Too bad for you all the above were proven wrong by the scientific community huh do u mean the Greek community cuz the last time I checked the Albanians wore proven to be linked to Illyrians the last I checked the Albanian languange was and is Indo European Guys a Arvanite that says I am Greek its not a Arvanit but a Greek The ancestors of the arvanites where Albanian farmers and highlanders from Tosk ria and Epirus My great grandfather was Arvanit Arbanitika belongs to the linguistic family of Albanian The first Christian Albanian migrations to central and southern note Albanian of north western Greece are on Albanian native lands of what is today Greek territory took place as early as the XI XII centuries Trudgill 1975 5 Banfi 1994 19 although the main ones most often mentioned in the bibliography happened in the XIV XV centuries when Albanians were invited to settle in depopulated areas by their Byzantine Catalan or Florentine rulers Tsitsipis 1994 1 Trudgill 1975 5 Nakratzas 1992 20 24 78 90 Banfi 1994 19 According to some authors they were also fleeing forced Islamization by the Turks in what is today Albania Katsanis 1994 1 So some have estimated that when the Ottomans conquered the whole Greek territory in the XV century some 45 of it was populated by Albanians Trudgill 1975 6 Another wave of Albanian migrations took place during the Ottoman period mainly in the XVIII century Trudgill 1975 6 Banfi 1994 19 All these Albanians are the ancestors of modern day Arbanites in Central and Southern Greece When the modern Greek state was formed the Albanian speaking population and its language were called Albanian Bickford Smith 1993 47 Embeirikos 1994 Vakalopoulos 1994 243 249 However the policy of the new Greek state was to Hellenize all the non Greek speaking Orthodox populations within its then limited territory as well as in the territories of Epirr Macedonia Thrace and Asia Minor still under Ottoman rule As elsewhere in Europe army and education were the most effective mechanisms of Hellenization assisted by the judiciary system ready to denounce and punish all forms of behavior inconsistent with the state s nationalist culture Kitromilidis 1990 38 Kollias 1994 check this or this or ARVANITET By Irakli Kocollari Reviewed by Dr Arben Kallamata If u are Arvanit than translate this my grandpa used to sing it to me Moj e bukura Mor si t lash m s t pash si t lash si t lash si t lash m s t pash rri o laman se sje Arvanit ti po ik e shk rdheu me gjith Grek The fustanella is albanian The most maniotes are of arvanite origin the have same customes as the northern albanian highlanders and the montenegrin highlanders Theodor Kollokotroni was atleast partially Albanian one of his grandparents was from Delvina southern Albania He considered the albanians as his brothers by blood BUT HEY I won t bother with facts here anymore they are no good for a bunch on ultra nationalist whatsoever They even like Slav more than us and my great grandfathers had fought for Greece all I have to say F em You can t give a blind man his eyesight if he wants to remain in darkness for eternity