The Arbëreshë, also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group in Southern Italy, mostly concentrated in scattered villages in the regions of Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise and Sicily. They are the descendants of mostly Tosks, who fled from Morea between the 14th and the 18th centuries following the Ottoman advancement into the Balkans.
Giulio Variboba was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language.
Palazzo Adriano is a town and comune of Arbëresh origin in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy.
Casalvecchio is an Arbëreshë comune and village in the Province of Foggia, Apulia, southern Italy. Mostly originating from a 15th-century migration of Albanians, the residents have subsisted by family farming. Of those native to the area for generations, many have continued to use Arbëresh, even those of the post–World War II generation.
Arbëresh is the Albanian language spoken by the Arbëreshë people of Italy or Italo-Albanians. This language, part of the Albanian language, is closely related to the Albanian Tosk spoken in Albania, in Epirus and is also spoken by the old Albanians of Greece, with endonym Albanian Arvanitic.
Acquaformosa is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of Italy. Since the Middle Ages it is home to an Arbëresh minority, which is reflected in the presence of Skanderbeg's heraldic eagle in the comune's coat of arms. The town is also the seat of the Arberesh Orthodox Church.
San Costantino Albanese is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.
San Paolo Albanese is a village and comune of 328 people in the province of Potenza, in the Basilicata region of southern Italy.
San Cosmo Albanese is a village and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Mongrassano is a town and comune of the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy, located 42 kilometers northwest of Cosenza.
San Demetrio Corone is a town and municipality in the Calabria region of Italy, at an altitude of 521 meters and with 3,387 inhabitants. The town is among the most important cultural centers of the Albanian communities in Italy and preserves the Albanian language, the Byzantine rites, customs, culture and ethnic identity of its origin. It is home to the Collegio of Sant'Adriano, a boarding school which produced many patriots and theorists/revolutionaries in the Italian Independence wars and is an important religious and cultural organism for the conservation of the oriental rite and of the Albanian traditions. It is part of the district of the Italo-Albanian Church of the Eparchy of Lungro.
Santa Caterina Albanese is a village and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Falconara Albanese is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Santa Sofia d'Epiro is an Arbëresh town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
San Giorgio Albanese is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Frascineto is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is home to an Arbëresh minority.
San Basile is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
Gabriele Dara commonly known as Gavril Dara Junior was an Arbëreshë politician and poet of the 19th century. He is regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
Vaccarizzo Albanian, or Calabria Arbëresh, is a subdialect of the Arbëresh dialect of the Albanian language. Spoken in the villages of Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese in southern Italy by approximately 3,000 people, Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained many archaic features of the Tosk dialect, on which the Standard Albanian is based.
Pasquale Scutari is an Italian linguist and Albanologist.
