Demographics of Greece: Ethnic Groups in Greece, Immigration to Greece, Romani People, Albanians, Sephardi Jews, Bulgarians, Pomaks

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Ethnic groups in Greece, Immigration to Greece, Romani people, Albanians, Sephardi Jews, Bulgarians, Pomaks, Cham Albanians, Macedonians, Aromanians, Slavic-speakers of Greek Macedonia, Greek Muslims, Sarakatsani, Corfiot Italians, Pontic Greeks, Turks of Western Thrace, Minorities in Greece, Megleno-Romanians, Vlachs, Muslim minority of Greece, Iraqis in Greece, Italian colonists in the Dodecanese, Karamanlides, Pakistanis in Greece, Armenians in Greece, Vallahades, Roma in Greece, Demographic history of Greece, December 2007 Seferihisar, Turkey migrant boat disaster, Filipinos in Greece, Serbs in Greece, Albanian immigrants in Greece, Turks of the Dodecanese, African immigrants to Greece, Gavoustema, Pagani Detention Center, Russians in Greece, Turks in Greece, Italians in Greece. Excerpt: Cham Albanians, or Chams (Albanian: , Greek: Tsamidhes), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the coastal region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria. The Chams have their own peculiar cultural identity, which is a mixture of Albanian and Greek influences as well as many specifically Cham elements. Chams played an important role in starting the renaissance of the Albanian culture in the 19th century. The Chams speak their own dialect of the Albanian language, which is considered one of the two most conservative dialects, the other being Arvanitika. Following the Italian occupation of Albania in 1939, the Chams became a prominent propaganda tool for the Italians and irredentist elements among them became more vocal. As a result, on the eve of the Greco-Italian War, the adult male Cham population was deported by the Greek authorities to internment camps. After the occupation of Greece, large parts of the Muslim Cham population collaborated with Italian and German forces. Th...