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I've been researching the ancestry of my family for quite some time now, and it does have a weird last name - non slavic last name
without any meaning.
It's Zirić (Slavicized Last name).
I've been checking in Karlovac City Archives and I've been told that my family came in 15th century from Montenegro area.
I've been looking further there, and I have found on Montenegrin border = Trebinje village old Gravestone from 3rd century A.D.
It has been written about a person with name: ZIRAEVS.
Now question is: Could Zirić be slavicized ZIRAEVS, I mean we all know that AE = I, US = (slav) IS/IĆ
This is how grave looks:
It says:
D(is) M(anibus) Ziraeo Plarentis f(ilio) defuncto anno(rum) [--- et Z]anati / [Zira]ei f(ilio) defuncto / annor(um) XXX / Annaia Zanat(i) f(ilia) vir[o et f(ilio)] et Plarens Zira[ei f(ilius)] patri et fratri.
Can't even translate it.
Germans called it: "Grabinschrift des Ziraeus"
Also I have found the same name in Dalmatian Legions (That included that previous area)
So I have
1. Similar Regional Ancestry.
2. Similar Last Name/Name
What else could I check?
Or should I just leave it as "assumption"
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