Section H
Arbëresh
Albanian-speaking villages in southern Italy, five centuries on. The church, the language and the ordinary municipal life that carried them.
The entries
4 entries in this section. Every one is a named place or a named practice, described as built fabric.
- H.1Lungro and the EparchyAn Italo-Albanian eparchy keeping the Byzantine rite in Calabria, five centuries after the settlement that created it.
- H.2Piana degli AlbanesiA Sicilian town founded by Albanian settlers, with bilingual street lettering and its own liturgical calendar.
- H.3San Demetrio CoroneA Calabrian hill town and its college, long the intellectual centre of the Arbëresh.
- H.4The languageA form of Albanian that separated before the modern standard existed, which is why it preserves what the homeland changed.
Section H at true position
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