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Re: Katsanos

gus  (View posts) Posted: 18 Feb 2006 8:24PM GMT
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Surnames: Vlastikas Vlastingas Kricelingas Saracacen Tserplingas Moucletsas
Katsanos is from Sarakatsanos which is Saracen or Turk.

Karpenese is the capital of Evrytania. It is halfway between
Tymphrestus and Chelidonus and at 960 meters with an oaken, brutally cliffy
terrain. The people are basically Aetolian Greek shepherds, descended from
the classical archer snipers, with a smattering of Arvanito-Vlach aborigines
and Albion Celts who invaded Delphi in 279 BC, sparking the formation of the
Aetolian League that invited the Romans into Greece. Arvanites are basically
Albanian and Vlachs are basically Romanian. The Albanian eponym as well as
the Scotts Albion are cognate with Alps and Albino and mean white. The most
notable Arvanito-Vlach bandits (known as "klephts") were the Evryts, Bobans
and Liosans; the latter to this day own a major section of Athens. The
Arvanito-Vlachs are responsible for the hissing and chickling sounds in the
regional dialects. The region is known for an unusually high incidence of
paranoid schizophrenia (especially manifested as wife-battering and vidictive
clan feuds), hence the Greek saying "Insanity hides in the cliffs." The
sociopath, anti-Ottoman terrorist, leader of the Albanian Chamerians,
Marko Boçari apprehended and executed there in 1823, making the region a
point of pilgrimage and eventual habitation for his ilk. It was also a
resistance center during World War Two, but primarily beholden to communist
"capetaneus", known for their especially beastial brutality and unpredicatble
shifts in loyalty. One of the poorest regions in modern Greece, it also
produces the largest number of university faculty. They have a
U. S. A. federation, named "Veluchius" (Arvanito-Vlach name for
Mt. Tymphrestus).
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Paula Vayas 9 May 1999 12:00PM GMT 
@@Moonwtch@us... 9 Nov 1999 12:00PM GMT 
jkatsanos8 6 Apr 2002 11:00PM GMT 
Moonwtch 8 Apr 2002 12:44PM GMT 
gus 18 Feb 2006 8:24PM GMT 
C.Dadas 25 Jan 2001 12:00PM GMT 
George Galanis 26 May 2001 12:00PM GMT 
Kathryne Natale 30 Dec 2001 1:15AM GMT 
Giorgios Marantos 29 Dec 2001 11:21PM GMT 
Paula Vayas 23 Aug 2004 9:12PM GMT 
   
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