Arnaut
Arnaut (Ottoman Turkish: آرناﺌود, modern Turkish spelling: Arnavut) is the Turkish word for the people of Albania. Arnauts in modern Turkey are people of Albanian descent. Historically in the Ottoman Empire, the word often referred to mercenary soldiers from Albania or from the surrounding mountainous region.[1]
Arnaut is also the Turkish name for Arvanites, while Arvanites itself is the Greek version of Arbëreshë, the name ethnic Albanians called themselves until 250 years ago.
In Serbia, the term Arnauti or Arnautaši was used in the 18th century by Serbian ethnographers for "Albanized Serbs"[2], Serbs that converted to Islam and went through a process of Albanisation.[3]
References
- ^ Arnaut at the Free Dictionary
- ^ http://books.google.se/books?id=9x4EAQAAIAAJ
- ^ http://books.google.se/books?id=aJRYkzl5YC4C
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