Himariot letters(for history fans).

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11) Letter of various villages of Himarra to the count of Benavente,
viceroy of Naples, Himarra, May 1, 1608.
Original: AGS E1105 F54 [Floristán 1992: 85].

This is new to me.

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12) Letter of the Himarriots to pope Alexander VII, Himarra, August
6, 1660
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Original: APF SOCG 299 fs. 100r/v + 101v [Floristán 2014: 463-4].

We always hope to [enjoy the] protec -
tion of Your Beatitude, because this
place was Alexander the Great, the
Macedonian’s; hence, who can protect
it, if not the benediction of the new
Alexander VII?

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Are you a history fan?

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13) Letter of the Himarriots to pope Alexander VII, Himarra,
January 20, 1662

We embraced the most precious present
you sent us, the all-hole metropo litan of
Durrës, who every daily did not cease
preaching the godly truth to us, so that
he sets us at the right path of our sal -
vation, to pacify the villages of Arbanon,
to put an end to our enmities, to bring us
to the fear of God, to correct us in the
service of the Highest, to resolve our
unlawfulness at a time when for every
little case we used to kill each other or
engage in plundering the household
things of the others.
...
And He sent us a terrible earthquake at
this poor region of Himarra and it
demolished most of the places. The
wrath of God did not seize at this point,
but He permitted the most infidel
nation of the Turks to come with an
army of 14,000.
... [We would like to send someone at
the Greek College] as a token of our
unity to the Roman Catholic faith and
also for him to be our intermediary
Caesaris Dimitrios, servant of your
Beautitude.
Doukas Caesaris, servant of your
Beautitude.
Elias Alexis, exarch of Himarra, servant
of your Beautitude.
Dimi Priftis
logothetes
, servant of your
Beautitude.
I, Ghin Kondis, Himarra’s elder, servant
of your Beautitude.
I, Ghioghis Kondis in the name of all
elders, governors, servant of your
Beautitude.
I, Giorgos Kokas and
protonotarios
of
Himarra, servant of your Beautitude.
The
protopapas
of Himarra, servant of
your Beautitude.
Father Alexis,
sakellarios
and parish
priest of Saints John and Demetrios,
servant of your Beautitude.
Abbot Akakios of the Virgin [Monas -
tery], servant of your Beautitude.
Father Elias with all crelirs, servant of
your Beautitude.

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What about letters to Benito Mussolini

When Mussolini came to Albania the locals embraced him with open arms.

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14) Letter of the Himarriot governors in favour of Simon Lascaris,
Himarra, August 14, 1662

I, the Greek priest Sir Athanasios Cons
-
tantios, translated [this letter] from the
original Greek into Latin in faith, etc. I
have written in my own hand and un -
dersigned it on October 23, 1662 of our
salvation. Sir Athanasios Constantios.

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15) Letter of the Vuno inhabitants in favour of Simon Lascaris, Vuno,
August 14, 1662

We, all Himarra province with the
rest of the surrounding places..

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16) Brief chronicle in a
Menaion
of Saint Basil’s Monastery in the
homonym village, Shën Vasil, 1750-1753

Note 1. In the year 1750 A.D. the
undersigned I attest that we, the
inhabitants of Shën Vasil, waged war
against the Arvanids, i.e. the Zhulates,
the Golemis and the Tatëzates and this
war lasted for three years. And in 1753
we made pact and each remained at own
border. We gave out the winter meadow
of Kokkinova to the Zhulats in return
for the peace...
...105 people were found dead from
both parties, i.e. 10 Hagiovasilitai
(inhabitants of Shën Vasil); 16 Nivicotes
(Bubari); 15 Kalashates, who turned with
our side. ... From our enemies, 30
Zhulates, 18 Golemis, 13 Tatëzates and 3
Delviniotes were killed...
...+ The abbot of Saint Basil’s Monastery,
priest-monk Stephanos.

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This one is very detailed:

17) Description of Himarra by its representatives addressed to
Russia’s government, Himarra, ante 1759

Known today as Himarra with the Himarriot peoples,
the province corresponds to the ancient western
Epiros, also known with the name Chaonia with the
chaonic peoples, who became known for Dodona’s
oracle and for their wars against the neighbouring
Molossians. Its borders today are the Adriatic Sea and
Albania to the West, the Ioanian Sea to the South,
the East and with Thessaly, which almost surrounds it
to the North. ...
The people are ready for war... Their common action
with the famous king Pyrrhus and the recently
glorified Scanderbeg are not mentioned – stories
praising their courage...
We only add that our faith is Orthodox, we are led by
a Bishop; we are spiritually subjugated to the Patriarch
of Constantinople. We speak the Albanian language,
the same [language spoken] at neighbouring Albania
and Bosnia. Yet, in many areas all learned speak
Greek; noble families also speak Italian, due to the
many officers serving foreign states and the young
people studying at the Padova and Napoli theological seminaries.

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18) Relief inscription on a bell of the monastery of the Nativity of the
Virgin at Krorëz, Bregdet, close to Saranda, 1813

In perennial memory of the volun -
teering Albanian
stradioti
of the king of
Two Sicilies from the villager of Lukova,
Mesina 1813. Through me, Raponzio