Not really. Two of my great grandfathers were thieves and one of them died in prison after vandalising his boss's factory.
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Not really. Two of my great grandfathers were thieves and one of them died in prison after vandalising his boss's factory.
Strong or Brave in Thracian language
Do google search if you want to know
I don't know exactly. People are calling family members like Şop "Name".
My grandfather told me that they call us like that because we live on the mountain. But nobody knows the exact answer. It is just a traditional title that comes from the Ottoman Era.
On the other hand, our surname is different.
Confused about lines and titles so I'll say about surnames but there first one Turks won't like :p .
The forefather of my family's paternal surname(hundreds probably along with diaspora ones) was a fugitive who killed turk(?)2 turks(?) harac-collectors (maybe along with his brother?) and moved to another settlement and much later to the current larger village,he was from an area of unruly "klephts" so it's very probable that his family were such,I'll have to dig more.
My mother's surname was a title given to hero warriors and it seems it was in their blood,my ggfather was an army major and one of the first to fall in Greco-Italian war and there's a military camp named after him while his son as an underage orphan joined the Zervas movement and fought the commies while he lost a part of his hand after a grenade exploded prematurely or something.
Another line had ancestry from Fanari in Constantinople which is supposed to mean elite/aristocratic and proven by the fact that this woman's mother didn't want the "lower class" army mayor ggfather.
In another Maniot line there's a possibility of Mavromichalis family ancestors, again I have to learn from elder relatives.
There's a Greek surname Σιώπης -Siopis like this footballer
https://www.sportime.gr/wp-content/u...s-Siopis-2.jpg
My deceased mother surname is Polonized version Zaporozhian (Kozak)
Sure. :thumb001:
http://losthistory.weebly.com/upload...25951_orig.jpg
My surname means 'dart of Ares' in Greek, it's a surname shared in both Greece and Italy. I don't think that's really title though, from what I know of, I just come from a line of peasants who lived in the mountains, on both sides actually.