In Macedonia, where Greece managed to hold on to large territorial gains,she faced a Bulgarian minority with its own Church and quite a long-establish nationali identity. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, Learn how and when to remove this template message, declaration of Northern Epirote Independence, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Northern Epirote Declaration of Independence, Postage stamps and postal history of Northern Epirus, List of historic Greek countries and regions, "On+28+February+1914" "The Diplomacy of the Great Powers and the Balkan States, 1908–1914", "Liatovouni: a Molossian cemetery and settlement in Epirus", "Fourteenth-century Albanian migration and the 'relative autochthony' of the Albanians in Epeiros. ", "Until the 1960s, Lunxhëri was mainly inhabited by Albanian-speaking Orthodox Christians called the Lunxhots. The Muslim Bonaparte: diplomacy and orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece. But this number was 8% by the same agency a year before. The Kingdom of Epirus was established at the end of the 5th century BC, and became powerful under Pyrrhos II (295-272 BC). They were the only non-Albanian schools remaining in the region after Albanian state schools (henceforth for Muslims and Christians alike) had replaced the 'Ottoman schools' in Muslim villages and the 'Greek schools' in Christian villages, while Aromanian (Kostelanik 1996) and Italian schools had been closed. At the same time Venetians controlled various ports of strategic importance, like Butrinto, but the Ottoman presence became more and more intense until finally in the middle of the 15th century, the entire area came under Turkish rule. "Εκλογές Αλβανία: Αυτοδυναμία Ράμα δείχνουν τα πρώτα αποτελέσματα", "Albanische Hefte. For the balance of the war, Epirus was under Greek administration. It borders the regions of Western Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north. [28] Christianity first spread in Epirus during the 1st century AD, but did not prevail until the 4th century. But the highest concentration of the Greek minority is located in an area of I ,000 square kilometers in the enclaves of Pogon, Dropull and Vurg, specifically, the townships of Lower Dropull, Upper Dropull and Pogon, in the district of Gjirokastra; the townships of Vergo, Finiq, Aliko, Mesopotam and the city of Delvina in the district of Delvina; and the townships of Livadhja, Dhiver and the city of Saranda, in the district of Saranda. Religion, as a criterion of classification, automatically places all the Albanian Aromanians, and also those people who call themselves Albanian Orthodox, into the "Greek minority. After the Aeacid monarchy ended in 232, the Epirote alliance was transformed from a coalition of tribes into a federal state, the Epirote League, with a parliament (synedrion). The German occupation followed (1940–44) until the Allies restored the Greek-Albanian frontier. During the early Byzantine period, Phoenice was the see of a bishopric. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. The latter was one of the most active generals of the revolutionaries and participated in several major armed conflicts, such as the Third Siege of Missolonghi, where Lagoumitzis was the defenders' chief engineer. [o] In October 1921, the Albanian government recognised minority rights and legalised Greek schools only in Greek speaking settlements located within the "recognised minority zone". The Albanian state viewed Greek education as a potential threat to its territorial integrity,[57] while most of the teaching staff was considered suspicious and in favour for the Northern Epirus movement. When the Byzantine Empire became fragmented, an independent kingdom was maintained in Epirus (see Epirus, despotate of) after 1204 ce, but in 1318 Serbs and Albanians overran the area, and in 1430 the Ottoman Turks annexed it. Rather than a clearly defined geographical term, "Northern Epirus" is largely a political and diplomatic term applied to those areas partly populated by ethnic Greeks that were incorporated into the newly independent Albanian state in 1913. Tumulus II in Kuç i Zi near modern Korçë is to date to the 7th century BC, and according to a historical reconstruction, it belonged to Chaonian nobles that replaced a previous Illyrian dynasty about 650 BC. [18] During a great expansion of Illyrian tribes c. 800–700 B.C. [160] During the following decades the majority of Greek schools were closed and Greek education was prohibited in most districts. And neither in Greek antiquity nor after the Roman conquest were the borders of an "Epiros" clearly defined: twentieth century Albania occupies the two ancient Roman provinces of Old and New Epirus, but only a northern fragment of the Byzantine province called Epiros. [98], In Albania, Greeks are considered a "national minority". After the Mycenaean civilization declined, Epirus was the launching area of the Dorian invasions (1100–1000 bce) of Greece. Molossia was taken in 167 by victorious Rome, and 150,000 of its inhabitants were enslaved. The campaign culminated in an announcement that Albania had become the world's first atheistic state, a feat touted as one of Enver Hoxha's greatest achievements. Data taken from Greek ministry of Interiors. ", "The coastal Himara region of Southern Albania has always had a predominantly ethnic Greek population. The same cannot be said of the Albanians in Northern Epirus. "This war of words culminated in the arrest by the Albanian authorities in May of six members of the Onomoia, the main Greek minority organization in Albania. The Protocol of Florence, however, had assigned it to the newly established Albanian … Mediat: I dhamë nënshtetësinë dhe nxorëm vetë sytë tanë", "Hiqet nënshtetësia greke kryebashkiakut të Himarës - Athina: Veproi kundër interesave tona", "Kreu i OMONIA-s Fredi Beleri i dënuar me 3 vite b.urg dhe nuk e ka kryer dënimin", "Γελάνε στην Αλβανία : Περισσότεροι οι ψήφοι από τους ψηφίσαντες στις δημοτικές εκλογές! While Lunxhëri practiced (as did many other regions) a high level of (territorial) endogamy, marriage alliances started to occur between Christians Lunxhots and members of the Greek minority of the districts of Gjirokastër (Dropull, Pogon) and Sarandë. [c] In the spring of 1914, the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was proclaimed by ethnic Greeks in the territory and recognized by the Albanian government, though it proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916 and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Phoenice or Phoenike (Greek: Φοινίκη) was an ancient Greek city in Epirus and capital of the Chaonians. Northern Epirus is rugged, characterized by steep limestone ridges that parallel the Ionian coast, with deep valleys between them. Τις μεγαλύτερες ελπίδες για την επιτυχία των προσπαθειών της φαίνεται ότι στήριζε η Επιτροπή στην επιμονή του ελληνικού στοιχείου της πόλης, στην πλειοψηφία τους ευκατάστατοι έμποροι που θα ήταν διατεθειμένοι να προσφέρουν ακόμη και το κτίριο για τη λειτουργία του, αλλά και στην παρουσία και τη δραστηριοποίηση εκεί του ελληνικού υποπροξενείου 58 . [56] Questions arose over the size of the Greek minority, with the Albanian government claiming 16,000, and the League of Nations estimating it at 35,000-40,000. It is believed that he founded more than 200 Greek schools until his execution by Turkish authorities near Berat. [c], In recent years relations have significantly improved; Greece and Albania signed a Friendship, Cooperation, Good Neighborliness and Security Agreement on March 21, 1996. "According to the latest census in the area, the Greek-speaking population is larger but not necessarily continuous and concentrated. The case of Gjirokastër", "The relations between the Greeks and the Albanians during the 19th century: political aspirations and visions (1875 - 1897)". [32] Based on the accounts of Procopius the population of the region as north as Dyrrachium was Greek during the 6th century AD.[33]. [13] From the 4th century BCE onward, with a degree of certainty, the boundaries of Epirus included the Ceraunian mountains in the north, the Pindus mountains in the east, the Ionian Sea in the West, and the Ambracian Gulf in the south. After repeated requests, the Ministry of Interior has released data on the actual number of valid EDTO to this date. It was also the location of the Treaty of Phoenice which ended the First Macedonian War, as well as one of the wealthiest cities in Epirus until the Roman conquest. Area on the borders of Greece and Albania. [89], The first serious attempt to improve relations was initiated by Greece in the 1980s, during the government of Andreas Papandreou. Olives and oranges are also cultivated, and tobacco is grown around Ioánnina. [84] The country was virtually isolated and common penalties for attempts to escape the country, for ethnic Greeks, were execution for the offenders and exile for their families, usually in mining camps in central and northern Albania. EDTO holders are not included in the Ministry of Interior data on aliens. Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology. [24] This was followed by the period of the League of the Molossoi, which spanned the early and middle 4th century BCE. In the post-communist period (after 1991), the reopening of schools was one of the major objectives of the minority. There has been a growing campaign by the Albanian government to demolish ethnic Greek homes. Greek observers have expressed concern at the "non-conformity of procedure" in the conduct of the elections. Although Greece liberated Northern Epirus during the First Balkan War (1912-13), the Great Powers gifted the region to the new Albanian state. In fact it continues to contend that all those belonging to national minorities are recognized as such, irrespective of the geographical areas in which they live. Nikos Stabakis. All churches, mosques, monasteries and other religious institutions were closed or converted into warehouses, gymnasiums, and workshops. In addition, many Greeks were forcibly removed from the minority zones to other parts of the country as a product of communist population policy, an important and constant element of which was to pre-empt ethnic sources of political dissent. The house of Himara's ethnic Greek mayor, On August 12, 2010, ethnic tensions soared after ethnic Greek shopkeeper, The killing of Konstantinos Katsifas in Bularat, close to the Greek-Albanian border during the Greek national celebrations on the 28th October 2018. The region’s original inhabitants were driven southward by the Dorians, and out of the ensuing migrations three main clusters of Greek-speaking tribes emerged in Epirus: the Thesproti of southwestern Epirus, the Molossi of central Epirus, and the Chaones of northwestern Epirus. The outcome of the following Peace Treaties of London[i] and of Bucharest,[j] signed at the end of the Second Balkan War, was unpopular among both Greeks and Albanians, as settlements of the two people existed on both sides of the border: the southern part of Epirus was ceded to Greece, while Northern Epirus, already under the control of the Greek army, was awarded to the newly found Albanian State. In 1917 Greece lost control of the rest of Northern Epirus to Italy, who by then had taken over most of Albania. [31] The line of division between Epirus Nova and the province of Illyricum was the Drin River in modern northern Albania. [c] The most significant change occurred on 28 August 1987, when the Greek Cabinet lifted the state of war that had been declared since November 1940. [151] In 2015, Jorgo Goro, supported by the Socialist Party of Albania became the new mayor of Himara. In the 18th century Turkish sovereignty over Epirus was threatened by the Albanian warlord Ali Paşa Tepelenë, who was recognized in 1788 by Turkey as pasha of Ioánnina. As concerns the ethnicity of Epiriots, there are two viewpoints: One considers Epirus Illyrian and the other Greek. Herodotus relates to two accounts which historians have attempted to interpret. Illyrians settled in Mallakastër in their raids penetrated into the central Epirus. Greek place-names were changed to Albanian ones, and Greeks were forced to change their personal names into Albanian names. He was shot dead by the, This page was last edited on 11 March 2021, at 12:07. The Epirus was a unique land before being divided,with its history, its heroes, its temples, its culture, and its customs!!!! Greek autonomy should exist in Northern Epirus under the Albanian state because of the Corfu Protocol signed on May 17, 1914, between the representatives of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Greeks of Northern Epirus, headed by Georgios Christakis-Zografos who was representing about 250,000 people, and the newly formed Albanian state headed by Prince William of … [115] The total population of Northern Epirus is estimated to be around 577,000 (2002), with main ethnic groups being Albanians, Greeks and Vlachs. Upon Alexander the Molossian’s death, the Epirote tribes formed a coalition on an equal basis but with the Molossian king in command of their military forces. [144] Moreover, the Greek government called its Albanian counterpart for urgent action, since the right of free self-determination is not being guaranteed under these circumstances. "Northern Epiros" has no precise boundaries but it refers to a sector of southern Albania, contiguous with the Greek province called Epiros, that Greece claimed as Greek territory at the time of the founding of Albania in 1912 and 1913. [158] The same number of parliamentary members were elected in the 2017 Albanian parliamentary election. [147] On the other hand, Omonoia conducted its own census in order to count the members of the ethnic Greek minority. [52] Greece officially annexed Northern Epirus in March 1916, but was forced to revoke by the Great Powers. [103] Estimations by the Albanian government during the early 1990s raised the number to 80,000. [c] The term "Northern Epirus" was first used in official Greek correspondence in 1886, to describe the northern parts of the Janina Vilayet. However, the Serbian rulers retained much of the Byzantine tradition and used Byzantine titles to secure the loyalty of the local population. Many Northern Epirotes formed resistance groups and organizations in the struggle against the occupation forces. The local Ottoman authority was mainly exercised by Muslim Albanians. Under the Byzantine Empire, a Despotate of Epirus was set up for the Komnenos family (1204-1318). [f] In 1281, a strong Sicilian force that planned to conquer Constantinople was repelled in Berat after a series of combined operations by local Epirotes and Byzantine troops. [104], Most non-Albanian and Greek sources have placed the number of ethnic Greeks in and from Albania between 200,000-300,000. [ad], The Greek minority in Albania is located compactly, within the wider Gjirokastër and Sarandë regions[ae][af][118][ag] and in four settlements within the coastal Himarë area[ae][af][118][ag][123] where they form an overall majority population. In 1942 the Northern Epirote Liberation Organization (EAOVI, also called MAVI) was formed. The results were devastating. Himarra is one of the most northern towns of Northern Epirus that has been Greek for thousands of years but was awarded to the newly formed Albanian state after the Balkan Wars in the early 20th century despite the Greek Army liberating the majority-Greek region. ", "The stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha imposed a ruthless dictatorship in the country the lasted with little respite...", "Like all Albanians, the members of the Greek minority had suffered severe repression during the communist era and cross-border family visits had been out of the question. When the First World War broke out in 1914, 360 Greek language schools were functioning in Northern Epirus (as well as in Elbasan, Berat, Tirana) with 23,000 students. Under this definition, minority status was limited to those who lived in 99 villages in the southern border areas, thereby excluding important concentrations of Greek settlement in Vlora (perhaps 8000 people in 1994) and in adjoining areas along the coast, ancestral Greek towns such as Himara, and ethnic Greeks living elsewhere throughout the country. 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[154][155][156] Several irregularities were also reported during the elections. spoiled the still infant Albanian-Greek romance, which had brought the end to the bitter cold relationship the two countries had ever since 1912. Σε ό,τι αφορούσε το ελληνικό σχολείο της πόλης, η Επιτροπή επί των Εκπαιδευτικών σχεδίαζε να το οργανώσει σε διδασκαλείο, τοποθετώντας σε αυτό υψηλού επιπέδου και ικανό διδασκαλικό προσωπικό, ώστε να αποτελέσει σημαντικό πόλο έλξης για τα παιδιά της περιοχής, αλλά και παράδειγμα οργάνωσης και λειτουργίας σχολείου και για τις μικρότερες κοινότητες. [111][112] The 2014 CIA World Factbook estimate put the Greek minority at 0.9%, which is based on the disputed 2011 census. Afterwards, the northern part of Epirus was awarded to a newly created Albanian state, and in early 1914, Greek troops withdrew from the region. [52] Georgios Christakis-Zografos, a distinguished Greek politician from Lunxhëri, took the initiative and became the head of the Republic. [82], Stalinist Albania, already increasingly paranoid and isolated after de-Stalinization and the death of Mao Zedong (1976),[83] restricted visitors to 6,000 per year, and segregated those few that traveled to Albania. [ae][ah] Greek speaking settlements are also found within Përmet municipality, near the border. The Molossians were said to be descended from Molossos (tentatively dated to the twelfth century BC), and were classed by Strabo as the most famous of the total of fourteen tribes of Epirus. Αυτό πρακτικά σήμαινε ότι για ένα μεγάλο τμήμα του ελληνικού στοιχείου της Αλβανίας δεν αναγνωρίζονταν ούτε τα στοιχειώδη εκείνα δικαιώματα που προέβλεπαν οι διεθνείς συνθήκες, ούτε βέβαια το δικαίωμα της εκπαίδευσης στη μητρική γλώσσα, που κυρίως μας ενδιαφέρει εδώ. [aa] Christians were prohibited from mentioning Orthodoxy even in their own homes, visiting their parents' graves, light memorial candles or make the sign of the Cross. [a] It also has connotations with political claims on the territory on the grounds that it was held by Greece and in 1914 was declared an independent state[4] by the local Greeks against annexation to the newly founded Albanian principality. The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (Greek: Αὐτόνομος Δημοκρατία τῆς Βορείου Ἠπείρου, Aftónomos Dimokratía tis Voreíou Ipeírou) was a short-lived, self-governing entity founded in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars on February 28, 1914 by Greeks living in southern Albania (Northern Epirotes). In 1991 ethnic Greeks shops in the town of Saranda were attacked, and inter-ethnic relations throughout Albania worsened. [r][s] With the intervention of the League of Nations in 1935, a limited number of schools, and only of those inside the officially recognized zone, were reopened. "Greek co ethnics who are Albanian citizens (Voreioepirotes) hold Special Identity Cards for Omogeneis (co-ethnics) (EDTO) issued by the Greek police. In the following election most of the Greek minority abstained from the procedure and Goro was re-elected. The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived, self-governing entity founded in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars on February 28, 1914, by Greeks living in southern Albania. [142][143] Indeed, Omonoia unanimously decided to boycott the census, since it violates the fundamental right of self-determination. He built a magnificent stone theatre at Dodona and a new suburb at Ambracia (now Árta), which he made his capital. Grab a copy of our NEW encyclopedia for Kids! [h], With the outbreak of the First Balkan War (1912–13) and the Ottoman defeat, the Greek army entered the region. [157], In 2004, there were five ethnic Greek members in the Albanian Parliament, and two ministers in the Albanian cabinet. Epirus / ɨˈpaɪərəs / is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. The league steered an uneasy course during the conflicts between Rome and Macedonia, and in 170 bce, during the Third Macedonian War (171–168), the league split apart, the Molossians supporting Macedonia, the Chaones and Thesproti siding with Rome. In 1204, the region was part of the Despotate of Epirus, a successor state of the Byzantine Empire. ", "Sederholm did add, however, that the Albanian government opposed the teaching of Greek in Albanian schools 'because it fears the influence of the teachers, the majority of whom have openly declared themselves in favour of the Pan—Epirot movement. [x] Sources from the Greek minority have claimed that there are up to 400,000 Greeks in Albania, or 12% of the total population at the time (from the "Epirot lobby" of Greeks with family roots in Albania). This article was most recently revised and updated by. His rule was extended by 1810 to most of the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos), central Greece, and parts of western Macedonia and was one cause of the War of Greek Independence (1821–29). Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Moreover, 15,000 homes, schools and churches were destroyed. They were replaced, from the end of the 1950s on, by Vlachs, forced by the regime to settle in agricultural cooperatives. Their total number is 189,000." One of the major fields in which it has a practical application is that of education. Black Rose Books, 1998. [v] Pupils were taught only Albanian history and culture at primary level, the minority zone was reduced from 103 to 99 villages (excluding Himarë), many Greeks were forcibly removed from the minority zones to other parts of the country, thereby losing their fundamental minority rights (as a product of communist population policy, an important and constant element of which was to pre-empt ethnic sources of political dissent). Albanian Series. In particular, those working in large cities like Tirana very often would not declare their Greek nationality. [21] During the 6th century BC, Chaonian rule was dominant over the region and their power stretched from the Ionian coast to the region of Korçë in the east. Community groups representing Albania's Greeks in Greece have given a 286,000 sum. [85] The regime maintained twenty-nine prisons and labour camps throughout Albania, that were filled with more than 30,000 "enemies of the state" year after year. 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