ΑΡΜΠΕΡΕΣΗΔΕΣ-για οσους δεν ξεχνουν-MΕΓΑΛΗ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-(part 1)

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Bourimiri
September 15, 2009

The Arberesh that form the Arvanites communities of southern Italy, left Greece (Peloponnese) in 1534 after the fall of the castle of Koroni and their surrender to TurkAlbanians and settled in Southern Italy and Sicily.
In the Arberesh traditional songs the word home is identified with the word Moré= Morias in Peloponnese. Cities like Nafplio, Corinth and Crete are also mentioned.
As with the Arvanites of Greece, words like Albania or Albanian are not found in their songs
The Arberesh communities in southern Italy maintained and still do, their Greekness through the church masses and the rituals of the orthodox church. They made many struggles with the Italians who tried to force them to become Catholics.
Their presence stimulated the Greek Orthodox faith of the Arvanites and other Greeks who had already settled earlier in southern Italy and particularly in 1468, after the death of Georgios Kastriotis , were they almost latinized.
Efforts to dehellenize the Arvanites continues until today. An example is the renaming of the village Piana dei greci to Piana dei albanesi in 1939 by Mussolini's regime, although until today it is called HORA.
Today the Albanians are in charge for the dehellenization of the Arberesh people, trying to convince them that they are Albanians and not Greeks. However history speaks through the Arberesh tradition and this will never change.
We already hear the crerub (herouviko) hymn, chanted by the Contess Kuchma in August 1981 in the cathedral of pianan dei greci of Sicily, in the original Greek language, the liturgical language in the Arberesh Orthodox faith.
The official Greek language has always been the language of the Arberesh -Arvanites in Italy and Greece in writing and in their Greek-Orthodox worship, while the Arberesh and Arvanitika idiom used only in everyday life.
Proof of this is the lament folk song we will hear. It talks about the expatriation of the Arberesh people from Koroni in Peloponnese to southern Italy. Father Giuseppe Farako sings from the village of Agios. Dimitrios Koronis in Calabria in 1981 the following song:
We left behind in Coron(Pelopnnese-Greece) our possessions and our goods, but have taken Christ with us, oh my beautiful Morea (Peloponnese). Deeply sad,with tears in our eyes,we grieve for you Arberia. My swift-flying little swallow,when you return once more to Coron, you will not find our homes,nor our handsome lads,but only a dog(the Τurks),may a death come upon him. When the ships spread their sails and our lands was lost to the eyes,all the men with a sigh and the women with a wail cried out: Get out Ghost, devour us. oh my Morea. oh Arberia!

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makedonomachos (1 month ago) Show Hide

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telio bravo sou !

Bourimiri (2 months ago) Show Hide

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nothing is illegal stupid albanian. aranites have no need of learning arvanit dialect. they learn it in their houses as always from their parents. idioms cant be official language. you are ignorant

Mhayai1 (2 months ago) Show Hide

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Oh! On your precedent post they were "a few" and now only one ! On the next post you will find a half ? Do you know that in several villages of Sicily the street names are wrote in 2 languages ? Italian and ...Greek ! For the usage of the only greek you know i guess ! Stay serious please ! Only you claim this not them !

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Arberesh are Greeks

not Shqiptars

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ΠΑΡΑΠΑΝΩ ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΛΙΓΟΙ ΤΩΡΑ ΕΓΙΝΑΝ ΕΝΑΣ. ΜΑ ΠΟΣΟΥΣ ΑΡΜΠΕΡΕΣΗΔΕΣ ΞΕΡΕΙ ΕΠΙΤΕΛΟΥΣ? ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΡΜΠΕΡΕΣΗΣ? ΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑ

Mhayai1 (2 months ago) Show Hide

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Just a question ceniboy , it is simply logic ! Can you explain by wich way your elders still greeks and them children and little children become albanians ? Logicaly if the grand-grand-grand father was greek the grand-grand father was greek , the grand father still greek , the father is greek and the child is logicaly greek ! Can you explain when intervene the albanian link ? Thanks

Bourimiri (2 months ago) Show Hide

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REPONSE QUESTION PAYE!

jimmys14 (2 months ago) Show Hide

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Albanians send teachers to teach them the Albanian language instead of Arvanitika. If Albanians were so confident about Arberesh they wouldn't act like that.

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opoios arvaniths mathei estw k mia lexh alvanikh ginetai perigelws sth koinwnia poy menei kai ton koroideyoyn oloi oi alloi. oi alvanoi den tha svisoyn th dialekto k tis paradoseis mas

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o αλβανος ψευτοαρμπερεσης ομολογει οτι οι αρμπερεσηδες αναγνωριζουν την ελληνικη τους καταγωγη! η προπαγανδα του οτι οι αρβανιτες αφησαν τα αρβανιτικα αρα δεν ειναι ελληνες ειναι για γελια. απο μικρο κι απο αλβανο μαθαινεις την αληθεια! χαχαχαχα

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