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Nikola Tesla English Wikipedia

Please change from Serbian-American inventor to Croatian-Serbian-American inventor

Proof can be found in Petar Vučić's book (Croatian writer) "Govor hrvatima o ispravnom putu" on page 43 where Tesla himself claimed his ancestors are noble families Kalinichi and Draganichi.

Also, Croatian historian Ljubica Štefan, while she was in Belgrade, saw the unpublished diary of Nikola Tesla with this sentences:

“Sretan sam što me Hrvati smatraju svojim, jer su moji predci hrvatski koljenovići, Draginići iz Zadra. Kao hrvatski plemići Draginići su došli u Liku u XIV. stoljeću i tu ostali. U Liku su moji predci došli preko Novog Vinodola. Predci moje majke, Kalinići, također su hrvatski plemići i oni su iz Novoga Vinodola. Moj pradjed stjecajem okolnosti morao je otići u Bosansku Krajinu (Turska Hrvatska) - tamo se oženio pravoslavnom djevojkom i prešao na pravoslavlje. On je imao isturene prednje zube pa ga je narod prozvao teslom, prema alatki kojom se obrađuje drvo i otuda je moje sadašnje prezime TESLA. To je, zapravo, nadimak. Moj djed je bio časnik u ličkoj regimenti, a moj otac pravoslavni prota.”

In translation:

"I am happy that Croats consider themselves my own because they are mine predecessors of Croatian knees, Draginići from Zadar. As Croatian nobles Draginići came to Lika in XIV. century. My ancestors came to Lika over Novi Vinodol in Lika. My mother's ancestors, Kalinići, are also Croatian nobles and they are from Novi Vinodolski. My grandfather had to go to Bosanska Krajina (Turkey) - there married an Orthodox girl and went to Orthodoxy. He had been stretched out front teeth, so people have been called by tesla, according to the tool used to handle wood and hence my current surname TESLA. That is, in fact, a nickname. My grandfather was an officer in Lika regiment, and my father is Orthodox. "


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