Épire of North
The Épire of North (Greek: Βόρειος Ήπειρος, Albanian: Epiri I Veriut ) is the name by which the Greeks call the area of the Albania South where a National minority lives Greek.
Épire wants to say " Continent" in French and necessarily an ethnos group does not indicate. The Greeks forget the direction of this word, in order to sow confusion. Even nowadays, the inhabitants of the islands are accustomed to saying unintermitting for the ground opposite. The Fustanelle, an Albanian traditional costume, adopted and modified by the Greeks, has his origin in this area and the ancestors of the Arvanites - an orthodoxe Albanian community - emigrated of this area in Greece with the Moyen-âge. It was strongly comparable by the Greek policy, but guard however part of its traditions and its language.
The size of all the national minorities in Albania is disputed, however a satisfying census of the ethnic minorities is one of engagements of Albania to the European Union. According to the evaluation of the Greek government to the conference of peace of Paris of 1919, the number of the members of the Greek minority was 120 000 and the last census which counted the national minorities (in 1989) found only 58 785 Greeks, though the total population of Albania had triplet during this time. According to UNPO there is roughly 70 000 Greeks in Albania.
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