Tesla

Originally posted by Menumorut As you know,the ancestors of Serbs, Bosnians and Croatians were mainly the Old Balkanic population, the latinized Thracians and Illyrians that in some moments of history adopted the Slavic language. By adopting the Serbo-Croatian language a Vlach or a Greek were becoming Serb only in the virtue of his Orthodox religion. What we have to answer is: when was slavicized the population of Lika, of which Tesla originated? What ethnicity was considered Tesla himself to be? The article says that "The presence of Vlachs is established in history, philosophy, novels, decrees or statutes, and place names on genuine original maps. 12 Place names such as Latinski Islam or Grcki Islam or the Vlasko More, as well the existence of former Greek or Eastern rite churches in Croatia testify to the existence and identity of the Vlachs and other Orthodox people in Croatia. Vlachs spoke an old vulgar Latin language and used the Latin script and this is no doubt why only five per cent of Misha Glenny's so-called-Krajina Serbs understood the Cyrillic script, something Glenny incorrectly attributed to an alleged Croatian government policy instead of to their non-Serbian ancestry. Were Serbs (or rather Croatians, as one would expect) at that time when the Maurovlachs came, 16-17th century, in Lika region or it was depopulated as the article says? Are there documents that Turks moved also Serbs into Croatia? If those Orthodox people from Croatia were of Serian origin how comes that in their churches they were using Greek, not Slavonic language and they used Latin, not Cyrilic alphabet? As for what Telsa considered himself to be, the article says: And, at his eulogy the famous Mayor of New York City, LaGuardia, born to Italian and Hungarian Jewish parents from Trieste, described Tesla as the son of a Greek clergyman who had been born in Austria-Hungary and graduated from school in Croatia! He would have chosen his words carefully. ... Tesla's father, whose real family name was Draganic had been ordained at what had originally been a Greek Orthodox Church, not a Serbian Orthodox church. If there was any portion of Serbian ethnicity in the Draganic or maternal Mandic line it would have originated several hundred years before his ancestors arrival in Hercegovina. ... In spite of all this however, even Tesla identified himself as a Croat on his arrival at the Castle Garden Immigration office in Manhattan in 1884, even though the Croatian region of his birth was administered from Austria and not directly from Croatia at the time Tesla was living there. So it seems that seeing Tesla as a Serb is a later construct, a product of Serbian nationalist propaganda.

The only one writing nationalist propaganda is you.

For a Romanian and i presume Orthodox christian , you know very little or perhaps nothing.

Greek=Orthodox

Latin=Catholic

Turk=Muslim

We Serbs have a saying "Watch yourself and Turks and beware of Latins". Does this mean Croats are ethnic Latins or Bosnian Muslims are ethnic Turks? Simply ,no. This people names become synonyms for religions they present.

In the west Orthodox church was long time known as a Greek church ,plus , Tesla's father was a priest Serbian patriarchy, Serbian patriarch seat at the time was in place called Sremski Karlovci and as such only used Church Slavonic and Cyrillic like even Romanian OC for a long time before latinization. There was never Latin script or language in Orthodoxy before Romanian Church reform.

As i said you use dubious sources , you don't know very much about these parts of the world but still trying to present it as pure "facts", i only can conclude that you twist facts and made things up and spice it with "small" lies that serve you cause.

Fortunately , i come from this regions Tesla's folk inhabit and i would kindly advise you to stop this sharade ,you're just making fool of yourself.