoglu because they had origins in an army clan in the years of Skanderbeg.
That clan was spread from Montenegro to Trifyllia(area in Messinia,Peloponnese) with Souliote Drakos being a subclade of it, relatives were the Dragkaioi in Zagori(Pindus) and Shkodran Dhrist "Drakocii"(I don't know how to translate it) and Mirdite "Drakicii".
Daughter of these arvanite-vlach warlords was mother of Constantine XI Palaiologos,Helena Dragas.
Now trying to find foreign sources,I came up with these similar surnames&names of (villages I think) in fyrom(could be albanian and serbian some of them ) "Dragi" "Draginci" "Dragica" "Dragashevich" "Dragonoff" "Dragutin" "Dragozhani" "Dragutin"
Another source calls them Aromanians.
If you've any information or sources,I'd appreciate it.
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Can't seem to find any info on a "Drakos" or "Drakoi" clan. Though I did come across Souliotes with the surname Drakos, there were also certain Greeks from Macedonia with that surname. It may have been brought by Albanians as most Souliotes were of Albanian origin, but perhaps an Aromanian source is plausible. As for Albania, no sources come up on this clan being present there, though I did find some Albanians from kosovo with the surname "Drakoci".
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The Albanians, these tigers of mountain wars ... have as their religion rebellion. Even their worst warrior is one of the strongest and bravest on the battle-field, just as if he was a knight on the legendary horse. But he has no horse, nor proper weapons for battle. Instead of the horse, he has a lance which strikes as lightning, he has spears who's points are full of posion as the sting of hornets, he has also a wooden bow with some arrows. Furthermore, he is stronger than iron ...
- Ibn Kemal, Historian of the Turkish court during Skanderbeg's war against the Turks.
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One set of words is Romance and the other Slavic.. I'd say Drak- and Drag- sound is just coincidental..
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Get lost with this pathetic interpretation of words, who you even don't know what means. "Drag" means same, "dear". Name Dragos originated from this word. "Dracul" originated from Latin or Greek word "Draco" (“serpent, dragon”), and means Devil or Satan, nothing "dear" in this.
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