Talk:List of Albanians in Greece

This change was based on the information from the correspondent articles [[1]]. It is essential for lists such as this one to be stay consistent.Alexikoua (talk) 21:10, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Scope

The article should be about all Albanians in Greece. The fact that for the entire pre-1900 era, only Muslims of Albanian origin/Muslim Albanians are included but not Christian Albanians reflects a modern political POV within Greece. In historiography, there's no difference between them. The only classification that makes sense here is to divide it in sections according to era and further population groups: Medieval, Ottoman and then Arvanites, Albanians in Western Thrace, Cham Albanians, Albanian immigrants. --Maleschreiber (talk) 22:21, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Offensive designations and ahistorical designations

• I've been watching the dispute between @Ahmet Q.: and @Othon I:. Ahmet's argument is that Arvanites should be included as "ethnic Arvanites" and Othon's argument is that they shouldn't be included because they identify with the "modern Greek nation". The core debate is about emic (subjective) identity. I think that both editors are right and wrong at the same time. Ahmet Q.'s argument is correct because it focuses on emic ethnic identity as a factor for inclusion, but they're wrong about the use of the term "ethnic Arvanite" itself. The term Arvanite is an ethnic marker and Arvanites are not a political nation. There is no differentiation between "ethnic" and "non-ethnic" Arvanites. Greeks, on the other hand, are a political nation and an ethnic group. A Greek can be an ethnic Greek and they can also be an ethnic Albanian, German or even an ethnic Nigerian. Identifying with the modern Greek nation, doesn't make anyone less ethnically Albanian - just as Sterjo Spasse's identification politically with Albanians didn't make him less of a Macedonian Slav.
• I'm interested in examining another aspect of the problem - more historical. Othon removed Georgios Kountouriotis and proposed that Arvanites...consider the designation Albanian offensive. But how did Arvanites call themselves before 1945?
• Baltsiotis writes (published in Albanian as Grekët dhe shqiptarët në shekullin e 19-të dhe 20-të) Being Greek didn't come into opposition with being Albanians, namely ethnic Albanians [..] The conceptual identification of the terms "Albanian" (Alvanos) and "Arvanite" (Arvanitis) is the result of Greek linguistic digglosia and will start to change only in the beginning of the 20th century after the creation of the Albanian state, and will gradually prevail, in official use and later (after WWII) in colloquial use. Alvanos=Arvanitis before the 20th century. One term (Alvanos) was formal, the other informal. It meant that Ioannis Koundouriotis (grandson of Georgios Koundouriotis) could both support the expansionism of the Greek state and also declare in ethnic terms as Baltsiotis writes that he was an Albanian, who speaks Albanian as his mother tongue and has grown up in a very Albanian way. The terms employed by Ioannis Koundouriotis in 1901 are Alvanos, Alvanika, alvanikotata (Google translates this term as "very Albanian"). Thus, Arvanites employed the same formal designation as other ethnic Albanians for themselves and the term Arvanite was used in the same context as "ethnic Albanian" - a term not linked to a particular state affiliation. --Maleschreiber (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Just as the Anglo-Saxons or the Lombards or the Franks are of German descend we do not classify English people such as the Alfred the Great or French people such as the Charlemagne as Germans but as their respective nationality (English and French subsequently). The fact that this user is adding a Greek national who supported and identified with the Greek cause in a list with Albanian nationals who most of them supported the Albanian cause is a tantamount endorsement of his POV. Arvanites such as Aristidi Kola or others who identified as Albanians of course can stay but Koundouriotis or Zervas was a Greek nationalist. Also, the fact that Arvanites find the designation Albanian offensive comes from GHM Othon I (talk) 08:23, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

References

Alfred and Charlemagne were identified and self-identified as part of evolving emic identities: Anglo-Saxons became the English, the Franks became the French. There is no evolving identity to discuss in relation to Arvanites. The people today called "Arvanites" perceived themselves simply as "Alvanoi" (in formal terms) and were perceived by all others by "Alvanoi" as well up to WWII. State affiliation is not the same as ethnic affiliation and they are not necessarily opposed. What Baltsiotis explains is that being a state-builder of modern Greece didn't stop any Arvanite from considering themselves as ethnic Albanians. Of course, if today, a Greek politican openly declared that they are "Alvanoi" and have "Alvanika" as their mother tongue, it would probably be perceived as a statement that this person is affiliated with the state of Albania. The sources which specifically discuss Koundouriotis and the wider context are in the article, so in relation to WP:RS there's not really much to dispute about it. I have proposed that different subgroups of Albanians (per time of settlement) should be placed in different sections. It is a semantically useful differentiation to have in the article.--Maleschreiber (talk) 10:34, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

The official discourse in Greece - presumably in the 19th century - was to include ethnic Greeks and ethnic Albanians in Greece as part of the construction of a modern political nation-state: Les savants grecs « intègrent » cette population à la généalogie nationale, à travers le schéma : « deux races, une nation » (Greek intellectual "integrated" this population in the national genealogy though the narrative of "two races, one nation"). I think that it's interesting that topics which weren't considered a matter of dispute in 19th century Greece, have become a problem in some 21st century narratives. I say "some", because I can't find an active dispute in contemporary Greek historiography and anthropology about Arvanites. The narratives of some wikipedians, don't appear in what Greek anthropologists and historians discuss - a sign of progress in Balkan academia.--Maleschreiber (talk) 11:46, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

I frankly don't care how they have been assimilated. Many nations follow assimilation policies. All I care is that they have identified as Greeks and they found the designation Albanians offensive. I am going to revert your additions. Please find consensus first and then add them. Best Othon I (talk) 11:56, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

The sources are clear on this matter, please read them and don't revert edits if your claims can't be backed up by sources. Ahmet Q. (talk) 23:39, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Your interpretations of sources is completely thin air, the source does not assign albanian nationality to Kountouriotis but discusses his linguistic affinity with with Albanian since he was a bilingual in Greek and Arvanitika. Bring a source that assigns to him albanian nationality and he will be included. Do not falsify sources again to serve your POV on the Arvanites matter because you will be reported. Thats a kind reminder. Othon I (talk) 07:35, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

@Othon I: Baltsiotis (2018) explains that before 1912-1945, the term Arvanite was not different than the term Alvanos (Albanian) in Greek. I cited a comment by a descendant of George Koundouriots. He (in 1901) called himself Albanian (Alvanos), called his mother tongue Albanian and considered himself to have been raised in a most Albanian way. George Koundouriotis was not bilingual. His mother tongue was Albanian and he also used Greek in public affairs. You know that because you've read Ahmet Q.'s edits about the private correspondence of Koundouriotis, which is in Albanian. Even though you have been given access to bibliography, most of which has been written by Greek authors, you still claim that it's a "POV" to call Arvanites of the 19th century as what they were, what they called themselves and what bibliography perceives them to be: Albanians. One of the citations I added is Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece, 1833–1843, a highly praised publication of modern Greek historiography. In Greek historiography, it's not controversial to state that Arvanites are descendants of Albanians and that there was no terminology or identity distinction between Arvanites=Alvanoi in Greece before the 20th century. Admin oversight will be brought if Koundouriotis is removed again by you or any other account.--Maleschreiber (talk) 14:09, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

You are clearly misusing the sources. All the sources state he was "of Albanian descent" (no one disputes that), but none describe him as simply "Albanian". And you will not find any that will, because there is a huge difference between being "of X descent" and "X". Yannis Antetokounmpo is of Nigerian descent, but he is widely referred to as "Greek", not "Nigerian". I can give countless examples. The Kountouriotis were assimilated into the Greek nation, they did not identify as "Shqip" (unlike most of the people here). Feel free to seek all the "admin oversight" you want. Khirurg (talk) 14:23, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

If we create an article about Nigerians in Greece, Antetokounmpo will still be listed. That NBA fans calls him the "Greek Freak" doesn't make him less ethnically Nigerian. He doesn't seem to see any contradiction in being both a ethnic Nigerian and a Greek national/citizen. Citizenship/nationalitiy doesn't contradict ethnicity. Before the 20th century, in Greece Arvanite=Albanian and there was no contradiction. A Greek deputy (George's grandson) could still say in the Greek parliament that he is an Albanian without any backlash. What you consider as "hellenization" never happened. Nobody started calling themselves as something else ethnically and nobody tried to hide their identity. Now, the article listed Koundouriotis before Othon started the dispute and we've reached citation overkill about George Koundouriotis, a person who spoke Greek only with difficulty. I replied to @Durraz0: about how I view the article's categorization. I proposed that the article should be categorized per Albanian subpopulation, not per field activity. --Maleschreiber (talk) 15:34, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

"If we create an article about Nigerians in Greece, Antetokounmpo will still be listed." How wrong. Giannis was born and grew in Greece. The only connection to Nigeria is through his parents. That he is of Nigerian descent doesnt make him Nigerian. Wikipedia is very careful to avoid confusing descent with country of birth and citizenship. A good example of how things are done is Jennifer Aniston: her parent is Greek but she is born and grew in US. That doesn't make her "Greek in USA" but American of Greek descent. I hope this is clear. Such debates on birthplaces ≠ origins have been resolved a very long time ago and any attempt to reignite them is not helpful. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 16:06, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

@SilentResident:, I'm not making some nationalist exclusionary comment. I'm saying that people can have two identities at the same time and they don't necessarily contradict each other. I'm not saying that a Nigerian can't be Greek. I'm saying that someone can be both a Nigerian and a Greek, both Japanese and Albanian, both anything and anything else. It's how real life manifests itself.--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:11, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

• • Real life manifesting itself: In his post-game press conference, the Nigerian basketballer dedicated his feat to Nigeria. “I represent my both countries Nigeria and Greece, a lot of kids from there, this should make every person, every kid to believe in their dreams,” he said. Now, do we want to see real life as what it is (with all its inclusionary moments) or do we want to categorize people in exclusionary terms?--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:16, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Nope sorry, you either have to respect how things are done in Wikipedia, or else you better consider just leaving this topic. Anything else is just arguments. I am not here to argue with you but to note how things are done in the project.

Either you will respect the rationale and do it like how we did for others (i.e. Jennifer Aniston and mention her being "of Greek descent" (note: not Greek) in Greek Americans article), or there will be no consensus for these additions. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 16:21, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

You are comparing an American actress whose father was Greek and mother was Nancy Dow with Georgios Kountouriotis a figure, who spoke Albanian as his mother tongue, spoke little Greek and was universally known as Albanian in his time. Even to the time of his grandson John Koundouriotis (1901), member of the Greek parliament this family called itself simply as Alvanoi. In wikipedia things are done according to bibliography. Georgios Koundouriotis was in the article before you removed it. You need to get consensus for removing him. It's not an addition.--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:34, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Georgios Kountouriotis was a figure who spoke Albanian as his mother tongue, spoke little Greek and was universally known as Albanian in his time? Says who? You? I'm glad you mentioned wikipedia things are done according to bibliography, because you haven't found a single source that calls him "Albanian". They refer to him as "Albanian descent". My proposal for List of Greeks of Albanian descent stands.Khirurg (talk) 16:46, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

• Schuberth, Richard (2021). Lord Byrons letzte Fahrt: Eine Geschichte des Griechischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges. Wallstein Verlag. ISBN 3835345966. Das Kabinett, dessen Präsident der illiterate, aber reiche Albaner Koundouriotis war, wurde von der Partei der hydriotischen Marine dominiert [the illiterate but rich Albanian Koundouriotis] His mother tongue was Albanian, he spoke little Greeks, his family is described of Albanian origin, his grandfather is discussed as "an Albanian peasant", his grandson called himself Albanian. What more should bibliography say for him to be included in a list about Greek people of Albanian descent and Albanian immigrants that have resided in Greece? --Maleschreiber (talk) 18:01, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

So, after hours and hours of searching, you have found a single source? Whereas all others call him "of Albanian descent" and not "Albanian". Nowadays, when our readers see "Albanian", they assume someone from Albania (e.g. recent immigrants). There is a reason why we have different terms for Albanians and Arvanites. Khirurg (talk) 20:04, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Bibliography determines the content of the articles. Personal narratives about what editors might expect when reading an article are WP:OFFTOPIC.--Maleschreiber (talk) 11:11, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Modern bibliography in conjunction with common English usage is what determines content, not 19th century bibliography. Khirurg (talk) 19:14, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

RV

I RVed Khirurg, the articles scope is about "both greek people of albanian descent and albanians immigrants that have resided in greece", The kunduriotis he removed are called of albanians descent by sources added by Maleschreiber. Durraz0 (talk) 14:42, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

The goalpost keeps getting moved by some editors. "Shqip" is what Albanians call their language after the 18th century. It's another endonym and it's not linked to any identity changes. No diaspora Albanian populations which migrated before the 18th century call themselves "Shqiptarë", but it's not an identity marker. The grandson of the Koundouriotis in 1901 had no problem with calling himself an Albanian in an ethnic sense. That some Greeks are not ethnic Greeks is not a POV. It's what Greek historiography discusses without any nationalist narratives - unlike what other Balkan schools of historiography do. Something which isn't controversial in bibliography becomes controversial on wikipedia for no reason.

• • Side comment: I have proposed since January to rearrange the article per subpopulation instead of field of activity. Nobody responded. If other editors want to categorize individuals per subpopulation, we can do that. But we can't remove individuals who were known as Albanians in their time, called themselves Albanian and spoke Albanian as their mother tongue.--Maleschreiber (talk) 15:00, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Your proposal was ignored, because like all your proposals, it attempted to foreclose any discussion from the beginning (The article should all Albanians in Greece). Your posts (and those of your co-edit warriors) show a very outdated mentality whereby anyone with even remote Albanian ancestry ("Albanian blood") is considered 100% Albanian no matter how many centuries their family have been living in Greece. Including someone like Kountouriotis with people like the Dino family in the same category is absurd. Khirurg (talk) 16:24, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Georgios Kountouriotis was a figure who spoke Albanian as his mother tongue, spoke little Greek and was universally known as Albanian in his time. Even his grandson called himself simply an Albanian. What's absurd about calling people who were ethnic Albanians...Albanians? Before the 20th century, all Arvanties were known as Albanians. They were not less Albanian because they were in Greece for several hundred centuries. Subgroup differentiation can be solved by categorizing the article per subgroups, not field of activity.--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:34, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

• Baltsiotis writes (published in Albanian as Grekët dhe shqiptarët në shekullin e 19-të dhe 20-të) Being Greek didn't come into opposition with being Albanians, namely ethnic Albanians [..] The conceptual identification of the terms "Albanian" (Alvanos) and "Arvanite" (Arvanitis) is the result of Greek linguistic digglosia and will start to change only in the beginning of the 20th century after the creation of the Albanian state, and will gradually prevail, in official use and later (after WWII) in colloquial use.--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:34, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Kountouriotis spoke plenty of Greek, having served as Prime Minister of Greece. You haven't found a single modern source that calls him Albanian, only sources that state he is of "Albanian descent". If you want, we can create a separate article List of Greeks of Albanian descent. And yes it is utterly absurd to include a Prime Minister of Greece in the same article as Albanian nationalists such as the Dino family, who were notorious for the atrocities they committed in WW2. Khirurg (talk) 16:40, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Are you listening to yourself? Georgios Kountouriotis was a figure who spoke Albanian as his mother tongue, spoke little Greek and was universally known as Albanian in his time? They were not less Albanian because they were in Greece for several hundred centuries Says who? You? Enough with the gaslighting and reality distortion. Khirurg (talk) 16:43, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

• Ghallager, Tom (2013). Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789-1989: From the Ottomans to Milosevic. Routledge. p. 63. ISBN 0764598325. George Koundouriotis was descended from the Albanian invaders of Greece in the 14th century 'and spoke Greek only with difficulty It's one of the sources which SR removed. The idea that someone in 19th century Greece couldn't be both an Albanian and a Prime Minister is a modern Greek narrative and isn't shared by what the majority of Greek authors today discuss. In 19th century Greece, the predominant narrative said that there was one Greek nation formed by two "races" (ethnic groups) deux races, une nation[2].--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:50, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Well, we're not in 19th century Greece anymore. Btw did you notice your source says descended from Albanians and NOT "Albanian". Do you understand the difference? Enough with the gaslighting. Btw, why didn't you respond to my proposal about creating List of Greeks of Albanian descent? Khirurg (talk) 16:57, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

It's ahistorical to identify people as something that they weren't. Arvanites in 19th century Greece perceived themselves and were perceived by others as Albanians, which is the endonym they used in literary Greek for themselves. Anastas Kullurioti, another individual removed by SR, wrote a primer about "Albanian children" and the grandson of Koundouriotis (brother of Pavlos Koundouriotis) called himself Alvanos (Albanian). Greeks of Albanian descent are Albanian immigrants in Greece and people of some Albanian ancestry. Arvanites are distinct group. I proposed distinct categories for each subgroup in this article to treat the ambiguity in a way which is historically accurate (they called themselves Albanians) and historical differences (Cham Albanians should be in a different subsection). I proposed different subsections for this article: medieval Albanians, Arvanites, Cham Albanians, Albanians/Arvanites of Western Thrace, immigrants.--Maleschreiber (talk) 17:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

@Khirurg: I proposed different sections for different subgroups to avoid disputes.--Maleschreiber (talk) 17:35, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Separate sections can be a viable solution if none is willing to make the effort to create separate articles. The admins locked the article in its current unacceptable status which shows people of Albanian descent in the same list as the Albanians, which is unacceptable and implies that being of Albanian descent may be same thing as being Albanian and I expect this to be addressed either by making an edit request towards the admins, or wait for the article protection to decrease and make the changes directly. However in the event a separate section is preferred over the solution of a separate article that Khirurg has proposed, then the article's name will have to be updated/expanded as well, because not all of the people listed in it are actually Albanians.

EDIT: I want to express my discontent with how, after all these years, I am still seeing stupid nationalist debates like this in the Balkan topic area of Wikipedia. No offense but it is stupid. I wish the admins made their threats for topic-bans when they had the chance. The Balkan area has turned into a WP:NATIONALIST battleground where people are arguing over the ethnicity of people! Don't you have better things to do than battling over the ethnicity of people (let alone of those who have deceased)? At least it is moments like this I want to comment and applaud the Greece topic area editors for not being obsessed with portraying Jennifer Aniston or Zach Galifianakis as Greeks instead of Greek descent just to claim some of their fame to feed their national insecurities. It could have been ridiculous and a sign of immaturity. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 19:14, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm glad Malrschreiber thinks Arvanites are a distinct group, because I couldn't agree more. So distinct, in fact, that there should be separate article for List of Arvanites. There are enough of them that such a thing would be WP:DUE. It's also very easy to create and populate. Khirurg (talk) 19:44, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

A few hours ago SR was claiming that Antentokoumpo has no relation to Nigeria other than his origin, but he clearly does. Antentokoumpo has the right to maintain his identity and have a million other identities. But nobody has the right to strip anyone of their identity whether they are indigenous people in Australia, Albanians in the Balkans, Greeks in Minor Asia or any other people, anywhere else. Living or dead, the identity of all people should be protected from misrepresentation, cultural appropriation, invisibilization and marginalization.

Bibliography discusses people who were Albanians as Albanians. Schuberth, Richard (2021). Lord Byrons letzte Fahrt: Eine Geschichte des Griechischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges. Wallstein Verlag. ISBN 3835345966. Das Kabinett, dessen Präsident der illiterate, aber reiche Albaner Koundouriotis war, wurde von der Partei der hydriotischen Marine dominiert [the illiterate but rich Albanian Koundouriotis] Anastas Kullurioti who you removed calls the children of his community, "Albanian children". Before any of us makes any comment about how other people self-identify, we should read carefully about how they truly self-identify. People listed in this article perceived themselves as Albanians and they were perceived by their peers as Albanians. I didn't propose separate categories just as a dispute resolution, but because they are good analytical categories.--Maleschreiber (talk) 19:48, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

@Khirurg: There's no need for a new article as this one is just 26k. If someone creates it, it'll be WP:COATRACK now and will go to AfD. And if this one grows too big, we're not going to remove Arvanites from this article. A basic part of the list would be kept and it would continue in the main article.--Maleschreiber (talk) 19:54, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

26k is actually pretty long for a list article, considering there is a 100k limit on prose articles and this article currently does not include Arvanites (of which there are quite a few). It's very easy for me to create a List of Arvanites articles, and I will do so if this article keeps growing. You can then file as many AfDs as you want. Good luck with that. Khirurg (talk) 20:02, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

If it gets to 50k - which is not unthinkable as Albanians are a large community - another list will be a good idea and we can keep a few figures on this list as a lead-in to the main article. Side comment: This one stands at 26k because there are 5 sources for Koundouriotis --Maleschreiber (talk) 20:14, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

"A few hours ago SR was claiming that Antentokoumpo has no relation to Nigeria other than his origin, but he clearly does. Antentokoumpo has the right to maintain his identity and have a million other identities." I feel you are ignoring me instead of reading CAREFULLY what I have wrote to you. I never stated that "Antentokoumpo has no right to maintain his identity and have a million other identities." because the opposite is true for me, so I will kindly ask that you avoid ever again putting words to my mouth as this is considered highly disruptive. I will repeat myself one more time regarding the diaspora: People of Nigerian origin born and residing outside of Nigeria arent treated as Nigerians but as nationals in the country of birth of Nigerian descent. People of Albanian origin born and residing outside of Albania can't be treated as Albanians but as nationals in the country of birth of Albanian descent. People of Greek origin born and residing outside of Greece arent treated as Greeks but as nationals in the country of birth of Greek descent. To claim that the identity of parents determines the identity of the offspring, is just blatantly wrong and not how it works. Each person develops their own distinct identity, independently of their parents, which is based on multiple factors and influences, but ultimately, Wikipedia notes just the country where they were born and lived and were socially integrated into if must, as well as noting the origins of their parents. Simple as that. How hard is it for you to understand?? If someone had Albanian parents, sure. But to baptise him as Albanian even though he wasn't born or grew in Albania stinks of nationalist POV trying to claim the glory of the people or something, which no matter how you justify it, it is not acceptable. The birthplace of parents can't overwrite the identity of their offsprings just because this is what you could like to. This logic is dangerous because one may very well come and start claiming that the same is true for the grandparents. This is as far-fetched as it can get. If we keep at this rate I can see whole nations (especially the younger ones) being identified as something other than where they live today.

I didn't set the Wikipedia rules myself, I never disputed the identity of people, and I haven't bothered with people's nationalities before stumbling upon this dispute here. But I can't let Wikipedia be turned upside-down just to satisfy your nationalist pride or something, nor I am going to be part of a pointless never-ending debate like this one (and yes, I can predict this going on indefinitely, considering my past experiences with you). --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 06:22, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

• Wikipedia is written according to reliable bibliography. WP:ETHNICITY is about how to describe individuals on the lede section of an article. It's not related to including individuals on a list which is specifically a list about an ethnic group in a speficic region. From reading the sources which you have been given access to you were informed that Arvanites=Albanians with no differentiation in Greek thinking throughout the 19th century. Koundouriotis is specifically discussed as an Albanian in bibliography and this includes him in a list which has a scope defined as "Greeks of Albanian descent and Albanian immigrants". Anastas Kullurioti was even more so an Albanian.--Maleschreiber (talk) 11:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

WP:ETHNICITY is exactly what I have been trying to explain above, regarding Giannis Antetokounmpo. Since you brought up his case, WP:ETHNICITY states: "The opening paragraph should usually provide context for the activities that made the person notable. In most modern-day cases, this will be the country, region, or territory, where the person is a citizen, national, or permanent resident;" this guideline should not be perceived as denying Giannis of his Nigerian descent, it simply explains how an opening sentence in an article about a person's biography should be like in Wikipedia. In Giannis's case, his citizenship, nationality and country of origin are Greece, while his family is of Nigerian origin. Simple as that.

Funny coincidence, today there was edit warring over his ethnicity on his article: Giannis Antetokounmpo, by editors who apparently were ignorant of the biography guidelines and tried to make him a Nigerian national and citizen which isn't true either. Of course, I had to revert their edits: [3].

Now, regarding Anastas Kullurioti, since you mentioned him several times, I dont have opinion. I only hold 3 facts about him but these arent enough for me to make an opinion on his case. I just noted that 1) he isn't a person who was born in Albania, but in a historical community that existed in Greece for many years, and later visited Albania for political reasons. 2) his birth was in Ottoman Greece which wasn't a state back then. He might got Greek citizenship I presume, considering that he lived there after the country's establishment. 3) He is from the local Arvanite minority. If you are to treat him, you gotta decide whether his treatment shall be that of his Albanian roots or a member of the Arvanite community and list him appropriately in one of the lists proposed so far. Considering these facts and considering the known complicated background of the Arvanite community, its why I have difficult time making an opinion on the person. I agree with Khirurg that if Arvanites are to be listed then they have to be mentioned in their own list. If you want Kullurioti to be treated just as Arvanite and listed there, or simply as Albanian and be listed along with other Albanians, is up to you. Really I can't help on Kullurioti's case. Perhaps he should be listed in both lists? --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 12:59, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Well, Malescreiber is WP:CHERRYPICKING his sources as you guys could understandably notice. For example this one has not been presented which is spot on. "Older generation remember their great grandparents and great, great grandparents speaking Greek. Greek revolutionary heroes such as Andreas Miaoulis, Markos Botsaris, Antonios Kriezis, Georgios Kountouriotis, and Laskarina Bouboulina who were of Arvanite descent were also known to speak both Greek and Arvanitic. Thus, it is likely that the Arvanite communities in Greece spoke both Greek and Arvanitic for more than one hundred years" and more will come.Othon I (talk) 16:12, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

If you want to post interesting, but off-topic sources, I'm still interested. But they're not linked to the subject. Side comment: Botsaris was not an Arvanite. He was a Souliote who spoke Cham Albanian. If you want to know more about the Albanian language,linguistic sources are better. Does anyone of you have full access to The Greek Naval Revolution of April 1944 by Giannis Malakases, University of Ioannina, 2001? He writes about Alexandros Sakellariou that admiral Sakellariou , a man in whom still the perseverance and stubbornness of the Albanian peasant, the admiral was from the Albanian speaking villages of Eleusina , was exhibited with Doric severity in this crisis[4]. I appreciate that modern Greek sources don't try to hide the Albanian background of individuals. It's a mature approach to the complexity of social life.--Maleschreiber (talk) 18:55, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh does the source not fit your interests? The fact that your are ignoring the significant difference between "Albanian" and "of Albanian/Arvanite" descent plus the fact that Arvanite is used interchangeably with the word Albanian in historiography especially before the 19th century shows clearly your motive. And taking an example here, does an "Albanian/Arvanitika" village of Eleusina where Arvanites are since the Byzantine Empire and the Duchy of Athens have to do anything with the modern Albanian state created in 1913 (not even liberated)? Linking 19th century Arvanites who identified with the Greek cause to the modern state (20th century) "Albania" is a crystal clear endorsement of nationalistic-POV that you and your "squire" Ahmeti are intrusively adding to various articles. It is understandable that you want to present Arvanites as Albanians. That cannot happen, historiography does not treat them as a community related to the modern state but as Greeks of Arvanite origin. There are shed-loads of keyboard "warriors" from a certain place of the balkan peninsula that have been trying to do that since the early stages of wikipedia ending with permanent bans. I would suggest to hold down your horses otherwise more drastic measures will be planned to be taken. Best Othon I (talk) 09:56, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

References

Ethnicity is different from state building. No editor has linked the Arvanites to state building in Albania. Arvanites perceived themselves and were perceived simply as Albanians until the 20th century. It's what modern Greek bibliography discusses: Being Greek didn't come into opposition with being Albanians, namely ethnic Albanians [..] The conceptual identification of the terms "Albanian" (Alvanos) and "Arvanite" (Arvanitis) is the result of Greek linguistic digglosia and will start to change only in the beginning of the 20th century after the creation of the Albanian state, and will gradually prevail, in official use and later (after WWII) in colloquial use. Baltsiotis (2018). Anastas Kullurioti wrote a primer about "the Albanian children in Greece". It was their emic identity in anthropological terms and it didn't come into opposition with the identities formed in the state of Greece. If you don't want to discuss the subject as bibliography does, you can do that on the talkpage. But you can't include your personal narrative in the article. And you can't make other comments about "squires" and how Albania was created, otherwise WP:AE-related admin oversight may become unfortunately unavoidable. --Maleschreiber (talk) 12:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

And a last side comment: The subject of the emic identity of Albanian communities in Greece in Greek bibliography is the product of the long study of archival material by Greek historians. It is not an Albanian "nationalistic POV".--Maleschreiber (talk) 14:27, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Your knowledge of 19th century Greek historiography is impressive (particularly for someone who doesn't know a word of Greek), but we are not in 19th century Greece anymore. In modern English usage, "Albanian" and "Arvanite" have different meanings, and for good reason. Most of our readers, when they see "Albanian", will assume it means "person from Albania". Now, if/when List of Arvanites is created (which it will if the article keeps growing), you can argue at your Afd that it should be deleted because "Arvanite=Albanian in 19th century Greek bibliography", and see how that goes. Khirurg (talk) 14:44, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

The benefit of being part of academic institutional life is that you always have multiple ways to find out what you're looking for. I think that a List of Arvanites can be created when this article reaches WP:SIZE limit and then we can move most entries - but not all - and we won't delete the section about Arvanites.--Maleschreiber (talk) 15:12, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Sections

@Ahmet Q.:@Khirurg:@SilentResident: The sections I propose are a mix of historical and alphabetical orders: 1)medieval Albanians 2)Ottoman era 3)Arvanites 4)Cham Albanians 5)western Thrace 7)Post-1991 immigrants. The Ottoman era section overlaps with some of them, but we can examine each entry individually. Is that a categorization which allows us to move forwards?--Maleschreiber (talk) 12:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

And what about sub-categories that are music, entertainment, politics, and so on? People would still find useful such sub-categories. --- ❖ SilentResident ❖ ^{(talk ✉ | contribs ✎)} 14:14, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Sports and entertainment in many ways will overlap with the section about recent immigrants and I think that it's better to categorize poltiical figures according to the historical era they lived. We could create a small section as an overview about sports/music and post-1991 immigrants. If you have free time, you could write it.--Maleschreiber (talk) 14:41, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

As long we follow the sources and include figures who have Albanian origin and acknowledged it as part of their identity, these sections can be useful for expanding the article. Ahmet Q. (talk) 17:21, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

I would prefer a separate article for the Arvanites. Khirurg (talk) 14:45, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Nice catch Khirurg! Arvanites should have their own seperate article since they don't self declare Albanians.Alexikoua (talk) 09:04, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Arvanites until the 20th century perceived themselves as Albanians and were perceived by others in Greece as Albanians. And nobody perceived their ethnicity as incompatible with affiliation to the Greek state. Just like nobody in NYC perceives Irish parades as incompatible with Americanness. After 1945, the situation is more complex but there aren't any articles about modern Arvanites except for Aristidh Kola. I've had a busy schedule, so apologies to all for not starting categorization yet. Towards the end of the week, I'll be able to get to it.--Maleschreiber (talk) 20:48, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

I believe that Arvanites should have a separate article list, they do not self identify as Albanians nor affiliate with the Albanian state, on the contrary they find it offensive and they are fully hellenised as the articles explain. It looks like Malascreiber tries to present them as the Arbereshe community of Italy which is a wrong approach and which I do not consent because the Arbereshe identify with the Albanian state. Othon I (talk) 23:28, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Wrong people

Several people never lived in Greece or lived in (later) Greece for a very short period of their life, to name a few: Thopia Zenevisi, Michele Greco da Valona... the last being of possible Greek descent though.Alexikoua (talk) 01:27, 11 July 2023 (UTC)