Sooo you have done it on purpose to piss off the Albanians and make them comment on your video so you get paid. hahaha Well, good for you. Here it goes: Himara is not a Greek village, it was an Albanian village and it is an Albanian town now. It has never been Greek and its population is not of Greek origin either. The Greek villages in Albania are more to the south and the region is called Dropull. Even those are recent formed by Greek immigrants who Albanians land owners brought to Albania to work their lands(during the Ottoman Empire. Himara is in fact populated by Albanians, many from the north who moved there in different periods (latest during Scanderbeg era). Their family names to this day are of northern Albania. This is valid for Dhermi too. They are filo Greeks and Grecophones because in the past they used to do a lot of business with Corfu and even moved there at times to hide from the Ottomans. These are what the Himara most learned historic figures have said and what they have left in their writings and correspondence. After 1990 when the regime changed and all Albanians wanted to leave and go somewhere in the World and find jobs and a better life, the Himara people moved to Greece because they already knew the language. The Greek government who historically follows a policy of expansionism towards Albania had in place a low of giving them Greek citizenship and Greek pensions (which as far as I know, now with the interference of US has been revoked). Albania is poor still and these poor Albanians need money so they still want to be known as Greeks in order to receive some kind of benefits. Fun fact, they used to speak Greek to each-other but when they sang to their children and cried for their dead that used to do that in Albanian. Anyway some day I would love to see you go hunting for the 600 Albanian villages within the Greek border. Balkans (Formerly known as Illyric Peninsula) was like that before the nation states were invented. No ethnic borders, you could find Greek villages next to an Albanian village and vice-versa.
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100%… the Himariotes who left Himara and now live in Sicily and Calabria (the Arbëresh community), don’t have the slightest affinity to anything Greek. It doesn’t even make sense to them, why a few people in Himara identify as Greek! Greekness is an identity that from 1100-1700 did not exists in Albanian or even Greece, then called Arvanitia. As a matter of fact, Himara had better ties with Italy… and Himariotes’ second language was Italian. If you notice, wherever there’s Byzantine presence… there’s a handful of families who are hardcore believers who converted to only speaking Greek instead. Himara’s “Greek” speakers are the Albanian followers of St. Cosmas, who told Epirotes not speak Albanian, as it was the language of Satan!
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