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As of 2019, Greece was the second top destination for Albanians, as movement to Greece constituted 35.3% of total Albanian immigration. 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.
The vast majority of the Albanians in Greece is estimated to be between 65–70% of the total number of immigrants in the country. According to the 2001 census, there are 443,550 holders of Albanian citizenship in Greece, with the total of Albanian immigrants in Greece numbering well over 650,000. [23]
Ali Demi – World War II hero of Albania born in Filiates, Greece in 1918, and died during a battle with Axis forces in Vlora, Albania in 1943. After him was created the first Cham battalion in ELAS army, the battalion "Ali Demi" Musa Demi – Revolutionary and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening
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 ...
Arvanites in Greece originate from Albanian settlers [19] [20] who moved south from areas in what is today southern Albania during the Middle Ages. [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.
After 1991, with the collapse of communism in Albania, a huge number of Albanian immigrants live and work in Greece. In the 2001 census, 274,390 ethnic Albanians are reported residing in Greece, [50] [51] mostly economic migrants.
Foreign Minister of Albania Edmond Panariti (left) and Foreign Minister of Greece Dimitris Avramopoulos (right) in October 2012.. After the Albanian Declaration of Independence was made in 1912, the land division between Albania and Greece was resolved under the influence of the Great Powers (Austria-Hungary and Italy) with the Florence Protocol.
Greece has received many illegal immigrants beginning in the 1990s and continuing during the 2000s and 2010s. Migrants make use of the many islands in the Aegean Sea , directly west of Turkey. A spokesman for the European Union 's border control agency said that the Greek-Albanian border is "one of Europe's worst-affected external land borders."