Markos Botsaris = Marko Boçari = Марко Бочар?

[Amphipolis]

Originally Posted by Carlin15

"The case of Marko Bozzaris is another (and more recent) example. He was an important leader in the Greek struggle for freedom, is a national hero of the Greeks, claimed also by the Bulgarians and Albanians, though it is known that his parents spoke the Vlach language [See this in Walter Kolarz (1946:33). Marko Bozzaris was also the author of a Greek-Albanian dictionary and his wife, it appears, could only speak "Albanian" and "Bulgarian".]"

-- Pages 75 & 76, Memory, Identity, Typology: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Vlach Ethnohistory, by Gheorghe Bogdan (BA, University of British Columbia, 1992).

No, not Vlach, not Bulgarian, only Souliote, i.e. Arvanite. No idea what the sources are in the above text, but in this thread it has been explained enough how rediculous many of such sources are.

[Carlin]

Do we know the names of Souliote tribes/clans and common surnames?

[Liberator of Makedonija]

Originally Posted by Carlin15

Do we know the names of Souliote tribes/clans and common surnames?

They mostly had Arvanitic roots to my understanding

[Carlin]