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Epirus was never Greek to start with. Epirus is just a geographical notion used by Greek Islanders to describe the land in front of them. It simpy means Land in Continent. It has no ethnical cannotations at all. The fact that he never attacked any of the Illyrian kingdoms tells you he was not Greek. Epirus was just another Illyrian land. Serbs and Greeks cannot live without their fabricated histroy and myths. Epiriots were in the Balkans before the Greeks and wthey will always be there, no matter how much greeks or slavs hate albanians . In many centuries In many centuries Greek-Orthodox Albanians has declared themselves as greeks because of orthodox faith.Autochthone Arvanites from Greece(Arvanit-es means Albanian-s in Greek). When the modern Greek state was formed, the Albanian-speaking population and its language were called Albanian, even if those Christian Albanians were considered an integral part of the Greek nation and had played a decisive role in the War of Independence between 1821-1828 (Bartholdy, 1993; Bickford-Smith, 1993: 47; Embeirikos, 1994; Vakalopoulos, 1994:243-249). However, the policy of the new Greek state was to Hellenize all the non-Greek speaking Orthodox populations within its, then limited, territory as well as in the territories of Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace and Asia Minor still under Ottoman rule, which were though considered as part of Greek irredenta. As elsewhere in Europe, army and education were the most effective mechanisms of Hellenization, assisted by the judiciary system ready to denounce and punish all forms of behavior inconsistent with the state's nationalist culture Kitromilidis, 1990:38; Kollias, 1994. We know that more than 60% of today's Greek surnames can bi trace back to today's Albanian surnames. We don't know yet for origin of ancient Greek surnames-Orthodox Albanians has declared themselves as greeks because of orthodox faith. They always claim that in Albania was an SS division but how come that there is a book :Rescue in Albania: One Hundred Percent of Jews in Albania Rescued from Holocaust Author: Harvey Sarner