majetemali said "I AM 100% ALBANIAN, yes there is such thing, Albanians do not mix with serbs"

Actually, couple of days ago there was a tv show "48 hours wedding" on serbian tv, a albanian guy married serbian woman. For a centuries people lived side by side and life doesn't care about politics or religion. No one is claiming that you are not whatever you claim. I live in Serbia, believe that my roots are from Montenegro, and it's not problem with me if I find one day that my ancestors originated from Albania. I'll be proud and think that my life is richer from that moment.

There is too much politics in this thread, we should stick with genealogy.

Bogdan

Well 99.999999% do NOT mix with serbs that is a fact

My last name is Kolak, it comes from Kola which can mean "car" or "cartwheel". There is also a town in Montenegro called Kolasin. But I suspect we have too many trolls here who are here to trouble so it's better to let them go

Trolls get banned here. (-D

TO make a long story short, he said his family was from Ljare in Shestan and his last name is Kollari He's obviously Albanian.

Yes and then I said to make sure your assertions are correct do research because with genealogy you never know. But that was before the flaming started

first of all i'd like to say this one is a very interesting discussion.
I dont really think that etnical backgrund can be 100% determined by names.
My family name is Kolarov so c'mon tell me where my ancestors came from..?
The name Kolar,Kolaric,Kolarov,Kollari,Kollarovic etc. is widely spread in europe.
Once we got the slavic word origin(kolar-woodman or carwheel producer) and
we got the german Kolar family:

Spelling variations include Koehler,Koler,Kollar,Koller,Koeller,Koellar and more...
First found in Saxony where the family rose to prominence in the early medieval era.
found on www.houseofnames.com

The name Kolaric,Kolarov,Kolar is found nowadays in Serbia,Croatia,Bulgaria,Czech republic etc...and according to Linguistics it would be the same as the german Kolar
family so this makes the short story a lot longer than u think.

Yep, like stated many times on this site one cannot determine surnameorigin.
There are lot of Saxon influences in Serbia through either Donauschwaben and medieval Saxons living in the area.

This will be kind offtopic, but it will show that there is no strict border between nations or religions. This spring there was a TV episode about Albanian young women (from northern Albania) got married with Serbians in Serbia (region of Raska, I think). There is some agency which actually connected them, because there is shortage of women in Serbian villages, while on the other side those women in Albania had little prospect of getting married.

A TV reporter interviewed one of those women and her family which came to Serbia to celebrate wedding. Reporter asked woman what is going to be her future faith (she is from Muslim family) and she answered Orthodox. When father was asked what he thinks of his daughter changing faith, he said that it is up to her and that is her free will, so they should not interfere. It struck me how liberal answer it was, considering predominant view of the Balkans as a patriarchal and "backward" environment.

Bogdan

Love knows no borders