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Macedonia & Greece: Name Issue
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Originally posted by Amphipolis View PostDo you know something we dont?
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Abedin Rakipi claims that Kotzias is an Arvanite (Albanian). He also states that Dora Bakoyannis is an Arvanite.
Google translation/summary of the second paragraph:
In a university conference among the famous Arvanite surnames Maria Efthimiou also mentions the surname Kotzias. Kotzias or more precisely Kotzia (Kocia) is an Arvanite surname.
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Originally posted by Carlin15 View PostAbedin Rakipi claims that Kotzias is an Arvanite (Albanian). He also states that Dora Bakoyannis is an Arvanite.
Google translation/summary of the second paragraph:
In a university conference among the famous Arvanite surnames Maria Efthimiou also mentions the surname Kotzias. Kotzias or more precisely Kotzia (Kocia) is an Arvanite surname.
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http://abedinrakipi.blogspot.ca/2016...nuk-e.html?m=1
Regarding Kotzias I can not confirm. It's not an issue of etymology (which is either Turkish or Greek or unclear, not Albanian), but it's possible that this surname is common between Arvanites (I only found the geographical distribution). Arvanites don't necessarily have surnames with Albanian etymology.
Kotzias claims he is not related to the former Mayor of Athens Constantine Kotzias, and that he is not his... son or grandson, as the Cham Albanians accused him of.
===Last edited by Amphipolis; 03-25-2018, 05:27 AM.
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I couldn’t find anything about his family or origins but Nikos Kotzias is infamous in Greece for suing a political magazine that spoke about his early communist life in Eastern Germany and called him a "Gauleiter". This term was considered wrong and defamatory, Kotzias was awarded a huge compensation and the journal had to eventually close because of debt.
So this Abedin Rakipi should be careful.
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Originally posted by maco2envy View Post
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