Thessaloniki, 1888. A school geography of Korça, written by the former director of the town’s Greek schools, printed by permission of the Ministry of Education, for the youngest classes of the boys’ school and the girls’ school.

The page is a revision chapter. City, houses, streets, inhabitants, religion, language — the kind of thing children are made to memorise.

He counts the houses: 1,500. He counts the people: 10,000. He notes that the Orthodox Christians hold the Varosh and the Muslims the Kasaba, the two quarters divided by the Morava.

Then he comes to language, and does not divide them at all:

“As for language, almost all speak one and the same — Albanian.”

Two religions, one town, and a Greek schoolmaster teaching the children in front of him that everyone around them, his own congregation included, spoke Albanian.

Source

Καρμίτση, Γεωγραφία τῆς Κορυτσᾶς καὶ τῆς περιοικίδος (Θεσσαλονίκη, 1888)