List of Albanians in Greece explained
This is a list of Albanians in Greece that includes both Greek people of Albanian descent and Albanian immigrants that have resided in Greece. The list is sorted by the fields or occupations in which the notable individual has maintained the most influence.
For inclusion in this list, each individual must have a Wikipedia article indicating notability and show that they are Albanian and have lived in Greece.
Politics
- John Spata – Albanian ruler
- Yaqub Spata – Lord of Arta
- Ahmed Dino – military leader and politician[1]
- Ali Dino – famous Albanian cartoonist and member of the Hellenic Parliament
- Abedin Dino - one of the League of Prizren founders and an important figure of the Albanian National Awakening
- Hamdi Çami - Deputy of Preveza
- Georgios Kountouriotis – Hydriote ship-owner and politician[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Antonios Kriezis - Greek captain of the Hellenic navy during the Greek War of Independence and a Prime Minister of Greece from 1849 to 1854.
- Alexandros Diomidis - governor of the Central Bank of Greece who became Prime Minister of Greece.
- Diomidis Kyriakos - Greek author, politician and Prime Minister of Greece.
- Athanasios Miaoulis - Greek military officer and Prime Minister of Greece
- Pavlos Kountouriotis - first President of the Second Hellenic Republic.
- Dimitrios Voulgaris- Greek revolutionary fighter during the Greek War of Independence of 1821, eight-time Prime Minister of Greece.
- Petros Voulgaris- Greek Admiral who served as Prime Minister of Greece in 1945.
- Theodoros Pangalos - Greek general, politician and dictator.
- Emmanouil Repoulis - Greek politician and journalist, and Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (1919–1920).
- Alexandros Koryzis- Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece briefly in 1941
- Ioannis Orlandos- Greek politician and revolutionary.
- Antonios Miaoulis - Greek politician and a revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.
- Lazaros Kountouriotis - Greek Senator and major actor of the Greek War of Independence of 1821.
- Athanasios N. Miaoulis - Greek naval officer and politician
- Spyridon Mercouris - Greek politician and long-serving mayor of Athens in the early 20th century.
- George S. Mercouris - Greek politician who served as a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, founder of the Greek National Socialist Party
- Stamatis Merkouris - Greek Army officer and politician, who served as an MP and a Cabinet Minister.
- Maurice Spata – Ruler of Arta
- Rasih Dino - Diplomat and signatory of Albania to the Treaty of London
- Kitsos Tzavellas - Greek fighter in the Greek War of Independence and later Hellenic Army General and Prime Minister of Greece.
- Katerina Botsari - Greek courtier.
- Photini Tzavela - Greek courtier.
- Mid’hat Frashëri - Albanian diplomat, writer and politician[7]
- Shahin Dino - Deputy of the sanjak of Preveza in the Ottoman Parliament and later Minister of Interior of Albania[8]
- Jakup Veseli - from Margariti, representative of Chameria in Vlora Congress, signatory of Albanian Declaration of Independence.
- Osman Taka - well-known dancer of his time
- Sgouros Spata - Albanian ruler
- Niazi Demi - Minister of trade of Albania.
- Rexhep Demi - From Filiates, representative of Chameria in Vlora Congress, signatory of Albanian Declaration of Independence.
- Thoma Çami - Founder and chairman of organisation "Bashkimi", the best-known cultural club, of Rilindja Kombëtare
- Veli Gërra - Representative of Chameria in Vlora Congress, signatory of Albanian Declaration of Independence[9] [10] [11]
- Refo Çapari - Albanian politician and religious leader
- Hamdi Bey - Ottoman officer and politician
- Omer Fortuzi - Albanian politician and mayor of Tirana from 1940 through 1943.
- Xhemil Dino - Albanian politician and diplomat
- Mehmed Konica - Albanian politician. He served three times as the Foreign Minister of Albania
- Hatzigiannis Mexis - Arvanite Albanian governor and shipowner.
Military
- Ali Pasha of Ioannina - Albanian ruler who served as pasha of a large part of western Rumelia.
- Veli Pasha - Pasha of the Morea Eyalet.
- Thopia Zenevisi – 14th century Anti Ottoman rebellion leader
- Yakup Ağa – Ottoman Sipahi of Albanian or Turkish descent
- Manuel Bokali – military commander
- Petros Lantzas - Corfiot Greek, spy, privateer and pirate
- Emmanuel Mormoris - Cretan military commander and notable political figure in the Republic of Venice.
- Murat Reis the Elder - Ottoman privateer and admiral.
- Hayreddin Barbarossa – Greek-Albanian or Greek-Turkish corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
- Demitre - Albanian count in the Catalan dominions in late-14th-century Thessaly.
- David Arianites - high-ranking Byzantine commander of the early 11th century.
- Peter Losha - Albanian clan leader in medieval Epirus.
- Mercurio Bua – Commander of the Venetian army
- Oruç Reis – Greek-Albanian or Greek-Turkish Ottoman bey and admiral[23]
- Murat Reis the Elder – Ottoman privateer and admiral[24] [25] [26]
- Hasan Tahsin Pasha – Ottoman military officer
- Mehmet Esat Bülkat – Ottoman general[27] [28]
- Wehib Pasha – military officer[29] [30] [31]
- Hasan Rami Pasha – Ottoman career officer[32]
- Spiro Bellkameni – Albanian military commander[33]
- Georgios Drakos - Greek general and fighter of the Greek War of Independence.
- Markos Drakos - Lieutenant General of the Hellenic Army most notable for his leadership during the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41.
- Kostas Botsaris - Greek general and senator.
- Notis Botsaris - Greek general and leader of the Botsari clan.
- Tousias Botsaris - Greek commander and fighter of the Greek War of Independence.
- Dimitrios Botsaris - Greek Army officer and Minister for Military Affairs.
- Kitsos Botsaris leader of the Souliotes.
- Vasilios Lazarou - Spetsiote shipowner, fighter of the Greek War of Independence and politician.
- Giotis Danglis Greek leader of the Greek revolutionary army during the Greek War of Independence.
- Panagiotis Danglis - Greek Army general and politician.
- Lambros Koutsonikas - Greek general and fighter of the Greek Revolution of 1821.
- Lambros Tzavelas - leader of the Souliotes.
- Gardikiotis Grivas, Greek revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence.
- Moscho Tzavela - Greek heroine of the years before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence,
- Nikolaos Zervas - Greek revolutionary and Army general.
- Ali Demi – World War II hero of Albania born in Filiates, Greece in 1918, and died during a battle with Axis forces in Vlora, Albania in 1943. After him was created the first Cham battalion in ELAS army, the battalion "Ali Demi"
- Musa Demi – Revolutionary and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening
- Aziz Çami – Officer of the Albanian army and Balli Kombëtar commander
- Laskarina Bouboulina - Greek naval commander, heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and considered the first woman to attain the rank of admiral.
- Dimitris Plapoutas - Greek general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
- Andreas Miaoulis - Greek revolutionary, admiral, and politician
- Odysseas Androutsos - Greek military and political commander in eastern mainland Greece
- Dimitrios Kriezis - Greek naval officer.
- Alexandros Kontoulis - Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.
- Dimitrios Miaoulis - Greek revolutionary leader
- Sofoklis Dousmanis - Greek naval officer, twice chief of the Greek Navy General Staff, and occupant of the post of Minister for Naval Affairs in 1935.
- Viktor Dousmanis - Greek Army officer, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.
- Nikolaos Votsis - Greek naval officer who distinguished himself during the Balkan Wars and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral.
- Emmanouil Miaoulis - Greek naval officer.
- Meletis Vasileiou - leader in the Greek War of Independence who contributed to the organization of the revolutionary forces in Attica.
- Emmanouil A. Miaoulis - Greek naval officer active during the first decades of the existence of the Royal Hellenic Navy.
- Nikolaos Miaoulis - Greek navy personnel, aide-de-camp to Otto of Greece until his abdication.
- Anastasios Tsamados - Greek admiral of the Greek War of Independence.
- Andreas D. Miaoulis - Greek naval officer, Minister of Naval Affairs in 1020
- Ioannis A. Miaoulis - Greek naval officer.
- Nikolaos Kriezotis - Greek leader in Eboea during the Greek War of Independence.
- Ioannis Miaoulis - Greek naval officer.
- Georgios Sachtouris - Hydriot ship captain and a leading admiral of the Greek War of Independence.
- Iakovos Tombazis - merchant and ship-owner from Hydra who became the first Admiral of the Greek Navy during the Greek War of Independence
- Andreas D. Vokos - Greek naval officer.
- Emmanouil Tombazis - Greek naval captain from Hydra, active during the Greek War of Independence.
- Andreas A. Miaoulis - Greek naval officer, grandson of Andreas Miaoulis, the celebrated admiral of the Greek War of Independence.
- Dimitrios D. Miaoulis - Greek naval officer, son of Dimitrios Miaoulis.
- Markos Botsaris - Greek hero of the Greek War of Independence and chieftain of the Souliotes.
Religious
Authors and Scholars
Cinema
Musicians
Sports
Sources
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Notes and References
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- Book: Schuberth . Richard . Lord Byrons letzte Fahrt: Eine Geschichte des Griechischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges . 2021 . Wallstein Verlag . 978-3835345966 . Das Kabinett, dessen Präsident der illiterate, aber reiche Albaner Koundouriotis war, wurde von der Partei der hydriotischen Marine dominiert.
- Book: Speake . Graham . Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition . 2021 . Routledge . 978-1135942069 . 805 . George Kountouriotis, a Hydriot shipowner of Albanian descent, was elected president..
- Book: Petropulos . John Anthony . Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece, 1833-1843 . 2015 . 1968 . Princeton University Press . 978-1400876020 . 70 . The Kountouriotes (..) descended from the younger son of an Albanian peasant who settled as a boatman on the barreck after the expulsion of the Venetians from the Morea (1715) but before the island became colonized into a permanent community..
- Book: Glenny . Misha . The Balkans, 1804–2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers . 2012 . Granta Books . 978-1847087720 . 37 . The Koundouriotes, for example, the most powerful maritime family Hydra on the island of Hydra, who led a substantial faction during the war, were of Albanian origin..
- Book: Ghallager . Tom . Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789-1989: From the Ottomans to Milosevic . 2013 . Routledge . 978-0764598326 . 63 . George Koundouriotis was descended from the Albanian invaders of Greece in the 14th century 'and spoke Greek only with difficulty'.
- Web site: Mid'hat bey Frashëri:The Epirus Question - the Martyrdom of a People . Robert Elsie . 18 June 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723010338/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1942.html . 23 July 2011 .
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- "History of Albanian People" By the Albanian Academy of Science
- Shkrim-këndimi dhe shkolla shqipe në Çamëri . Bashkim . Kuçuku . Konferenca e II ne Shqip-bequir . Instituti i Studimeve per Camerine . 16–21 . Albanian . Songwriting and Albanian schools in Chameria . 2010-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725130500/http://www.cameriainstitute.org/konferenca/shqip/KONFERENCA%20E%20II%20NE%20SHQIP-beqir.meta.pdf . 2011-07-25 . dead .
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- Born in Mytilene around 1466 to a, Hayreddin, then called Hizir., Niccolò Capponi, Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto, Da Capo Press, 2007,, p. 30.
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- Book: Kiel, Machiel. https://books.google.com/books?id=YoZlbnrH2SEC&pg=PA35. The Smaller Aegean Islands in the 16th–18th Centuries according to Ottoman Administrative Documents. Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece . ASCSA . 2007. 978-0-87661-540-9. 35–36. Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa (son of a Turkish sipahi [fief-holder in the cavalry service]) from Yenice-i Vardar in Macedonia and a Greek woman from Lesvos/Mytilini....
- Book: Jamieson, Alan G.. Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs. Reaktion Books. 2013. 978-1861899460. Canada. 59. "Desperate to find some explanation for the sudden resurgence of Muslim sea power in the Mediterranean after centuries of Christian dominance, Christian commentators in the sixth century (and later) pointed to the supposed Christian roots of the greatest Barbary corsair commanders. It was a strange kind of comfort. The Barbarossas certainly had a Greek Christian mother, but it now seems certain their father was a Muslim Turk.".
- İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, pp. 172 ff. Türkiye Yayınevi (Istanbul), 1971.
- Khiḍr was one of four sons of a Turk from the island of Lesbos., "Barbarossa", Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963, p. 147.
- Angus Konstam, Piracy: The Complete History, Osprey Publishing, 2008,, p. 80.
- Hayreddin Barbarossa, who would rise to become the ruler of Algiers, and later admiral of the Ottoman fleet, was of Greek origin and got his start raiding the southern and western shores of Anatolia on behalf of Korkud, son of Bayezid..., Virginia H. Aksan & Daniel Goffman, The early modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2007; ISBN, p. 106.
- ...to the service in the Ottoman fleets of skilled Greek mariners or the celebrated coalition with the deys of the Barbary Coast, the most celebrated of whom was Hayreddin Barbarossa Pasha., Daniel Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early modern Europe, Cambridge University Press;, p. 145.
- Their father was former Muslim soldier, probably from a recent converted family of the European Provinces. Their mother is said to have been the widow of a Greek priest., Frank Ronald Charles Bagley et al., The Last Great Muslim Empires: History of the Muslim World, Brill Academic Publishers, 1997, p. 114.
- Die Seeaktivitäten der muslimischen Beutefahrer als Bestandteil der staatlichen Flotte während der osmanischen Expansion im Mittelmeer im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, p.548, Andreas Rieger, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1994
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol 1, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1972, p. 147.
- Book: Wilson, Peter. Pirate utopias: Moorish corsairs & European Renegadoes. Autonomedia. 2003. 41. 1-57027-158-5.
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- Book: Pirates: A History: A History. 9780752488271. Travers. Tim. 2012-05-30. The History Press.
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- Book: Gawrych, George. The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913. 2006. London. IB Tauris. 9781845112875. 26.
- Vehib Pasha, the Albanian, was perhaps a tiger; but he was likewise both valiant soldier and grand- seigneur. (Rafael de Nogales, Four Years Beneath the Crescent, C. Scribner's sons, 1926, p. 22.)
- The Ottoman Albanian Vehib Pasha spoke to the Armenians in the language that any romantic nationalist could comprehend, and his point was clearly to cow his opponents with the depth of Ottoman determination. (Michael A. Reynolds, The Ottoman-Russian Struggle for Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1908-1918: Identity, Ideology and the Geopolitics of World Order, Volume 1, Princeton University, 2003, p. 424.)
- Vehib Pasha said I've been the commander of the Caucasian front for one and a half years. I researched Caucasians and learned. You Caucasians love cleanliness like us Albanians. I won't make these dirty Turkish soldiers to enter into the Caucasus, especially with this guise. (Vehip Paşa «Ben bir buçuk yıldır Kafkas cephesi kumandanıyım. Kafkasyalıları tetkik ettim öğrendim. Siz Kafkasyalılar da, biz Arnavutlar gibi temizliği seviyorsunuz. Bu pis Türk neferlerini, hem de bu kılıkta Kafkasya'ya sokamam.» diyor., Naki Keykurun, Azerbaycan İstiklâl Mücadelesinin Hatıraları, Azerbaycan Gençlik Derneği, 1964, p. 64.)
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- Web site: Primavera, l'attaccante albanese Vassilis Skourtis in prova alla Lazio. Primavera, Albanian forward Vassilis Skourtis on trial at Lazio. La Lazio Siamo Noi. it. 28 January 2010. 5 July 2010.
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