Petrit Latifi

In the publication “Die Entstehung der neugriechischen Nationalität” by Prof. Dr. G. Hertzberg, we find an interesting passage:

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“The imposing position that the Albanian element had assumed in the Turkish-Greek Orient since the second half of the 18th century, at the expense of the diminishing Ottomans of the Balkan Peninsula, certainly determined the Greeks outside the island world to adopt the Albanian Fustanella.

On the other hand, the seven-year liberation war that began in 1821, in which Albanian Suliots, Hydriots, Spetziots, Greek Maniats, the Moreots under Kolokotronis and Nikitas, and the Rumeliot Armatoles vied with each other in heroic valor, irreversibly bonded both elements of the modern Greek people together. But in such a way that the intellectually more significant and nationally stronger element, namely the Greeks, is absorbing the Albanian element ever more rapidly and, so to speak, “slurping it up.”

Reference

https://opendata.uni-halle.de/bitstream/1981185920/91644/1/mveh_volume_1_1150.pdf