Classify Ela Mino

[safinator]

Miss Canada contestant of Albanian descent

Height:
173 cm / 5 ft. 8

http://i.imgur.com/V0SBvjJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZDiDjXD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qRAKtqV.jpg

[Arbërori]

North Pontid-CM.

[Kastrioti1443]

North Pontid, she must be epirotan by the surname Safi.

[Amun]

NorthPontid/Alpine

[Sikeliot]

North Pontid.

[tEhSaint]

Alpinoid/local-Alpino-CM variant with a vague Aurignacoid admixture.

[Kalitas]

Mainly North-Pontid with slight CM influences IMO

[Smaug]

North-Pontid + Alpine

[safinator]

North Pontid, she must be epirotan by the surname Safi.

Mino is a Tosk surname but not sure it's Epirotan.

[Tyfani]

she looks very north-epirotan/albanian to me :) beautifull girl

[CrystalMaiden]

no

[iNird]

What a hottie. She would pass in many places in Europe.

[Deimos]

Alpinid/Atlantid in equal proportions, with additional CroMagnid influence.

Stunning!

[Peyrol]

Yes can pass here i think.

[Dacul]

Borreby,mostly (that being her CM part,which seems more obvious than other phenotypes) mixed with something else.

[Arianiti]

North pontid + hottied

[Arbërori]

North pontid + hottied

Tosk chikz got it going on...

[Arianiti]

a real beauty :)

[quaquaraqua]

North Pontid + cm she's amazing :rolleyes:

[Talvi]

Would not stand out in Estonia (as in she doesnt have any particular features that are not present in avergae Estonians. If she told me shes Estonian id be like "Oh... ok" ) however she isnt really Estonian looking as in if I saw her somewhere abroad I would not think shes Estonian. (Sometimes you look at someone and you have a feeling they are from your country or from somewhere close)

[dralos]

borreby with northpontid influences

[ChocolateFace]

CM/NorthPontid

[Moonbird]

Alpinoid with Borreby/CM.

[Klara]

atlanto alpinid

[Mans not hot]

Alpino-Nordpontid.

[Mark]

Alpine-Mediterranean + Pontid.

[Hess]

North Pontid with significant Alpine input

[Peikko]

N.Pontid+CM

[Neanderthal]

North-Pontid/Alpino-CM.

[Arbërori]

Traaamp.

[Lemon Kush]

Pontid with some Baltid

[Arbërori]

Pontid with some Baltid

Baltid? In your Indid dreams...

[Lemon Kush]

Baltid? In your Indid dreams...

What did Baltids ever do to you?

[Arbërori]

What did Baltids ever do to you?

We will never integrate you guys...

http://i.imgur.com/b3OtS2a.gif

[Ianus]

Alpine/Pontid+CM

[Pleurat]

North Pontid CM

[Kalimtari]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9tK4MU97Q

facial features are typically Albanian.

[Midori]

North Pontid/CM mix.

[Herr Abubu]

Nordopontid-Alpinoid. Looks more Southern Albanian than she does Northern Albanian.

[Ulla]

Mino is a Tosk surname but not sure it's Epirotan.

Isn't Mino a surname of the Greek minority in Southern Albania?

[safinator]

Isn't Mino a surname of the Greek minority in Southern Albania?

Not really.

[Ulla]

Not really.

Is it Tosk? Anyway Mino(s) (Μίνως?) seems to be linguistically Greek.

[armenianbodyhair]

North Pontid+CM STRONK

Her build is nearly identical to mine save that she is slightly taller.

[safinator]

Is it Tosk? Anyway Mino(s) (Μίνως?) seems to be linguistically Greek.

Her family apparently is from Korça area, south east, it's just an Orthodox surname not Greek at all, the Greek minority is limited to the borders, for example we have also the surname Marinaj in NW but it has nothing to do with Italians, it's more connected to Catholic faith, pretty much many surnames are connected in some way to past religions though of no importance today.

[Tacitus]

North Pontid-Alpine

[Ulla]

Her family apparently is from Korça area, south east, it's just an Orthodox surname not Greek at all, the Greek minority is limited to the borders, for example we have also the surname Marinaj in NW but it has nothing to do with Italians, it's more connected to Catholic faith, pretty much many surnames are connected in some way to past religions though of no importance today.

Right, I knew that there some Albanian surnames similar to Italians, but they have nothing to do with. As you said, in Northern West Albania it's related to Catholic faith, to Latin words and to a Venetian influence.

But Korça area, according to many neutral studies, is inhabited also by Greek minority.

The Greek Minority in Albania – Current Tensions
Miranda Vickers

"Albania’s ethnic Greek minority constitutes a linguistic, cultural and religiously distinct minority, the majority of which live south of a line running roughly from the Adriatic port of Vlore to the eastern town of Korce, with a particular concentration in the Drin Valley."

http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Greek_minority_in_Albania.pdf


green: approximate extent of greatest concentration of Greek speakers in Albania at the beginnings of the 20th century

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Epirus_across_Greece_Albania4.svg/640px-Epirus_across_Greece_Albania4.svg.png

[safinator]

I know that there some Albanian surnames similar to Italians, but they have nothing to do with. Yes, in Northern Albania I guess it's related to Catholic faith.

But Korça area, according to many neutral studies, is inhabited also by Greek minority.

The Greek Minority in Albania – Current Tensions
Miranda Vickers

"Albania’s ethnic Greek minority constitutes a linguistic, cultural and religiously distinct minority, the majority of which live south of a line running roughly from the Adriatic port of Vlore to the eastern town of Korce, with a particular concentration in the Drin Valley."

http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Greek_minority_in_Albania.pdf

Thats a generalization, bollocks pretty much.

Real Greeks live in the southern Dropull region of Gjirokaster and some in the coastal cities in the are of Himara and Dhermi, nowhere else, especially no in Korça except some individual cases, in fact even from the coastal area the ones that declare as Greeks do that for monetary reasons (Receiving pensions from Greek state)

[Faklon]

Her family apparently is from Korça area, south east, it's just an Orthodox surname not Greek at all, the Greek minority is limited to the borders, for example we have also the surname Marinaj in NW but it has nothing to do with Italians, it's more connected to Catholic faith, pretty much many surnames are connected in some way to past religions though of no importance today.

Minos/Μίνως sounds hardly an Orthodox name,source?

I only know this Minos and some fisrt/last names in Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos

[Ulla]

Thats a generalization, bollocks pretty much.

Real Greeks live in the southern Dropull region of Gjirokaster and some in the coastal cities in the are of Himara and Dhermi, nowhere else, especially no in Korça except some individual cases, in fact even from the coastal area the ones that declare as Greeks do that for monetary reasons (Receiving pensions from Greek state)

That's a serious study, most of neutral sources stated just the same. You know there are lots of conflicts between Albania and Greece about this. Albanians tend to downplay and deny the presence of the Greeks, while Greeks tend to exaggerate it.

[Casandrinos]

Mino might mean something else in albanian

it's just 2 syllables after all

Otherwise, she is either part Greek or from a noble philhellene family.

[Ulla]

I only know this Minos and some fisrt/last names in Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos

Is Minos used in Greece as a given name and surname? I saw some Greek people on the web named Minos (given name and surname).

[Faklon]

Is Minos used in Greece as a given name and surname? I saw some Greek people on the web named Minos (both given name and surname.


Yep.

e.g.

http://www.aqua.teithe.gr/index.php/el/facultystuff/faculty/92.html

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0189240/

[safinator]

That's a serious study, most of neutral sources stated just the same. You know there are lots of conflicts between Albania and Greece about this. Albanians tend to downplay and deny the presence of the Greeks, while Greeks tend to exaggerate it.

According to "Neutral sources" seems where i live and my family origins area are full of Greeks when it's not exactly the case, even remotely in fact, according to last Census Greeks constituted 0.9% of the population.

[Ulla]

According to "Neutral sources" seems where i live and my family origins area are full of Greeks when it's not exactly the case, even remotely in fact, according to last Census Greeks constituted 0.9% of the population.

Albanian official census is probably not a neutral source, in my very humble opinion.

Anyway, I've been searching for a long time: is there any Albanian study on Albanian surnames?

[safinator]

Anyway, I've been searching for a long time: is there any Albanian study on Albanian surnames?

There's information about Northern Surnames mostly but it's information in Albanian language, not much about Tosks at all.

[Ulla]

There's information about Northern Surnames mostly but it's information in Albanian language, not much about Tosks at all.

Thanks. Can you send some links? I don't understand Albanian but I'll try with Google translate. :)

[DRUM]

north pontid + borreby

[Arbërori]

She's not Greek, she doesn't even look remotely Greek... Pure Tosk, most likely of mixed Cham/Lab descent, they're considered ''Turks'' by Greeks even if they're light years lighter than them, like the girl posted. :lol:

She's Dinarid-North Pontid & slight borreby.

[cosmoo]

Predominantly alpinized CM, distant Pontid admix.

[Jackson78]

Predominantly alpinized CM, distant Pontid admix.

+1

[CommonSense]

Pontid/North-Pontid + CM