Re: Albanian villages in southern Italy:
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In reply to:
Albanian villages in southern Italy:
4/12/01
Looking at a website on the Arbresh (Albanian refugees who had to flee the country when Ottoman Turks took over) I saw my grandmother's surname of CLESI listed as one of the many families who had to flee Albania and settle in Greece or Sicily. I knew my grandmother and grandfather both were born in Sicily, but I knew nothing of the Albanian villages in Sicily until coming across the website. The CLESI family settled in a Sicilian village called Contessa Entelina.