Vajunites - connection to Slovenia?

[PaleoRevenge]

Hi Alexandra,

Recently a Serbian posted a video on youtube about finding slavic speaker from Dropulli, which is regarded as an ethnic Greek zone. This area is located in Drinos valley, south of Gjirokaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropull
According to the video she is from the village of Gorica. Unless there is not a misunderstanding, on her being from Gorica in Korca(Macedonian village on lake Prespa) an not Gorica in Gjirokaster, this would be astonishing. When the Ottomans took the first defters in 1430, theu recorded mostly Slavic names from the villages of Dropull. Is it possible a small pocket survived and the communist did not even record it? Very weird and interesting.
https://imgur.com/nWPjEE1

Here is a video of the local Greeks, sometimes they look extremely Slavic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D85N_8Zpwuw

 

[PaleoRevenge]

Wonomyro, that's interesting...I didn't know...
I was told that Vajuniti can be connected to vojnici (=warriors) if I remember right.

In Thesportia, or Chameria before the name changes there was a village named Vojniku, between Paramythia and Glyki.
There is evidence Slavic was still spoken in Ottoman times. The coming of the Albanians in the 1300s fragmented most of these communities and they were Hellenized. Slavic was likely spoken in the area of Parga as late as the 1500s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pargalı_Ibrahim_Pasha

Turan, Ebru (2009). "The Marriage of Ibrahim Pasha (ca. 1495-1536): The Rise of Sultan Süleyman's Favorite to the Grand Vizierate and the Politics of the Elites in the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire". Turcica. 41: 5–6. Originally, he probably spoke a Slavic dialect; sources mention that during the peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1533 he conversed in his mother tongue with Ferdinand I's representative Jerome of Zara, who was a Croatian... Venetian sources indicate that the pasha could also speak Greek and Albanian.

 

[PaleoRevenge]

Hi Alexandra,

Recently a Serbian posted a video on youtube about finding slavic speaker from Dropulli, which is regarded as an ethnic Greek zone. This area is located in Drinos valley, south of Gjirokaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropull
According to the video she is from the village of Gorica. Unless there is not a misunderstanding, on her being from Gorica in Korca(Macedonian village on lake Prespa) an not Gorica in Gjirokaster, this would be astonishing. When the Ottomans took the first defters in 1430, theu recorded mostly Slavic names from the villages of Dropull. Is it possible a small pocket survived and the communist did not even record it? Very weird and interesting.
https://imgur.com/nWPjEE1

Here is a video of the local Greeks, sometimes they look extremely Slavic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D85N_8Zpwuw

After watching the video again, the old man (husband) says Prespa when the lady mentions Gorica, so she is from -south-eastern Albania Macedonian community and not related to a village of the same name in the Drinos valley, which is Greek speaking. The Serbian who recorded the video is making wild conclusions.