Talk:Ghegs

Orthodoxy?
What exactly does this mean, "The fact that the tribes of northern Albania were not completely subdued by the Ottomans is raised to the level of orthodoxy among the members of the tribes"? "Orthodoxy" doesn't make sense here. Did the author mean to say that this fact has become foundational to their culture, identity and way of life? Jyg (talk) 01:51, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Conversion from Orthodoxy to Catholicism
There was no conversion of the Gheg Albanians from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. The Gheg region in the north of Albania was always aligned with Rome. The Ghegs have always been Catholic. This is well-attested. Orthodoxy was mainly limited to the south of Albania, even prior to the Ottoman conquest. Where does all this nonsense come from? Please remove these baseless and unsubstantiated statements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.7.54.77 (talk) 01:50, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

WROMG TERM: Not Child "marriage" but "BETROTHAL"
I deleted the word "marriage" in "child marriage" and changed it to betrothal. Bc in the source the word "CHILD MARRIAGE" was NOT used - but CHILD BETROTHAL. LAGTON (talk) 20:14, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Three sources
There are three sources used to maintain that northern Albanians converted to Catholicism in the mid 13th century to better resist Serbs who belonged to the Serbian Orthodox Church.


 * The first is Britannica (1910). Should wikipedia in 2020 use as bibliography the 1910 version of Britannica? I don't think so.
 * The second is Stavrianos (2000). who writes Then the Ghegs in the North adopted in order to better resist the pressure of Orthodox Serbs., but he doesn't specify a date or a series of events, so how can some use him as bibliography for a claim about the 13th century?
 * The third is Ramet (1998). She writes that Albanian Christianity lay within the orbit of the bishop of Rome from the first century to the eighth. But in the eighth century Albanian Christians were transferred to the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople. With the schism of 1054, however, Albania was divided between a Catholic north and an Orthodox south. That's a very different citation.

I'll work on the section towards a cleanup and expansion. Can you take a look if you have the time and the bibliography to work on it?--Maleschreiber (talk) 15:15, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ramet is RS but contradicted by medievalists like E Lala. --Calthinus (talk) 15:29, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Murzaku (2015), Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics: After the crumbling of the Buglarian Kingdom, the re-establishment of Byzantine rule in 1018 and the division of the Christian Church in 1054 [..] The Albanian church north of Shkumbin River was entirely Latin and under the pope's jurisdiction. During the twelfth century, the Catholic church in Albania intensified efforts to strengthen its position in middle and southern Albania. The Catholic Church was organized in 20 dioceses. [..] Henc, the benedictines, the Dominicans and the Franciscans worked to safeguard Catholicism against the Eastern Orthodox and Slavic encroachments and the constant pressure of teh contending rival Byzantine Orthodoxy. Rome was working on a strategy of creating a barrier against the threat of a total Orthodox invasion and a subsequent conversion of Albanian Catholics to Eastern Orthodoxy.

The way the sentence is now written implies that a)all northern Albanians were Orthodox and then b) all became Catholic to resist Serbian state expansion. That is not true. Many were Catholics and some were Orthodox. Some Orthodox Albanians became Catholics, but I think that the opposite process is much more documented.--Maleschreiber (talk) 15:39, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * From 1100 to roughly 1350 there was a wave of Orthodox > Catholic conversions in Central Albania and in Laberia. See Regnum Albaniae by Etleva Lala. But the far northwest was always Catholic. Yes I'd rather have the ridiculous sentence removed, most of these conversions had nothing to do with "resisting Slavs".--Calthinus (talk) 15:46, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Here's my take.--Maleschreiber (talk) 16:53, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Good work. I would note that Lala doesn't limit that analysis to the North, as for her the Center is also included (alas the "Center" here means Kruja/Durresi/Tirana) as well as her discussion of the spread of Catholicism into the dioceses of Vlora and Butrint. She doesn't say it but Medieval Catholicism was also present in some other parts of Laberia as well -- Zhulat for example (Papa Zhuli was one quite famous Lab Catholic from that time) https%3A%2F%2Fsmilealbania.gov.al%2Ffshati-zhulat%2F&usg=AOvVaw3-EFve52ENehXiyyPnH77N . So a bit of walking back of the "North = Catholic, South = Orthodox" equation might be necessary (likewise there are parts of the North with an Orthodox heritage as well i.e. the coast/Reka/etc -- supposedly even Mirdita once did though I've never seen that confirmed). --Calthinus (talk) 19:16, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * On second thought, no need for a Lab tangent. Lab tangent can be added in the future when we start to talk about Gheg contributions to the formation of Lab culture, but that's for another time.--Calthinus (talk) 19:21, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Infobox
Since we've established that only a specific part of speakers of Gheg Albanian area Ghegs, which is a regional appellation I think that the infobox is misleading. For example, Albanians in Montenegro are Malësorë not Ghegs. I propose to remove it and retain the information about the number of total speakers of Gheg Albanian in a couple of sentences in the lead.--Maleschreiber (talk) 19:35, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Ahistorical myths
The Ghegs remained out of the reach of the regular Ottoman civil administration until the end of Ottoman rule. If this is a reference to the bajrak system, it is a very bad one. Galaty (2013) used in other articles has described in a much better way the nuances of semi-autonomy in Albania. I propose to remove both this sentence and the related sentences with a replacement based on Galaty.--Maleschreiber (talk) 08:07, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Remove. The vast majority of Ghegs were not in Tropoja, Mirdita, Malesia etc even if we use the Western(/Tosk?) linguistic definition.--Calthinus (talk) 09:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Impartiality and reliable sources
Why did nobody revised the Albania paragraph yet? It is purposely misleading. FierakuiVërtet (talk) 22:53, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The whole article needs a big cleanup. Remove as many sources/content as you want .--Maleschreiber (talk) 11:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks:) FierakuiVërtet (talk) 14:34, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

But, what do you think about the works of Miranda Vickers quoted in the Albania paragraph? Have they any historical value on this matter? I am asking you because i am guessing you know more than me. In her works, regarding this specific argument (Tosks and Ghegs), she does not cite anything to justify her statements. I cannot find anything about her references, but here it says that she is Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of London. I even searched the publisher: Bloomsbury. Its website says For students, researchers, and independent thinkers. FierakuiVërtet (talk) 11:56, 23 August 2022 (UTC)