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Albanian immigrants are the largest immigrant community in Greece. [5] In recent years many Albanian workers and their families have left Greece for other countries in Europe in search of better prospects. In 2022, the number of Albanian citizens in Greece with a valid residency permit was 291,868; down from 422,954 in 2021.
AL. Northern Epirus (Greek: Βόρεια Ήπειρος, Vória Ípiros; Albanian: Epiri i Veriut; Aromanian: Epiru di Nsusu) is a term used to refer to those parts of the historical region of Epirus, in the western Balkans, which today are part of Albania. The term is used mostly by Greeks and is associated with the existence of a substantial ...
A further indeterminate number of Albanians settled in the island in 1435. These Albanians intermingled with the local Greeks of the island. [15] A contemporary report (1687) notes that in 1471 Greeks had abandoned the island and by 1687 almost all of the island was inhabited by Albanians.
Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea.
[21] [22] These Albanian movements into Greece are recorded for the first time in the late 13th and early 14th century. [23] The reasons for this migration are not entirely clear and may be manifold. In many instances the Albanians were invited by the Byzantine and Latin rulers of the time. They were employed to re-settle areas that had been ...
The Albanian government estimates 500,000 Albanians in Greece at the very least without accounting for their children. [12] The 2011 Greece census indicated that Albanians consisted the biggest group of migrants in Greece, numbered roughly 480,000, but taking into consideration the current population of Greece (11 million) and the fact that the ...
Smaller numbers of Albanian, Aromanian and Slavic-speaking Christians also fled to the islands, though they quickly assimilated into the Greek majority. Venetian was the official language of the islands during this period, and many Greeks adopted the Venetian language for social advancement.
Referred to by the local Greek populace as "Turk-Albanians", those forces had also destroyed many cities and towns in Epirus during the 1769–70 revolt there. [65] The Peloponnese suffered more than any other Greek inhabited area by irregular Albanian gangs during the decades following. [66]