This May be of Interest

[drle]

This is amazing stuff.

Kazi bre Pelister....what did you find so amazing...

[Pelister]

As he says, “it may be that our mother
tongue is theoretically the other one but in my consciousness
I learned to call the table trapezi [the Greek word]
and not masa [the Slavic word].”

This is Hellenization at work.

A person can know their "mothertongue" might be Macedonian, but several generations of Hellenization, have attuned him to the necessities of Modern Greek politics. He can't even call it 'Macedonian'.

[drle]

It is simply the work of the devil....they have taken the soul of a person by removing their ethnic identity...its just wrong...But i always say..don't piss in the wind because it will come back on you....they'll get there day..

[Risto the Great]

I remember going to Drosopigi or Belkamen with my uncle who is actually a professor at the University of Florina and inside this restaurant as you go into Belkamen he was telling me how these Arvanites or Arnauti as we call them in Lerin stick to their traditions depsite being in Greece for over 100 years....

There is no doubt all Albanians were called Arnauti in Egej. Was this term ever used in the Republic guys?

[Soldier of Macedon]

Yes it was, 'Arnaut' is the proper name used for the ancestors of the modern Albanians, who call themselves 'Shqiptar' today. Georgi Pulevski for example, who is from Macedonian territory that is now within the republic, almost as a rule refers to them as 'Arnaut'.