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The Albanian tribes (Albanian: fiset shqiptare) form a historical mode of social organization ... located far south in the middle of a Greek population.
The Greeks in Albania are ethnic Greeks who live in or originate from areas within modern Albania.They form the largest minority group in the country. They are mostly concentrated in the south of the country, in the areas of the northern part of the historical region of Epirus, in parts of Vlorë County, [3] Gjirokastër, Korçë, [4] and Berat County. [5]
An Albanian of Greece, engraving by Robert Pollard, after a drawing by Edward Daniel Clarke, 1813.. Albanians in Greece (Albanian: Shqiptarët në Greqi; Greek: Αλβανοί στην Ελλάδα, romanized: Alvanoí stin Elláda) are people of Albanian ethnicity or ancestry who live in or originate from areas within modern Greece.
During classical antiquity, Albania was home to several Illyrian tribes such as the Albanoi, Ardiaei, Bylliones, Dassaretii, Enchele, Labeatae, Taulantii, Parthini, Penestae, Amantes, and many others, but also Bryges and Epirote tribes, as well as several Greek colonies established on the Illyrian coast in cooperation with the local Illyrians ...
The ancient Greek tribes (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλήνων ἔθνη) were groups of Greek-speaking populations living in Greece, Cyprus, and the various Greek colonies. They were primarily divided by geographic , dialectal , political , and cultural criteria, as well as distinct traditions in mythology and religion .
Cham Albanians or Chams (Albanian: Çamë; Greek: Τσάμηδες, Tsámides), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in southwestern Albania and northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria.
Fleming considers the Souliotes an Orthodox Albanian people, but also Greek-speaking. [204] She also states that the Souliote people, who practiced a form of Orthodox Christianity and spoke Greek, were seen not as Greeks but as Albanians. [205] Peter Bartl says that the Souliotes were an Albanian tribal community of Greek Orthodox religion. [206]
An argument claimed by some scholars as an indication of a location of Albanian further north than present-day Albania in antiquity is the number of loanwords from Ancient Greek, mostly from Doric dialect, which is considered by them relatively small, even though Southern Illyria neighbored the Classical Greek civilization and there were a ...