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Southern Italians are 60-70% Greeks Naples is a Greek city in Sicily Calabria they stop speaking Greek around the 14th century and Greeks forced to become Italians and catholic
Κοίταξε όλοι μας ονειρευόμαστε να μεγαλώσουμε για να φύγουμε από την Ελλάδα έτσι όπως έχει καταντήσει πλέον 😂Προσωπικά εγώ θέλω να πάω Αγγλία... οπουδήποτε αρκεί να φύγω από δω!
People in rural Greece and especially older generations are living the same life with the people of Calabria. Same traditions, same nature, food and faces looks alike. You can't distinguished em.
@GeraldoDollodaku-t4x You are a great person, and I respect you. You are the only Albanian I've met who is not an extreme nationalist, and you are someone I truly respect. I hope that the nationalism of Greece and Albania will not continue to promote hatred and incorrect historical views.
@@ΑικατερινηΠαλλη αν ρωτισεις αλβανο θα σου πει πως οι αλβανοι πολεμησαν τους ιταλους και πως προστατευαν τους ελληνες που δεν θελαν να πολεμησουν χαχααχαχ.. επισης ο κολοκοτρωνης ηταν σιπταριος λενε...
That's very interesting. Many people have mentioned the similarities with Cypriot Greek. What I find also interesting is that both sides of my family are from the north coast of Sicily and I recently did my DNA test and other than mostly Southern Italian and some northern Italian, my third largest genetic marker is Cypriot.
The Greeks who lived in Southern Italy were Doric Spartan , the same goes for Cyprus. The Spartan dialect was very different to the Ionian or Aeolian Greek.
@@archon3363To add to that Koine Greek (Hellinistic era common language) was based on Ionian, then it evolved to medieval Greek and now to modern Greek. The other dialects pretty much died out. It's interesting to see about the Tsakonian dialect which is proven to be a descendant of Doric.
Wonderful!! I first heard about people in some parts of Italy still speaking Greek a few years ago. It’s amazing, people in Italy speaking Greek since the time of Magna Grecia. Thank you for this fantastic video. You have captured some real living history here!!!!
They speak e "mixed " words of modern greek and italian.50% of either language in every sentense.... Not even close to the "koine"... Shouldnt they speak the old greek language instead of the modern greek language they speak for the claim they have of being decendants of "magna grecia" to have a base??? A NICE TURIST TRAP...
Thank you very much for this trip! You're showing the world a tradition that stretches back to the beginning of history. Magna Graecia salutes you! 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹
Watching this from Cyprus ,what it comes throu its familiar faces ,same landscapes ,tradition and Orthodoxy and lastly the cypriot dialect sounds almost the same with Galliciana , especially words like Rocca/Rotsa , fascinating how greeks we are everywhere !!
Tey speak the Griko language and it is really unique! Great video! The Griko must be preserved. I wish UNESKO , Greece and Italy, the EU to take action
As a Greek I used to tell all my southern Italian friends about them being related to Greco people then Northern Italy. They all laughed at me- I love history and much love to the southern Italians and all Italians from Greece.
@@Stevo-klo45453 It's just your personal experience, we are very well taught about this in school and we study "greco-roman civilization", my grandpa was from Lucania, I have greek blood too, you met very ignorant people because we saw it as a pride not a shame.
Strange. in Southern Italy we know perfectly well that we are descendants of the Greeks. in my town everything reminds of Greece. We even spell the city name in greek
that video was really heart warming!!! as a Greek I really feel Italy so close...we have so many things in common I wish one day I'll be able to visit this amazing place! love you Italy...sending greetings!❤
I suggest to all visitors to take the chance to attend the Greek-Orthodox Holly Service in Sunday morning(10:30 winter/09:30summer)in Galiciano. This is a unique experience!
The locals look very much like my father's origin in Lasithi (Eastern Crete Greece) and the landscape is pretty identical. Now I wanna visit this place so bad . Greetings to you fare thee well and take care on your travels .
Grazie Katerina! Assolutamente, anche per noi è stato veramente bello visitare una cittadina come Gallicianò. In bocca al lupo con lo studio del Greco moderno!
@@albionrovers6018 Albanian extreme nationalist bastards, stop spreading these false knowledge here. The relationship between Albania and Illyria is a modern fabrication. A bunch of bastards who believe in Islam are worthy of saying that they are descendants of Illyria. Where do you get the face? Your Albanian language does not even have the stop consonant trisection structure of ancient Greek. Shut up, bastards.
its nice to see that greece and italy appreciate as our neighbours in Europe. Thats something that should always be the future of tomorrow. Stay all safe in those hard times that will arrive every year. GALLICIANÒ looks so peaceful!. Thanks for this video I enjoyed watching it.
thank you so much.. loved it so much. i am earning the greek laguage and with that comes learning about culture and history too of course. been to greece many times and it truly feels like i was in greece for a bit. juliette from holland xxx
9:43 the sign is bilingual, in Griko and modern Greek. The Griko up top is slightly different from the standard Greek in the bottop. So for example rocca is a word that only exists in Griko, the word you see below it, petra, is how we say it in modern Greek. And then similarly kiazza is from Italian piazza, the Greek word is platia. So there are some small differences in vocabulary.
Io sono nato e cresciuto a reggio calabria, sin da piccoli ci viene insegnata la storia della magna grecia ma secondo me non viene valorizzata adeguatamente ed i vostri video sono molto utili
Greek is spoken in 25 towns of southern italy (15 in Calabria, 9 in Puglia and 1 in Sicily) by a total of around 20.500 people as motherlanguage, but counting also the people who speak it as a second language it goes up to around 52.500 speakers. There are also 2 local newspapers in greek and until the mid 80s there were also 3 radio stations
Aύτοι είναι περισσότερο Έλληνες από ότι εμείς μακάρι μια μέρα να με αξιώσει ο Θεός να επισκεφθώ την Magna Grecia 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
@@ΕυαγγελοςΑγγελος-ρ6ζ δεν θα έλεγα ότι είναι περισσότερο από εμάς αλλά ναι όντος έχουν βαθιές ελληνικές ριζες! Έχω πάει Σικελία αλλά ποτέ στην νότια Ιταλία. Η Νεάπολη θέλω να επισκεφτώ...
@@HELLASDEMETER αυτοί τουλάχιστον είναι πατριώτες νιώθουν περήφανοι για τις ρίζες τους και γνωρίζουν την ιστορία πολύ καλά όχι σαν εμάς που η δικιά μας νεολαία στην πλειοψηφία της δεν έχει ιδέα από Ελληνική ιστορία και ψηφίζει κάθε φορά στις εκλογές Μητσοτάκη δαγκωτό για ένα εκατοπενηντάρικο γι'αυτό πάμε κατά διαόλου
@@HELLASDEMETER Αυτοί ξέρουν τις ελληνικές τους ρίζες και την ελληνική ιστορία πολύ καλύτερα από εμάς και δεν θα ψήφιζαν ποτέ έναν ανθέλληνα διεφθαρμένο προδότη ονόματι Μητσοτάκη
Very nice tour. As myself I'm a Cypriot guy, very nice to see the italians speak greek the same way as I do. But if it was a good fact, those houses could've still be open for citizens to live in them.
What a great video and story. With every visit to Italy, I find so many more reasons to return and explore more. Gallicianò just made the list. There is no end to the gems. Mille grazie!! ❤🇮🇹🙏
The language is called Grekanika which is a mixture of Greek and Italian. It's beautiful. There are many beautiful songs like "kalinifta" or "klama tou emigrantou : Κλάμα του Εμιγκράντου. Thanks for the video. Great job.
greece and italy have so many in common all from ww2 i learned so many italian words from my grandmather love to italia from greece una fatsa una ratsa ❤
I hope that even if fewer and fewer young people from the village can speak Greek fluently and more and more young people leave the village, Greek culture and language will still survive in Gallicianò. 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇹
I like that you visited these people 🙌 I love Italy, because Italy has beautiful people, good wine, delicious food and very nice Songs. And in general it is a very beautiful country. Thanks for the nice Video Kisses from Greece 😍😘
@@TravelDialogues Grazie mille! Se mai venissi nel nord della Grecia, dove io e mia moglie viviamo vicino a Salonicco, contattaci e saremo felici di portarti in giro!! Aspetto con ansia il prossimo video!! Stammi bene!
Thanks for this very interesting video guys! Really nice to still see traces of Hellenism in Southern Italy, even though it seems that a lot of this culture got already lost, as the younger people leave these kind of places for cities and don't learn anymore their language. I try to visit this place during a trip to Southern Italy.
Southern Calabria was largely Greek-speaking until the 13th century. Afterwards, under the pressure of the surrounding (Italo-)Romance-speaking culture of continental Italy and Sicily and the decadence of the Byzantine rite caused by the Catholic authorities, Greek was abandoned in favor of (Calabro-)Sicilian and later also Italian, resisting only in some villages in the mountains of the Aspromonte - such as in Gallicianò - until the 20th century due to isolation.
Such a nice video! I’m also Greek but I can tell this is not Greek language exactly but a dialect called „Greko“ (I think🤔) and it’s more complex than the Greek language itself. Unfortunately only few people in southern Italy speaking the dialect have remained since the dialect is not protected by the law and not taught to younger generations🥲 Such a precious moment though to see how far our ancestors had come. I wish I’ll reach those villages someday and have the chance to talk to these people 🫶🏻 Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Enjoyed the post very much, memories came back from my visit to Gallicianò in 1997, unfortunately it was very hard back then to get to find a tour guide so had to just wonder around the village and take pictures. We had been more lucky up at Bova. Thanks for the post.
They sound more like the ancient greek we did in school and less like modern greek. I would have to pay close attention to understand them. Sad to see this old dialect die out, from the unification's organic switch to italian, and mussolini's persecution of it, I guess it's only natural. At least our italian cousins didn't genocide/exile/convert them like turkey did. I want to do a road trip in south italy and sicily so badly :)
They definitely consider themselves closer to ancient rather than modern Greeks. In fact, some of them who visited Greece said they were able to communicate but that the languages didn't match perfectly. Hopefully the work people are doing in places like Gallicianò, Bova, and other towns in the Calabria Grecanica, will serve to preserve the language and culture of this beautiful region. We hope you'll be able to have your road trip in Southern Italy. It's definitely a dream experience!
It wasn't an organic switch at all, people from all of Italy, and especially the South (and to some extent the Veneto region too) still speak their regional dialect very much so, and italian was imposed on them even before Mussolini. It's very sad and Greek was actually more broadly spoken in Calabria and in Apulia too, there were even significant Orthodox communities that kept the language, the culture and the religion alive, but they were heavily persecuted the same way.
This was amazing! I am greek and I've been living in Italy for the past 12 years. I'd really love to visit Gallicianò one day and speak greek with the locals!
Thank you! And yes, you should definitely visit Gallicianò. There are a lot more towns in Southern Italy where people speak some form of Greek. We recommend searching for Grecanico di Calabria and also Griko Salentino to learn more about it
Siamo stati con la familiar 6 anni fa in Puglia per visitare i paesini grecani. Lì si parla il griko che è diverso dal dialetto greco in Calabria. Il griko si capisce bene se uno conosce l'italiano e il greco moderno. Nel paesino Kalimera c'è un museo piccolo dove il responsabile conosce il griko e ci ha parlato un po. Si prova di salvare il dialetto tranne i giovanni oggi. Vale la pena visitare Kalimera, Sternatia e altri paesini in Puglia.
When the Roman Empire went to Greece they absolutely loved everything they had. Ruins, food, wine, oil….. Everything. So they took the Greek architects, engineers and builders and developers they had and took them to build Italy as it is today. That is why they have ruins and statues and food almost the same. Greeks had gods, romans created their gods same. Greeks had foods Italians did the same. Oil is not the same because of soil and Greek oil is the best in the world. Southern Italy knows the truth and till this day they call it little Greece. Northern Italy doesn’t say nothing. Doesn’t matter. It shows and history is history. Thank you for the video. Amazing! Italy 🇮🇹 and Greece 🇬🇷 related.
North Italians are genetically close to France Spanish swiss and very little to balkan (greek and other), so they are mix of Latin and German with little paleobalkan. Central Italians are genetically close to Greeks (to mainland greeks, almost all Greeks are mainland) and Albanians, so they are paleobalkan people (Greeks illyrians Thracians Dacians), south Italians are genetically close to Islander Greeks and to Jews. So as you can see the central Italians is Greeks genetically Paleobalkan People, they are closer to Greeks than the South Italians, but South Italians are close to islander Greeks
@@nikostheofanidis9970 first of all. Greeks are more close to Spanish people. If you read history Greeks reached to so many countries and was a very large empire. Romans then had a very large empire too. When they went to Greece they saw everything they had and were admired. They took Greek mathematicians , architects, mechanics, philosophers, teachers, cooks, everything they had and told them to show them how to do what they knew. That is why many foods have similarities. Greeks were great sailors and reached to Spain . The similarities between the two countries is like brothers. Greeks are not Balkan and never were. Greeks are Greeks. Balkans are Albanians, Bulgarian, Skopje, Croatian, Montenegro …….. all places that was called Yugoslavia. Greeks thousands and thousands of years B.C. they were already a nation. So when Great Alexander who is Greek concurred so many countries reached till Africa and India Read history. For you to know Greeks were never and are not Balkan. Balkan are only the upper countries from Greece in the Former Yugoslavia.
@user-nz5wf3qm5y The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, mostly concentrated in the region of Calabria and Sicily) They are the descendants of Albanian refugees settled in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily who fled from Albania, Epirus, and later some from the numerous Albanian communities of Attica and Morea, between the 14th and the 18th centuries following the death of the national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and the gradual conquest of the Balkans by the Ottoman Turks. Their culture is determined by the main features that are found in language, religious rite, traditional costume, art and gastronomy, still zealously preserved, with the awareness of belonging to a specific ethnic group
Over the centuries, the Arbëreshë have managed to maintain and develop their identities, thanks to their cultural value exercised mainly by the religious communities of the Byzantine Rite Nowadays, most of the fifty Arbëreshë communities are adherents to the Italo-Albanian Church, an Eastern Catholic Church. They belong to two eparchies, the Lungro, for the Arbëreshë of Continental Italy, the Piana degli Albanesi, for the Arbëreshë of Sicily, and the Monastery of Grottaferrata of Lazio, whose Basilian monks come largely from the Albanian settlements of Italy. The church is the most important organization for maintaining the characteristic religious, ethnic, linguistic and traditional identity of the Arbëreshë community The Arbëreshë speak Arbërisht, an old variant of the Albanian language and derives from the Tosk Albanian spoken in central-southern Albania and Epirus In Italy the Albanian Arbëresh language is protected by law number 482/99, concerning the protection of the historic linguistic minorities
@@armandalikajthe arvanites that came there basically were of greek conscience THEY SPOKE GREEK READ GREEK AND THEIR TRANSUCTIONS WERE IN GREEK HOW they become albanized its a Papal elaboration and Mussolinis efforts La piana dei Greci diventa piana albanezi thanks to the mussolinis regime
My Grandmother was Greek, but also spoke Italian. Only good things to say about them during WWII in Nisyros, Greece. "Una faza, una raza" as she would say, one face, one race, Greeks and Italians
@@maskinisten019 Albanian extreme nationalist bastards, stop spreading these false knowledge here. The relationship between Albania and Illyria is a modern fabrication. A bunch of bastards who believe in Islam are worthy of saying that they are descendants of Illyria. Where do you get the face? Your Albanian language does not even have the stop consonant trisection structure of ancient Greek. Shut up, bastards.
10:00 this sign has 3 languages on it, ancient Greek, Griko (Italiot Greek) and Italian. And it says "The Macedonian people, who are Greek, send greetings to the Italian brothers"
@@Albanesegotti Instead of thinking that the greeks took your language or whatever(I don't know who wrote this history) try to find the quality and your culture that you have as country guys. They all want to steal greek civilisation. Maybe isn't it enough? We are all people and we have the same problems.
Sounds more Cypriot Greek than modern Greek. Which makes sense as Cypriot Greek is closer to Ancient Greek than modern Greek. Amazing they still speak it.
14:55 usually in Greece back in the day girls will gather to take water of the water source to do the laundry, or carry water to the house, this was an excuse for them to get outside, otherwise they where not allowed to be seen, because parents will promise their daughter to some families son for all sorts of reasons mainly business, and collaborations.. So basically it was a "illegal" dating site... many 80yo marriages started this way...
It's close enough but the accurate greek is not "istete"... It's "πως είσαστε;" (pos isaste) or "Πως είστε" (pos iste) which is the short version of the same verb! So nice to hear people out of Greece speaking Greek though!! Not to mention that views and scenery is almost identical to Peloponise! Very similar vibes!
It's not supposed to be nowadays Greek. It comes from either Hellenic Greek or Byzantine Greek so the language is not the same as nowadays Greek from Greece, cause while they come from the same root they morphed
Thank you for this video. I am from Greece and you made me wanting to visit this place and talk with the old people there who preserve the language. My family is from Himara, Albania where there is also a Greek minority and all the familys speak Greek together even now I think it would be great to visit it next! Also other places of south Albania where Greek people live and are all very beautiful especially Himara:)
I watched your Tunisia episode and I find you the two very mannered and respectful and very Mediterranean people . Myself am Tunisian living in Turkey for 25 years and lived once in Portugal and traveled other places but the Med sea and the people ofthe Med are my favorite I felt home at İtaly Turkey and Portugal . We have alot of common things
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Ειμαστε πολυ συγκινημενοι, αγαπημενε! ΠΟΛΥ! Ευχαριστω!
80% people's Greeks is ilirians Albanian👍👍✍️✍️🤓🤓s origins # (ARBANITES)
Southern Italians are 60-70% Greeks Naples is a Greek city in Sicily Calabria they stop speaking Greek around the 14th century and Greeks forced to become Italians and catholic
@@Δίας-χ2π effectivement , beaucoup d'italiens du sud et de grecs se ressemblent comme des gens d'une même famille
people from galliciano , do they eat generaly greek food or italian food ?
As a Greek person, I'd love to come to Gallicianò, witness the culture and the history of Magna Graecia myself! Love from Greece 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹
Thank you Georgios! We really hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò very soon. It's such a unique place!
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I see you everywhere bro
As a Greek person I agree with my friend
Κοίταξε όλοι μας ονειρευόμαστε να μεγαλώσουμε για να φύγουμε από την Ελλάδα έτσι όπως έχει καταντήσει πλέον 😂Προσωπικά εγώ θέλω να πάω Αγγλία... οπουδήποτε αρκεί να φύγω από δω!
People in rural Greece and especially older generations are living the same life with the people of Calabria. Same traditions, same nature, food and faces looks alike. You can't distinguished em.
Absolutely. We've noticed a lot of these similarities you mentioned pretty much all over the Mediterranean
Una faccia una razza!
in calabria people don't eat tzatziki and tarama , they prefer pizza & pasta
And they cook better than any restaurant in Athens that's for sure
Same face same race
❤ from Serbia for my dear Greek people all over the globe 🎉
❤️right back at you Serbian Brother
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Flat, non rotating domed earth.
Much love and support from all Greeks to our Serbian Orthodox brothers and sisters! 🇬🇷☦️🇷🇸
@GeraldoDollodaku-t4x You are a great person, and I respect you. You are the only Albanian I've met who is not an extreme nationalist, and you are someone I truly respect. I hope that the nationalism of Greece and Albania will not continue to promote hatred and incorrect historical views.
Greeks and Italians are the best neighbors Love to italy from a Greek 🥰
Thank you dear friend! Sending love back to Greece!
Not really!
In the 2nd World War though.... 🙄
@@dimitrispvoice133 οι βόρειοι Ιταλοί και οι Αλβανοί μας πολέμησαν
@@ΑικατερινηΠαλλη αν ρωτισεις αλβανο θα σου πει πως οι αλβανοι πολεμησαν τους ιταλους και πως προστατευαν τους ελληνες που δεν θελαν να πολεμησουν χαχααχαχ.. επισης ο κολοκοτρωνης ηταν σιπταριος λενε...
Μεγάλη Ελλάδα...magna grecia!!
Da una greca che studia italiano all’università a NY, grazie per questo video ragazzi! I dialetti greci del sud Italia sono veramente preziosi.
It's really nice that the Greek language and culture was able to survive for so long in this village. I hope it stays that way.
❤❤❤ love Italy and all the Italians. Una fatsa Una ratsa ❤ love to Bella Italia from Greece
Thanks! Much love to Greece too!
As a Cypriot I notice that Calabria's greci is more similar to Cyprus' greek dialect rather than Greece's modern greek. Fascinating!
ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΟΛΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇹
To griko then exei tis turkikes lekseis!!!!!!!. Megali diafora!!.Greetings to Sypres
That's very interesting. Many people have mentioned the similarities with Cypriot Greek.
What I find also interesting is that both sides of my family are from the north coast of Sicily and I recently did my DNA test and other than mostly Southern Italian and some northern Italian, my third largest genetic marker is Cypriot.
The Greeks who lived in Southern Italy were Doric Spartan , the same goes for Cyprus. The Spartan dialect was very different to the Ionian or Aeolian Greek.
@@archon3363To add to that Koine Greek (Hellinistic era common language) was based on Ionian, then it evolved to medieval Greek and now to modern Greek. The other dialects pretty much died out. It's interesting to see about the Tsakonian dialect which is proven to be a descendant of Doric.
Wonderful!! I first heard about people in some parts of Italy still speaking Greek a few years ago. It’s amazing, people in Italy speaking Greek since the time of Magna Grecia. Thank you for this fantastic video. You have captured some real living history here!!!!
Thank you for your comment! Yes, it was truly an incredible experience to hear so many people speaking Greek in Italy... as their first language!
They speak e "mixed " words of modern greek and italian.50% of either language in every sentense....
Not even close to the "koine"...
Shouldnt they speak the old greek language instead of the modern greek language they speak for the claim they have of being decendants of "magna grecia" to have a base???
A NICE TURIST TRAP...
Thank you very much for this trip! You're showing the world a tradition that stretches back to the beginning of history. Magna Graecia salutes you! 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹
Thank you Georgios! We're glad you enjoyed the video!
Watching this from Cyprus ,what it comes throu its familiar faces ,same landscapes ,tradition and Orthodoxy and lastly the cypriot dialect sounds almost the same with Galliciana , especially words like Rocca/Rotsa , fascinating how greeks we are everywhere !!
Absolutely! Mediterranean people have so much in common. We share so much history!
Είναι το θαύμα της Ελληνικής Ιστορίας ❤❤❤❤αρχαίο πνεύμα αθάνατο ❤❤❤
Φανταστικό βιδεο. Ελλάδα, Calabria, Σ'αγαπαμε πάντα,
Η Ελληνική γλώσσα είναι το κάτι άλλο
Thank you so much! Yes, Greek language is truly lovely!
Tey speak the Griko language and it is really unique! Great video! The Griko must be preserved. I wish UNESKO , Greece and Italy, the EU to take action
Thank you Chloe. You're absolutely right!
@@TravelDialoguesI saw an instruction poster for the virus in this language, and it was official, from the Italian government.
Shut up fucking impostors they speak Albanian Arbresh dialekt
Just search you wil see
Fucking propaganda
They speak Albanian
@@BigChef47poor kid without history triggered lol only thing Albanians are known for is Dua lipa And drug mafia 🤡
Love to all Greeks of Magna Graecia from the Cyclades. Na'ste oli kala.
Αχ Ελλάδα μου πόσο μεγαλη ήσουν!! Καλημέρα,πως είστε Magna Grecia!!
as a greek i love italy!
As a Greek I used to tell all my southern Italian friends about them being related to Greco people then Northern Italy. They all laughed at me- I love history and much love to the southern Italians and all Italians from Greece.
They laughed bucause true make people to laugh 😂😂
@@LondonPower that’s a good observation brother
@@Stevo-klo45453 It's just your personal experience, we are very well taught about this in school and we study "greco-roman civilization", my grandpa was from Lucania, I have greek blood too, you met very ignorant people because we saw it as a pride not a shame.
Strange. in Southern Italy we know perfectly well that we are descendants of the Greeks. in my town everything reminds of Greece. We even spell the city name in greek
that video was really heart warming!!!
as a Greek I really feel Italy so close...we have so many things in common I wish one day I'll be able to visit this amazing place!
love you Italy...sending greetings!❤
Thank you for your kind words! We really hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day! Sending a big hug to beautiful Greece!
Magna Grecia !
As a Greek, this brought tears to my eyes, truly fascinating. I hope I get the chance to travel southern Italy at some point. Cheers!
This is Calabria
@@andy6334 Yeah, meant to say southern Italy!
@@chrisgioko Yes, but Sicily an Calabria are two different regions.
@@andy6334 Yeah yeah, I know. Still very close though.
I suggest to all visitors to take the chance to attend the Greek-Orthodox Holly Service in Sunday morning(10:30 winter/09:30summer)in Galiciano. This is a unique experience!
Great recommendation!
Wow. It's crazy and inspiring that after all these centuries those villages kept their unique language and identity.
A really nice tour. As a greek ,after your video guys i want to visit Gallicianò! Thank you !
Thank you so much! We hope you'll get a chance to visit it soon!
I am Greek myself and have never heard of the village. This makes me want to come visit Galliciano all the more. 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇹
We really hope you'll be able to visit beautiful Gallicianò one day!
The locals look very much like my father's origin in Lasithi (Eastern Crete Greece) and the landscape is pretty identical. Now I wanna visit this place so bad . Greetings to you fare thee well and take care on your travels .
Crete must also be a magical place to visit. We really hope you'll be able to travel to Gallicianò one day!
@TravelDialogues should you choose to do so I have a couple of airbnb options and I will be happy to host an Italian cousin
Un bel video. Studio Greco moderno adesso. Era bella di imparare che c’è una città così ❤
Grazie Katerina! Assolutamente, anche per noi è stato veramente bello visitare una cittadina come Gallicianò. In bocca al lupo con lo studio del Greco moderno!
Se studiavi il greco antico toccava parlare in Albanese
@@albionrovers6018🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rubbish
@@albionrovers6018 Albanian extreme nationalist bastards, stop spreading these false knowledge here. The relationship between Albania and Illyria is a modern fabrication. A bunch of bastards who believe in Islam are worthy of saying that they are descendants of Illyria. Where do you get the face? Your Albanian language does not even have the stop consonant trisection structure of ancient Greek. Shut up, bastards.
I am not surprised at all Italy was from Naples (nea poli) to Sicilly Greek collonys made for Agriculture.... They are basically Greek.
its nice to see that greece and italy appreciate as our neighbours in Europe. Thats something that should always be the future of tomorrow.
Stay all safe in those hard times that will arrive every year.
GALLICIANÒ looks so peaceful!. Thanks for this video I enjoyed watching it.
Incredible to see and hear so clear hellinic (greek) in the place! Definetly a place to visit!
Absolutely! We hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day!
Can't get enough of these Greek communities and speakers of Italy. Amazing.
thank you so much.. loved it so much. i am earning the greek laguage and with that comes learning about culture and history too of course. been to greece many times and it truly feels like i was in greece for a bit. juliette from holland xxx
Thank you Juliette! Glad to read you enjoyed it. Good luck with your journey - learning another language is always an amazing adventure!
9:43 the sign is bilingual, in Griko and modern Greek. The Griko up top is slightly different from the standard Greek in the bottop. So for example rocca is a word that only exists in Griko, the word you see below it, petra, is how we say it in modern Greek. And then similarly kiazza is from Italian piazza, the Greek word is platia. So there are some small differences in vocabulary.
I just love the combined sound of Italian and my mother language, thank you for this video, happy travels!
Thank you Dimitris! We're so glad you enjoyed the video!
Io sono nato e cresciuto a reggio calabria, sin da piccoli ci viene insegnata la storia della magna grecia ma secondo me non viene valorizzata adeguatamente ed i vostri video sono molto utili
Caro Giovanni, grazie mille di questo commento. Siamo molto contenti di sapere che questi video servano a valorizzare storie meravigliose come questa!
La storia della Magna Grecia viene insegnata in tutte le scuole italiane
@@andreasalvi6422 nella tua forse
Νιώθω πολύ χαρούμενος που Έλληνες εξακολουθούν να υπάρχουν στην γιτονική Ιταλία!
Greek is spoken in 25 towns of southern italy (15 in Calabria, 9 in Puglia and 1 in Sicily) by a total of around 20.500 people as motherlanguage, but counting also the people who speak it as a second language it goes up to around 52.500 speakers.
There are also 2 local newspapers in greek and until the mid 80s there were also 3 radio stations
Magna grecia ! Kalimèra apo tin ellada! Σας αγαπάμε αδέρφια!
Aύτοι είναι περισσότερο Έλληνες από ότι εμείς μακάρι μια μέρα να με αξιώσει ο Θεός να επισκεφθώ την Magna Grecia 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
@@ΕυαγγελοςΑγγελος-ρ6ζ δεν θα έλεγα ότι είναι περισσότερο από εμάς αλλά ναι όντος έχουν βαθιές ελληνικές ριζες! Έχω πάει Σικελία αλλά ποτέ στην νότια Ιταλία. Η Νεάπολη θέλω να επισκεφτώ...
@@HELLASDEMETER αυτοί τουλάχιστον είναι πατριώτες νιώθουν περήφανοι για τις ρίζες τους και γνωρίζουν την ιστορία πολύ καλά όχι σαν εμάς που η δικιά μας νεολαία στην πλειοψηφία της δεν έχει ιδέα από Ελληνική ιστορία και ψηφίζει κάθε φορά στις εκλογές Μητσοτάκη δαγκωτό για ένα εκατοπενηντάρικο γι'αυτό πάμε κατά διαόλου
@@HELLASDEMETER Αυτοί ξέρουν τις ελληνικές τους ρίζες και την ελληνική ιστορία πολύ καλύτερα από εμάς και δεν θα ψήφιζαν ποτέ έναν ανθέλληνα διεφθαρμένο προδότη ονόματι Μητσοτάκη
Kαλησπέρα απο Αθήνα !!!
Very nice tour. As myself I'm a Cypriot guy, very nice to see the italians speak greek the same way as I do. But if it was a good fact, those houses could've still be open for citizens to live in them.
Thank you for watching Matthew! We hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day!
Όταν τους λες Ιταλούς είναι σαν να τους βρίζεις,Έλληνες είναι οι άνθρωποι.
What a great video and story. With every visit to Italy, I find so many more reasons to return and explore more. Gallicianò just made the list. There is no end to the gems. Mille grazie!!
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Joe! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. We hope you'll visit Gallicianò soon. You'll definitely love it!
The language is called Grekanika which is a mixture of Greek and Italian. It's beautiful. There are many beautiful songs like "kalinifta" or "klama tou emigrantou : Κλάμα του Εμιγκράντου. Thanks for the video. Great job.
I mean the term GRECO ROMAN didn't come from nowhere
I love Grinco, these Greeks have amazing accent. Love from Greece ❤
love from greece guys wish you the best for you and your channel
Thank you so much. We really appreciate the support!
Thank you very much for this tour.
We're really glad you enjoyed it! Much love!
Great video ! Love to see how they kept speaking the Greek language after all those years !
Thank you for this. Much love from 🇩🇰
Thank you so much for watching. More to come!
This was awesome...I often wondered if the Greek Italians were Orthodox, as I am of Calabrian decent and simultaneously Orthodox. Very fascinating!
Non "pos iste te" . é " Πως είστε" ... Pos iste 😊 che buon video!! Avete fatto buon lavoro!
greece and italy have so many in common all from ww2 i learned so many italian words from my grandmather love to italia from greece una fatsa una ratsa ❤
Great video! Really enjoyed wathing it. Treating people and culture with such politeness and care. It's sounds really close to cypriot. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Noi siamo la MAGNA GRECIA ! Love to Italy from greece
Thank you so much! Much love to Greece!
Sono Arvanites quelli che vedi non sono greci😂
@@albionrovers6018Sono Arvanites Greci Non Albani
@@user-er3bx8qb1j Greece is a fake country created by European powers to prevent Albanian and Turkish access to Aegean and Ionian sea.
@@ΕυαγγελοςΑγγελος-ρ6ζ Western Greeks are assimilated orthodox Albanians. Eastern Greeks are TurkoSlavs.
So beautiful to see this video from a greek perspective from me !
Thank you Chris! We really appreciate it!
They are the vibrant remnants of a great classical past that spoke Hellenic and worshipped Greek gods.
I hope that even if fewer and fewer young people from the village can speak Greek fluently and more and more young people leave the village, Greek culture and language will still survive in Gallicianò. 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇹
I like that you visited these people 🙌
I love Italy, because Italy has beautiful people, good wine, delicious food and very nice Songs. And in general it is a very beautiful country.
Thanks for the nice Video
Kisses from Greece 😍😘
Thank you for your kind words Anna!
Kisses from Italy!
All Europe owes so much to Greeks and Romans.
Γειά σας Ελληνες, αδέρφια....
Great video Great couple Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷
This village is so pretty and the people are so beautiful ❤
Thank you so much for your kind words Kostas!
Αρχαιο Πνευμα Αθανατο!😊
Your vlog is excellent!!!! Εξαιρετικό!!! Thank you!!! Σας ευχαριστούμε!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻
Grazie tanto per in molto bello e interessante video che avete fatto! Siete due molto brave e dolce persone! Un Greco!!
Grazie mille per questo bel commento, caro amico! Un abbraccio da un amico italiano e un'amica statunitense!
@@TravelDialogues Grazie mille!
Se mai venissi nel nord della Grecia, dove io e mia moglie viviamo vicino a Salonicco, contattaci e saremo felici di portarti in giro!!
Aspetto con ansia il prossimo video!! Stammi bene!
Nice to see different cultures relation, love from turkiye to greece and italy ❤
watching this as a greek speaker and even having the cyprus accend feels nice
This is a great story video. Thank you so much for sharing it.❤
Thanks for this very interesting video guys! Really nice to still see traces of Hellenism in Southern Italy, even though it seems that a lot of this culture got already lost, as the younger people leave these kind of places for cities and don't learn anymore their language. I try to visit this place during a trip to Southern Italy.
Southern Calabria was largely Greek-speaking until the 13th century. Afterwards, under the pressure of the surrounding (Italo-)Romance-speaking culture of continental Italy and Sicily and the decadence of the Byzantine rite caused by the Catholic authorities, Greek was abandoned in favor of (Calabro-)Sicilian and later also Italian, resisting only in some villages in the mountains of the Aspromonte - such as in Gallicianò - until the 20th century due to isolation.
Such a nice video! I’m also Greek but I can tell this is not Greek language exactly but a dialect called „Greko“ (I think🤔) and it’s more complex than the Greek language itself. Unfortunately only few people in southern Italy speaking the dialect have remained since the dialect is not protected by the law and not taught to younger generations🥲 Such a precious moment though to see how far our ancestors had come. I wish I’ll reach those villages someday and have the chance to talk to these people 🫶🏻 Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this comment Ollie!
In Magna Grecia now the schools have books at schools to learn Grico!
@@elvishiekios8826 Reallyyy? That sounds amazing! In which places specifically?🤔
Enjoyed the post very much, memories came back from my visit to Gallicianò in 1997, unfortunately it was very hard back then to get to find a tour guide so had to just wonder around the village and take pictures. We had been more lucky up at Bova. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for sharing and congrats on your new channel. You work well together.
Thank you very much for the support! Many more videos to come!
They sound more like the ancient greek we did in school and less like modern greek. I would have to pay close attention to understand them.
Sad to see this old dialect die out, from the unification's organic switch to italian, and mussolini's persecution of it, I guess it's only natural.
At least our italian cousins didn't genocide/exile/convert them like turkey did.
I want to do a road trip in south italy and sicily so badly :)
They definitely consider themselves closer to ancient rather than modern Greeks. In fact, some of them who visited Greece said they were able to communicate but that the languages didn't match perfectly.
Hopefully the work people are doing in places like Gallicianò, Bova, and other towns in the Calabria Grecanica, will serve to preserve the language and culture of this beautiful region.
We hope you'll be able to have your road trip in Southern Italy. It's definitely a dream experience!
It wasn't an organic switch at all, people from all of Italy, and especially the South (and to some extent the Veneto region too) still speak their regional dialect very much so, and italian was imposed on them even before Mussolini. It's very sad and Greek was actually more broadly spoken in Calabria and in Apulia too, there were even significant Orthodox communities that kept the language, the culture and the religion alive, but they were heavily persecuted the same way.
Mussolini don’t arrived here…
This was amazing! I am greek and I've been living in Italy for the past 12 years. I'd really love to visit Gallicianò one day and speak greek with the locals!
Thank you! And yes, you should definitely visit Gallicianò. There are a lot more towns in Southern Italy where people speak some form of Greek. We recommend searching for Grecanico di Calabria and also Griko Salentino to learn more about it
Siamo stati con la familiar 6 anni fa in Puglia per visitare i paesini grecani. Lì si parla il griko che è diverso dal dialetto greco in Calabria. Il griko si capisce bene se uno conosce l'italiano e il greco moderno. Nel paesino Kalimera c'è un museo piccolo dove il responsabile conosce il griko e ci ha parlato un po. Si prova di salvare il dialetto tranne i giovanni oggi. Vale la pena visitare Kalimera, Sternatia e altri paesini in Puglia.
Veramente molto interessante! Abbiamo aggiunto questi paesi alla nostra lista. Magari possiamo visitarli per uno dei prossimi video dall'Italia!
When the Roman Empire went to Greece they absolutely loved everything they had. Ruins, food, wine, oil….. Everything. So they took the Greek architects, engineers and builders and developers they had and took them to build Italy as it is today. That is why they have ruins and statues and food almost the same. Greeks had gods, romans created their gods same. Greeks had foods Italians did the same. Oil is not the same because of soil and Greek oil is the best in the world. Southern Italy knows the truth and till this day they call it little Greece. Northern Italy doesn’t say nothing. Doesn’t matter. It shows and history is history. Thank you for the video. Amazing! Italy 🇮🇹 and Greece 🇬🇷 related.
Thank you so much Sophia, we really appreciate the support!
@@TravelDialogues love your work. Real and genuine. Love.❤️
North Italians are genetically close to France Spanish swiss and very little to balkan (greek and other), so they are mix of Latin and German with little paleobalkan. Central Italians are genetically close to Greeks (to mainland greeks, almost all Greeks are mainland) and Albanians, so they are paleobalkan people (Greeks illyrians Thracians Dacians), south Italians are genetically close to Islander Greeks and to Jews. So as you can see the central Italians is Greeks genetically Paleobalkan People, they are closer to Greeks than the South Italians, but South Italians are close to islander Greeks
@@nikostheofanidis9970 first of all. Greeks are more close to Spanish people. If you read history Greeks reached to so many countries and was a very large empire. Romans then had a very large empire too. When they went to Greece they saw everything they had and were admired. They took Greek mathematicians , architects, mechanics, philosophers, teachers, cooks, everything they had and told them to show them how to do what they knew. That is why many foods have similarities. Greeks were great sailors and reached to Spain . The similarities between the two countries is like brothers. Greeks are not Balkan and never were. Greeks are Greeks. Balkans are Albanians, Bulgarian, Skopje, Croatian, Montenegro …….. all places that was called Yugoslavia. Greeks thousands and thousands of years B.C. they were already a nation. So when Great Alexander who is Greek concurred so many countries reached till Africa and India Read history. For you to know Greeks were never and are not Balkan. Balkan are only the upper countries from Greece in the Former Yugoslavia.
@@sophiam3923 hahahahahahaha
Греки ❤Итальянцы братья которых искусственно разделили но несмотря на это мы одно целое ❤❤❤
Fun fact in greece we saying only : pws iste instead of : pws iste te which you can say too : ti kanete for how are you
Greetings from Greece! ❤️ Na iste oloi kala !
Interstate place. Thanks for sharing your travels.
Viva Magna Grecia!
Beautiful video, beautiful place...❤
Thank you so much Electra!
Same thing as the Albanian 🇦🇱 Arbëreshë from Piana degli Albanesi that came to South 🇮🇹 from Morea
How Many Of Them Are In Italy Today?
@MrPolinikis Albanians are known for speaking several foreign languages
@user-nz5wf3qm5y
The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, mostly concentrated in the region of Calabria and Sicily)
They are the descendants of Albanian refugees settled in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily who fled from Albania, Epirus, and later some from the numerous Albanian communities of Attica and Morea, between the 14th and the 18th centuries following the death of the national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and the gradual conquest of the Balkans by the Ottoman Turks. Their culture is determined by the main features that are found in language, religious rite, traditional costume, art and gastronomy, still zealously preserved, with the awareness of belonging to a specific ethnic group
Over the centuries, the Arbëreshë have managed to maintain and develop their identities, thanks to their cultural value exercised mainly by the religious communities of the Byzantine Rite
Nowadays, most of the fifty Arbëreshë communities are adherents to the Italo-Albanian Church, an Eastern Catholic Church. They belong to two eparchies, the Lungro, for the Arbëreshë of Continental Italy, the Piana degli Albanesi, for the Arbëreshë of Sicily, and the Monastery of Grottaferrata of Lazio, whose Basilian monks come largely from the Albanian settlements of Italy. The church is the most important organization for maintaining the characteristic religious, ethnic, linguistic and traditional identity of the Arbëreshë community
The Arbëreshë speak Arbërisht, an old variant of the Albanian language and derives from the Tosk Albanian spoken in central-southern Albania and Epirus
In Italy the Albanian Arbëresh language is protected by law number 482/99, concerning the protection of the historic linguistic minorities
@@armandalikajthe arvanites that came there basically were of greek conscience THEY SPOKE GREEK READ GREEK AND THEIR TRANSUCTIONS WERE IN GREEK
HOW they become albanized its a Papal elaboration and Mussolinis efforts
La piana dei Greci diventa piana albanezi thanks to the mussolinis regime
This is amazing.
τί όμορφο χωριό, θυμίζει αυτά της Ηπείρου που είναι κρεμασμένα στα βουνά
Nice place - nice video! Kalimera!
Sicilian and Calabrian have many Greek influences! You can say! The origin of the south of Italy came from Greek origins
My Grandmother was Greek, but also spoke Italian. Only good things to say about them during WWII in Nisyros, Greece. "Una faza, una raza" as she would say, one face, one race, Greeks and Italians
In modern Greek:
-Pos iste?
-Kala!
😂 that is Albanian
@@maskinisten019 nothing in this world is Albanian. Not even the people who call themselves Albanian
@@andc5918prova a chiedere a tua madre
@@maskinisten019 Albanian extreme nationalist bastards, stop spreading these false knowledge here. The relationship between Albania and Illyria is a modern fabrication. A bunch of bastards who believe in Islam are worthy of saying that they are descendants of Illyria. Where do you get the face? Your Albanian language does not even have the stop consonant trisection structure of ancient Greek. Shut up, bastards.
10:00 this sign has 3 languages on it, ancient Greek, Griko (Italiot Greek) and Italian. And it says "The Macedonian people, who are Greek, send greetings to the Italian brothers"
Macedonian people and epirote where Albanian who used the alphabet at that time who today Greeks used it so whe lost that alphabet you not !
@@Albanesegotti Instead of thinking that the greeks took your language or whatever(I don't know who wrote this history) try to find the quality and your culture that you have as country guys. They all want to steal greek civilisation. Maybe isn't it enough? We are all people and we have the same problems.
@@Albanesegotti U r psychopathic in your hatred of the Greeks. Kastri;otis, your "national hero" was GReek too, moron!
@@Albanesegotti ooga booga
@@Albanesegotti😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You have tempest in your head.
You don't know anything
Εκπληκτικό βίντεο,συγχαρητήρια στους συντελεστές!
Thank you so much. We really appreciate the support!
Sounds more Cypriot Greek than modern Greek. Which makes sense as Cypriot Greek is closer to Ancient Greek than modern Greek. Amazing they still speak it.
14:55 usually in Greece back in the day girls will gather to take water of the water source to do the laundry, or carry water to the house, this was an excuse for them to get outside, otherwise they where not allowed to be seen, because parents will promise their daughter to some families son for all sorts of reasons mainly business, and collaborations.. So basically it was a "illegal" dating site... many 80yo marriages started this way...
It's close enough but the accurate greek is not "istete"... It's "πως είσαστε;" (pos isaste) or "Πως είστε" (pos iste) which is the short version of the same verb! So nice to hear people out of Greece speaking Greek though!! Not to mention that views and scenery is almost identical to Peloponise! Very similar vibes!
It's not supposed to be nowadays Greek. It comes from either Hellenic Greek or Byzantine Greek so the language is not the same as nowadays Greek from Greece, cause while they come from the same root they morphed
@@SAMSAM-ys3rsείναι από τα ιταλικά κομε εστατε
Σάς αγαπάμε 🇬🇷❤️
Thank you for this video. I am from Greece and you made me wanting to visit this place and talk with the old people there who preserve the language. My family is from Himara, Albania where there is also a Greek minority and all the familys speak Greek together even now I think it would be great to visit it next! Also other places of south Albania where Greek people live and are all very beautiful especially Himara:)
Thank you for your message. We really hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day!
I watched your Tunisia episode and I find you the two very mannered and respectful and very Mediterranean people . Myself am Tunisian living in Turkey for 25 years and lived once in Portugal and traveled other places but the Med sea and the people ofthe Med are my favorite I felt home at İtaly Turkey and Portugal . We have alot of common things
Dear friend, thank you so much for your comments! We really appreciate it. We also love the Mediterranean so much. Its cultures have such an amazing history and all of its countries are great places to discover!
Much love to my long distance Papasidero relatives in Melicucco, Cinquefrondi, and elsewhere in Calabria.
Ευχαριστουμε για το βιντεο!
Thank you for keeping the Greek culture alive
🇬🇷 ♥ 🇮🇹
Thank you for the kind words!