Kanallaki (, ) is a settlement in the
regional unit of Preveza,
Epirus
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. It belongs to the municipality of Parga and is simultaneous the seat of it.
The number of inhabitants of the town amounts to 2,491.
History
Kanallaki was one of the Christian
Orthodox
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Religion
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Albanian-speaking villages which either due to the absence of Greek or for reasons of demographic importance, would see Greek education expanded, through measures such as the establishment of kindergartens.
[Baltsiotis. ]
The Muslim Chams of Northwestern Greec
'. 2011. "Parallel measures were taken at the same time regarding the language in Christian Albanian speaking villages. The most important and easily confirmed measure consisted of opening kindergartens in villages selected either by the absence of knowledge of Greek or by their demographic importance. According to a 1931 document, these villages included Aghia, Anthoussa, Eleftheri Kanallaki, Narkissos, Psakka, Aghios Vlassios, Kastri (Dagh) and Draghani."
From 29 July – 31 August 1943, a joint Nazi German-Cham Albanian armed operation was launched. As a result in 21 settlements in the vicinity of Kanallaki 400 inhabitants were arrested and forced to march to the nearest
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simpl ...
in Thessaloniki (KZ Pavlos Melas). When the march begun the armed groups did not hesitate to execute a diseased priest in front of the rest of the hostages.
In Kanalaki and also
Anthousa ()
, the closest existing variants of
Souliotic Albanian are spoken. This dialect is spoken only by few people in modern times.
References
Sources
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Populated places in Preveza (regional unit)
Albanian communities in Greece