Çam (other)
Çam (pronounced ''cham'') may refer to: * Çam Albanians, an Albanian subgroup formerly residing in Greece * Cham Albanian dialect * Çam, Akyurt, a neighbourhood in Ankara Province, Turkey * Gizem Çam Gizem Çam (born 4 April 1991) is a Turkish female swimmer competing in butterfly and backstroke events. A member of Fenerbahçe Swimming in Istanbul, she is holder of many national records in different age categories. She set a national record ... (born 1991), Turkish swimmer * Serdar Çam (born 1966), Turkish bureaucrat See also * Cham (other) * Cam (other) {{Disambiguation, surname ...
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Çam Albanians
Cham Albanians or Chams ( sq, Çamë; el, Τσάμηδες, ''Tsámidhes''), are a sub-group of Albanians who originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Chameria. The Chams have their own particular cultural identity, which is a mixture of Albanian and Greek influences as well as many specifically Cham elements.See Hasluk, 'Christianity and Islam under the Sultans', London, 1927. A number of Chams contributed to the Albanian National Awakening, Albanian national identity and played an important role in starting the renaissance of the Albanian culture in the 19th century. The Chams speak their own Albanian dialects, dialect of the Albanian language, the Cham Albanian dialect, which is a Southern Tosk Albanian dialect and one of the two most conservative ones; the other being Arvanitika. During the late 1930s Chams suffered from intimidation and persecution under the dictatorship of General Ioannis Meta ...
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