A Serb, the son of a Serbian Orthodox priest, born in Lika, a heavily Serb-populated part of the Austrian Military Frontier. Throughout his long life, never once hinted at anything outside Serbdom. A Serb by national / cultural identity, an American by nationality. Fate, cosmic.
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PS Through the horrors of Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, many Tesla's namesakes, relatives and neighbors were brutally murdered in the genocide carried out by Croatian fascists against Serbs, Jews and Roma.
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Lika Serbs - along with Serb regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina - were most heavily targeted by genocide. As early as spring 1941, those areas saw the most courageous - rank-and-file Serb - popular uprising in occupied Europe, against (Croatian, German and Italian) fascists.
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100% Serb born in Austrian Empire...
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He was neither Serb or Croat. He was Istro-Roman, his family belonged to a small minority of Romanians who emigrated from Transylvania to Croatia in the 15th century. Originally, his family last name was Draghici over generations but they changed it to Teslea (Tesla). In Romanian
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names of the trades they were in or the tools they used like Mason, Carpenter, Smith, Hammer or Brewer. Nicola's mother maiden name was Gica Mandici, his sisters names were Anghelina, Milica and Maritza - all Romanian names. Romanian-French scientist and inventor Henry Coanda
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so impressed by the genial inventor that although he was still very young, he decided to become a scientist and inventor himself. Coanda also says that he remembers being told by Nicola that his family originated from the Banat region of Romania and they moved to Croatia
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generations ago, kept their traditions and spoke their Istro-Romanian language at home. Anyhow... Happy Birthday. Nicolae Teslea!
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No dilemma there. Nikola said it himself.
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its a bloody serb by bloodline, but he considered himself yugoslavian and then american
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Happy birthday to most famous Serb
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Serb Nina, Serb.
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Nikola Tesla: "I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland"
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