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Re: Sharkan and Kiaeska
Sharkan looks like a variation of Serkan to me. I searched it up really fast on Google and it looks like it is also the name of a village in Russia and a last name--in some cultures, when people migrated to cities (or moved to different countries) many of them took on the name of their village as a last name, or attached it as a hyphen--it seems like this is the case with a lot of people that turned up in the search.Perhaps someone else will come by who can tell you definitively what Sharkan means, but like I said...it looks to me like a variation of Serkan. Turkey is not very far from Russia, and with the extent of the Ottoman Empire, it is plausible that Sharkan is derived from Serkan.

This message was edited 6/19/2008, 12:25 PM

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