Talk:Goran (Slavic name)

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Petty nationalism aside, the name Goran is the same name no matter if a person is from Croatia or Macedonia. The article Peter does not state that "Peter can be a German name, an English name, a Norwegian name, a Swiss name..."

I would agree that the Southern European name Goran is different from Göran, since they have completely different backgrounds and the only reason they are sometimes spelt the same are due to the lack of the letter ö in many keybards, but claiming that the Croatian Gorans, the Serbian Gorans and the Macedonian Gorans have different names is simply preposterous.


 * I have created a separate page for Göran, since its similarity to Goran is merely coincidental.Mats 07:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Goran in Kurdistan: first name, last name or both?
Is Goran used as first name or last name in Kurdistan? From examples in the page, it looks as if Goran is used only as last name and the name of a tribe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.26.75.194 (talk) 10:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Kurdish connection
Citing from a source from the Kurdish page " Avestan word gairi meaning mountain "... It also says in the this page (the Slavic) that Goran maybe means "man from the Mountains". This is obviously connected somehow.

Wonder if "-i" in the ending of a word is used in Slavic languages? In Kurdish (also Persian and Dari) it is used to "describe origins", I am bad at explaining this since I don't know of the correct terms but will simply give an exampel, In Kurdish: If you are from the Goran region, you could say you are an "Gorani". If you are from Serbia you could say "Serbi" etc. etc.

It also says in this article that the Goranitribe in Balkan strongly practises Islam. Maybe the Gorans arrived, together with Islam, to Balkan. It is a fact that the Ottomans invaded the area and spread Islam to the region, and that most of their army (or large parts of it) were of Kurdish origin. These eventually settled in the area and mixed with the locals. Perhaps a group of these were from the Goran region of Kurdistan... --Diyairaniyanim (talk) 10:57, 23 May 2011 (UTC)