Albanians in Greece
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- This article is about the Albanian immigrants in Greece. For the Arvanites or the Cham Albanians, see the respective articles.
After the
fall of communism throughout Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a large number of economic refugees and immigrants from Greece's neighboring countries,
Albania,
Bulgaria, the
Republic of Macedonia,
Romania and
Serbia, as well as from more distant countries such as
Russia, the
Ukraine,
Armenia and
Georgia, arrived in Greece, mostly as illegal immigrants, to seek employment. The vast majority of these immigrants came from
Albania and it is estimated that they form 60 - 65% of the total number of immigrants in Greece. According to the 2001 census there are 443,550 holders of Albanian citizenship in Greece [
link].
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