"Θούριος" - Greek Revolutionary Anthem [FULL VERSION]

Today marks 200 years since the Greek revolution started, I wish all Greeks a happy holiday today!
My channel is dedicated to anthems, hymns and patriotic songs, here is the link to our discord server: / discord

[@geodim3904]

This song is not only about Greeks but about everyone to rise up against tyranny. Such beauty

[@sto_karfi842]

It is greek by the mean that it was orchestrated by a greek man who obviously had a dream of a parliamental goverment composed of the entire ottoman empire that the greek up until then used to see as their own Roman empire under an unlawful Ottoman dynasty.

[@francescodelprete6474]

Yes that’s right i like this song very much.

[@julesrafaelmag-isa681]

I agree

[@monolithtroop]

Actually it only is for greece but other people can be insider too ig

[@Theodore2512]

Yup, it's beautiful❤❤❤

[@Ogi88]

Dear Hellens, happy independence day, from Orthodox brothers in Serbia.

[@Ogi88]

@George Papadopoulos : ) Greetings Ellada

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Universal..]

@George Papadopoulos Souliotes were a warlike Cham Albanian community of the Christian Orthodox faith from the area of Souli, in modern northwestern Greece, who became famous for playing a prominent role in the Greek War of Independence starting in 1821, under leaders such as Markos Botsaris and Kitsos Tzavelas.

[@Universal..]

@George Papadopoulos The Souliotes were also called Arvanites by the monolingual Greeks, who among the Greek-speaking population until the interwar period, the term Arvanitis (plural : Arvanites) was used to describe an Albanian speaker regardless of their religious affiliations. Source : 1 - Die Zagóri-Dörfer dans le Nordgriechenland: Wirtschaftliche Einheit - ethnische Vielfalt . Ethnologia Balkanica. 3 : 113-114. 2 - "Disa Aspekte Studimore Mbi Sulin Dhe Suljotët [Some aspects of research concerning Souli and the Souliotes] "Studime Historike . 1 (2): 215. Etc !

[@Universal..]

@George Papadopoulos The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@thomaslopez4961]

Greek people be like: 'Imma drop a 10 minute anthem'

[@pyrrhocorax]

Here's a Greek anthem that's even longer. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5CugXesr7J9Y5o

[@galavonvandi]

The damn thing is longer than an hour lol

[@nerobernardino88]

I am not complaining though. It is good.

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@zissimoskalarrytis3865]

@@Universal.. All Greek, cause Arvanites are Greek and killed albanians like flies. Albanians sided with the ottomans, Greeks were fighting against them for centuries

[@cnardx]

Happy indipendence day to all greeks from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

[@m1tsos_athan660]

Grazie my friend, Grettings from Greece🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

[@paulsh206]

🇬🇷❤🇮🇹

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. Kolokotronis wasn’t an arvanite. It’s quite common to hear these things being said by albanians but don’t forget that most of the Ottoman forces in the balkans were comprised by Albanian muslims. Don’t misrepresent history. Implying that without albanians, Greece wouldn’t become independent is outrageous since you exclude the majority of Albanians that fought alongside the Ottomans. Arvanites comprised approx 20% of the population of Peloponnese, they were a minority. The Ottoman forces that fought against the Greeks however was mostly muslim Albanians

[@Universal..]

@@Elstocks21 1. Kolokotronis was an Albanian! - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . 2 . Yes, the Ottoman army knew many Ottoman soldiers of Albanian origin... (because the Ottomans took the Albanians by force from their young age... And trained them as Janissaries etc ... ) 3. Then during the war of liberation of Greece ... The opponents were not predominantly Albanian (certainly, the most famous were Albanian, but not the majority) There were Georgians, Turks, etc ... And even Greeks on the Ottoman side! Example : Dramali Pacha etc... 4. And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@kopper6200]

I love greek culture and history, from ancient city states to the East Romans to modern Greece. Love from Argentina 🇦🇷❤🇬🇷

[@Manowar_]

Eat ur cereal 🇬🇷

[@KD-og4dh]

🇬🇷🇦🇷

[@xrhstoslalalala8269]

Hey check this song, is a Greek revolutionary song against Nazis kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2qxdKpmdsSUkJY it could be also soundtrack in "lord of the rings"

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Gero-it7jk]

Greetings to Greece from Argentina happy independence day 🇦🇷🤝🇬🇷

[@avantelvsitania3359]

200 hundred years Greece! And that’s just a small part of your History. You are a Light among Mankind. Many more centuries will be filled with your glory! Happy anniversary to every Hellene and Philhellene! 🔵⚪️🔵 ⚪️🔵⚪️ 🔵⚪️🔵 ⚪️⚪️⚪️ 🔵🔵🔵 ⚪️⚪️⚪️ 🔵⚪️🔵 ⚪️🔵⚪️ 🔵⚪️🔵

[@Veriox22]

Thanks!

[@muslimcrusader5987]

200 hundreds *yard* Geeece? What does that mean?

[@muslimcrusader5987]

@Alexander The Great Bruh what tf does that mean speak English

[@muslimcrusader5987]

@Alexander The Great 💀💀💀

[@Onio_]

​@@muslimcrusader5987 He is speaking English. Don't be such a self-entitled prick.

[@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890]

Don’t forget your Hellenic heroes and ancestors modern-day Greeks, their sacrifice was for you. Your politicians and leaders might try to divide you, but you the people are what makes Greece Greek!

[@professorminstrels6460]

Funny you support greek independence but not Irish. Makes you a hypocrite

[@itsyaboyjigglyjimmy]

@@professorminstrels6460 When did he say he didnt support irish independence?

[@noeldanielakyurcek]

Thank You Very Much Arthur It’s Much Appreciated Yes We Greeks Are Just That Indeed! Long Live Greece! Long Live The Greek Nation! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️

[@noeldanielakyurcek]

I Just Love How We Are Talking About Greek Independence And Then For No Reason All Of A Sudden Some Random Guy Begins To Talk About Irish Freedom When We Are Thinking About Greece And Clearly Not About Ireland I Freaking Love It! But Anyway I Digress Yes We Greeks We Support All Cries For Freedom If It’s Ofcourse Reasonably Justifiable! But In The Case Of Ireland Specifically I Do See That Justification! So I Support You Ireland This Greek Spaniard Does! Hope You Will Finally Have You’re Freedom Irish Man! Amén Amin 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇬🇷🇬🇷♥️♥️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@naps_878]

@@professorminstrels6460 it seems you've brought in irish independence since he has literally arthur wellesley as his pfp.

[@france5074]

Love you Greece ! From your old friend, France.

[@user-xm9cz5up3e]

Vielen Dank Französisch🤗

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. dude you comment the same thing to everyone. Stop missrepresenting history

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. Kolokotronis wasn’t an arvanite. It’s quite common to hear these things being said by albanians but don’t forget that most of the Ottoman forces in the balkans were comprised by Albanian muslims. Don’t misrepresent history. Implying that without albanians, Greece wouldn’t become independent is outrageous since you exclude the majority of Albanians that fought alongside the Ottomans. Arvanites comprised approx 20% of the population of Peloponnese, they were a minority. The Ottoman forces that fought against the Greeks however was mostly muslim Albanians

[@Universal..]

@@Elstocks21 1. Kolokotronis was an Albanian! - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . 2 . Yes, the Ottoman army knew many Ottoman soldiers of Albanian origin... (because the Ottomans took the Albanians by force from their young age... And trained them as Janissaries etc ... ) 3. Then during the war of liberation of Greece ... The opponents were not predominantly Albanian (certainly, the most famous were Albanian, but not the majority) There were Georgians, Turks, etc ... And even Greeks on the Ottoman side! Example : Dramali Pacha etc... 4. And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@hornyakbenjamin2528]

Happy anniversary Greece from hungary 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@valerkis8280]

Csatlakozok

[@geoousp]

Γλυκο καμιναδα

[@goodoldrebel9001]

Csatlakozom

[@matzavas4995]

God Bless Hungary

[@hornyakbenjamin2528]

@@matzavas4995 thank you God bless Greece

[@diliniiwedalehu6840]

Happy 200 years of Independence Greece love From Poland 🇵🇱🇬🇷

[@domersftw1503]

Abu hajaar!!!!

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@K90_60]

@@Universal.. 🇬🇷*

[@Universal..]

@@K90_60 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@Universal..]

@@K90_60 The name Arvanites and its equivalents are used today both in Greek ( Αρβανίτες , singular form Αρβανίτης , feminine Αρβανίτισσα ) and in Arvanitika itself (Arbëreshë or Arbërorë). In standard Albanian, all three names are used: Arvanitë, Arbëreshë or Arbërorë. The name Arvanites and its equivalents can be traced back to an ancient ethnonym used in Greek to refer to Albanians. Source: John Van Antwerp (1994). The late medieval Balkans: a critical study from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman conquest. University of Michigan Press. Source 2 : ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΗΣ ΣΥΝΤΕΘΕΝ ΠΑΡΑ ΣΠΥΡΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΒΛΑΝΤΗ. Καὶ παρ 'αὐτοῦ πλουτισθὲν τῆ προσθήκῃ περίπου δεκακισχιλίων Λέξεων. ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ. ΕΝ ΒΕΝΕΤΙᾼ. ΠΑΡΑ ΝΙΚΟΛΑῼ ΓΛΥΚΕΙ Τῼ ΕΞ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΩΝ • 1819; ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΝ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΙΚΙΚΟΝ. (σελ. 5) ... Albanie: Ἐπαρ. τῆς Εὐρωπ. Τουρκίας. Ἀλβανία, κοιν. Ἀρβανιτία. It originally referred to the inhabitants of this region Arvanon (Άρβανον) or Arvana (Άρβανα)... Source: Michael Attaliates , History 297 mentions "Arbanitai" as part of a mercenary army (c.1085); Anna Comnena , Alexiad VI: 7/7 and XIII 5 / 1-2 mentions a region or city called Arbanon or Arbana, and "Arbanitai" as its inhabitants (1148). See also Vranousi (1970) and Ducellier (1968). ...and then to all Albanian speakers. In Albanian, the self-designation Arbëror , which is still used by Arvanites and Arbëreshë from Italy, had been exchanged for the new name Shqiptarë since the 17th century, an innovation that was not shared by the Albanian-speaking migrant communities of southern Greece. The alternative exonym Albanian may finally be etymologically related, but is of less clear origin (see Albania (toponym) . It was probably confused with "Arbanitai" at some stage because of the phonological similarity. In later Byzantine usage, the terms "Arbanitai" and "Albanoi", with a range of variants, were used interchangeably, while sometimes the same groups were also called by the classical Illyrian names. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Alvani (Albanian) was used mainly in formal registers and Arvanites (Αρβανίτες) in the more popular Greek speech, but both were used indiscriminately for Muslim and Christian Albanians inside and outside Greece. During the twentieth century, it became customary to use only Αλβανοί for the Albanian people, and only Αρβανίτες for the Greek-Arvanites, thus emphasizing the national separation between the two groups. There is some uncertainty insofar as the term Arvanites also includes the small remaining Christian Albanian-speaking population groups in Epirus and western Macedonia. Unlike the southern Arvanites, these speakers would use the name Shqiptarë both for themselves and for the Albanian nationals... Source: Banfi (1996). ...although these communities also espouse a Greek national identity today. Source: Hart, Laurie Kain (1999). Culture "Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation on the Northwestern Borders of Greece". American Ethnologist 26: 196. doi: 10.1525 / ae.1999.26.1.196 . The word Shqiptár is also used in some villages in Thrace, where Arvanites migrated from the Pindus Mountains during the 19th century... Source: Moraitis (2002). but they also use the name Arvanitis speaking in Greek, while the Euromosaic (1996) reports that the designation Chams is today rejected by the group. The GHM report (1995) subsumes the Epirotic Albanians under the term Arvanites, although it notes the different linguistic self-designations,... Source: Botsi (2003: 21). ...on the other hand, applies the term Arvanites only to the populations of the compact Arvanite settlements of southern Greece, in accordance with the self-identification of these groups. Linguistically, the ethnologist... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Tosk: A language of Albania" ...identifies the present Albanian/Arvanitish dialects of northwestern Greece (in Epirus and Lechovo) with those of the Chams, and thus classifies them with standard Tosk Albanian, as opposed to "Arvanitika Albanian proper" ( i.e., southern Greece-Arvanitika). Nevertheless, he reports that in Greek, the Epirus varieties are also often subsumed under "Arvanitika" in a broader sense. He estimates the number of Albanian speakers in Epirus at 10,000. It is said that Arvanitika itself ... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Arvanitika: A Language of Greece" ...includes the remote dialects spoken in Thrace.

[@user-uo9rc2th3j]

Support to our orthodox brothers from Serbia!!

[@Manowar_]

🇷🇸🇬🇷☦️

[@darkzezak8678]

@@Manowar_ ooooo a greek fascist

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@redmercy1012]

@@Universal.. learn history ottoman!

[@Universal..]

@@redmercy1012 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@ange2207]

This hymn was dedicated for not only Greece but for the entire Balkans to take up arms against the Turkish tyrants. The Greek war of Independence actually started more-or-less in Romania as Alexander Ypsilantis was trying to also raise an army of Romanians and Greeks, which had a very proud uniform that are much alike the Prussian death hussars, except as infantry. Goes to show that the war of Independence also reached every corner of the Balkans, and beyond, as Egypt is mentioned here as well. I wonder sometimes, during this age of uncertainty with an Erdogan on his throne, that maybe the Balkans will have its fervor again and unite, forgetting every rivalry. Greetings.

[@achaeanmapping4408]

You say "Turkish tyrants" which makes it sound like it was anti Turkish, but it doesnʻt seem to be. It says that Turks and Greeks are all oppresses under the tyranical Sultans rule and it also says that everyone can can join their movement no matter their ethnic backround

[@ange2207]

@@achaeanmapping4408 You may be right, given Ferraios's liberal thinking, however "Να ανάψωμεν μια φλόγα σε όλη την Τουρκιάν" comes to mind as anti-Turkish along with other lines.

[@achaeanmapping4408]

@@ange2207 when does it say it?

[@ange2207]

@@achaeanmapping4408 It is mentioned in 8:35. In the song, it also mentions the word "barbarian" and I'd think it would be obvious to who the writer is referring to. There are contradictions in this song as well, at one point it mentions everyone to gather the Cross, swear an oath to God etc. while it also mentions stark references to freedom of religion. It is as such due to the fact that the majority of the Balkans was and still is Christian, and considering it's the early 19th century, he had to call upon Christians and not to make the point of freedom of religion the forefront of the song. I am glad you think that the song says both Turks and Greeks are under the Sultan's tyranny, because ultimately that was his message. Cheers.

[@HannoBarca_814]

What happened when the states in the balkans gained independence

[@Chorophilax]

He did it boys! He didnt forget about us! Ζητω το εθνος 🇬🇷

[@blerta117]

Glory Kolokotronis no Otto

[@Chorophilax]

@Jordan & Jordan did you leave Special education again?

[@HannoBarca_814]

Greeks were living in peace, what happened after getting independence from the ottoman?

[@HannoBarca_814]

@Nikolas Maillis that the right to water in some of the island's right to turkey

[@HannoBarca_814]

@ΚΙΣΧΣ. ΥΘ. ΕΜΤΑ. what are you talking about

[@Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos]

Happy anniversary Greeks/Ελλάδα from Hawai'i

[@Veriox22]

Thank you so much!

[@johnnystander3142]

I should have guessed you would be here.

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Veriox22]

@@Universal.. lol no. They were entirely greeks. Arvanites and albanians have only 1 common thing. Language. And the arvanite language only borrowed a handfull of albanian phraces. They spoke greek.

[@Universal..]

@@Veriox22 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@aleksandrosalatis]

Happy Greece Revolution Day from Ukraine! ☦🇺🇦❤🇬🇷☦

[@Manowar_]

Ζητω η Ουκρανία! 🇬🇷🇺🇦☦️

[@czechoslovakpatriot4773]

Happy independence day Hellas! Love from the Czech republic, my ancestors were Greek emigrants. 🇬🇷💙🇨🇿

[@idkmyname7211]

My mother is Czech and my father is Greek!

[@czechoslovakpatriot4773]

@@idkmyname7211 Wow that's cool! And where do you live Greece or Czechia? Also, from my family my grandmother is Greek.

[@idkmyname7211]

@@czechoslovakpatriot4773 I live in Greece and I speak Greek but my Czech is not that good (I'm learning it again). My grandmother lives in the Czech Republic

[@czechoslovakpatriot4773]

@@idkmyname7211 That's really interesting, perhaps we could get in contact, I could help you with your Czech and I'd be interested to learn more about Greece.

[@idkmyname7211]

@@czechoslovakpatriot4773 Actually, Im learning Czech thanks to my mother. If you want to know anything about Greece you can ask anything right here :)

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

Happy Day Orthodox Brothers from Bulgaria 🇧🇬🇬🇷

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@@Jovan_Jarkarane yea

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@History & Politics Fan не ни трябват имаме само Одрин и Лозенград

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@History & Politics Fan ако не беше толупа Фердинанд Сакскобургготски сега нямаше да се караме с Гърция

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@History & Politics Fan аре стига днес е национален празник за гърците

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@History & Politics Fan чесно да ти кажа много си луд ама много пак се чудя защо ли има луди хора които искат тетиторите си в полузение че вече живеят друго население а не българско

[@guilhermethormann4094]

Happy Independence Day to Greece from Brazil!! 🇬🇷 🇧🇷

[@johnconstantine5454]

Obrigado De um grego

[@darkomarenski636]

Respect from 🇧🇬❤️🇬🇷 3:44

[@AAA-vc9st]

Love Greece from Egypt ☦️ 🇪🇬♥️🇬🇷☦️

[@_ils0mm0p0ntefice_8]

Happy indipendence day greece! 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

[@_ils0mm0p0ntefice_8]

@@alexmkkm7346 However it is a day to remember, independence or not

[@leonardon.05]

🇮🇹🇬🇷

[@Leoforos13]

@Jordan & Jordan Prove it

[@Leoforos13]

@Jordan & Jordan Show me your evidence

[@panzer123ism]

@@kostas0352 he is West Bulgarian

[@Panticapaeum]

greetings from Russia! 🇷🇺☦️🇬🇷 Orthodox brothers forever!

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

Привет

[@Panticapaeum]

@@bulgariannationalist1637 привет👋

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@@Panticapaeum из Болгария бро

[@Panticapaeum]

🇧🇬 Хороша страна Болгария! 👌

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@@Panticapaeum спасибо Россия too

[@cevieuxbill5365]

Ζήτω η Ελλάδα 🇬🇷☦️🤝✝️🇫🇷

[@HowToEatCock]

May the lord christ bless us and keep us free for all of eternity, in life and death let us all live in unity and in paradise!✝️✝️🛐✝️✝️✝️✝️

[@hamperfranklin9994]

200 years of freedom. Long live the mother of Western Civilization. 🇬🇷🇨🇾

[@muslimcrusader5987]

Greece is not Western civilisation. That’s France.

[@paulmayson3129]

@@muslimcrusader5987 How is France? If anything, that would be the Caroligian Empire.

[@muslimcrusader5987]

@@paulmayson3129 West means France, Britain and America. Greece is in the Balkans.

[@paulmayson3129]

@@muslimcrusader5987 Then I was right. I do agree, what we call today the "Western Civilization" has nothing to do with the Greek-Roman Civilization. It was created by those very same Barbarians, mostly the Germanic Nations, that invaded and destroyed the Western Roman Empire, initially in acceptance, but later in rejection of the culture of the Romans. Hence why usually some consider the West to originate to the Franks and the Caroligian Empire (which lead to France, Germany, the Benelux and North Italy).

[@muslimcrusader5987]

@@paulmayson3129 Not quite. The Western civilisation as we know it (France, Britain and America) are Celtic, not Germanic. The French are descended from Gauls, the indigenous Celtic nation that is modern day France. The British descended from the indigenous Briton Celtic tribes and the Americans are an extension of British settler colonialism. Germanic civilisations mostly include Norway, as even modern day Germans are incredibly mixed with Celtic and Slavic tribes.

[@ramaiv6864]

Nice job 🇬🇷 from 🇻🇳

[@mohammadzaid1221]

Here before any dislikes. Happy Independence day to Greece 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇳 from India.

[@ahumanfromtexas]

Happy Independence Day dear Greeks from America! The nation of Alexander, Justinian, and many other great men. 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇷

[@ahumanfromtexas]

The Greeks are the true heirs of Rome, may they one day be atop the world again!

[@romapping2105]

Justinian was not greek thogh, nor was the eastern roman empire at that time

[@nofam7247]

@@romapping2105 Justinian was illyrian not greek. Yes that is true. But ERE was Greek since they had already adopted the Greek culture

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 1. Kolokotronis was an Albanian! - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . 2 . Yes, the Ottoman army knew many Ottoman soldiers of Albanian origin... (because the Ottomans took the Albanians by force from their young age... And trained them as Janissaries etc ... ) 3. Then during the war of liberation of Greece ... The opponents were not predominantly Albanian (certainly, the most famous were Albanian, but not the majority) There were Georgians, Turks, etc ... And even Greeks on the Ottoman side! Example : Dramali Pacha etc... 4. And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@hungariancuman2835]

Happy march 25th Greece! Greeting from Hungary.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Happy independence day Greece from Romania 🇷🇴🇬🇷

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

🇧🇬💜🇹🇩

[@pooky4565]

🇷🇴❤️🇷🇸❤️🇧🇬❤️🇬🇷

[@paulsh206]

Orthodox brothers ☦🇬🇷🇹🇩

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. Kolokotronis wasn’t an arvanite. It’s quite common to hear these things being said by albanians but don’t forget that most of the Ottoman forces in the balkans were comprised by Albanian muslims. Don’t misrepresent history. Implying that without albanians, Greece wouldn’t become independent is outrageous since you exclude the majority of Albanians that fought alongside the Ottomans. Arvanites comprised approx 20% of the population of Peloponnese, they were a minority. The Ottoman forces that fought against the Greeks however was mostly muslim Albanians

[@sleepycrusader7152]

Happy birthday neighbor 🇦🇱 🎂🇬🇷

[@user-xm9cz5up3e]

🇬🇷❤️🇦🇱

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. Kolokotronis wasn’t an arvanite. It’s quite common to hear these things being said by albanians but don’t forget that most of the Ottoman forces in the balkans were comprised by Albanian muslims. Don’t misrepresent history. Implying that without albanians, Greece wouldn’t become independent is outrageous since you exclude the majority of Albanians that fought alongside the Ottomans. Arvanites comprised approx 20% of the population of Peloponnese, they were a minority. The Ottoman forces that fought against the Greeks however was mostly muslim Albanians

[@sleepycrusader7152]

@@Universal.. thank you for that information

[@Da_historian007xv]

@@sleepycrusader7152 he say lies

[@Sava.S]

God in Heaven, Greeks on Earth 🇷🇸☦️🇬🇷

[@aokiaoki4238]

and Serbian brothers!!!

[@panos9238]

And Turks in the ground

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Day-wm7nn]

@@Universal.. all these people were Greeks, ofcourse they played a huge role in the Greek revolution

[@Antepithesis]

@@Universal.. POV: You have no history and cry to the comments

[@AszVui]

Much love from Norway! Happy Independence Day! 🇳🇴🇬🇷

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Agras14]

​ @Universal The most famous heroes of the *Greek* War of Independence were *Greeks* . Names such as Karaiskakis, Kolokotronis, Papaflessas, Diakos, Nikitaras, Kanaris, Anagnostaras, Mavrogenous, are just a few. And thousands upon thousands of Greek fighters such as Maniots, Agrafiots/Sarakatsani, Sfakians, and Greek Klephts and Armatoloi. In fact, we have the names of all, stored in the National Library of Greece, www.nlg.gr/collection/archeio-agoniston-archeio-epitropis-agonos/. There was a certain committee which was established in 1846, in order to remunerate and compensate the fighters of 1821, and that's how we know of all; literally thousands of names. Theodoros Kolokotronis was Greek; fully Greek to be precise. Instead of digging baseless sources, you might as well read his memoirs (yes he wrote memoirs) where he identifies as a Greek, and gives a short background of his family as well. In his memoirs we learn that the earliest attested region of the family is Ρουπάκι, at the borders of Arcadia and Messenia, which up until 1670 had the name of Κότσικας. The village existed from the Byzantine era, prior of 1200, and its name originated from a local powerful family of the village. Κότσικας is a diminutive of Κωνσταντίνος/Constantine. Furthermore, in the Ottoman census of Peloponnese in the 1460s which made an ethnic distinction between Greeks and Albanians, that village is recorded as having a purely Greek population comprised of 21 houses. Furthermore, it is a known fact that Theodoros Kolokotronis couldn't even speak Albanian as a second language; Kolokotronis' secretary, Theodoros Rigopoulos, in his own memoirs mentions the existence of a sister of Theodoros who was abducted as a child by the Turks. When Theodoros Kolokotronis went to Albania as an envoy of the French, he met her there where she lived as the wife of an imam. She and her husband knew her origins. Brother and sister hugged with tears but could not speak because the woman didn't speak Greek, while Kolokotronis didn't speak Albanian. We even have a descendant of his who has tested his Y-DNA (patrilineal DNA), and it shows that he belonged to a rare Greek haplogroup that has been in Greece way more than a 1000 years, meaning way before there was any migration of Albanians to the south, and is even totally absent from all Albanians, namely I-A480. Now, let's touch upon the Souliotes, such as Markos Botsaris and Kitsos Tzavelas. Souliotes were a bilingual community, that had mixed Greek-Albanian origin. There are many sources that support this. Also, regarding their two dialects, Markos Botsaris himself wrote a dictionary. Specifically, Markos wrote the dictionary in 1809 when he was 19 years of age, on the island of Corfu after the request of French Philehellene François Pouqueville. After the dictionary was finished Markos gave it to Pouqueville, whom with his turn donated it to the National Library of Paris, where the original continues to be. According to Pouqueville's notes, Markos Botsaris wrote the dictionary with the help of his father Kitsos Botsaris, his uncle Notis Botsaris and his father-in-law Christakis Kalogeros. The whole dictionary was written with Greek letters, and it included 1494 Albanian and 1701 Greek entries. Of the Albanian entries, the 528 are loans from Greek, 187 loans from Turkish, 21 loans from Italian and 2 from other languages. What does this indicate to you? First of all that the Souliotes were bilingual in Greek and Albanian, and second, that even their Albanian dialect was almost 1/3 Greek in vocabulary. Furthermore, Titos Yochalas, who studied, analyzed, and published the dictionary in 1980, wrote that even the syntax of the Albanian dialect followed Greek rules. Imagine that. And since we touched on Markos, even the aforementioned Tzavellas left us with a document, namely his personal diary while a captive of Ali Pasha, and is written in Greek also; here is the first page from it, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotos_Tzavellas_diary.jpg . Even for real Arvanite-speakers such as Andreas "Miaoulis" Vokos you mentioned above, few know it but his family actually originated from the Greek-speaking town of Fylla in Euboea. Andreas Miaoulis himself writes this in a letter to Kapodistrias, which i can also share. His family arrived at Hydra in 1668, along with a number of other Greek families from throughout the Greek world. Sorry to disappoint you, but both Hydra and Spetses had a very mixed population, even though Arvanitika prevailed as a language because it was established on the two islands from prior of the 17th century, and most immigrants came after 1668.

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Kolokotronis was an Albanian. - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Arbanon or Arvanon was a principality ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. Source : Ducellier 1999, p. 780

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@carvalhoj.w2183]

I am Brazilian and I love Greece, amazing country, happy independence day!🤝🏼❤🇧🇷🇬🇷

[@leowea7611]

Happy 200 years of independence, Greece! Greetings from Patagonia (the Chilean side)! ¡Saludos, Grecia! 🇬🇷💙

[@cevubogotac]

Love and respect from Serbia 🇷🇸🇬🇷

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Universal..]

@@kostas0352 Do you think that all Albanians are Muslims ? No, because there are Albanian Christian/Orthodox communities (The Arbëresh, the Arvanites, the Albanians of the north etc...) The Arvanites/Souliotes wanted to create an Albanian-Greek state ... In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. The Arvanites language is part of the Tosk Albanian dialect... It is with the beginning of the Christian era (Strabo in the 1st century BC then Tacitus, around 55-120, and Claudius Ptolemy, around 100/170, among others called the Illyrians (at least those, in their mountainous refuge, survived the various invasions) Arvanos, Arvanitis, Albanoi, Albani, Arnaut, Arbër, Arven, Arvanon, Arban, Albën, Alban, Albanensis, Albanian and various other variants. The Albanians, mentioned by these ancient writers (Ptolemy etc.) occupied a region located, today, between Durrës and Dibra: region of Krujë and that located between the rivers Mat and Erzën. The ancient capital of this region was, according to these authors of which Ptolemy, Albanopolis (today Zgërdhesh, not far from Kruja) . It should be specified that the Albanians never use this name to designate their own ethnic group: they name themselves Shqiptar, i.e. "son or child of the eagle". (except for the Albanian community of Italy "the Arbëresh" or the Albanian community of Greece "the Arvanites") Moreover the Turks still call the Albanians "Arnavut", Great similarity with "Arvanit, Arvanites". Arvanon, Arbëria or Principality of Arbëria, is a historical region located in the middle of Albania. Ps: 🤔 Strange that the Arvanites/Souliotes (of which Kolokotronis etc...) were put in prison then killed by the Greeks after the independence...

[@Universal..]

@@kostas0352 Kolokotronis was an Albanian ... - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ... Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

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@@kostas0352 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

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@@kostas0352 While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

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Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

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@Σταυρος Χαρδαλουπας Kolokotronis was an Albanian ... - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ... Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

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@Σταυρος Χαρδαλουπας The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

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@Σταυρος Χαρδαλουπας While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

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@Σταυρος Χαρδαλουπας The name Arvanites and its equivalents are used today both in Greek ( Αρβανίτες , singular form Αρβανίτης , feminine Αρβανίτισσα ) and in Arvanitika itself (Arbëreshë or Arbërorë). In standard Albanian, all three names are used: Arvanitë, Arbëreshë or Arbërorë. The name Arvanites and its equivalents can be traced back to an ancient ethnonym used in Greek to refer to Albanians. Source: John Van Antwerp (1994). The late medieval Balkans: a critical study from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman conquest. University of Michigan Press. Source 2 : ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΗΣ ΣΥΝΤΕΘΕΝ ΠΑΡΑ ΣΠΥΡΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΒΛΑΝΤΗ. Καὶ παρ 'αὐτοῦ πλουτισθὲν τῆ προσθήκῃ περίπου δεκακισχιλίων Λέξεων. ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ. ΕΝ ΒΕΝΕΤΙᾼ. ΠΑΡΑ ΝΙΚΟΛΑῼ ΓΛΥΚΕΙ Τῼ ΕΞ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΩΝ • 1819; ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΝ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΙΚΙΚΟΝ. (σελ. 5) ... Albanie: Ἐπαρ. τῆς Εὐρωπ. Τουρκίας. Ἀλβανία, κοιν. Ἀρβανιτία. It originally referred to the inhabitants of this region Arvanon (Άρβανον) or Arvana (Άρβανα)... Source: Michael Attaliates , History 297 mentions "Arbanitai" as part of a mercenary army (c.1085); Anna Comnena , Alexiad VI: 7/7 and XIII 5 / 1-2 mentions a region or city called Arbanon or Arbana, and "Arbanitai" as its inhabitants (1148). See also Vranousi (1970) and Ducellier (1968). ...and then to all Albanian speakers. In Albanian, the self-designation Arbëror , which is still used by Arvanites and Arbëreshë from Italy, had been exchanged for the new name Shqiptarë since the 17th century, an innovation that was not shared by the Albanian-speaking migrant communities of southern Greece. The alternative exonym Albanian may finally be etymologically related, but is of less clear origin (see Albania (toponym) . It was probably confused with "Arbanitai" at some stage because of the phonological similarity. In later Byzantine usage, the terms "Arbanitai" and "Albanoi", with a range of variants, were used interchangeably, while sometimes the same groups were also called by the classical Illyrian names. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Alvani (Albanian) was used mainly in formal registers and Arvanites (Αρβανίτες) in the more popular Greek speech, but both were used indiscriminately for Muslim and Christian Albanians inside and outside Greece. During the twentieth century, it became customary to use only Αλβανοί for the Albanian people, and only Αρβανίτες for the Greek-Arvanites, thus emphasizing the national separation between the two groups. There is some uncertainty insofar as the term Arvanites also includes the small remaining Christian Albanian-speaking population groups in Epirus and western Macedonia. Unlike the southern Arvanites, these speakers would use the name Shqiptarë both for themselves and for the Albanian nationals... Source: Banfi (1996). ...although these communities also espouse a Greek national identity today. Source: Hart, Laurie Kain (1999). Culture "Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation on the Northwestern Borders of Greece". American Ethnologist 26: 196. doi: 10.1525 / ae.1999.26.1.196 . The word Shqiptár is also used in some villages in Thrace, where Arvanites migrated from the Pindus Mountains during the 19th century... Source: Moraitis (2002). but they also use the name Arvanitis speaking in Greek, while the Euromosaic (1996) reports that the designation Chams is today rejected by the group. The GHM report (1995) subsumes the Epirotic Albanians under the term Arvanites, although it notes the different linguistic self-designations,... Source: Botsi (2003: 21). ...on the other hand, applies the term Arvanites only to the populations of the compact Arvanite settlements of southern Greece, in accordance with the self-identification of these groups. Linguistically, the ethnologist... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Tosk: A language of Albania" ...identifies the present Albanian/Arvanitish dialects of northwestern Greece (in Epirus and Lechovo) with those of the Chams, and thus classifies them with standard Tosk Albanian, as opposed to "Arvanitika Albanian proper" ( i.e., southern Greece-Arvanitika). Nevertheless, he reports that in Greek, the Epirus varieties are also often subsumed under "Arvanitika" in a broader sense. He estimates the number of Albanian speakers in Epirus at 10,000. It is said that Arvanitika itself ... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Arvanitika: A Language of Greece" ...includes the remote dialects spoken in Thrace.

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Greeks our ancient brothers and neighbors 🇮🇳❤🇬🇷 Happy independence day

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Greece is 5,787 km from India and you call it neighbor?

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@@abeabajar6647 read my comment properly "Ancient neighbors "

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@@historicallegends3702 Greeks and romans never touched your borders LMAO

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@@abeabajar6647 greeks touched our borders There are hellenistic kingdoms Like indo-greek kingdom

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@@abeabajar6647 have you ever heard of Alexander the great

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Very proud of our brothers! Long live to Greek people from Serbia 🇬🇷💙🇷🇸💙🇨🇾

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Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

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@@Agras14 1. Kolokotronis was an Albanian! - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . 2 . Yes, the Ottoman army knew many Ottoman soldiers of Albanian origin... (because the Ottomans took the Albanians by force from their young age... And trained them as Janissaries etc ... ) 3. Then during the war of liberation of Greece ... The opponents were not predominantly Albanian (certainly, the most famous were Albanian, but not the majority) There were Georgians, Turks, etc ... And even Greeks on the Ottoman side! Example : Dramali Pacha etc... 4. And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

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@@Agras14 Arbanon or Arvanon was a principality ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. Source : Ducellier 1999, p. 780

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@@Agras14 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

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@@Agras14 While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

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Χρόνια πολλά Έλληνες 🇬🇷☦️🇬🇷

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Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

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@@xristsem7448 Kolokotronis was an Albanian. - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

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@@Agras14 Arbanon or Arvanon was a principality ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. Source : Ducellier 1999, p. 780

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@@xristsem7448 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

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The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

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@@Agras14 Arbanon or Arvanon was a principality ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. Source : Ducellier 1999, p. 780

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@@Agras14 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Arvanites were considered ethnically distinct from Greeks in the 19th century, while their participation in the Greek War of Independence and the Greek Civil War led to increasing assimilation. Source: Hall, Jonathan M. Ethnic identity in Greek antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 29, The common Orthodox Christian religion they shared with the rest of the local population was one of the main reasons that led to their assimilation. Source: Hemetek, Ursula (2003). Multiple identities: studies in music and minorities . Cambridge Scholars Press. p. 55. Although sociological studies of Arvanite communities have still used to note an identifiable sense of a special "ethnic" identity among Arvanites, the authors have not identified a sense of "belonging to Albania or the Albanian nation. Source: ^ Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977)..

[@joseortega8260]

Go Greece! Love from Spain 🇪🇸♥️🇬🇷

[@digenhsakritas1337]

200 ΕΤΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΝΑΡΞΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΉΣ ΕΠΑΝΆΣΤΑΣΗΣ,ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ,ΖΗΤΩ ΤΟ ΕΘΝΟΣ!

[@wiseguygr]

Mpes discord

[@fruitypuffpie1585]

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[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@digenhsakritas1337]

@@Universal.. Ridiculous

[@Universal..]

@@digenhsakritas1337 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@duckaloony5656]

Long live Greece from Montenegro 🇲🇪 🇷🇸 ❤️ 🇬🇷

[@paulsh206]

Orthodox brothers🇬🇷🇷🇸🇲🇪☦

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@paulsh206]

@@Universal.. they indeed did but most of them you mentioned werent arvanitas

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. Kolokotronis wasn’t an arvanite. It’s quite common to hear these things being said by albanians but don’t forget that most of the Ottoman forces in the balkans were comprised by Albanian muslims. Don’t misrepresent history. Implying that without albanians, Greece wouldn’t become independent is outrageous since you exclude the majority of Albanians that fought alongside the Ottomans. Arvanites comprised approx 20% of the population of Peloponnese, they were a minority. The Ottoman forces that fought against the Greeks however was mostly muslim Albanians

[@Universal..]

@@Elstocks21 1. Kolokotronis was an Albanian! - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . 2 . Yes, the Ottoman army knew many Ottoman soldiers of Albanian origin... (because the Ottomans took the Albanians by force from their young age... And trained them as Janissaries etc ... ) 3. Then during the war of liberation of Greece ... The opponents were not predominantly Albanian (certainly, the most famous were Albanian, but not the majority) There were Georgians, Turks, etc ... And even Greeks on the Ottoman side! Example : Dramali Pacha etc... 4. And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@eiliakashkoli2348]

Happy independent of Greece from ottotoilet caliphate Love From Iran 🇮🇷 🇬🇷

[@cazwalt9013]

Thanks to our ancient enemy ❤️

[@restitutororbis1216]

LONG LIVE HELLAS!

[@god99thmiketri52]

Ty from Greece

[@dahomstube5762]

LONG LIVE GREECE, HAPPY, FREE AND PROSPEROUS sending my love from saudi arabia to great Hellas! 🇸🇦🇬🇷🇸🇦🇬🇷🇸🇦🇬🇷🇸🇦🇬🇷🇸🇦🇬🇷🇸🇦🇬🇷

[@harrycao7935]

Doesn't the Ottoman empire own all of you guys?

[@dahomstube5762]

@@harrycao7935 no they couldn't invade Najd, we kicked their asses out of Arabia forever 😁

[@Cabbage-Enjoyer]

@@harrycao7935 Wheres that Ottoman Empire now?

[@harrycao7935]

@@Cabbage-Enjoyer The nation that can decide between a famine or saving the lives of millions of people who live in the middle east. He who controls Constantinople controls all.

[@Abd_El-Hamid]

@@harrycao7935 Controls all of the Turks . Not even close to a superpower

[@Veriox22]

Fun fact: The writter of this poem (not national anthem of greece) Rigas Ferraios imagined a united balkan state from romania and bosnia to crete. This is why he emphasises the common goal of other supressed nations on it.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

Yes and its name is Rome

[@georgios_5342]

@@mojewjewjew4420 no, its name would be Greece. Because at the time, "Greek" didn't yet have a clear-cut usage and the Greeks were called Rhomioi (Romans). So the name Greece would refer to a democratic and non violent state that would replace the Ottoman empire

[@cyrclack5616]

@@georgios_5342 His plan (as was most of the greek revolutionaries') was the resurrection of the Roman(/Byzantine) Empire as some sort of Pan-balkan federation If anything, if not 'Byzantium' it's name would've likely been Romania / Ρωμανία

[@Evan_Gr]

@@cyrclack5616 It would have been "Hellenic Republic". However Ferraios was a Jakobin, so keep it in mind. Byzantium not so much

[@aokiaoki4238]

@@cyrclack5616 Byzantines used the name Greek since Emperor Theodore Laskaris

[@Profcard]

Greetings to the Greek Nation from Lithuanians!

[@m1tsos_athan660]

dėkoju my friend, Grettings from Greece 🇬🇷🇱🇹❤️

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@gavriloprincipgaming7857]

@@Universal.. Arvanites identify as Greek, don’t use Skanderbeg’s banner to represent them. They may not be ethnic Greeks, but they’re Greek Christian, (modern) Greek Speaking Greeks. Albanians need to quit pretending like Arvanites are Greek against their own will. “(🇦🇱)” absolute bullshit. Their ancestors may have been Albanian but they are Greek, through & through. Calling Arvanites Greek is like calling Skanderbeg an Italian. Sure he was descended from Italy-Albanian nobles, but that doesn’t make him Italian.

[@Universal..]

@@gavriloprincipgaming7857 Skanderbeg did not descend from an "Italian-Albanian" nobleman. He was descended from an "Albanian". Gjergj Kastrioti's great-great grandfather was Konstantin Kastrioti (was an Albanian "🇦🇱" regional leader in parts of the larger regions of Mat and Dibër) ... Source : The historical figure of Konstantin Kastrioti Mazreku is attested in the Genealogia diversarum principum familiarum of Giovanni Andrea Angelo Flavio Comneno .

[@Universal..]

@@gavriloprincipgaming7857 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@georgios_5342]

Ζήτω η Ελλάς! Μεγάλη εθνοαπελευθερωτική Επανάσταση! ΔΕΝ ξεχνάμε τα έργα των προγόνων μας, συνεχίζουμε σταθερά! Ζήτω το έθνος! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@georgios_5342]

@Jordan & Jordan eh?

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

[@user-xq9bo9yd1n]

@@Universal.. they were greek

[@sgourkon8742]

​@@Universal..to get you in the spirit of the era: If you wanted to be Arvanite Greek or Greek you would follow Kolokotroni and his army. If you wanted to be Albanian you would follow Kioutaxi and his army.

[@thegreekguy1124]

​@@Universal..Stop spreading stupid Albanian propaganda,Arvanites and Souliotes are Greeks.

[@lavendelle_swift]

Happy 200th Day of Greek Independence! 🎉🇬🇷❤️🇵🇭🎉

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Kolokotronis was an Albanian/Arvanite origin. - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@Agras14]

@@Universal.. Again, as previously written. The most famous heroes of the *Greek* War of Independence were *Greeks* . Names such as Karaiskakis, Kolokotronis, Papaflessas, Diakos, Nikitaras, Kanaris, Anagnostaras, Mavrogenous, are just a few. And thousands upon thousands of Greek fighters such as Maniots, Agrafiots/Sarakatsani, Sfakians, and Greek Klephts and Armatoloi. In fact, we have the names of all, stored in the National Library of Greece. There was a certain committee which was established in 1846, in order to remunerate and compensate the fighters of 1821, and that's how we know of all; literally thousands of names.

[@Agras14]

@@Universal.. Theodoros Kolokotronis was Greek; fully Greek to be precise. Instead of digging baseless sources, you might as well read his memoirs (yes he wrote memoirs) where he identifies as a Greek, and gives a short background of his family as well. In his memoirs we learn that the earliest attested region of the family is Ρουπάκι, at the borders of Arcadia and Messenia, which up until 1670 had the name of Κότσικας. The village existed from the Byzantine era, prior of 1200, and its name originated from a local powerful family of the village. Κότσικας is a diminutive of Κωνσταντίνος/Constantine. Furthermore, in the Ottoman census of Peloponnese in the 1460s which made an ethnic distinction between Greeks and Albanians, that village is recorded as having a purely Greek population comprised of 21 houses. Furthermore, it is a known fact that Theodoros Kolokotronis couldn't even speak Albanian as a second language; Kolokotronis' secretary, Theodoros Rigopoulos, in his own memoirs mentions the existence of a sister of Theodoros who was abducted as a child by the Turks. When Theodoros Kolokotronis went to Albania as an envoy of the French, he met her there where she lived as the wife of an imam. She and her husband knew her origins. Brother and sister hugged with tears but could not speak because the woman didn't speak Greek, while Kolokotronis didn't speak Albanian. We even have a descendant of his who has tested his Y-DNA (patrilineal DNA), and it shows that he belonged to a rare Greek haplogroup that has been in Greece way more than a 1000 years, meaning way before there was any migration of Albanians to the south, and is even totally absent from all Albanians, namely I-A480. Now, let's touch upon the Souliotes, such as Markos Botsaris and Kitsos Tzavelas. Souliotes were a bilingual community, that had mixed Greek-Albanian origin. There are many sources that support this. Also, regarding their two dialects, Markos Botsaris himself wrote a dictionary. Specifically, Markos wrote the dictionary in 1809 when he was 19 years of age, on the island of Corfu after the request of French Philehellene François Pouqueville. After the dictionary was finished Markos gave it to Pouqueville, whom with his turn donated it to the National Library of Paris, where the original continues to be. According to Pouqueville's notes, Markos Botsaris wrote the dictionary with the help of his father Kitsos Botsaris, his uncle Notis Botsaris and his father-in-law Christakis Kalogeros. The whole dictionary was written with Greek letters, and it included 1494 Albanian and 1701 Greek entries. Of the Albanian entries, the 528 are loans from Greek, 187 loans from Turkish, 21 loans from Italian and 2 from other languages. What does this indicate to you? First of all that the Souliotes were bilingual in Greek and Albanian, and second, that even their Albanian dialect was almost 1/3 Greek in vocabulary. Furthermore, Titos Yochalas, who studied, analyzed, and published the dictionary in 1980, wrote that even the syntax of the Albanian dialect followed Greek rules. Imagine that. And since we touched on Markos, even the aforementioned Tzavellas left us with a document, namely his personal diary while a captive of Ali Pasha, and is written in Greek also. Even for real Arvanite-speakers such as Andreas "Miaoulis" Vokos you mentioned above, few know it but his family actually originated from the Greek-speaking town of Fylla in Euboea. Andreas Miaoulis himself writes this in a letter to Kapodistrias, which i can also share. His family arrived at Hydra in 1668, along with a number of other Greek families from throughout the Greek world. Sorry to disappoint you, but both Hydra and Spetses had a very mixed population, even though Arvanitika prevailed as a language because it was established on the two islands from prior of the 17th century, and most immigrants came after 1668.

[@ToastThiefOfficial167]

@@Agras14 nah the cappers second acc

[@caralhoguy]

Χρόνια πολλά Ελλάδα 🇬🇷 ❤️ 🇵🇹 🇦🇺

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Kolokotronis was an Albanian. - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Arbanon or Arvanon was a principality ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. Source : Ducellier 1999, p. 780

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

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@Greek Patriot The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

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@Greek Patriot While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

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@Greek Patriot The name Arvanites and its equivalents are used today both in Greek ( Αρβανίτες , singular form Αρβανίτης , feminine Αρβανίτισσα ) and in Arvanitika itself (Arbëreshë or Arbërorë). In standard Albanian, all three names are used: Arvanitë, Arbëreshë or Arbërorë. The name Arvanites and its equivalents can be traced back to an ancient ethnonym used in Greek to refer to Albanians. Source: John Van Antwerp (1994). The late medieval Balkans: a critical study from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman conquest. University of Michigan Press. Source 2 : ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΗΣ ΣΥΝΤΕΘΕΝ ΠΑΡΑ ΣΠΥΡΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΒΛΑΝΤΗ. Καὶ παρ 'αὐτοῦ πλουτισθὲν τῆ προσθήκῃ περίπου δεκακισχιλίων Λέξεων. ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ. ΕΝ ΒΕΝΕΤΙᾼ. ΠΑΡΑ ΝΙΚΟΛΑῼ ΓΛΥΚΕΙ Τῼ ΕΞ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΩΝ • 1819; ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΝ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΙΚΙΚΟΝ. (σελ. 5) ... Albanie: Ἐπαρ. τῆς Εὐρωπ. Τουρκίας. Ἀλβανία, κοιν. Ἀρβανιτία. It originally referred to the inhabitants of this region Arvanon (Άρβανον) or Arvana (Άρβανα)... Source: Michael Attaliates , History 297 mentions "Arbanitai" as part of a mercenary army (c.1085); Anna Comnena , Alexiad VI: 7/7 and XIII 5 / 1-2 mentions a region or city called Arbanon or Arbana, and "Arbanitai" as its inhabitants (1148). See also Vranousi (1970) and Ducellier (1968). ...and then to all Albanian speakers. In Albanian, the self-designation Arbëror , which is still used by Arvanites and Arbëreshë from Italy, had been exchanged for the new name Shqiptarë since the 17th century, an innovation that was not shared by the Albanian-speaking migrant communities of southern Greece. The alternative exonym Albanian may finally be etymologically related, but is of less clear origin (see Albania (toponym) . It was probably confused with "Arbanitai" at some stage because of the phonological similarity. In later Byzantine usage, the terms "Arbanitai" and "Albanoi", with a range of variants, were used interchangeably, while sometimes the same groups were also called by the classical Illyrian names. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Alvani (Albanian) was used mainly in formal registers and Arvanites (Αρβανίτες) in the more popular Greek speech, but both were used indiscriminately for Muslim and Christian Albanians inside and outside Greece. During the twentieth century, it became customary to use only Αλβανοί for the Albanian people, and only Αρβανίτες for the Greek-Arvanites, thus emphasizing the national separation between the two groups. There is some uncertainty insofar as the term Arvanites also includes the small remaining Christian Albanian-speaking population groups in Epirus and western Macedonia. Unlike the southern Arvanites, these speakers would use the name Shqiptarë both for themselves and for the Albanian nationals... Source: Banfi (1996). ...although these communities also espouse a Greek national identity today. Source: Hart, Laurie Kain (1999). Culture "Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation on the Northwestern Borders of Greece". American Ethnologist 26: 196. doi: 10.1525 / ae.1999.26.1.196 . The word Shqiptár is also used in some villages in Thrace, where Arvanites migrated from the Pindus Mountains during the 19th century... Source: Moraitis (2002). but they also use the name Arvanitis speaking in Greek, while the Euromosaic (1996) reports that the designation Chams is today rejected by the group. The GHM report (1995) subsumes the Epirotic Albanians under the term Arvanites, although it notes the different linguistic self-designations,... Source: Botsi (2003: 21). ...on the other hand, applies the term Arvanites only to the populations of the compact Arvanite settlements of southern Greece, in accordance with the self-identification of these groups. Linguistically, the ethnologist... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Tosk: A language of Albania" ...identifies the present Albanian/Arvanitish dialects of northwestern Greece (in Epirus and Lechovo) with those of the Chams, and thus classifies them with standard Tosk Albanian, as opposed to "Arvanitika Albanian proper" ( i.e., southern Greece-Arvanitika). Nevertheless, he reports that in Greek, the Epirus varieties are also often subsumed under "Arvanitika" in a broader sense. He estimates the number of Albanian speakers in Epirus at 10,000. It is said that Arvanitika itself ... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Arvanitika: A Language of Greece" ...includes the remote dialects spoken in Thrace.

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@@Agras14 When you write I want sources on EVERY subject (don't skip 3 subjects ...) Kolokotronis was an Albanian/Arvanites - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34 The community was classified Souliotes as Greek in the Ottoman system of social classification because they were part of the Greek Orthodox Church and because of their identification with Greece.However, they spoke the Souliotic dialect of Albanian besides Greek, because of their Albanian origins. Source : Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopecek: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945): The Formation of National Movements. Central European University Press, 2006, ISBN 963-7326-60-X, S. 173. “The Souliotes were Albanian by origin and Orthodox by faith”. Giannēs Koliopoulos, John S. Koliopoulos, Thanos Veremēs: Greece: The Modern Sequel: from 1831 to the Present. 2. Edition. C. Hurst & Co., 2004, Nußberger Angelika; Wolfgang Stoppel (2001), Minderheitenschutz im östlichen Europa (Albanien) (PDF) (in German), p. 8 Nikolopoulou, 2013, p. 299

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@@Agras14 3:41 = Arvanites = Albanian

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@@Universal.. As written previously. The most famous heroes of the *Greek* War of Independence were *Greeks* . Names such as Karaiskakis, Kolokotronis, Papaflessas, Diakos, Nikitaras, Kanaris, Anagnostaras, Mavrogenous, are just a few. And thousands upon thousands of Greek fighters such as Maniots, Agrafiots/Sarakatsani, Sfakians, and Greek Klephts and Armatoloi. In fact, we have the names of all, stored in the National Library of Greece. There was a certain committee which was established in 1846, in order to remunerate and compensate the fighters of 1821, and that's how we know of all; literally thousands of names.

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@@Universal.. Theodoros Kolokotronis was Greek; fully Greek to be precise. Instead of digging baseless sources, you might as well read his memoirs (yes he wrote memoirs) where he identifies as a Greek, and gives a short background of his family as well. In his memoirs we learn that the earliest attested region of the family is Ρουπάκι, at the borders of Arcadia and Messenia, which up until 1670 had the name of Κότσικας. The village existed from the Byzantine era, prior of 1200, and its name originated from a local powerful family of the village. Κότσικας is a diminutive of Κωνσταντίνος/Constantine. Furthermore, in the Ottoman census of Peloponnese in the 1460s which made an ethnic distinction between Greeks and Albanians, that village is recorded as having a purely Greek population comprised of 21 houses. Furthermore, it is a known fact that Theodoros Kolokotronis couldn't even speak Albanian as a second language; Kolokotronis' secretary, Theodoros Rigopoulos, in his own memoirs mentions the existence of a sister of Theodoros who was abducted as a child by the Turks. When Theodoros Kolokotronis went to Albania as an envoy of the French, he met her there where she lived as the wife of an imam. She and her husband knew her origins. Brother and sister hugged with tears but could not speak because the woman didn't speak Greek, while Kolokotronis didn't speak Albanian. We even have a descendant of his who has tested his Y-DNA (patrilineal DNA), and it shows that he belonged to a rare Greek haplogroup that has been in Greece way more than a 1000 years, meaning way before there was any migration of Albanians to the south, and is even totally absent from all Albanians, namely I-A480. Now, let's touch upon the Souliotes, such as Markos Botsaris and Kitsos Tzavelas. Souliotes were a bilingual community, that had mixed Greek-Albanian origin. There are many sources that support this. Also, regarding their two dialects, Markos Botsaris himself wrote a dictionary. Specifically, Markos wrote the dictionary in 1809 when he was 19 years of age, on the island of Corfu after the request of French Philehellene François Pouqueville. After the dictionary was finished Markos gave it to Pouqueville, whom with his turn donated it to the National Library of Paris, where the original continues to be. According to Pouqueville's notes, Markos Botsaris wrote the dictionary with the help of his father Kitsos Botsaris, his uncle Notis Botsaris and his father-in-law Christakis Kalogeros. The whole dictionary was written with Greek letters, and it included 1494 Albanian and 1701 Greek entries. Of the Albanian entries, the 528 are loans from Greek, 187 loans from Turkish, 21 loans from Italian and 2 from other languages. What does this indicate to you? First of all that the Souliotes were bilingual in Greek and Albanian, and second, that even their Albanian dialect was almost 1/3 Greek in vocabulary. Furthermore, Titos Yochalas, who studied, analyzed, and published the dictionary in 1980, wrote that even the syntax of the Albanian dialect followed Greek rules. Imagine that. And since we touched on Markos, even the aforementioned Tzavellas left us with a document, namely his personal diary while a captive of Ali Pasha, and is written in Greek also. Even for real Arvanite-speakers such as Andreas "Miaoulis" Vokos you mentioned above, few know it but his family actually originated from the Greek-speaking town of Fylla in Euboea. Andreas Miaoulis himself writes this in a letter to Kapodistrias, which i can also share. His family arrived at Hydra in 1668, along with a number of other Greek families from throughout the Greek world. Sorry to disappoint you, but both Hydra and Spetses had a very mixed population, even though Arvanitika prevailed as a language because it was established on the two islands from prior of the 17th century, and most immigrants came after 1668.

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@@Elstocks21 The name Arvanites and its equivalents are used today both in Greek ( Αρβανίτες , singular form Αρβανίτης , feminine Αρβανίτισσα ) and in Arvanitika itself (Arbëreshë or Arbërorë). In standard Albanian, all three names are used: Arvanitë, Arbëreshë or Arbërorë. The name Arvanites and its equivalents can be traced back to an ancient ethnonym used in Greek to refer to Albanians. Source: John Van Antwerp (1994). The late medieval Balkans: a critical study from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman conquest. University of Michigan Press. Source 2 : ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΗΣ ΣΥΝΤΕΘΕΝ ΠΑΡΑ ΣΠΥΡΙΔΩΝΟΣ ΒΛΑΝΤΗ. Καὶ παρ 'αὐτοῦ πλουτισθὲν τῆ προσθήκῃ περίπου δεκακισχιλίων Λέξεων. ΕΚΔΟΣΙΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ. ΕΝ ΒΕΝΕΤΙᾼ. ΠΑΡΑ ΝΙΚΟΛΑῼ ΓΛΥΚΕΙ Τῼ ΕΞ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΩΝ • 1819; ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΝ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΙΚΙΚΟΝ. (σελ. 5) ... Albanie: Ἐπαρ. τῆς Εὐρωπ. Τουρκίας. Ἀλβανία, κοιν. Ἀρβανιτία. It originally referred to the inhabitants of this region Arvanon (Άρβανον) or Arvana (Άρβανα)... Source: Michael Attaliates , History 297 mentions "Arbanitai" as part of a mercenary army (c.1085); Anna Comnena , Alexiad VI: 7/7 and XIII 5 / 1-2 mentions a region or city called Arbanon or Arbana, and "Arbanitai" as its inhabitants (1148). See also Vranousi (1970) and Ducellier (1968). ...and then to all Albanian speakers. In Albanian, the self-designation Arbëror , which is still used by Arvanites and Arbëreshë from Italy, had been exchanged for the new name Shqiptarë since the 17th century, an innovation that was not shared by the Albanian-speaking migrant communities of southern Greece. The alternative exonym Albanian may finally be etymologically related, but is of less clear origin (see Albania (toponym) . It was probably confused with "Arbanitai" at some stage because of the phonological similarity. In later Byzantine usage, the terms "Arbanitai" and "Albanoi", with a range of variants, were used interchangeably, while sometimes the same groups were also called by the classical Illyrian names. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Alvani (Albanian) was used mainly in formal registers and Arvanites (Αρβανίτες) in the more popular Greek speech, but both were used indiscriminately for Muslim and Christian Albanians inside and outside Greece. During the twentieth century, it became customary to use only Αλβανοί for the Albanian people, and only Αρβανίτες for the Greek-Arvanites, thus emphasizing the national separation between the two groups. There is some uncertainty insofar as the term Arvanites also includes the small remaining Christian Albanian-speaking population groups in Epirus and western Macedonia. Unlike the southern Arvanites, these speakers would use the name Shqiptarë both for themselves and for the Albanian nationals... Source: Banfi (1996). ...although these communities also espouse a Greek national identity today. Source: Hart, Laurie Kain (1999). Culture "Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation on the Northwestern Borders of Greece". American Ethnologist 26: 196. doi: 10.1525 / ae.1999.26.1.196 . The word Shqiptár is also used in some villages in Thrace, where Arvanites migrated from the Pindus Mountains during the 19th century... Source: Moraitis (2002). but they also use the name Arvanitis speaking in Greek, while the Euromosaic (1996) reports that the designation Chams is today rejected by the group. The GHM report (1995) subsumes the Epirotic Albanians under the term Arvanites, although it notes the different linguistic self-designations,... Source: Botsi (2003: 21). ...on the other hand, applies the term Arvanites only to the populations of the compact Arvanite settlements of southern Greece, in accordance with the self-identification of these groups. Linguistically, the ethnologist... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Tosk: A language of Albania" ...identifies the present Albanian/Arvanitish dialects of northwestern Greece (in Epirus and Lechovo) with those of the Chams, and thus classifies them with standard Tosk Albanian, as opposed to "Arvanitika Albanian proper" ( i.e., southern Greece-Arvanitika). Nevertheless, he reports that in Greek, the Epirus varieties are also often subsumed under "Arvanitika" in a broader sense. He estimates the number of Albanian speakers in Epirus at 10,000. It is said that Arvanitika itself ... Source: Ethnologue (2005). "Albanian, Arvanitika: A Language of Greece" ...includes the remote dialects spoken in Thrace.

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@@Elstocks21 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@saqartvelo11]

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[@antonioguagenti_]

Happy indipendence day from Italy 🇮🇹🇬🇷

[@kostaskothras9491]

Fratelli 🇬🇷🧡🇮🇹

[@andrejmarkezic6926]

I love and adore Greek people, there used to be a Greek minority in Istra and especially in Trieste/Trst. Sadly they were driven out by the Italians. Everyone around these parts adored them and they were very kind 🇸🇮❤️🇬🇷

[@hectorromero4913]

Happy independence day Greece, loves from Paraguay 🇵🇾❤🇬🇷

[@GeorgeSFE]

Long live to the Hellenic Revolution Love live to the nation Of Hellenes Ζήτω Το Έθνος Των Ελλήνων!!! ⚔

[@yazovgaming]

Ζήτω η Ελλάδα!!!!

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@GeorgeSFE]

@@Universal.. Nope, Arvanites were not Albanians, were Greeks, i have met Arvanites and have friends and we disguss and laugh about this matter. Do people from N.Epirus speak Albanian? From Vouliarates and other places? They are Albanians or Greeks? If war comes with Turkey they will fight with Greece because they are Greeks. Albanians since i know myself they were always with our enemy, with Turks back then were Pashas or soldiers that slaughter Greeks and with Nazis Tsamuria was fighting with them, Camuria was fightin with Greek communists and Slavs so communism take control, after Greek communists invited them. You will see nothing in other countries that is Albanian, you will see many things that is Greeks, so no! Even flag of Albanian is Greek symbol....

[@GeorgeSFE]

@@Universal.. Also Pontic Greeks who came to make war to Turkey in WWI were speaking Turkish, so they were Turkish that does war on Turkish? Your historians make such history that only them they believe it!

[@Universal..]

@@GeorgeSFE Some Arvanites today, hate to be called "Albanians". Because the Greek state has done everything to assimilate them to the point of hating their Albanian origins... That's why your Arvanite friends laugh about it (deep down they know they are Albanians...)

[@ArsenAl-zorK]

Much love from Armenia to our glorious Greek brothers and sisters! 🇦🇲 ❤ 🇬🇷 Ελευθερία ή θάνατος!

[@albanianhere6587]

Their not the old hellens they are all albanians.

[@ferred3056]

@@albanianhere6587 like you?

[@ioannisnoni4343]

MUCH love to Armenia🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤from Greece, we love you brothers and sister's

[@ToastThiefOfficial167]

@@albanianhere6587 your wrong

[@albanianhere6587]

@@ToastThiefOfficial167 😂😂

[@wergerrt.8944]

Χαιρετισμούς από το Κουρδιστάν! 🌿🌿

[@kostas0352]

Greetings from greece! Kurdistan is the nation that still hasn't gained independence from the turks, soon tho as demographics tho it will be inevitable, my best friend is Kurdish, warmest greetings to all the Kurdish people!

[@StrangeCrab4]

Nice i like greek songs

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Da_historian007xv]

@@Universal.. shut up THEY WERE GREEKS

[@god99thmiketri52]

@@Da_historian007xv yes

[@jimsainis4202]

@@Universal.. stop spreading misinformation

[@xKingBilly_]

@@Universal.. Arvanites are not Albanians! They are Greeks with Albanian ancestors at best, but even that is not 100% the case. The Term comes most likely from the Region they were coming from and the language they spoke alongside Greek. Tell an Arvanite in Greece that he is Albanian and he will tell you to shut up

[@KievanRusBall]

From Ukraine with love, orthodox brothers!!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷☦️🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

[@manos1611]

@@Universal.. No, my friend, you have confused them ....... 9/8 were born around the Peloponnese and in mainland Greece, even in Aegean islands. Secondly, I do not know any Albanian who has these names, but the Albanians in 1821 were our enemies.

[@andreaandrea7181]

@@manos1611 he is everything correctly, good my friend

[@andreaandrea7181]

@@Universal.. he is some Greek heroes

[@Universal..]

@@manos1611 Many arvanites were born in the Peloponnese... And they assimilated (change of name etc...), but their ethnicity remained Albanian... Some Albanians were your enemies because the greatest warriors of the Ottoman Empire were for the majority of Albanians "Arnavut (Albanian in Turkish)", so it's not a surprise to find Albanians on the Ottoman side... Moreover there were also Greeks on the Ottoman side against the Greeks ...

[@piscator13optimus]

That's what I call an appropriate upload! Long Live Hellas! Long Live Freedom!

[@greekwatchcollector722]

ΖΗΤΩ Ο ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΣ🇬🇷☦️

[@stephanosgreco2602]

@Jordan & Jordan Your government officials admitted that north-macedonians are slavo-bulgarian. You can stop with the bullshit now.

[@stateofconstatinopole8316]

@Jordan & Jordan lol I'm not going to say anything but good joke

[@faustogiorno2300]

@Jordan & Jordan North macedonians: a civilization uncovered in 1991 🤪

[@fruitypuffpie1585]

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[@historicallegends3702]

@@stateofconstatinopole8316 bro I know you You are the one in wion news comment section

[@Eclipsemoon994]

Long live Greece🇬🇷💙 Respect from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@why_not9134]

I am a greek and i live in sinop in turkey, they don't even build us a school to learn greek and i have to learn from my parents and friends, I would wanna be a part of greece like every greek i know in sinop

[@theguy9166]

Go to greece?

[@cazwalt9013]

@@theguy9166 if turkey is a democratic country that gives rights to its minorities then they should build greek schools but wait they're not they're a Systematically racist country

[@theguy9166]

@@cazwalt9013 is that a problem?

[@theguy9166]

@@cazwalt9013 why would we build schools who arent turkish? Thats stupid. They should build their own school.

[@Chorophilax]

@@theguy9166 so kurds (who make 1/4 of Turkeys population) shouldnt have schools? Being part of a democratic nation means that the goverment has to take care of its citizens no matter their ethnicity, something that Turkey has failed multiple times. Just in 1955 they expelled 55.000 Greeks from Constantinople, which were protected by the treaty of Lausanne. Should had Greece done the same to the Thracian Turks?

[@viktor5833]

Συγχαρητήρια σε όλους τους Έλληνες για την εθνική σας γιορτή! 200 χρόνια ελληνικής ανεξαρτησίας! Γεια σας από τη Ρωσία!

[@Manowar_]

🇬🇷🇷🇺☦️

[@amongusamongus465]

Russian+Slavs + Greeks+Cypriot= Best folks in the world ☦️🇷🇺❤️🇷🇸❤️🇬🇷❤️🇨🇾☦️

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Universal..]

@@vasjrgatsis13 3:41

[@Universal..]

@@vasjrgatsis13 Kolokotronis was an Albanian ... - Colocotroni ( Kolokotronis ) who was once in our service, and has since, has may be remembered, made himself conspicuous on Greece. He is an ALBANIAN, and as acknowledged, a kleftis ( roober ) ... He and companions, ( seven or eight ), desperate ALBANIANS like himself here elosely pursued by the Turks ... Source : Selections, My Journal, The Mediterranean, London, Greece.p.111 . 4. And all the fighters of 1821 were Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) ... Even Antonios Kriezis was an Arvanite ... And I didn't mention everyone because the list is very long ... Don't spit on the Albanians my friend, because a lot of Albanian blood has been spilled for your freedom ... Thank the Arvanites/Souliotes for the modern Greek nation ! Source: Cambridge Liberary collection A HISTORY OF GREECE, volume 6, the greek revolution, part 1 George Finlay : The Albanians p.34

[@mohammadzaid1221]

Dad: this summer we are going to Istanbul. * Me after listening to this song * Me: You mean Constantinople Μπαμπά: αυτό το καλοκαίρι θα πάμε στην Istanbul. * Εγώ αφού ακούσω αυτό το τραγούδι * Εγώ: Εννοείς την Κωνσταντινούπολη

[@nodspruductionss3812]

Nobody calls it istabul in greek in the first place 😂

[@namenotneeded5128]

@@nodspruductionss3812 You mean it was a greek phrase that the Turks used to disgrace Constantine the Great?

[@achaeanmapping4408]

The funny thing is that istanbul is also Greek and it comes form "εις την Πόλη" which means the city in Greek (Constantinople is also called the city in Greek because the name Constantinople is realy long)

[@namenotneeded5128]

@@achaeanmapping4408 Constantinople is called after the name Constantine "not the city" It sounds nothing like ¡$+@nb(_)\

[@achaeanmapping4408]

@@namenotneeded5128 In greece Constantinople is also called "the city" because the name constantinople is realy long.

[@Cur9516]

Happy 200 years of indenpendece Greece 🇭🇺🇬🇷

[@gekatanights]

Happy 200 years of independence Love from Russia🇷🇺🇬🇷

[@aoaoaya1]

@History & Politics Fan your country gained independence thanks to Russia, so shut

[@aoaoaya1]

@History & Politics Fan those who gave Russians language were from Greece (Byzantine), haha, so you shut

[@aoaoaya1]

@History & Politics Fan they were from Thessaloniki! You are making me laugh right now

[@aoaoaya1]

@History & Politics Fan i am not communist, and I know about all this terrible things that happened in Bulgaria. But they are still Greek, not only because of the place where they were born, but also because of language. The Cyrillic was written from Old Greek. I personally don’t like USSR same as you, communists destroyed even Russian culture. And the last thing, fact that Bulgaria gained its Independence, remains a fact, even today there are monuments to general Skobelev in Bulgaria, and many Bulgarian Militiamen were serving in Russian armies during Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878

[@aoaoaya1]

@History & Politics Fan and how did you thank Russia? Entered less than 40 years later into WW1 against Serbia and Russian Empire.

[@user-ep9en1xh2r]

Happy anniversary day! Greetings from Russia☦️ 🇷🇺🇬🇷

[@user-xm9cz5up3e]

🤗

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Happy 200 Years of Independence Greece 🇬🇷 from the USA 🇺🇸

[@m1tsos_athan660]

Ζήτω η Πατρίδα! Ζήτω η Ελλάς! 🇬🇷🇨🇾☦️💙

[@pooky4565]

Happy National Day brothers! Χρόνια Πολλά Ελλάδα! 🇷🇴❤️🇬🇷

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

[@user-xm8lc1om6w]

@@Universal.. my god get a life

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 Arbanon or Arvanon was a principality ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. Source : Ducellier 1999, p. 780

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 The Arvanites in Greece originated from Albanian settlers who moved south at different times between the 13th and 16th centuries from areas of what is now southern Albania. Source: Ducellier (1994) The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be multiple. In many cases, the Arvanites were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to resettle areas that had been largely depopulated by wars, epidemics and other reasons, and they were employed as soldiers. Some later movements would also have been motivated to escape Islamization after the Ottoman conquest. The main waves of migration to southern Greece began around 1300, peaked during the 14th century, and ended around 1600. Source: Troupis, Theodore K. Σκαλίζοντας τις ρίζες μας. Σέρβου. p. 1036. Etc. The Arvanites first reached Thessaly, then Attica and finally the Peloponnese. Source: Biris gives an estimated figure of 18200 Arvanites who were settled in southern Greece between 1350 and 1418. The poem "Thourios" by the 18th century poet and Greek national hero Rigas Feraios included an appeal to the Arvanites, as well as to other Orthodox Christian peoples living in the general area of Greece at that time, to rebel against Ottoman rule. Indeed, during the Greek War of Independence, many Arvanites played an important role in fighting on the Greek side against the Ottomans, often as Greek national heroes. With the formation of modern nations and nation-states in the Balkans, the Arvanites are now considered an integral part of the Greek nation. In 1899, leading representatives of the Arvanites in Greece, including descendants of the independence heroes, issued a manifesto calling on their Albanian compatriots outside Greece to join in the creation of a common Albanian-Greek state. Source: first published in Ελληνισμός , Athens 1899, 195-202. Quoted in Gkikas 1978: 7-9. During the twentieth century, after the establishment of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece came to disassociate themselves much more strongly from Albanians, emphasizing instead their national self-identification as Greeks. At the same time, it has been suggested that many Arvanites in earlier decades maintained a position of assimilation... Source: Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). Etc. ...leading to a gradual loss of their traditional language and a shift of the younger generation to Greek. At times, especially during the nationalist regime of August 4 under Ioannis Metaxas from 1936-1941, Greek public institutions followed a policy of active discouragement and repression of the use of Arvanitika. Source: GHM (1995), Trudgill / Tzavaras (1977). See also Tsitsipis (1981), Botsi (2003). In the decades following World War II and the Greek Civil War, many Arvanites were pressured to abandon Arvanitika in favor of monolingualism in the national language, and in particular the archaic Katharevousa which remained the official variant of Greek until 1976. This tendency was widespread mainly during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. Source: Gefou-Madianou, pp. 420-421 Etc!

[@Universal..]

@@Agras14 While Arvanitika was commonly called Albanian in Greece until the 20th century, the desire of Arvanites to express their ethnic identification as Greeks led to the rejection of language identification with Albanian as well... Source: a b GHM 1995 ...In recent times, Arvanites had only very vague notions of how their language was or was not related to Albanian. Source: Breu (1985: 424) and Tsitsipis (1983) Since Arvanitika is almost exclusively a spoken language, Arvanites also have no practical affiliation with the standard Albanian language used in Albania, as they do not use this form in writing or in the media. The question of linguistic proximity or distance between Arvanitika and Albanian has come to the forefront especially since the early 1990s, when a large number of Albanian immigrants began to enter Greece and came into contact with the local Arvanite communities. Source: Botsi (2003), Athanassopoulou (2005). Since the 1980s, there have been organized efforts to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Arvanites. The largest organization promoting Arvanitika is the "Arvanitik League of Greece" (Αρβανίτικος σύλλογος Ελλάδος). Source: Arvanitik League of Greece

[@INNIMA]

Wow this song is so beautiful! Greek patriotic songs have so much harmony and poetic verses! Respect from USA 🇺🇸

[@geodim3904]

The lyrics go so fucking hard. Beautiful display of the evolution of such an ancient language

[@invictidomini6846]

Happy Independence day Greece🇬🇷 from a half swede🇸🇪 half Argentino🇦🇷!!!💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍

[@panos9238]

How did that happen

[@invictidomini6846]

@@panos9238 what?

[@panos9238]

@@invictidomini6846 You being half swede half Argentino, the story must be really interesting to say the least😅

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@Elstocks21]

@@Universal.. Kolokotronis wasn’t an arvanite. It’s quite common to hear these things being said by albanians but don’t forget that most of the Ottoman forces in the balkans were comprised by Albanian muslims. Don’t misrepresent history. Implying that without albanians, Greece wouldn’t become independent is outrageous since you exclude the majority of Albanians that fought alongside the Ottomans. Arvanites comprised approx 20% of the population of Peloponnese, they were a minority. The Ottoman forces that fought against the Greeks however was mostly muslim Albanians

[@aguywhodreams]

Happy Greek Independence Day from Australia!🇦🇺🇦🇺❤🇬🇷🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇾

[@Astai]

🥳 happy 200 years Greece, 🇬🇧 ♥️ 🇬🇷

[@turcorumtabul9524]

Happy 200th Anniversary of Independence Hellas greetings from Republic of Turkey, past is past we can still be friends 🇬🇷🇬🇷 🤝❤️ 🇹🇷🇹🇷

[@Engifarting456]

ingen is turkphobe he prefered turkish pp

[@icey2979]

Hallo fellow turk maybe us and the Greeks could be friends only time shall tell

[@Universal..]

The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@turcorumtabul9524]

@@icey2979 Yes we can be friends

[@Em_-yd6mi]

🇬🇷💙🤝❤️🇹🇷

[@tyrantphotius_7948]

Long live Greece! ΖΗΤΩ ΤΟ ΕΘΝΟΣ ΑΔΕΛΦΙΑ

[@theprincipalityofstopmotio2146]

Those 9 Dislikes, who could Dislike Greece? Ah.. the Ottomans are here watching us

[@Engifarting456]

1922

[@elishanecaz]

@@Engifarting456 1683 😏

[@yazovgaming]

XD

[@stefanosvlachos]

Only a correction. Arbanites are not Albanians, they are Greeks from the region of Epirus.

[@aeneas7381]

The Arvanites are Albanian though, they speak a Tosk Albanian dialect except they assimilated now and the language fell out of favor.

[@aokiaoki4238]

Arvanites are Greeks of Arvanon

[@aokiaoki4238]

@@aeneas7381 Arvanites have always spoken Greek before anything

[@mariaprelorentzou8135]

It was at this moment that he knew, he FUCKED up

[@pits.893]

@@aeneas7381 Arvanites, as all Tosks. Are a mix of illyrians and Greeks. If you read what Procopius and Strabo write. Southern albania was inhabited by Greeks, but there was a slow movement of albanians to the South. Also, if you read about it. You'll find that the Dorian's originated From southern albania as well. Anyways. Greek Arvanites draw most of Their ancestry From native Greeks with whom they mixed. If you read about Their way south, and their suffering, you'll realise most of the settlers to the South (estimated to be 100.000 by the most experienced Arvanitologist, Kostas Biris) died or moved to Italy. During the Ottoman empire, albanian speaking officials, served as a force of assimlation, Which assimlated many Greeks into Arvanites. Actually, the Arvanites were killed and hunted down so much by the Turks, and incoureaged to emigrate by the venicians, that out of 120.000 Arvanite speakers in Greece in 1830s and 1840s the ones with an Arvanite surname were about 56.000 while the vast majority of Their villages had a Greek name. A characteristic example of albanisation is Attica. Atticas large Arvanite villages were all Greek names. The aravnite names were given in uninhabited locations. This is explained as following. The Arvanites, who were soldiers, were killed by the Turks, in their military villages which subsequently became uninhabited. Some of them fled to the neighboring village. Where they slowly Albanised them. Many of the Arvanite villages were in fact greek speaking in the 17th century. Another proof of the albanisation of geeks. Also, another point that is to be made, is that Genetically, albanians are closer to Greeks From Thessaly and Macedonia. While North albanians are close only to Greeks From Epirus. Strabo claims, that, epirotes. Macedonians and thessalians had a common ancestry. This would explain the relationship between them today. Since no Arvanite settlement happened in thessaly or Macedonia. And Epirus is closer to northern albania, because Epirus actually had influence From Tosks, who are partially illyrians. So this is normal as well

[@fedcard]

"Ελευθερία ή θάνατος", in Spanish "Libertad o muerte". "Freedom or Death" is the lotto of both Uruguay and Greece. And our national flags are the most similar between them. Both flags don't have an official shade of blue. Greetings from Uruguay.

[@Palladiosios]

Confused screaming

[@cupiter7864]

"Ya istiklal, ya ölüm!", (freedom or death in turkish) was epitome of Ataturk's speech to assembly before grand offensive, which concluded the greco turkish war

[@geodim3904]

@@cupiter7864 "freedom or death" he said while 1 million Greeks and 2.5 million Armenians were killed.

[@kaanuzun01]

@@geodim3904 What about Turkish massacres of Greeks? Would you say same thing to a Greek?

[@geodim3904]

@@kaanuzun01 there's a difference between millions and a couple thousand. Every country has massacred people. But there are some countries who have genocided millions of innocents. One of those is Turkey. Remember all that happened recently also.

[@fumpaumpa2487]

Happy Independence Day elada country Birthplace of western culture and civilization from the Philippines btw I'm not Hungarian

[@Dibipable]

I am french from the french city Marseille founded by the greeks of Phocaea in Anatolia, and i am of french norman stump, of sicilian stump and of sardinian stump, short i am a greek.

[@cazwalt9013]

God bless you. We all share some part of hellenism in us by following its great ideals 🇬🇷❤️🇫🇷✝️

[@pnkcnlng228]

Happy anniversary Greece from Lombardy, that may be free one day as you country does. Love Greece 🇬🇷 💙

[@euskadi1924]

Greetings From Turkey, love Greece 🇹🇷❤️🇬🇷

[@swarytch13]

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[@user-kp9od1jn1z]

💝

[@nikrose5229]

HAPPY 200 YEARS GREECE!!!🇬🇷🇺🇸

[@LaTvrcaBovnapartiste]

Respect From Turkey ;)

[@ramaiv6864]

Turk

[@stavroszotalis9194]

I hope we will become friends... Respect from Thessaloniki, Greece.

[@ahmetakcan3577]

Kardeşim başka saygı duyacak bir şey bulamadın mı? Ceddimize karşı kazanılan bir zaferi kutlamak ne derece doğru? Yine de kişisel görüşün saygı duyarım selametle

[@LaTvrcaBovnapartiste]

@@ahmetakcan3577 Kardeşim adamlarla hep düşman kalacak değiliz ya.

[@aokiaoki4238]

🤮

[@sandrovalentini6295]

Love by your italinas sons 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

[@kostaskothras9491]

Fratello🇬🇷👊🇮🇹

[@angelopueyygarcia43]

Feliz día de la independencia/Happy Independence Day my Greek brothers 🇬🇷🇪🇸

[@AlabamaRocketTroop]

Absolutely beautiful. Respect from the US. 🇬🇷🇺🇸

[@peterthegoldenfighter6932]

The Greeks aren't fight as legends.. The legends fight as Greeks 🇬🇷 Η Ελλάδα ποτέ δεν πεθαίνει 🤍💙

[@grande-turko]

Are the Greeks, who were defeated by 250,000 Greeks and 50,000 Turks in 1071, fighting heroically? 😅😅. Yes, they were defeated by the Turks many times because they fought so well, and they were unplugged in 1453.

[@Povest1389]

Hellenes, happy independence day! You can always count on your Serbian brothers. 🇷🇸🇬🇷

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ....

[@kostakws]

@@Universal.. Love how you troll like pushing your agenda through copy pasting in every KZbin section about Greece, cope harder

[@Universal..]

@@kostakws 3:41 = Arvanites = Albanian

[@kostakws]

@@Universal.. You literally take the translation of a guy from Norway, Arvanites and Albanians are pretty close and can be misstranslated, has happened with other words too in his videos. Albanians were called Tourkalvanoi or just plain Alvanoi, as Botzari's diairy wrote when Albanians were sieging his village in Souli during the Greek war of Indepedence. Even if they spoke Albanian, they were a minority in the population (About 10%), had an ethnical Greek identity and either way they were albanised Greeks as to the langauge shake, as true Albanians are ghegs who are dinaric type of people and tosks are meditarenean type of people, resembling greeks and having many greek traditions as well as retaining many ancient greek words. Last but not least DNA does not defy someone's ethnicity

[@Universal..]

@@kostakws When you write I want sources. Thank you