Opinion on the gorani people?

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Lower_Squash7895@reddit

Goranis are a mix of assimilated albanians,bulgarians and a little bit of serbian and greek in that order

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Why so many Gorani posts lately 😭. 99.9% of Balkaners have never interacted with one. I have tho, a Gorani guy had a little Kiosk shop where he would make sandwiches right outside of Abdyl Frashëri elementary school in Prizren. They were banging for €0.25. I didn’t know he was Gorani until my dad spoke Serbo-Croatian with him and then told me. He had an accent and his Albanian wasn’t very good so I never thought he was Albanian but didn’t think much of it.

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Erisadesu@reddit

They might be trying for an ethnic awareness

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nebojssha@reddit

Bro, I live in Novi Sad and know at least 2 families, do not make assumptions based just on your experience.

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LugatLugati@reddit

What assumptions am I making 🤣? That the vast majority of people will never ever interact with a Gorani in their life? That’s a fact, you being an exception doesn’t change the norm. It’s not that hard a concept to grasp. For example I have yet to even meet a Bulgarian or Montenegrin.

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nebojssha@reddit

> I have yet to even meet a Bulgarian or Montenegrin. You are not helping your argument with this statement.

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LugatLugati@reddit

Not really an argument to be had. It’s not a matter of subjective opinion.

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KibotronPrime@reddit

🤣🤣🤣 now we understand the root of the problem

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nebojssha@reddit

And yet you take your subjective opinion as a fact and statistics.

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LugatLugati@reddit

You want me to make a poll or something?

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nebojssha@reddit

Sure, why not?

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LugatLugati@reddit

Done. Now we wait

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pootnik84@reddit

I know Gorani people and many around me knows them. 🙂

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MrMusculoss@reddit

Gorani people are awsome. I have actually met quite a few of them and have never had bad experience.

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AdministrativeEbb895@reddit

Thanks😁

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IItsTheNewStyle@reddit

Yeah my friend Amar is

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mafriz@reddit

Only ones I've ever met were the ones who ran a sweet shop in Peja called "Jadran." I couldn't even tell they were Gorani until my cousin told me. The place is now closed, shame because they made great boze and baklave.

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nvlladisllav@reddit

lmao there's a sweet shop here in Belgrade called "Jadran" which is also run by Goranci to my knowledge. awesome boza as well

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mafriz@reddit

I guess they really have a thing for the Adriatic lol. The shop was so iconic that when it closed it made national news. https://www.koha.net/en/express-ktv/382303/closure-of-the-adriatic-embeltore-symbol/

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Swimming-Dimension14@reddit

Negative

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Green_Arm7107@reddit

Gorani are best!

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GabrDimtr5@reddit

Their language has very few cases.

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nvlladisllav@reddit

so do all the other slavic dialects around it in all directions except northwest of it

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GabrDimtr5@reddit

I know that.

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nvlladisllav@reddit

apologies, then

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nebojssha@reddit

When you live in a such butt-fuck nowhere that your people are called mountain or forest people. Evens Turks didn't bother to go there.

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SanBajra@reddit

They got islamized somehow, though?

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nebojssha@reddit

Yeah, but quite late, they still know their Ortodox surnames and slava.

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SanBajra@reddit

What does slava mean?

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nebojssha@reddit

Patron and protector saint that Serbian Ortodox Christians have. Every family has one, like Saint Nicholas, or Saint John, but there are a lot of smaller ones, like Saint Mrata.

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Effective_Pay_562@reddit

Cultural genocide is what we would call it.

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Mujahid_balkan@reddit

Ajde radesani goranci restelicani cede ste

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endritkrs@reddit

Whats this map?

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bn911@reddit

Mountain Serbian larpers – as they call them on the another sub.

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trillegi@reddit

No opinion on them, but are these the same people that Bulgaria is urging Kosovo to recognize as Bulgarian minority?

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Besrax@reddit

From my quick research, it seems that a small minority of Gorani identify as Bulgarians, and this is a request to acknowledge them as a minority, and not to claim all Gorani people as Bulgarian.

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GoatedCoffee@reddit

Probably. I would say Gorani are the closest to Torbesi before anything else, and Bulgaria is under the opinion that all North Macedonians are Bulgarians, therefore they indirectly claim Gorani as Bulgarian too.

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LugatLugati@reddit

There’s no one else so it has to be them.

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PichkuMater@reddit

Theres also the macedonians in golo brdo and near prespa

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PichkuMater@reddit

Also the macedonians in mala prespa and golo brdo which afaik number like 200 people lol

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v1aknest@reddit

first time?

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farquaad_thelord@reddit

no i think its the torbesh people

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dont_tread_on_M@reddit

Gorani are the torbesh

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GSA_Gladiator@reddit

I think so

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heinzman2005@reddit

I am Albanian and my father's side of the family is distant descendants of these people, last name is gorenca

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importReactfromreact@reddit

They like to celebrate the potatoes day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorani\_people#/media/File:Festa\_e\_Patates\_Shishtavec.JPG

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YugoslavianPride@reddit

These are the Gorani that live in Albania. We that live in Kosovo have almost no interactions with them. I havent even heard of this celebration hahaha.

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GoatedCoffee@reddit

zdravo iz opolja

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YugoslavianPride@reddit

Zdravo brate iz Radesa

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GoatedCoffee@reddit

Ja sam iz Brezne . Never been to Radesha, only to Dragash and Brod, very beautiful places.

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YugoslavianPride@reddit

Yes Brod is beautiful. Ever been to Restelice? We always go play football in Opolja

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GoatedCoffee@reddit

No, but I would like to go next time I visit Kosovo, which probably won't be until next summer unfortunately. Also are you talking about the stadium in Brodosana?

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YugoslavianPride@reddit

There’s a stadium somewhere in Opolja where you pay to play with your friends. I dont know exactly where it is tho.

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dont_tread_on_M@reddit

Generally well integrated in Kosovo. I had a Gorani coleague once, he was a very nice guy, and also met a Gorani guy. Other than that, too small of a population to have a strong opinion on them

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KibotronPrime@reddit

"Generally well integrated in Kosovo" must admit - this is a good one 🤣🤣🤣 !!! Integration & democracy 😂😂

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trefazi@reddit

I think they are aromanians...

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SanBajra@reddit

Nope. Same blood as other Albanians around, but they do have 20% more Slavic in them.

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kudelin@reddit

Muslim torlaks afaik, some of them want that sexy bugarski pasoš https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100080360561260&story_fbid=397293822959300

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determine96@reddit

Of course fucking Viktor..

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YugoslavianPride@reddit

I love my Gorani people. How many of us are in this sub?

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AdministrativeEbb895@reddit

👋👋👋❤️

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Extreme_Smoke_8965@reddit

Half Bulgarian, half gotta I over here

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Plowjob@reddit

Atleast 2! 🎉

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YugoslavianPride@reddit

Lets goooooo

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GoatedCoffee@reddit

zdravo iz opolja

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Marstan22@reddit

Gorani people are cool as fuck in my city they make the best Burek you can find, they are also very positive and kind, whats not to like about them?

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Albanian98@reddit

Ethnically they are like the torbesh people which are part of the Macedonian(Bulgarian) ethnicity but for some reason serbia convinced them that they are serbs.

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Fribbulus@reddit

If someone lives in Serbia, he's of Serbian nationality.

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Opposite-Book-15@reddit

He was talking about ethnicity dude. Not nationality

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Fribbulus@reddit

I know, I was talking about nationality.

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Albanian98@reddit

Yes on the last century update they were serbian nationality. And with the todays update they have kosovar nationality

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Fribbulus@reddit

That's my point. We didn't convince anyone, we always acknowledged them as Gorani/Goranci.

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DedaVort@reddit

Even during Yugoslavia Gorani were Gorani, and I never heard that anyone tried to convince them they are something else... Over all there was positive attitude towards them.

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MrImAlwaysrighT1981@reddit

No, they weren't, they were Muslimani (aka Muslims)

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DedaVort@reddit

Really? I know they are Muslim, but I never heard them called anything else than Gorani, and mostly in positive light.

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MrImAlwaysrighT1981@reddit

Officially, they were Muslimani

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Albanian98@reddit

Yes also they were grouped the same as bosnians since they were muslimani too

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v1aknest@reddit

>Macedonian(Bulgarian) ethnicity And that's a report

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Albanian98@reddit

Why

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guney2811@reddit

I know absolutely nothing about them, but they seem nice

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grass_fed_wombat@reddit

I had Gorani classmates in Belgrade's Elementary and High School. They had non Slavic names but they feel and identify as Serbs. Used to hang out with one Gorani girl in High School. They bullied her a lot. She left the school in next semester.

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Fribbulus@reddit

Gorani are awesome people. I know few of them, very positive and good-hearted peeps.

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HarryDeekolo@reddit

As it often happens with these threads: No opinion whatsoever

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voislav@reddit

I had a colleague who was Goranec born and raised in Kosovo. He was speaking like a macedonian from Tetovo. I know also that they have the best burek.

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AK47WithScope@reddit

My opinion about the Gorani people is extremely positive, one of my highschool friends is Gorani, I know him and his father and I can say these people are really honest, honorable and good. Hardworkers. So, in my personal experience, I can say only the good things about Gorani people.

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WhiteTurk69@reddit

Great people never met them tho

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Srzali@reddit

Forgotten and more isolated Bosniaks ofc what else

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DardanianGOD@reddit

I’ve went hiking in that area. Walked right in the middle of their villages and no one came out lol. They seem peaceful, like the Amish in US. If they’re considered Bulgarians that’s a new fact to me. Better that then Serbs lol, they’ll want an association even in Albania if thats the case🤣

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morbihann@reddit

Ask them.

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importReactfromreact@reddit

Hello Gorani people, what do you think of yourselves?

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RemarkableGreen7452@reddit

Was the Bleona Mata case from these gorani muslim? The village zapod seems to be in the green zone

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