Friday, May 04, 2007
European Grocery Stores, Gwinnett Locations
Bosnians Making Mark in Atlanta
If you have any business in Gwinnett County, you may have noticed over the past few years a lot of people with last names ending with -vic, -nic, -vik, -nik or other k- or c-related combinations.
This tends to indicate a Bosnian community.
Bosnians started coming to Atlanta in large numbers in 1992, pushed out of their homes by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
No one has good population data since the 2000 census, but the ARC says that Bosnian community leaders say there are about 8-10,000 of their number in the metro.
"Their reported preference is to live in Gwinnett", the ARC says with dramatic understatement. "We are all over Gwinnett!" says a Bosnian friend of AG (who lives in Gwinnett).
Gwinnett Federal Credit Union employs a Bosnian (ie, Serbo-Croat) speaker at every branch and has its materials translated into Bosnian.
We can't be completely sure, but AG believes this is a Bosnian party planner that happens to have links to a lot of Bosnian businesses, Koncerti u Atlanti.
(The flags that refer to "Red Army Mostar" are talking about a soccer team)
If you have any business in Gwinnett County, you may have noticed over the past few years a lot of people with last names ending with -vic, -nic, -vik, -nik or other k- or c-related combinations.
This tends to indicate a Bosnian community.
Bosnians started coming to Atlanta in large numbers in 1992, pushed out of their homes by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
No one has good population data since the 2000 census, but the ARC says that Bosnian community leaders say there are about 8-10,000 of their number in the metro.
"Their reported preference is to live in Gwinnett", the ARC says with dramatic understatement. "We are all over Gwinnett!" says a Bosnian friend of AG (who lives in Gwinnett).
Gwinnett Federal Credit Union employs a Bosnian (ie, Serbo-Croat) speaker at every branch and has its materials translated into Bosnian.
We can't be completely sure, but AG believes this is a Bosnian party planner that happens to have links to a lot of Bosnian businesses, Koncerti u Atlanti.
(The flags that refer to "Red Army Mostar" are talking about a soccer team)
We found this newspaper at the Stella Mart at 251 Senic Highway (Hwy 124) in Lawrenceville. We also found an astounding variety of sausages and Fanta in European bottles.
¶ 9:49 PM
