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Scholarios
BTW these population movements that affected dark age Morea also affected dark age Epirus, including South Albania.
Here is a translation:
In the fourth year of his reign [reign of Nicephorus] took place the transfer of Patras of the Peloponnesus, our country, from the Calabrian city of Rhegium to the
ancient city of Patras. For it had been driven away or rather forced to migrate by the nation of the Slavs when they invaded the First and Second Thessaly and in addition the country of the Aeniantes and that of the Locrians, both the Epiknemidian and
Ozolians, and also ancient Epirus, Attica and Euboea and the Peloponnesus, driving away and destroying the noble Hellenic nations.
Arethas of Caesarea- 932 AD.
So you've got Hellenes in Epirus and Peloponnese, replaced by Slavs, then replaced against by Calabrian Greeks who are supposedly the ancestors of those earlier Hellenes. You may doubt the sources, but a witless worm such as yourself is in no position to question them if he is going to do so in such abjectly poor faith.
So if there is no Greek continuity, there certainly isn't any Albanian one either.
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