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Handanović

family name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2023
Entity authorityQ56538629 ↗
Source-derived summary

Handanović (In Slovene also Handanovič) is a Bosnian Muslim surname, traditionally found in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. A 1925 ethnographic study recorded 9 houses of a Handanović family in the village of Vikići. A 1930 ethnographic study recorded the mahala (hamlet) of Handanovići and 5 houses of a Handanović family in the village of Hrustovo, Sanski Most, a family which originated from Lika (tradition holds that most Hrustovo Muslim families fled Lika after Stojan Janković expelled them).

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The public source identifies “Handanović” as family name. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Handanović, family and name.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Handanović, family and name providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q56538629. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Handanović” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.