Never was Greek controlled.
Nothing greek in all these.Quote:
And it's not really antiquity but the Kingdom of Epirus had control over it at one point and so did other Byzantine states.
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"Archaeological evidence points out, that during the Bronze Age the region was inhabited by populations that probably spoke a northwestern Greek dialect.[20]The earliest recorded inhabitants of the area around Gjirokastėr were the Greek-speaking tribe of the Chaonians, that belonged to the Epirote group."[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjirokast%C3%ABr
I didn't mentioned Italians.
Today the official language of EU is English but GB is out of the Union and the leading country of this new European "Empire" is Germany and the "Empress" is German. Maybe tomorrow will be France who will lead Europe or Italy, who knows. Lingua franca has nothing to do with the ethnicity of the people.