Muslim?
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radostna_lava — 18 years ago(April 22, 2007 08:16 AM)
which is a turkish name with a typical Bulgarian suffix. Every Bg male last name ends with an "ov", which most people change to off when living in the States , France or England.
In summary, her mom's Greek and her dad's a bulgarian muslim, or as someone already stated, a Pomak.
The person who said that Rodopi's in Greece: there is a small part of it in Greece, but, dude, you sereously need a couple geography lessons
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PeykanTM — 18 years ago(December 31, 2007 01:58 AM)
Her father is a Bulgarian Pomak, which means he is a Muslim. Her mother is Greek and a member of the Greek Orthodox church. Genrally mothers have more of a say on what religion the kid should have so she identifies more with her Greek side and is also Greek Orthodox.
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brasstureen — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 04:18 AM)
She was married in the Greek Orthodox church, and at least one member of the pair has to be Orthodox in order for that to be possible. Tom Hanks is not Orthodox, so. . . well, you can figure out the rest.
Also remember that she is responsible for getting "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" to the screen due to that Greek aspect of her past.
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SataiDelen — 12 years ago(February 10, 2014 12:22 PM)
Wow, so, she's part Greek Orthodox/Muslim, and she married a man who converted from (I could be wrong, but I believe) Judaism to Greek Orthodox. That's a very interesting religious history of her family. In the end though, if she and Tom are happy together, and can stay together in a world where divorce is ridiculously high (especially amongst actors), well, more power to them!
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murad23 — 10 years ago(June 21, 2015 09:46 PM)
which is a turkish name with a typical Bulgarian suffix. Every Bg male last name ends with an "ov", which most people change to off when living in the States , France or England.
I am Turkish but you are wrong. Is more complicated that that. It is a biblical name (ABraham) that is pronounced by BOTH Christians and Muslims from that part of the world as Ibrahim.
And the "ov" is just patronymicized, which was done by the authorities. Bulgarian side of the border, Ibrahimov, Greek side of the border, Ibrahimou, Turkish side of the border, Ibrahimouglu
The person who said that Rodopi's in Greece: there is a small part of it in Greece, but, dude, you sereously need a couple geography lessons The larger part of Rodopi's home with us lol
"Dude" the Rhodopi mountains straddle Greece, Turkey and Bulgarina parts of Thrace. The word is a Greek word -
ubalioglu — 14 years ago(April 14, 2011 03:33 PM)
Maybe somehow late to reply, but she is half Greek. The other half is Pomak. Pomaks are slavic Muslims. mainly living in Bulgaria and Greece, who converted to Islam 600 years ago. So, if she is Orthodox Cristian, I guess she has gone back to her roots
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deligeez — 14 years ago(May 28, 2011 03:26 AM)
Here father was born in Greece, converted to Orthodoxy when he married his wife, he is of Bulgarian ancestry. She is Greek Orthodox, always was and so is her husband Tom Hanks.
http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2011/04/26/tom-hanks-and-greek-american-celebs-at-jim-gianopulos-easter-party/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rita-wilson/the-joys-of-greek-easter_b_93739.html -
Lightrend — 14 years ago(December 08, 2011 06:56 AM)
JESUS CHRIST (basically), who cares? You're all wrong anyway, the very concept of petty religions is an insult to the universe we live in;
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MsUnknownComic1 — 13 years ago(May 05, 2012 09:24 PM)
JESUS CHRIST IS A PERSON AND SHOULDNT BE USED AS A CUSS WORD. But your right, its not about reigions, but about a personal relationship with God The Father, God the son ( Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit
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coold_as_ice — 11 years ago(March 25, 2015 03:56 AM)
Well i dont know if she is religious or not or whatever but yea she has muslim roots if thats what you mean, her father is a Slavic Muslim (Bulgarian more specificially), probably secular I am a slavic muslim myself (ex Yugoslavian), we are Slavic/South/Eastern Europeans who were back then either secular or christians that converted to Islam like 600 years ago
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murad23 — 10 years ago(June 21, 2015 09:51 PM)
In that area, Thrace, her father ancestors could have been all Greeks, all Bulgarians, or all Turks, or any combination.
Christian Greeks who converted to Islam in areas later take over by Bulgaria are also call Pomaks, so are may purely Turkish people in Bulgaria.
She probably knows her own family history and this probably is the source of why she identifies as Greek.
