Greek history says that at the time of Fallmerayer there were 100 000 Turkish settlers in Peloponnese. 40 000 of them were killed . Would you deny that? Today's Peloponnese population is 1 000 000. At that time there were maybe 500 000 people living in Peloponnese. So 20% of population was ethnic Turks were not they? Did they live no genetic footprint after 300 years of common life with Greeks. No intermarriages happened.? How about arvanite villages that could have been over 60 of them? Vlahs! Known Slavic settlements! How could you believe this study?
^^ Two writers in 17th century said the population of Attica outside of Athens was almost enterily Albanian like in 19th century.
I don't trust official census of Greece regarding the population of minorities. As for the samples, if they exist at all how do you know they are Arvanites?
In the Cretan study the bulk of Peloponnesians are like a top-eastern shifted version of Tuscans intermediate between Sicilians. I said top instead of nothern to make more sense. Albanians would plot on top of Tuscans so they are not very far away. Not that I care or that it matters.
As for surnames it's true some Arvanites carried Greek names just like Muslims carried Muslim/Turkish. Even Jews and Gypsies had Greek names like that.
Dear friend. I will presume that your interest on this matter is genuine. So I'll answer you likewise. The arrival and settlement of the Arvanites in Greece, has been perhaps the least studied part of the history of the region. And by least, I mean hardly anyone studied before the second world war. The westerners, were uncomfortable with non Greek speakers in the heart of Hellenism. They tried to disassociate it from the Hellines, for purely ideological reasons, not accepting the history of Greece. The numbers I gave if course we're not of the Greek government. The Greek state, didn't collect such data at the time. The numbers about the Greek Arvanites were given by the following people. Hahn(1840s), Philpson(1880s) and Finley(1830s). Those are the only foreigners Who in the 19th century attempted Such censuses. Hahn, was the first to publish his findings. He reported 174.000 Arvanites, in his book he rounds it up to 200.000. His work though was extremely problematic, regularly included non existent people, like the 10.000 Arvanites of Laconia, the 14.000 of phokaia and the 4.000 of sperchios. People who, don't exist. Hahn didn't visit all the Arvanite places, but rather asked others, falmereier about most of the data. Finley objected to Hahn's findings. Hahn, layer after the publication of his book, wrote a new prologue, admitting that his numbers were generally, not represenrive of the exact reality. Finley, had calculated 100.000 Arvanites (in his published notes). He also, in his work reported 200.000, possibly for not wanting to deviate from the pre existing assumptions, he generally, didn't spent much time talking about the Arvanites, he wasn't for the aforementioned reasons keen on the matter. Finally. Philpson, in his twelve month's in the country, reported the numbers I mentioned in the previous comments. The one who corrected him, was professor Korillos. Who collected the data by asking for the numbers from Major's of the Arvanite regions of Greece, Who were often enough of aravnite descent themselves. The most accurate of Those censuses, was. The one of Hahn. With some corrections, we can approximate the number of Greek Arvanites in the 1840s and 1850s to 120.000. the corrections are the aforementioned, plus.1) he talked about 30.000 Arvanites in Attica excluding the Greek speaking cities of Athens and Megara. But the population of the region was not only half the size, but Also included mixed settlements like elefsina. (Based in ottoman data, and travelers/visitors). He made the same mistake in South Euboea.
Let's talk though about those "Arvanites". Their Greek name's, which about half of them had. One who doesn't know about the history if their settlement in Greece, might assume that were Hellinized names. This would be a mistake. Since the exact opposite happend. Not hellinization, but albanisation. Attica and Boitia, as the rest of Greece had booming agricultural and manufactural sectors in the 14th century (see William miller's "Francocracy in Greece"). So necessarily, they had a more than sufficient Population. The Arvanite settlements, as recorded in the Catalan, Florentine, and venician records were purely of military nature. Meaning, there was a demand for trained soldiers (all the Arvanites were solders, according to first hand sources, the men had Only one duty, training for and conducting war). Their settlement didn't happen in the densely populated agricultural centres. But in strategic positions. As I've probably written before, the Turkish invasion and venician relocations had as result a targeted and huge demographic decline of the Arvanites. This brought the surviving aravnites in contact with the locals (as refugees From Their initial settlements), and their former villages uninhabited. Arvanite movement South was organised and thus, well recorded. There wer not Many migration events. But one main event. When some of the Arvanites who weren't sent back to arbanon, settled Greece. The settler's Also, weren't only Arvanites. The venician records are clear. The invitation was to anyone who was a soldier, and could maintain himself, his family and one horse. Travelers in Attica in the 17th century, report specifically, no Arvanites in Menid, Marousi, Salamis and Koukouvaounes. Their arrival happened after an Arvanite revoot in Argolis. 7.000 Arvanites From Argolis, were relocated. 5.000 in the agean islands and Crete, and 2.000 in Attica. Then, slowly, the albanisation of attica was complete.
But Why would the Greeks give up Their language? Why wouldn't the aravnite minority be absorbed by the Greek majority? This is a multifactoral answer. 1) There was no greek, or albanian state control. So every assimilation was a result of social interactions. This is fundamental in our understanding of the events. 2)The Arvanites, as a culture, are famously stubborn. There are plenty of proverbs in Greek, who describe and satirise the stubborn nature of the Arvanites. An assimilation of Arvanites by Greeks was out of the question straight away. The Church, Who many people think Hellinized others, didn't do this before the independence of the Greek state, since in an ottoman context, the language of the subject was irrelevant. Contrary to the heated period of the Macedonian struggle, where hellinization was a tool in the hands of the state. 3)The most important factor, which explains, the insane albanisation, in the specific regions of Attica and Boitia, is the Ottoman administration. Specifically the people, of albanian origin, running it. Tax collectors, of Muslim albanian background, treated the Arvanites better, on account of Their shared language. The Greeks, then. In an attempt to survive the harsh taxes, adjusted, as the Greeks are famous for. The Greek culture. Is incredibly flexible, elastic. Open to outsiders. The Greeks never Hellinized anyone without Their organised States, which could unlish the power of hellinization. Greeks, as a result, adopted Arvanite. The mixed marriages they made resulted in aravnite speaking kids, since this language, had much more social status in the ottoman empire, contrary, to the language of the orthodox Romans, the conquered, the enslaved, the Greeks. The name's of ancient Attica were carefully albanised, Amigdalia became Amigdaleza. Koukouvaines became Koukouvaounes and Varka became Varkiza. Old people, in the village of menidi, in the 19th century, remember hearing stories of the transition, by their grandparents, who were born in the late 17th early, 18th centuries, just after the assimlation. It should Also be noted, that because of different groups of Greeks, retaining different words and phrases from Greek When they transitioned, the Arvanite dialects were hardly mutually understood. As the Arvanites themselves would declare. The popular myths, the song's, the dresses in the weddings, the music, was still similar to the neighbouring greek speakers. This blood connection, of the Greek Arvanites, with hellinism explains what westerners described as following "The people, speak an albanian language, yet they seem all passionately proud about their ancestry From the builders of the Parthenon". In fact. Arvanites, of southern Greece. In their consciousness as a people, were proud about Their descent from the ancient Greeks. Which they called the people of old. This would have been impossible, if they were foreigners to the land. You can see it all around. The relationship the Turks, the Slavs and many others have with Their homeland, is clearly depicting, that they were foreigners to it. (The Turks of Cesme or Bodrum, never looked with pride the ancient Greek theaters of the region, feeling them as foreign to them). The Greek name's, of the Greek Arvanites, were a result of this assimilation.
This as I've said. Explains why the inhabitants of Argolis (largely Arvanite speaking), are not closer to Albanians, genetically, than any other mainland greek, while they are really close (identical) with messinian and other greeks From non Arvanite speaking regions of the pelloponese.