[tied] Re: Albanian (Albanian personal names)

Regarding the religious history of this area, does anyone know of any
online references regarding the Bogomils, and how long they survived
in this region before the coming of Islam? And did the Bogomils
convert to Islam or are there still Bogomils ppresent in this region?

I have cme across a reference that suggests that the Bogomils derived
from Paulicans that were settled in the area by one of the Byzantine
Emperors, but do't know more than that. Does anyone know which
Emperor? When? and how did the Paulicans start?

Regards

John

> > Christianism reached the Albanian culture via Rome, in a very

early stage

> > (the core Christian terminology in Albanian is Latin). Many

Christian

> names
> > were adopted at that time, and some of these have made it to our

day. Such

> is
> > the case of modern Albanian <Ndue> from a presumably Latin form

<Anton>

> (or
> > something similar); both the aphaeresis of the initial <a->, and

the

> > transformation <-on> <-ue> are regular (and quite archaic). The

same name

> is
> > also used in its modern form <Anton> more or less by the same

people who

> now
> > perceive <Ndue> as archaic (urban Catholics).
> >
> > Examples of these early Christian names: <Gjin>, <Mhill>, <Gjon>,

<Llesh>,

> > <Tome>, <Pal>, <Zef>, <Pjeter>, <Frang>, <Shtjefen>, <Kole>,

<Ndre>,

> <Pashk>
> > etc., all of them still in use among the Catholic mountaneers of

Northern

> > Albania, who historically have certainly been in contact with the

Latin

> > population in antiquity and might have been in some touch with
> > Medieval-Latin-Balcanic populations (mostly Dalmatian), but

practically

> NOT
> > with the Byzantine administration of the area for geographical

reasons.

> > Therefore the Byzantine origin for some of these names, although

possible,

> > still has to be held as much less probable. On the contrary, some

Albanian

> > names typically medieval, such as <Gjergj> and <Gjorg>, might be
> considered
> > as related to a South Slavic presence and/or influence. The

Christian

> > Orthodox population (dominant until the Turks arrived and the mass
> > Islamization started) have always used Christian names such as

<Mihal>,

> > <Thanas>, <Jani>, <Thoma>, <Kristo> etc., but these can hardly be

held as

> > Byzantine (their form suggest their being not very old; compare

the

> current
> > Christian Orthodox <Mihal> to the old -- but still in use --

Catholic

> <Mhill>
> > to notice the difference).
> >
> > Lulzim Shtino
> >
> >
> >
> >
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