Here we go with Albanian essays. I'll riddle you anything you like. I always find it entertaining. Some smartypants Albanian will come to Souliot and tell him, "we brothers" when history proves that rivers of blood separate us from you. But let's dive into your claims because this is like butter on my bread.

Firstly, let's begin with your Cham Albanians, who are a subgroup of Tosks. The vast majority of them are Muslims, with a small minority that is Orthodox, which also used to speak Greek. What makes us "identical" to these Orthodox Chams except religion? And what separates those Orthodox Chams from the rest of the Greeks in Epirus who are Orthodox? Orthodox Tosks, even though migrants to the area are the closest thing to the real deal Albanians, prior to the Ottoman invasion and mass conversion of the Albanians to Islam. And they are pretty similar to the Greeks of Epirus.

Your claim that Souliotes didn't identify as Greeks prior to revolution is a joke. In fact, there is more identification with Greeks than with Albanians, as no Souliot ever before, has claimed to be Albanian. You are more than welcome to show me any evidence of a Souliot claiming to be an Albanian and not a Greek. As a matter of fact. Souliots have always helped their Greek brethren in their prior revolts against the Ottomans. As is exemplified by the 1770 revolt and the revolts of Himara in the 1600s. In fact, the Souliots themselves have claimed to have a blood bond with the Greeks of Himara. Which explains the historical relationships with them. In fact, every prior major revolt in Greece included the support and backing of the Souliotes, and the Souliotes always revolted with the revolts of the Greek nation. Never have they participated in any Albanian revolt. Furthermore, the Souliotes have openly confessed their Greek national conscience even before the Greek Revolution. A fact recognized even by their Albanian enemies, like Ali Pasha, who called them.. Greeks. You are more than welcome to show me evidence where we Souliotes have ever called ourselves "one of with the Albanians" because you are totally clueless and laughable. Talking ignorance and distortion without any evidence.

The fact that you claim the Turks "forced" you identify as Turks is also historically wrong. The millet system placed all Muslims as part of the "ummah" of Mohammed. Everyone else called them Turks, the real name of the millet, was the Muslims. It didn't matter if you were a Kurd, a Turk, a convert, or an Albanian. You were all a part of the same. Ummah. To everyone non-Muslim, you were a Turk. IN FACT WE SOULIITES CALLED YOU TURKS OR TURKALBANIANS AS THE REST OF THE GREEKS DID. Also, the Turks didn't force Islam on you Albanians, but you willingly converted to it to avoid taxes and filled up the ranks of the Ottoman army, and did the dirty work of the Turks suppressing Greek revolts, such as your 11 wars against us Souliotes, of which you lost 10. 🤣 There was no teaching of the Albanian language because your language had no alphabet until 1913. In fact, you Albanians had no national conscience until the late 1870ies and onwards. How the hell would the Souliotes "identify" with Albanians when such a national conscience didn't even exist. Further evidence that the Souliotes never called themselves "Albanians". But there is plenty of evidence, even our own ancestors confessions that they identified as Greeks.

We know our ancestry very well, and we know that our Souliot ancestors spoke Greek as well as their own version of the Arvanite dialect. The fun part is, they were bilingual, like me. And wrote in Greek, as Albanian didn't even have an alphabet Just because I speak another language like English doesn't make me a pasty white Anglo. The key to national identity is identification. And we Souliotes, as you are well aware, identify as Greeks. It has always been so. This is why we always fought for Greeks and never for Albanians. Which brings me to history. We fought 11 wars against the Albanians when we had our own Souliote Confederation. In fact, we forced Albanians whom we called Turks to pay us taxes as a tribute. We didn't tax the Greeks. We never fired a single shot against any Greek in our entire history since our origin in the 1600's. We fought Albanians even after the Souliote Confederation, which the Albanian Ali Pasha destroyed, whike YOU Albanians killed our families and forced us into exile in Corfu. And we returned you the favor in time of the Greek Revolution when we fought you Albanians who were always on the side of the Turk, serving in the Ottoman army. We defeated you along with the Turks and formed Greece.

Which is why I laugh every time some Albanian makes some bogus, unhistorical claims, blinded by his modern nationalism and distorted perception of history. That you even tell him, you are my historical enemy, and he will still persist in his error. Claiming that you are "brainwashed." Laughable and pitiful at best. I know my origins, sweetheart, as I know who my ancestors were and their history. It seems you don't know yours.