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People Name: | Arbereshe |
Country: | Italy |
10/40 Window: | No |
Population: | 100,000 |
World Population: | 100,000 |
Primary Language: | Albanian, Arbereshe |
Primary Religion: | Christianity |
Christian Adherents: | 83.00 % |
Evangelicals: | 0.80 % |
Scripture: | Portions |
Ministry Resources: | Yes |
Jesus Film: | No |
Audio Recordings: | Yes |
People Cluster: | Albanian |
Affinity Bloc: | Eurasian Peoples |
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This ethnically Albanian community lives in Italy's southern mountians, especially in Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Molise and Sicily.
One author's remembers a visit to the village of Barile: "In the 70s, when I found my grandmother's sister and her husband still alive and living there, the village had just only recieved single strand electricity. The electric service consisted of a few lights bulbs and an open air coffee cafe with a couple of electic light bulbs. The only other commerical enterprise was a stone oven bakery where the village bread was baked. It too was more open air than housed; a couple of half walls made of rubble brick. The houses are small and made from stone with small stone fireplaces. They lived off the land. My family had a small piece of land with olive trees. They traded olives and gathered twigs, wild mushrooms and wild onions. They had a son who worked as an electrician in Naples. He visited on weekends maybe twice a month and helped out financially."