Authored by Petrit Latifi

In this publication we can read the following:

“… once again the value of Marco Bozzari and his Albanians united with the Greeks”.

“Finally, the Turkish fleet was destroyed at Navarino by the united forces of France, Russia and England (October 1827), and the independence of Greece, for which so much Albanian blood had been shed, was proclaimed on 10 January 1828.

When Albania finally fell under Turkish rule, some of its people attempted to rebel against Muslim power, but their efforts were in vain.

Albanians in Italy. The first emigration of Albanians to Italy occurred in 1396, after the Turkish victory of Nicopolis, and precisely in the village of Piroi on the Venetian border.

When Alfonso of Aragon was fighting with Renato d’Angiò, the Albanian Demetrio Reres came to his aid with three powerful squadrons, commanded by himself and his two sons Giorgio and Basilio. When the Aragonese succeeded in uniting the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily under his own dominion, he appointed Reres governor of the province of Reggio Calabria, which, siding with the Angevins, had been subjected to him by Reres himself; and then Giorgio and Basilio Reres with their comrades crossed over to the province of STRATICO”.