With tears in her eyes and a thought-provoking mind, Anastasia Gouma silently watches her husband Elias, often sullen, talking to Pontos News about the cowardly murder of their child in Himarra (Χειμάρρα,…
Tag: Northern Epirus
At the end of June, illegal immigrants took the floor to the Municipal Council of Athens and demanded that they be provided with housing, care, security and money. They came uninvited to…
Bilingual signs in the area of the National Greek Minority in Northern Epirus (southern Albania) were targeted by Albanian nationalists once again. This time it was signs located along the national road…
Racist attacks against the Greek minority in Albania continue to occur unabated and with little interest from the police and the central government. Evangelos Doules (Ευάγγελος Δούλες) who is also known by…
Grigoris Karamelos, a Greek MP for Korytsa (Κορυτσά: Albanian: Korçë) in Albania, during an interview with Channel One on the “Logos kai Antiologos” show with Nikos Paraskeva, said that the Greeks of…
The tourist season in Northern Epirus in southern Albania, specifically in the Greek town of Himarra (Χειμάρρα, Albanian: Himarë) may turn into a conflict between the indigenous Greeks of the region, and…
The Albanian ultra-nationalist movement Djempes e Laberias- “Boys of Laberia” today tried to hold a protest in front of the Greek consulate in Argyrokastro (Αργυρόκαστρο, Albanian: Gjirokastër), in the historically Greek region…
One of Albania’s largest media companies reported that Greece is preparing to liberate Northern Epirus, a region in today’s southern Albania, when photographs of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus flag was…
The family of Konstantinos Katsifas is in the spotlight of Albanian Justice in Northern Epirus (southern Albania) and has been summoned to the Argyrokastro (Αργυρόκαστρο, Albanian: Gjirokastër) Court of First Instance on…
The destruction of ancient Nymphaeum (monumental fountain) of ancient Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία) near Fieri (Φίερι) has caused outrage in the Greek community of Northern Epirus, in southern Albania. Vandals have caused irreparable damage…
The Epirus region is today divided in two – liberated Epirus in Greece and Northern Epirus that falls into the borders of modern Albania and still has a 125,000-strong Greek minority in…
The Albanian ultra-nationalist movement Djempes e Laberias- “Boys of Laberia” has made another provocative action against the Greek minority in Northern Epirus, southern Albania. This time they have burnt the flag of…
On this day in 1913, the Balkan League, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, utterly defeated the Ottoman Empire, nearly expelling the Turks entirely from Europe. Montenegro, the smallest country in…
Stavros Markos, the President of the Greek community in Himarra (Χειμάρρα, Albanian: Himarë) has made a desperate plea to the Greek government to protect the Greek community from “chauvinistic Albanian terror.” The…
Greek-Albanian relations are in the forefront in recent days with the latter wanting to join the European Union, but also because of Albania’s abuse of the Greek minority in the area historically…
Albanian journalist Marin Mema in a recent show on Albania’s Top Channel, released video footage from a hidden camera inside the Greek Consulate in Argyrokastro (Αργυρόκαστρον, Albanian: Gjirokastër) in Northern Epirus, southern…
The Greek Consulate in Argyrokastro (Αργυρόκαστρον, Albanian: Gjirokastër) in Northern Epirus, southern Albania, has been targeted by Albanian journalist Marin Mema. Mema claims the Constulate’s services include “Hellenising” a large number of…
The Romanian Senate has allowed the Latin-speaking Greek minority in southern Albania, known as the Vlahoi (Βλάχοι), to get Romanian citizenship. According to this law, in order to obtain Romanian citizenship, in…
On Tuesday, Lambros Kakisis, the Consul General of Greece in Argyrokastro (Αργυρόκαστρο, Albanian: Gjirokastër) in Northern Epirus- today’s southern Albania, handed over medical supplies for the treatment of coronavirus to the Argyrokastro…
Albanian prosecutors have closed the file on the so-called Peshkëpi Massacre, where two Albanian soldiers were killed in 1994 by the Northern Epirus Liberation Front, according to Albania MAPO media. Albanian prosecutors…