Nice reportage. I understood Ali pasha was Albanian. The major also mentined Albaninans living in coexistence in the city. Nothing said about other non greek populations except greek speaking jews. Are they still present there, or have they been 'voluntarily' replaced after the 'liberation' which wss common practice for helinizing newly occupied teritories as the state officiley called nowadys northen Greece?
How did Ali Pasha gather his women? The historian said his grandsons were killed. On Wikipedia it says they were allowed to live since they were very young. Who knows more? Since Ioannina had a bunch of Mosques when it was liberated, what happened to the others? Were they demolished or are the buildings still there today? Wish they brought up WWII and that the Greeks stopped Italy just outside the city at Kalpaki.
Mosques were demolished after liberation and new buildings were built in their place. From 17 of them, 4 are still standing today. 2 of them are museums, 1 is being restored and 1 will be restored in the future.
Thank you for this beautiful program. Correction, the city was not liberated, the world powers gave Janina to Greece and took it from Albania in the treaty of 1913. Who was the city liberated from? what are these Muslims with no nationality? Niko Zakaria accept your lineage. There are plenty of Christian Albanians in Janina. The Hebrews found safety in Albanian lands like no other place in Europe during WW2. You should make a documentary about that. You wanna learn about Greeks ( not Helens) listen to the Jewish secretary speak about what happened to the Jewish cemetery. Thank you mayor for mentioning the Albanian community. Ali Pasha was Albanian. Lord Byron passed through that area and he wrote about wines and the Albanian population of Epirus
The city was not given by no great power to anyone. It was captured by the Greek army after the fierce battle of Bizani, against the Ottomans. And yes it was liberated... Ioannina always had a majority Greek population. On the contrary, the great powers forced the Greek army to withdraw from Northern Epirus, which it had also captured during the Balkan Wars.
Ioannina was liberated during the Balkan Wars when Greeks fought Ottoman forces. Many were killed on both sides of the conflict in battles such as those at Bizani and Driskos. War and people dying is not the equivalent to World Powers gifting a region to any certain country in this case Greece. You are trying to spread fake propoganda.
