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Before emigration :1399-1409
Second: 1416-1442
Third: 1461-1470
Fourth: 1470-1478
Fifth: 1533-1534
Sixth: The 1646 ........
Seventh: 1744 ........
Eighth: 1774 ........
Ninth: 1990 ....

The Albanian emigration to Italy took place in a time frame that spans nearly three centuries, since mid-fifteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century. This emigration is not made of a sudden, but several waves, although most Albanians colonies were founded after 1468, the year of death of 'national hero, Skanderbeg. The migration continued on several occasions during the next centuries, until 1744, when it was founded Villa Badessa, in Abruzzo. In the fifteenth century, before and especially after the 'Ottoman invasion and the fall of Shkoder (1479), there are also passages groups of Albanian migrants in Venice, where they formed a thriving colony, and in the territories subject to the Serenissima. They found in these new lands a favorable cultural environment that allowed them to express an important and original contribution of works and ideas in 'scope of Renaissance European humanists John, Paul and Andrea Gazulli, Michele Marullo, Marino Barlezio, Nicholas Tomeo, Marino Becichemi and Michele Artioti, the sculptor Andrea Alessi, painters Vittore Carpaccio and Marco Basaiti belong to this group of Albanian intellectuals forced to abandon their homeland d 'origin and to emigrate to Italy following the dramatic events that have followed in the Balkans during the fifteenth century.

From the documents in your possession we know also that passes sporadic groups of Albanians in Italy have taken place even before the 'Ottoman invasion, namely in 1272, in 1388 and 1393. Other nuclei were allocated mainly in Puglia, but also in Calabria and Sicily in feuds that Scanderbeg and other Albanian leaders had obtained from the King of Naples, Alfonso I d 'Aragon, in exchange of' military aid that had provided during the continuing struggles against local barons. Apart from the territories of the Venetian Republic, who was for many centuries linked to 'Albania by narrow political and commercial relations,' Albanian emigration was directed especially in coastal regions of the kingdom of Naples (Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily) geographical proximity but also because of the good relations existing between the Kastrioti and King of Naples House d 'Aragon. The Albanians in Italy or ripopolarono founded nearly a hundred communities, most of them concentrated in Calabria. The Albanian immigrants were here colonies of peasants and soldiers which was given full administrative autonomy; was granted to establish or repopulate new villages, having concluded favourable "chapters" with the lords of the place. With immigration Albanian assists in Calabria and in the South in general, to a new phase of demographic expansion, which accentuates the end of'400 and continues through the first half of'500. Only at the end of'500 and early'600 saw the establishment of genuine community Albanians, with their religions, their festivals, their customs and their language.

Calabria is the region which sees the increased presence of community arberesh, counting still approximately 58,425 people who speak the original language on a total of about 88,319 belonging to the Italian community - Albanian. Important community arbereshe live in at least 30 municipalities of the Region, particularly in the province of Cosenza. The community of Albanian origin is the largest Pugliese (113,088 people), even if only a small percentage (12,816 persons, concentrated in the province of Foggia, Casalvecchio and Chieuti, and in the province of Taranto in San Marzano) still speak the arberesh. Other communities are located in Sicily (in particular in the Plain of Albanians, with 15,135 people who speak arberesh out of a total of 64,177, but also in other countries, like Palazzo Adriano etc..), Molise (13,877 to 25,051 , In the Municipalities of Campomarino, Ururi, Montecilfone and Portocannone), Basilicata (in the Municipalities of St. Paul Albanese, Constantine S. Albanese, Barile, Ginestra and Maschito, where almost all members of the community still speak the arberesh, 8,132 to 9,072 ). Much smaller communities Italo - Albanians in Campania (2,226 people) and Abruzzo (510). COUNTRIES FROM ALBANESI Calabria Aquaformosa (CS) Castroregio (CS) Cavallerizzo (CS) Cerzeto (CS) Civita (CS) Caraffa of Catanzaro (CZ) Carfizzi (CZ) Eianina (CS) Falconara Albanese (CS) Farneta (CS) Firmus (CS) Frascineto (CS) Lungro (CS) Macchia Albanese (CS) Marri (CS) Plataci (CS) Pallagorio (CZ) San Basile (CS) San Benedetto Ullano (CS) St. Catherine Albanese (CS) San Cosmo Albanese (CS ) San Demetrio Crowns (CS) San Giorgio Albanese (CS) of St. Nicholas (CZ) San Martino di Ended (CS) Santa Sofia of Epirus (CS) Spezzano Albanese (CS) Vacarizzo Albanese (CS) Basilicata Barile (PCS ) Ginestra (PCS) Maschito (PCS) San Costantino Albanese (PCS) San Paolo Albanese (PCS) Sicily Contessa Entellina (PA) Palazzo Adriano (PA) Piana of Albanians (PA) Santa Cristina Gela (PA) Puglia Casalvecchio di Puglia (FG ) Chieuti (FG) San Marzano (TA) Campania Greeks (AV) Ginestra degli Schiavoni (BN) Molise Campomarino (CB) Montecilfone (CB) Portocannone (CB) Ururi (CB) Abruzzo Villa abbess (EP)

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