Sunday 1 January 2012

The story of an old Arbëror song.

"Moj e bukura More", (Thou beautiful Albania) this is the title of an 600 years old Arbëror song. This song hides in itself the whole historical secret of the painful migration of the Greece Arberor towards Italy. That was the final migration of Arbëresh of Morea(Peloponessus)from the Southwest of Greece to Italy between about 1500 and 1534 was again mostly soldiers but, these were , and were those who had there served in the armies of various feudal lords for several centuries, until they became displaced by the Turkish invasions of the 1480s. Most fled to Venetian trading posts and fortresses on the coasts of Greece, such as Corone, Modone, and Napulia in the Peloponnese (known in Medieval times as the "Morea"). They were enlisted into the Stradiotti, the "colonial light cavalry" of Venice and were stationed on the land approaches to these forts to discourage Turkish raiding and attacks. In the late 15th and early 16th century Venice lost these mainland outposts in Greece and therefore moved her garrisons, including the Stradiotti, to new island posts in the Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean Seas.

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