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 Illyriansthe last I checked the Albanian languange was and is IndoEuropean Guys a Arvanite that says Iam Greek its not a Arvanit but a GreekThe ancestors of the arvanites where Albanian farmers and highlanders from Toskria and EpirusMy greatgrandfather was ArvanitArbanitika belongs to the linguistic family of AlbanianThe first Christian Albanian migrations to central and southernnote Albanian of northwestern Greece are on Albanian native lands of what is today Greek territory took place as early as the XIXII centuries Trudgill  Banfi  although the main ones most often mentioned in the bibliography happened in the XIVXV centuries when Albanians were invited to settle in depopulated areas by their Byzantine Catalan or Florentine rulers Tsitsipis  Trudgill  Nakratzas    Banfi  According to some authors they were also fleeing forced Islamization by the Turks in what is today Albania Katsanis  So some have estimated that when the Ottomans conquered the whole Greek territory in the XV century some  of it was populated by Albanians Trudgill  Another wave of Albanian migrations took place during the Ottoman period mainly in the XVIII century Trudgill  Banfi  All these Albanians are the ancestors of modernday Arbanites in Central and Southern Greece  When the modern Greek state was formed the Albanianspeaking population and its language were called Albanian BickfordSmith   Embeirikos  Vakalopoulos  However the policy of the new Greek state was to Hellenize all the nonGreek 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 states nationalist culture Kitromilidis  Kollias  check thishttpwwwnationmastercomencyclopediaArvanitika or this httpwwwtraboinicomalpublichtml or ARVANITET By Irakli Kocollari Reviewed by Dr Arben Kallamata    If u are Arvanit than translate thismy grandpa used to sing it to meMoj e bukura Mor si t lash m st pash si t lash si t lash si t lash m st pash  rri o laman se sje Arvanit ti po ik e shkrdheu 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 wont bother with facts hereanymorethey are no good for a bunch on ultranationalist whatsoeverThey even like Slav more than us and my greatgrandfathers had fought for Greeceall I have to say Fem You cant give a blind man his eyesight if he wants to remain in darkness for eternity