My question is why was "Piana de Greci" named "Greci" in the first place? Historically, there is no question that these people escaped and fled from "Albania" not Greece in the Fifteenth Century during the Turkish expansion of the Ottoman Empire. The border of Albania (...

There is no Piana Dei Greci in "Naples" or anywhere else on the mainland of Italy. Piani Dei Greci was in Sicily in the mountains above Palermo; only after 1947 the name of this city was changed to "Piani Di Albanesi" to reflect its Albanian heritage and citizenry. The language s...

My grandfather came from a town in Sicily called Piani di Grecci which is now called Piani di Albaisi or some variation on the work meaning Albanian. My grandfather was very proud of his Greek ancestry and I heard that it was Mussolini who changed the name from Piani di Grecci to Albanisi because he...