Illustrations, paintings and photos of Albanians and Suliots from Epirus, Korfuz, Dymi (Achaea), Janina, Himara, Menidi, Athens and Sycione (1811-1914)

Illustrations, paintings and photos of Albanians and Suliots from Epirus, Korfuz, Dymi (Achaea), Janina, Himara, Menidi, Athens and Sycione (1811-1914)

In this article we can see photos, illustrations and paintings, both 19th and 20th century, of Albanians from various regions, back then Albanian-speaking, that today belong to Greece, after having been violently hellenized and Greekified over the course of two centuries.

Souvenir from Corfu. Licoursiotes woman and girl. Epirus of Albania. Photo from the beginning of the 20th century.

Albanian from Dymi (Achaea).

Albanian with qelese (plis) from Korfuz (Corfu) by Frank Buscher, 1883.

Roman statue of the goddess Artemis wearing the crescent moon on her head. Vatican Museum (left) Albanian Gegissa (Catholic) from the region of Montenegro wearing a crescent moon on her head (right).

Albanians of Cimarra, 1811.

Albanian woman from Menidi, 1860

Albanian woman from Greece, 1829.

Albanians at the Pazar of Athens, 1819.

Albanian woman from Sicyone

Albanian fighters in southern Albania, Epirus.

Albanian revolutionaries in 1897 in Albanian fustanella.

Differen types of Albanian costumes from north and south.









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