Northern Epirus

[Nikas]

"But while in this wayAlbanians were excluded from the new state on the north and east, an incongruos compensation was afforded it on the south by an unjustifiable extension into Northern Epirus, whose population is prevailingly Greek.
The location of the boundary between Albania and New Greece was forced upon the Great Powers by the stand of Italy. During the first war the Greeks had occupied Epirus or southern Albania as far north as a line drawn from a point a little above Khimara on the coast due east toward Lake Presba, so that the cities of Tepeleni and Koritza were included in the Greek area. But Italy protested that the Greek occupation of territory on both sieds of the Straits of Corfu would menance the control of the Adriatic and insisted that the boundary between Albania and Greece should start from a point on the coast opposite the southern part of the island of Corfu. Greece, accordingly, was compelled to evacuate most of the territory she had occupied above Janina. And Albania subsequently attempted to assert herjuriduction over it."

Schurman, Jacob Gould. "The Balkan Wars 1912-1913". Cosimo Classics, page 119

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http://mondediplo.com/maps/albania

http://mondediplo.com/maps/albanianmdv1999
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http://mondediplo.com/maps/mosaic

http://cartographie.dessciences-po.f...C_albanais.jpg

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http://www.defac.ac.uk/colleges/csrc...stings/balkan/

http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/csrc/d...ngs/balkan/G97

"although this is a highly contentious question".Also that numbers had been intentionally lowered since the communist regime ". However, the area studied was confined to the southern border fringes, and there is good reason to believe that this estimate was very low"."Under this definition, minority status was limited to those who lived in 99 villages

in the southern border areas, thereby excluding important concentrations of Greek settlement in Vlora (perhaps 8000 people in 1994) and in adjoining areas along the coast, ancestral Greek towns such as Himara, and ethnic Greeks living elsewhere throughout the country. Mixed villages outside this designated zone, even those with a clear majority of ethnic Greeks, were not considered minority areas and therefore were denied any Greek-language cultural or educational provisions. In addition, many Greeks were forcibly removed from the minority zones to other parts of the country as a product of communist population policy, an important and constant element of which was to pre-empt ethnic sources of political dissent. Greek place-names were changed to Albanian names, while use of the Greek language, prohibited everywhere outside the minority zones, was prohibited for many official purposes within them as well."

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1994 Cia gives Greeks 8% http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps3...3/wf940002.txt
Greeks give 12%
http://countrystudies.us/albania/49.htm
And the next years albanians declare that they are only 3%...........

[olvios]

"Under King Zog, the Greek villages suffered considerable repression, including the forcible closure of Greek-language schools in 1933-1934 and the ordering of Greek Orthodox monasteries to accept mentally sick individuals as inmates. "

http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/csrc/d...ngs/balkan/G97

Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan IdentityISBN 1850652791,by Miranda Vickers & James Pettifer, 1999,page 190,"When ethnic Greeks were caught attempting to escape to Greece,penalties were severe for the actual offender execution was common and his whole family might be condemned in internal exile for many years usually in the mining camps of northern and central albania"

" under communism, pupils were taught only Albanian history and culture, even in Greek-language classes at the primary level." ,

in 1967 of the campaign by Albania’s communist party,the Albanian Party of Labour (PLA), to eradicate organised religion, a prime target of which was the Orthodox Church.Many churches were damaged or destroyed during this period, and many Greek-language books were banned because of their religious themes or orientation. Yet, as with other communist states, particularly in the Balkans, where measures putatively geared towards the consolidation of political control intersected with the pursuit of national integration, it is often impossible to distinguish sharply between ideological and ethno-cultural bases of repression. This is all the more true in the case of Albania’s anti-religion campaign because it was merely one element in the broader “Ideological and Cultural Revolution” begun by Hoxha in 1966 but whose main features he outlined at the PLA’s Fourth Congress in 1961.

Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan IdentityISBN 1850652791,by Miranda Vickers & James Pettifer, 1999,page 79,"The attacks on Greeks on Saranda in and 9 february"

Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan IdentityISBN 1850652791,by Miranda Vickers & James Pettifer, 1999,page 198,"A purge of ethnic Greeks in the professions in Albania continued in 1994, with particular emphasis on the law and the military."

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[Peace Lover]

Lejean , 1861 :

There are no Greeks in Epirus , only Greek-Orthodox Vlachs !

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" Greeks " of Albania :
In the left the real Romanian names :
- Vasile Bollanu/Bellanu/Biellanu , Grecized : Vasilis Bollanos !
- Ianu Ianu , Grecized : Ioannis Ioannis !
- Vangel Dule , Grecized : Vangelios Doules !
- Pascal Millo , Grecized : Paskalis Millos !
- Amarda Toska , Grecized : Amarda Toskas !
- Petrit Vasile , Grecized : Petritis Vassilis !
- Leonardo Solli(Sun) , Grecized : Leonardos Sollis? !
- Ilir Pacho(1 in 3 Mexicans has this latin surname) , Grecized : Illiros Patsos !
- Mirela Manianne(Good spirit) , Grecized : Mirela Manianni(s?)
Other " Greek " surnames of Albania :
Panu(Bread) , Grecized : Panos? !
THE REAL " GREEKS " OF EPIRUS , ONLY VLACH ROMANIANS , AND SOME PONTIAN AND CAPADOCCIAN COLONERS FROM ASIA , IN SOUTH ( the Greek part of Epirus ) !

[Victor]

Originally Posted by Peace Lover

There are no Greeks in Epirus , only Greek-Orthodox Vlachs !

PLease keep believing that,its better for us.

[Peace Lover]

Originally Posted by Victor

PLease keep believing that,its better for us.

Are you blind ?
Don't you see the map ?

[Draco]

Originally Posted by Peace Lover

Are you blind ?
Don't you see the map ?

There are a dozen maps on this page and you only have eyes for that one? By the same token I can only have eyes for this one.