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Delvina is a small town in Southern Albania , for 16 km northeast from Saranda . Apart from the beatiful situation in particular the castle is worth seeing,.. especially the ”Blue Eye” In the level underneath the city is antiquity the Phoinike..(FINIQI). The Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi visited around 1670 Delvina and gives some information about the city in his travel book. It knows to report that Delvina in the Middle Ages was first in Spanish hand (with Spaniards the Catalan mercenaries are probably gemeit, in 14. Century their nuisance in Epirus and Greece floated). Afterwards the Venezianer some time rulers was over the city. To Evliya Çelebis times was Ajaz pasha, a native Albanian, Sandschak Bey of Delvina. The Sandschak of Delvina covered 24 Zeamets and 155 Timare. There was a Turkish garrison, whose command on the castle was from Delvina. According the description of Çelebis the small fortress had a good cisterne, an ammunition depot and a small mosque. In the city reports Çelebi were about 100 houses covered with bricks had. These stood relatively far apart and nearly each house were provided with a fastened tower. But a townwall was missing. There was several mosques, three Medreses and about 80 stores as well as an open market place. About the inhabitants Çelebi says that they would speak all Albanian and nobody Greek understand. In 17th century was Delvina thus a flowering eastern city with predominantly Muslim population. Orthodox Christians probably …

A young woman in Albania from a Muslim family, receives Dr. Youssef’s messages on Leading The Way’s Mp3 player Navigator devices.

The Albanian speakers of Greece who are bilingual in Arvanítika and modern Greek are descendants of Albanian immigrants who formed their first settlements around the fourteenth century AD. Just when Albanians first appeared in what is now Greece is a matter of disagreement. While it is more or less accepted that massive settlements must have taken place around the fourteenth century, that is, during the late period of the Byzantine empir (Vakalopoulos 1961: 1), other interpretations push the first migration back to the eighth century. However, these earlier dates seem unlikely.

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Folk tales and legends are still very much alive in the mountains of Albania, a land of haunted history.