http://achacachi.blogspot.com/2008/05/who-is-branko-gora-marinkovic-jovicevic.html you know posting that article about the couple kidnapping that poor girl are muslims that were of croatian descent..because how can the guy have a second wife?
I don't see your point either. If you really are from the region, everyone discriminates one another from their last names. LOL. and you know it. For instance, names like Hadzibegovic or Muslimovic etc are known islamisized names. LOL. How about the name John? Croats use the name "Ivan" while the serbs use the name "jovan". You can see this in the Croatian Roman Catholic churches and Serbian Orthodox Churches on the different derivation of names from the name of the apostle John. You will find in a croatian church the use of Sv Ivan while the Serbs use Sv Jovan ? Now you know the difference? How about Ivanovic and Jovanovic? You see the difference Mr Clueless.... Besides the Marinkovic on the article about the german girl is a muslim of croatian descent.
Mr Isortoflovetopretendthatiknoweverythingbutidon't in a region I come from there are surnames that both Serbs and Croats may have,like e.g Petrovic what differentiates them from one another are names, and only difference can be noticed between Bosniak and Serb/Croatian surnames since they indeed differ in huge amount even though it can also happen that Bosniak Muslim family may have surname like Serb or Croat family like e.g Covic; I do know the difference sweet pie, but that case with Jovanovic/Ivanovic happens only in some cases though and as i already said, in some cases they both can have same surname; No one actually discriminates over here anyone about the last name since, quite honestly that's the last thing someone in Sarajevo memorizes but the names are pretty much labeled xD
Branko Marinkovic is a Serbo Croatian name Branko Radicevic (Serb) Nenad Marinkovic (Serb) Branko Cikatic (Croat) Martina Marinkovic (Croat)
Anyways, I didn't understand your first sentence. Learn to write english. Please? Jovanovic and Ivanovic HAPPENS MANY CASES. You could see the distinction between the names present in the Croatian Roman Catholic Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church. LOL. Look at how they spell the name of their Saints? LOL. Nobody in Croatia has a name like Sava? LOL. And nobody in Serbia has a name like Ante. LOL. So stop pretending to be ignorant and categorizing people in the wrong places to fit your propaganda stories. In Sarajevo, everyone has names like Hadzibegovic or Safet Muslimovic. Those are the predominant kinds of names along with Muhammed. Its not a secret anymore. Anything else different is a minority. And a minority in the nanoscale. For instance a surname from my family is Miljak. Miljak is a Croatian-Dalmatian name.
Nobody in Croatia would name their son "Nenad".. Nenad, Nemanje, Lazar, Jovan or Dusan...Those are typical Serbian first names. LOL. Branko is a cross cultural name used by anyone either Serbs or Croats. Nenad Marinkovic probably has a father that has croatian descent and maybe his mother or someone else Serbian. Branko Radicevic has nothing to do with the name marinkovic and Cikatic as well...The topic of the discussion is the last surname Marinkovic. Not cikatic or radicevic.
guy just listed names as examples used both in croatian and serbian naming tradition, and the point is that guy can be serb, according to his name and surname i.e both so point is basically proven.
I think that we should stick to the point in here, and I made a very clear statement that guy has same bloody surname used by both Serbs and Croats; also his name is used both by Serbs and Croats, which is proven above (actually 2 posts bellow). after all, we got this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinković also, Branko is widely used name, it's not only serbian or croatian it is also used by yugoslav jews, macedonians and others which finally leads us to the conclusion: you cannot clearly determine his nationality according to his name or surname solely. now as for this: "you know posting that article about the couple kidnapping that poor girl are muslims that were of croatian descent..because how can the guy have a second wife? " "and In Sarajevo, everyone has names like Hadzibegovic or Safet Muslimovic. Those are the predominant kinds of names along with Muhammed. Its not a secret anymore." well, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-UIOVAp75U -_-''
For (*)(*)(*)(*)s sake, can someone please tell me why it matters? Seriously, why??? These people were obviously ********s, and whatever their ethnicity their actions are not reflective on the group as a whole. Anyone who says otherwise is a bigot and a moron. Threads like this make me forget what year it is.
Why are you focusing your propaganda on the name "Branko" and not his last surname "Marinkovic" which is Croatian? He is not serbian and its a croatian name. Period. I don't need your CRAPPY BOSNIAN MUSLIM VIDEOS.
I'm not debating about the guy being either Serbian or Croatian, but Frozy has made a few valid points. There are many names which are equally used by both ethnicities the reason being that we all lived in the same country 23 years ago. Some names were more popular those days and there were many children bearing the same or at least similair names. I have several friends named Nenad and Dean, my own first name is very popular in Slovenia and my friend's father is even called Radovan (which is very, very popular in Serbia). It would be the same as saying that all Ian's living in the USA are Irish or that every single Adelaide is Australian
You just look up something in Wikipedia and you already think you were granted a PhD in Croatian-Serbian Name distribution. LOL. Go climb a tree and get a banana you little monkey.
I'm pretty sure AGS is right that the last name is Croatian in origin, however his argument on the man's/couple's actual ethnicity is entering logical fallacy territory a la No true S(cotsman)erb...
I think the whole idea of the thread is that Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks are somewhat "different nations" , if you leave religion out they are not . I am in Greece and we had a ship load of athletes here from former Yugoslavia not to speak about armies of tourists every year , or football fan brotherhoods ( my club is "brothers" with Zvezda ) so i am very familiar with the names. Definitely not a monkey reading wikipedia .
