Kastri, Thesprotia
Kastri (Greek: Καστρί or Καστρίον, Kastríon; Albanian: Kastriot) is a town in Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece. The local church is dedicated to Saint George.
Kastri is mainly inhabited by Greek residents while the presence of an Orthodox Albanian Albanian-speaking community has been vivid throughout the past Century. During the Axis occupation of Greece, 18 residents of Kastri were executed by German forces and local Cham Albanian collaborators.
Sources
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- ^ Ethnologia Balkanica. LIT Verlag Münster. 2002. p. 179.
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