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The Griko people in Apulia speak the Griko dialect, as opposed to the Calabrian dialect spoken in Calabria. These dialects, survived far into the Middle Ages and even into these days, [ 73 ] preserve features, sounds, grammar and vocabulary of Ancient Greek , spoken in Magna Graecia by the ancient Greek colonists, Koine Greek and medieval ...
Calabrian Greek (endonym: Greko / Γκραίκο; Italian: Grecanico [2]) is the variety of Italiot Greek used by the ethnic Griko people in Calabria, as opposed to the Italiot Greek dialect spoken in the Grecìa Salentina. Both are remnants of the Ancient and Byzantine Greek colonization of the region.
Calabria is commonly considered part of the "Calabrian Arc", an arc-shaped geographic domain extending from the southern part of the Basilicata Region to the northeast of Sicily, and including the Peloritano Mountains (although some authors extend this domain from Naples in the north to Palermo in the southwest).
Greeks in Italy have been present since the migrations of traders and colonial foundations in the 8th century BC, continuing down to the present time. Nowadays, there is an ethnic minority known as the Griko people, [4] who live in the Southern Italian regions of Calabria (Province of Reggio Calabria) and Apulia, especially the peninsula of Salento, within the ancient Magna Graecia region, who ...
Italiot Greek, also known as Italic-Greek, Salentino-Calabrian Greek or Apulia-Calabrian Greek, is a pair of varieties of Modern Greek spoken in Italy by the Griko people. The Italiot Greek varieties arr spoken in areas of southern Italy, a historical remnant of Magna Graecia. There are two small Griko-speaking communities known as the Griko ...
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Alfredo Costanzo, Australian motor racing driver born in Calabria; Alfredo Valente (photographer), photographer, singer, painter and art collector; Aloysius Lilius, 16th-century astronomer who created the Gregorian Calendar; Amyris of Sybaris, consulted the Delphic oracle; Annalisa Insarda, film, television, theatre and voice actress