Hello dear Ljubicic-i :) (zdravo svima, napisacu i na "balkanskom jeziku " kasnije ;))
My name is Marija Ljubicic, sometime is very hard for me to say what is my nationality since whole history of my family is very complex, and thats nothing strange of course for people coming from Balkan.
I am Christian orthodox, born and living in Belgrade.
My fathers family came from Banija-Croatia (village Obljaj near city of Glina).
They moved to Vojvodina -Backa after the 2nd world war.
From Vojvodina in 1960's they came to Belgrade and stayed here (for now;))
Our family day is Vidovdan, and because of that fact some members of my family are saying that we are originaly from Kosovo and Metohi, but I dont belive thats true at all, probably in the old times somebody just picked up our family day :)
As I know there is a lot of Ljubicic family all over exYugoslavia, in Kosovo and Metohia there are one of them, then in Uzice-Serbia is one, in Montenegro near river Zeta is one (probably this one have some connection with Albanian family which is mentioned before).
I have met a lot of Ljubicic family's and almost all of them were Croatian Cathlics, most of my Croatian friends claim that i am Croatian too for sure, so we can never know here on Balkan what is the whole truth ;)
Pa da napisem na nasem jeziku sada, znaci;
Zovem se marija Ljubicic, zivim u Beogradu, pravoslavka sam.
Moja slava je Vidovdan, porodica potice iz Hrvatske-Banija (selo Obljaj kraj Gline).
Po zavrsetku drugog sv rata preselili su se u Vojvodinu-selo Prigrevica, a zatim u Beograd.
Znam za mnoge hrvatske katlolicke porodice Ljubicic, i za po koju pravoslavnu.
Katolicke su vec uglavnom nabrojane prethodno, pa evo sta znam za ove druge ;):
Osim moje prodice koja je u Vojvodini i Beogradu, ima jedna loza koja je poreklom iz Uzica, dosta ih zivi u Beogradu.
Zatim ima ih na Kosovu i Metohiji.
Postoji jedna loza u Crnoj Gori, okolina reke Zete, pa eto mozda to ima neke veze sa onom pricom o Albanskom poreklu, ipak nekada granice nisu bile tako striktne i definisane.
Ono sto je neko moje logicno misljenje, je da je moja porpdica poreklom iz dansnje Crne Gore (koja se nekada nije tako zvala), da su u seobi pod Carnojevicem verovatno preko kosova i Metohije dosli u Hrvatsku,nekada vojnu krajinu i tamo ostali cuvajuci granice od Turaka (to bi moglo objasniti i ti slavu-Vidovdan)
to bi bilo to, svako dobro zelim svim Ljubicic-ima;))))