Italy turns out to be Albanian through Facebook and research on its origin becomes easy.
Thanks to the internet and Facebook many Italians seek their roots by participating in various groups on Facebook and various forums.
There are many who know they have Albanian origin and by their own choice or privacy do not reveal their origin as are many who feel Albanians within (tradition, folklore, music, and to learn Albanian language).
Just remember that the Albanian language is the most spoken language in the linguistic minorities in Italy. The Albanian language has been passed down for more than five centuries.
The history of Albanian emigration in Italy from 1400 to 1800.
The Albanians, descendants of the Illyrians, are a people scattered around the world.
Seven were the immigration in Italy:
- Before Immigration: 1416-1446 - The first Albanians arrived in Italy were soldiers in the wake of Demetrius Reres and his sons John and Basil, sent by Scanderbeg Alfonso of Aragon to defend against rival Robert of Anjou.
- Second Immigration: 1459-1461 - Other Albanian soldiers, in the wake of Stresio, grandson of Scanderbeg, were to defend the House of Aragon against a large number of barons who had rebelled against Ferdinand I, Alfonso's successor.
- Third Immigration: 1468-1506 - With the death of Scanderbeg in 1468, the Turks invaded the whole of Albania, destroying and burning the city. If you do not submit to the domination turkish, the Albanians settled in Calabria between the slopes of the Sila and the Valley of the right of the crater.
- Fourth Immigration: 1532-1534 - The Albanians of the city of crowns, increasingly threatened by the Turks, left their homeland to land at Naples, and headed in Puglia, Lucania and Calabria, repopulating or founding new communities.
- Fifth Immigration: 1647-1664 - Even the Albanians of Morea left their land to reach the Ionian coast and head towards the Basilicata.
- Sixth Immigration: 1744 - The population of Picherni, a small community located in the mountains of Chimera, including Illirio and Epirus, reached the Abruzzo, Villa founding Abbess.
- Seventh Immigration: 1774-1825 - Various Albanian groups of uncertain origin settled in Pavia and Piacenza, others in Basilicata.
E 'to remember, however, that in the Middle Ages there were many Albanians who for business reasons they moved to Venice, where they were known for their professionalism and culture, even founding the so-called "Scola of the Albanians," a brotherhood with humanitarian purposes to their compatriots in difficulty.
- In the same year Albanians who lived in Italy in turn re-emigrated to America and northern Europe.
Another mass migration Albanian us fù in 1991 (after the fall of the communist dictatorship).
Today, thanks to many scholars Albanian Albanian history that is being rebuilt a few years ago was unknown and very confused or very Albanian history was mistakenly considered to Greek history.
In the years 1400 to 1900 it was thought that all those who came to us from the Adriatic were Greek, the Albanian music was thought to be Greek, Albanian folk music was thought to be greek, large Albanian heroes who gave independence to Greece in 1821 it was thought that they were Greeks.
To understand how history has been "stolen" the Albanians enough to consider that in Italy Plain of the Albanians (in Sicily) until 1940 was called Plain of the Greeks even had their language and Albanian folk, then was later changed to "Piana degli Albanesi" .
Unfortunately, today there are other countries and other heroes that are considered Greeks as Greeks in Campania, a country albanofono and that continues to be called Greeks.
These errors occur even on music and folklore and also in other countries, such as an Albanian student in Sweden said that his friend had a collection of Albanian folk music and that he felt that the songs were written in Greek. The student said he had to put 3 days to convince the Swede that his music Albanian and Greek.
95% of Albanian intellectuals think that Greek history is nothing but the history of Albanian stolen and transformed by the Greeks.
The official site for the study of Genealogy Arbereshe (w w w .arbereshe.it) you can have lots of information and know their history thanks to the reconstruction with rare documents.
Know your roots does not be happier - this is the slogan of the association.
As for the roots-The search for the origins of his name is very intense on Facebook.
For example of this network is socian Francis participating in the group "I BELLUSCI in the WORLD" and asks that the name Bellusci is of Albanian origin and discovers his Albanian origin and that the surname Bellusci is the same as brothers John and American actors Jim Belushi also of Albanian origin.
The search of their origin is also flgi of migrants around the world (the United States, Sud'America, Australia and throughout Europe).
Valentina with Pablo from Argentina and the U.S. children of immigrants who are curious about their roots
Same thing for the group "LIGHTS in the world" where the lights that are part 233 and there are those who thought that the name was of Greek origin Lights and someone turns out to have the surname origins albanesi.Infatti Lights is still in Albania. It also shows the user who is Albanian and is called Erion Lights that is part of this group.
