User:Calthinus/Keravni

Since Alexi, Resnjari etc will probably read this:

Where would fixes in the Acroceraunian Mountains actually occur, if we were to do it by the closest village?

Remember that blue was the default color in Himara, and red the default in the communes to the north which had almost zero Greek population. Alexi has criticized this. Let's see where, instead of using commune boundaries to place the lines, we used equidistant lines between villages.

In Himara commune we have:

The following coastal and traditionally Greek villages : Himara village, Palasa, and the Dhermi Albanian Christian villages, some of which are coastal but are often inland: Vuno, Iljas, Pilur, Corraj Mixed coastal villages: Qeparo

and then Kallivretakis' "Spile", which I can't seem to locate.

In old Hore-Vranisht commune:

Tërbaç -- entirely Albanian, entirely Muslim historically (now the area has a good chunk of atheists, idk about the city itself), and appears to be astride the border of old Himara commune []

-- half way point Terbac and the nearest Greek village, which is Palasa, is just around Maja e Cikes, which is itself right near the border -- so I don't think any significant change would occur in this part of the map.

Vranisht -- is culturally and ethnically identical to Terbac, having originally been Catholic as many Lab villages once were centuries ago in fact. Coordinates : 40.210, 19.686, rounded []. The closest Greek town would be Dhermi, roughly 40.149, 19.642. Midway point, let's say [40.179, 19.664]... is again rather close to where the commune border is. I'm not sure this would change a single pixel. For some reason this doesn't look like a good midpoint on Google, let's move it inland further: 40.184, 19.667 looks about right -- but this is also not meaningfully far from the commune boundary.

Bolena is too far inland to matter, and I don't really think Alexikoua or Khirurg seriously care about the midway point between Kallarati and Vuno since both are Albanian; ditto for Kuci and Piluri.

This brings us to where the Western boundary should be.

The Albanian (mixed Orth-Christian and Muslim in the early 20th century) village of Dukati is the closest to the West. This is a case where the line of equal separation does differ considerably from the commune boundary. I actually once had a larger Greek area to the West, but I think this was moved back East after someone protested. Let's see how many pixels we are talking about. It's Palasa that we have to measure it against.

Palasa -- 40.165, 19.625 [].

Dukati -- 40.252, 19.566 []

Midway point -- 40.208, 19.596 [] -- this is remarkably close to the Eastern border of the Llogara national park, and is close enough to incline with Maja e Cikes. Actually this point of equal distance is almost exactly Llogara Pass, as you can see here [].

- so to make a line of equal distance, we could draw a line from Maja Cikes due West to hte sea. This means a small part of Himara goes from Greek Christian to Albanian Muslim, and a larger but still small part of Llogara Park goes from Alb > Greek. What does this mean in terms of pixels, though? Judging from here [] -- I will go on my other computer and reimpose the commune boundaries on it if necessary, like I did to resolve Khirurg's concern about Pogon -- we are talking about a net change in maybe 10 pixels.

I do realize I have to differentiate the shades of red a bit more, I can't see the difference between Bektashis and Orthodox on this computer. I also do have to increase the Orthodox around Dukati, since hte coast is uninhabited, not by only Muslims.