Janjevci (Croats from Kosovo)

[Morlak]

Janjevci seem to dislike both Serbs and Albanians, i thought that maybe they would be friendly with Albos but seems everyone dislikes everyone in Kosovo.

Gorani and Serbs are friendly. They wanted to be part of Community of Serbian municipalites in Kosovo.

[Jana]

Most of Janjevci live in eastern part of Zagreb, there is big community there. They are often gold craftsmen, which is interestingly typical profession for Catholic Albanians in Croatia, too.

[Jana]

Gorani and Serbs are friendly. They wanted to be part of Community of Serbian municipalites in Kosovo.

My business partner is Gorani from Šar mountain. He has Albanianised surname but they don't know Albanian language.
They say they are ''StaroSrbi'' and they know they are Slavic, but they dislike Serbs because they are muslim and very religious from what I see.

With Albanians they don't have much contact, because they are aware of ethnic differences.

[Lucia]

Most of Janjevci live in eastern part of Zagreb, there is big community there. They are often gold craftsmen, which is interestingly typical profession for Catholic Albanians in Croatia, too.

True - Glasnović, Gjoni... some of the famous jewelry shops in the centre of Zagreb. According to a stereotype, the men all wear earrings.

[Morlak]

My business partner is Gorani from Šar mountain. He has Albanianised surname but they don't know Albanian language.
They say they are ''StaroSrbi'' and they know they are Slavic, but they dislike Serbs because they are muslim and very religious from what I see.

With Albanians they don't have much contact, because they are aware of ethnic differences.

Yeah, Gorani are very religious but they generally get a long pretty well with Serbs. It's interesting that they still kept celebrating Djurdjevdan and Vidovdan wich is very important for Serbs.

I heared somewhere that dialect they speak is closest towards Oldserbian though idk how true is this.

They dislike Albanians as much as Serbs do.

[Varda]

One Croatian guy about Janjevci https://forum.krstarica.com/threads/...#post-43037644

I ran into Janjevci in 1999 in Kistanje. Some king of pazar/bazar and i felt like i was in Beirut. I didn't understand them very well, and they seemed quite darker than the Dalmatians. I don't want deny to them they are Croatians but i feel no connection with those people.

Btw they have been deceived by the regime of Franjo Tuđman, everything was promised to them, something obviously illegal.

[Varda]

Most of Janjevci live in eastern part of Zagreb, there is big community there. They are often gold craftsmen, which is interestingly typical profession for Catholic Albanians in Croatia, too.

https://forum.krstarica.com/threads/...#post-43037572

[Vk000]

The village was also historically inhabited by Albanians , even many of the names there are Albanian names with slavic suffix ic such as Palic, Berishic, Mazarakic etc
You can see in the Ottoman register from 16th century in the village there was an Albanian neighborhood there 'Arbanas' , they bore Albanian , Slavic and Christian names. The village had also been Islamised and some bore Islamised Albanian names, there were Albanian names in other neighborhoods too. Another proof of the nativeness of Albanians in Kosovo . There are very few tribal names that come up, there were some movements but not much, very few people in these registers marked as new arrivals.

[Vk000]

The Albanian neighborhood 'Arbanas' had 74 households. So quite significant. Also Albanian names in other neighborhoods. Also most of the Muslims neighborhoods were probably Albanians too with 41 households.

[Vk000]

Janjevci seem to dislike both Serbs and Albanians, i thought that maybe they would be friendly with Albos but seems everyone dislikes everyone in Kosovo.

Some Janjevci are Slavicized Albos , you can even see it by the names

''In 1991, the most numerous families were the Palić (Matić and Rucić), Glasnović (Tomkić and Topalović), Ćibarić, Berišić (Ancić, Mazarekić and Golomejić), Macukić, and Cirimotić.''

Palic (from Albanian name Pal), Berisic (from Albanian name Berisha), Mazarekic (from Albanian name Mazarek) , Matic (From Albanian name Mat or Mati) etc


But most Albos in Kosovo and Janjeve were never Slavicized as can be seen by 15th, 16th and 17th century sources. Novobrdo and Trepca was inhabited by Albos too since the pre-Ottoman period.