Greece Greece – General Central Intelligence Agency. (1962). Greek personal names. Washington. Notes: Bibliography: leaf 45 Didika, N. (1998). A study of family names among the Maniates (Greece). in: P. H. Stahl Names and social structure: examples from Southeast Europe (pp. 27-48). ? Notes: Refs Abstract: "The region of the study was on a peninsula in the southern Peloponnesus. Although the title suggests that the study is on family names, there is a full description of how the first or baptismal name is conferred with a description of the role of the godfather. There is a description of how family names began. At one time, persons with the same family could not marry even though unrelated. Another name is the name of reference that identifies the degree of acquaintance with a person. One type are collective names which refer to all people of a given group (Maniates). Another type of reference name are the syndrophia, names of social classes and strata. Finally, there are names used in speaking to a person." Source of abstract -ed lawson Herzfeld, M. (1982). When exceptions define the rules: Greek baptismal names and the negotiation of identity. Journal of Anthropological Research, 38(3), 288-302. Stahl, P. H. (1998). Names and social structure : examples from Southeast Europe. Boulder, Colo: East European Monographs. Notes: 214pp Abstract: author abstract "Numerous studies have been made on systems of naming in western Europe but south-eastern Europe has been little documented until now. This volume examines patterns in naming in Albania, Greece, Romania, and and collects data from all social categories over various periods of history. More traditional and less influenced by governments, this area of Europe has preserved conventions of name and territorialization, name and tribal society, or name and religion that reconstitute systems that have elsewhere disappeared." Sutton, D. E. (1997). Local names, foreign claims: Family inheritance and national heritage of a Greek island. American Ethnologist, (24), 415-437. Triandafyllidis, M. (1981). Ta Oikogeneiaka-mas OnomataAristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes. Vayacacos, D. V. (1968). Noms de famille néogrecs derivant de mots à signification de grades, titres et offices militaires et administratif. Actes Du Premier Congrès International Des Etudes Balkanique Et Sud-Est Européenes, 6, 562-. Zarkias, C. (1998). Name and inheritance on the island of Skyros. in: P. H. Stahl Names and social structure: Examples from Southeast Europe (pp. 179-192). Abstract: Skyros is located in the Aegean Sea northeast of Athens. There are three social strata: landowners, shepherds, and farm workers. Each group lives in its own section of town and wears distinguishing dress. Individuals have three names: personal (providing a link to an ancestor and follows precise rules), family (showing line of descent), and nickname (the most reliable means of identification). Several types of name form are described. One is the anastasi, a first name which originally resurrected an ancestor. However, in Skyros, contrary to the practice in other societies, an anastasi has an honorific character and a parent can be resuscitated several times in a family. In Skyros, there are two customs for the transmission of first names: (1) the firstborn, regardless of sex, receives the first name of one of the paternal grandparents, (2) the eldest daughter " . . . receives the first name of her maternal grandmother and the eldest son that of his father’s father." Greece – Ethnic Rumanians Dimitrjevic?-Rufu, D. (1998). The multiple identity of Romanians in Melnica (Hololja, Serbia). in: P. H. Stahl Names and social structure: Examples from Southeast Europe (pp. 49-68). Abstract: "Melnica is a village in northeast Serbia composed of Romanians who are assumed to have arrived there in the 18th century. The residents speak both Romanian and Serbian. An individual has an identity through his baptismal name, his lineal name, and his village name, for example, Velisîc| Bîsîau Meniseanu (Velisîc| Bîsîau of Melnica). Another type of name is the household identification. For example, all members of the household of Tuoma Dr|jilan "belong to" him (lu Tuoma Dr|jilan). In addition to the Romanian identification, there is a Serbian identification and patronymic. Examples." Source of abstract -ed lawson Greece – Regions Greece – Andros Toundassakis, I. (1998). Naming and family relationship in the Arvanite village of Vourkoti (Andros, Greece). in: P. H. Stahl Names and social structure: Examples from Southeast Europe (pp. 139-166). Abstract: Vourkoti is a small village on the island of Andros, the island farthest north in Cyclades (the islands off the southeast coast of Greece). Arvanites are descendants of people who originated in Albania. Analysis of records from three periods (1853, 1873, and 1954) shows that masculine name are from a limited stock and are religious (Greek Orthodox); girls names show considerable freedom and demonstrate: wishes, desires, virtues, and relationship to nature. The role of grandparents in naming is described. The first names of deceased relatives are not given to children for the fear of bringing bad luck. There are two types of nickname, personal and family nicknames which are hereditary. Greece – Cyclades Sapkidis, O. (1998). "To whom do you belong?". in: P. H. Stahl Names and social structure: Examples from Southeast Europe (pp. 73-88). Abstract: "A historical introduction describes how the island of Syros came to have a large Catholic population and also an Orthodox population. Syros is one of the islands of the Cyclades, those islands off the southeast coast of Greece. While patronymics are used, they are generally not known except for prominent people. Baptismal names are conferred 40 days after birth and give the child an identity. Terms of address mark boundaries in social life and age-groups. There are different types of nickname: (1) the village of family type–for head of the family group and passed on by a son, (2) the city nickname, and (3) the religious nickname. The usage is different for the Orthodox." Abstract source: ed lawson Greece – Dodecanese Tsenoglou, E. (1998). Names and nicknames of the residents of Kastellorizo (Dodecanese, Greece). in: P. H. Stahl Names and social structure: Examples from Southeast Europe (pp. 167-178). Abstract: The Greek island of Kastellorizo is just off the southwest coast of Turkey and the town of Kas. The population in 1981 was 215. The transmission of the grandfather’s name to the eldest son is an important function since it shows the paternal line of descent Second-born children receive the first names of the maternal grandfather and grandmother. Names of other children follow an alternation pattern between paternal and maternal sides. There are personal nicknames including some which become hereditary and become surnames. Some nickname examples are: "tou haidaru" (of the donkey), "e kotsinu" (the redhead), "kajas" (rock), and "parjano" (from Paros, a modest woman). Greece – Ancient Osborne, M. J., & Byrne, S. G. (1996). The foreign residents of Athens an annex to the Lexicon of Greek personal names: Attica (Studia Hellenistica No. 33). Leuven: Peeters. Notes: LC Control Number: 97201522 [page last updated: July 25, 2008]