Appendix III

RELIGIOUS RITES AND LANGUAGES OF ITALO-ALBANIAN
VILLAGES OF CALABRIA AND SICILY


 

  Villages Rites  
1 Acquaformosa Greek Albanian
2 Amato Latin Albanian
3 Andali Latin Albanian
4 Arietta Latin Albanian
5 Caraffa Latin Albanian
6 Carfizzi Latin Albanian
7 Casalnuovo Lucano Greek Albanian
8 Castroregio Greek Albanian
9 Cavallerizzo Latin Albanian
10 Cervicato Latin ? Albanian
11 Cerzeto Latin Albanian
12 Civita Greek Albanian
13 Contessa Entellina Greek Albanian
14 Eianina Greek Albanian
15 Falconara Albanese Latin Albanian 
16 Firmo Greek Albanian
17 Frascineto Greek Albanian
18 Gizzeria Latin Albanian
19 Lungro Greek Albanian
20 Macchia Greek Albanian
21 Marcedusa Latin Albanian
22 Marri Latin . Albanian
23 Mezzoiuso . Greek Italian
24 Mongrassano Latin Albanian
25 Palazzo Adriano Latin Italian
26 Pallagorio Latin Albanian
27 Piana degli Albanesi Greek Albanian
28 Plataci Greek Albanian
29 Rota Greca Latin Albanian
30 San Benedetto Ullano Greek Albanian
31 San Cosmo Albanese Greek Albanian
32 San Costantino Albanese Greek Albanian
33 San Demetrio Corone Greek Albanian
34 San Giacomo Latin Albanian
35 San Giorgio Albanese Greek Albanian
36 San Martino di Finita Latin Albanian
37 San Nicola dell’Alto Latin Albanian
38 Santa Caterina Albanese Greek Albanian
39 Santa Sofia d’Epiro Greek Albanian
40 Spezzano Albanese Latin Albanian
41 Vaccarizzo Albanese Greek Albanian
42 Vena Latin Albanian
43 Zagarise Latin Albanian
44 Zangarona Latin Albanian

 

A list of 36 Italo-Albanian villages is included in a study by: Domenico Zangari, Le Colonie Italo-Albanesi di Calabria, storia e demografia secoli XV-XIX. (Napoli, 1941), pp. 48-50. I have expanded this list by including the Italo-Albanian villages in Lucania and Sicily. *

This list is according to: Petro Scaglione, Historia e Shqipetarevet t’ltalise, (New York, 1921), pp. 78-80. The villages listed as Albanian signify that that is the language of the home and among the Italo-Albanians. The “lingua franca” in all the villages is Italian.

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