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While Greece does not record ethnicity on censuses, Albanians form the largest non-Greek ethnic community and the top immigrant population in the country. [11] As of 2019, Greece was the second top destination for Albanians, as movement to Greece constituted 35.3% of total Albanian immigration.
This is a list of Albanians in Greece that includes both Greek people of Albanian descent and Albanian immigrants that have resided in Greece. The list is sorted by the fields or occupations in which the notable individual has maintained the most influence.
Albanians in Greece (light blue shade), 1923 (C.S. Hammond & Co) Albanians in Greece (orange shade), 1932 . At some times, particularly under the nationalist 4th of August Regime under Ioannis Metaxas of 1936–1941, Greek state institutions followed a policy of actively discouraging and repressing the use of Arvanitika. [42]
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 ...
The Albanian diaspora (Albanian: Mërgata Shqiptare or Diaspora Shqiptare) are the ethnic Albanians and their descendants living outside of Albania, Kosovo, southeastern Montenegro, western North Macedonia, southeastern Serbia, northwestern Greece and Southern Italy.
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. The Chams have their own particular cultural identity within Albanian sub-groups.
TIRANA (Reuters) -Ethnic Greek politician Fredi Beleri left an Albanian jail on Monday to travel to Strasbourg to take the oath as a European Parliament lawmaker but will return to serve his ...
Albania–Greece relations are diplomatic relations between Albania and Greece. [1] They are influenced by factors such as the presence of Albanian immigrants in Greece , the Greek minority in Albania , historical and cultural ties, [ 2 ] and interactions between the governments of both countries.