Albanians in Italy: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Vasesmuddyne (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
restore previous redirect |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
#REDIRECT [[Albanian diaspora#Italy]] |
|||
{{Infobox ethnic group |
|||
| group = Albanians in Italy |
|||
| image = |
|||
{{image array|perrow=2|width=95|height=80 |
|||
| image1 = Igli_Tare.JPG| caption1 = [[Igli Tare]] |
|||
| image2 = Anna Oxa 6.jpg|caption2=[[Anna Oxa]] |
|||
}} |
|||
| poptime = [[#Numbers|Various estimates]]:<br/>491.000 |
|||
| popplace = [[File:Flag of Lombardy.svg|20px]] [[Lombardy]], [[File:Flag of Tuscany.svg|20px]] [[Tuscany]] [[File:Flag of Emilia-Romagna.svg|20px]] [[Emilia Romagna]] |
|||
| langs = [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Albanian language|Albanian]] |
|||
| rels = [[Roman Catholicism]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Islam]], [[Atheism]] |
|||
| related = [[Albanian people|Albanians]] |
|||
}} |
|||
[[File:Klisha e Shën Mitrit Dëshmor.jpg|thumb|[[Piana degli Albanesi Cathedral]] is in a Sicilian [[Arbëreshë people|Arbëreshë]] town]] |
|||
The [[Albani family|Albani]] were an [[aristocracy|aristocratic]] [[Rome|Roman]] family, members of which attained the highest dignities in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], one, [[Clement XI]], having been [[Pope]]. They were ethnic [[Albanians]] who originally moved to [[Urbino]] from the region of [[Malësi e Madhe]] in [[Albania]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia |last=Herbermann |first=Charles George |authorlink= |author2=Knights of Columbus, Catholic Truth Committee |year=1913 |publisher= Robert Appleton Company|location=The New York Public Library |isbn= |page=255 |pages= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FmgQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA255&dq=illyricum+sacrum+albanian&cd=2#v=onepage&q=illyricum%20sacrum%20albanian&f=false |accessdate=12 May 2010}}</ref> and had been soldiers of [[Scanderbeg]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]]. Though eventually assimilated in their Italian environment, Clement XI's Albanian antecedents were evident in his having commissioned, during his reign as a Pope, the famous ''[[Illyricum Sacrum]]''. Today it is one of the main sources of the field of [[Albanology]], with over 5000 pages divided in several volumes written by [[Daniele Farlati]] and Dom. Coletti. |
|||
There is an Albanian community in southern Italy, known as [[Arbëreshë people|Arbëreshë]], who had settled in the country in the 15th and the 16th century, displaced by the changes brought about by the [[expansion of the Ottoman Empire]]. Some managed to escape and were offered refuge from the repression by the Kingdom of [[Naples]] and Kingdom of [[Sicily]] (both under Aragonese rule), where the Arbëreshë were given their own villages and protected.<ref>{{cite web |
|||
| url = http://www.arbitalia.it/storia/migrazioni.htm |
|||
| title = LE MIGRAZIONI DEGLI ARBERESHE |
|||
}}</ref> |
|||
The Arbëreshë were estimated as numbering at a quarter million in the 1976.<ref name="ethnologue1976">[http://www.ethnologue.com/language/aae/***EDITION*** Albanian, Arbëreshë - A language of Italy - Ethnic population: 260,000 (Stephens 1976).]</ref> |
|||
After the breakdown of the communist regime in Albania in 1990, Italy had been the main immigration target for Albanians leaving their country. |
|||
This was because Italy had been a symbol of the West for many Albanians during the communist period, because of its geographic proximity. Italy reacted to the migration pressure by introducing the "[[Claudio Martelli|Martelli]]" law, stipulating that any immigrant who could prove that he or she had come into the country before the end of 1989 be granted a two-year residency permit. |
|||
From March 1997, Italy instituted a strict patrol of the Adriatic in an attempt to curb Albanian immigration. |
|||
As a result, many Albanian immigrants in Italy do not have a legal status. Out of an estimated 450,000 Albanian immigrants in Italy in 1998, only some 82,000 were registered with authorities. In total there are 800,000 Albanians in Italy.<ref> |
|||
[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/italians/resources/Amiciprize/1998/Chronology.html Chronology of Albanian Immigration to Italy], [http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=239 Migration Information] |
|||
</ref> |
|||
The Italian Government has housed significant numbers of Albanians from Kosovo in the Arbëresh settlements, most notably in [[Piana degli Albanesi]] in Sicily. |
|||
==References== |
|||
{{reflist}} |
|||
{{Immigration to Italy}} |
|||
[[Category:History of Albania]] |
|||
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Italy]] |
|||
Revision as of 19:19, 3 July 2016
Redirect to: