Finally how many are from Northern Epirus?

Constantine Cholevas
Geopolitical Annalist

The President of Omonia, the Organization of the Greek National Minority in Albania, Vasilis Bolanos presented a few days ago an interesting recording numerical and qualitative data.
Specifically Omonia disputed census and ethno-religious communities conducted two years ago by the Albanian government and carried one own inventory.

The final results show the number of 286,500 indicating Greeks in Albania. Of these, about half live in Greece, but maintain strong ties to the fatherland. 90% say they followed the orthodox faith, while others report no religion. In terms of language, the approximately 186,000 say they are Greek speaking and the rest, about 100,000, mainly Vlach.

The brave of Ellinovlachos hold up the flag! not know how reliable method was used for this recording of Hellenism, however, the data seem to agree with the history of ethnological statistics. Before communism, the last census showed that Orthodox Christians were 20% of the population, of which the vast majority of Greeks. Instead, the official Albanian view from Northern brings around 60,000, which was a manifestly inaccurate. Just noticed someone with an empirical statistic how many from Northern residing in our country, which far exceeds Albanian calculations.

The Albanian state, from its inception in 1913 until today, tried in every way to challenge the numbers and rights of ethnic Greek community. So we have two censuses, one state and one of Omonia, where one does not recognize the other . The representatives of our expatriates and the Orthodox Church of Albania has never accepted the outcome of the state inventory.

Despite the recommendations of the European Union recorded and national origin and religion-willing-respondent, eventually most enumerators intentionally not raised these questions in the areas of Hellenism. Once the largest minority in Albania does not recognize the government census, entitled the Greece and the EU To request a new waterproof inventory of all minorities in Albania.