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Originally Posted by Kubur
Very nice Greek name...
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well quite some people in the Balkans during the Ottoman times converted to the new religion and hence took over the names accordingly.
Didn't that happen as well when Celts, Anglosaxons, Germanic, Baltic and Scandinavion regions and peoples were converted as well...?
So from a geographic point of view the name discussed might indeed be from an inhabitant of Greece.
Let's not forget after the Balkan Wars of 1911-1913 a lot of resettlement took place in quite some countries in South East Europe and with this quite some names which were present for four to six centuries.
Quite some edged weapons from Bosnia have the name Hassan on it, be it either the owner or maker's name....
And back on topic: the stamps / marks on the picture in cyrillic are the names Omar, Faruk, Rabomal Hasan, Rabomal Halu, Osman and Alu ( Alu being probably an elative case of Ali )