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The history of East Europe but especially Balkans is a total mess.History has been written from the interest of some who have tried to dominate old populations in their places... This subject has become very confusing. It gives me the impression of making a scenario for an imaginary video game without clear arguments about language and genetics.
In the history of this region there is always a binomial, Vlachs and Albanians. Unfortunately these two peoples could not exploit the right moment, because there was a moment in history when these two peoples could do something interesting. There was the money, there was the military power, but there was no vision and political leadership. Also the weight of the great powers was too great.
For example i was reading something in Wiki few days ago:
Katerini
Without investigating of how much accurate are the data about demography of this city, clearly was an Vlach-Albanian city. Later, the natives, Vlachs were assimilated and Albanians were expelled. People arrived as refugees from Asia are now the natives in that city. This is simply a small story of many other realities like these.Katerini (Greek: Κατερίνη, Kateríni, pronounced [ka̠te̞ˈɾiɲi]) is a city in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of Pieria regional unit. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, at an altitude of 14 m. The city has a population of 85,851 (according to the 2014 census) and it is the second most populous urban area at the Region of Macedonia after Thessaloniki.
According to the reports of travellers, at the turn of the 19th century, the city had four to five thousand inhabitants, mostly Greeks. In 1806, William Martin Leake recorded 100 hearths, while four years later Daniel recorded 140. For the remainder of the 19th century, the number of homes remained steady at about 300, with a population in 1900 of 2,070 Greek Orthodox mostly Vlah, and 600 Muslims, most of them of Albanian origin.[2]
The city was captured by the Greek 7th Infantry Division on 16 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, and has been part of Greece since then.[2] With the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923, the city's Muslims left, and Greek refugees, particularly from Eastern Thrace and Greek Evangelicals from Asia Minor, took their place, almost doubling the city's population from 5,540 in 1920 to 10,138 in 1928.[2]