WHY THE MOUNTAINS ARE BLACK

Albanian Alps | 2021 | 11:40

A team of researchers meet at Mount Çika, in an effort to document the dialect of the Greek-speaking Himariote villages. The area was subjected to political prosecution and after the fall of Communism in Albania, the region was marked by waves of migration. Today, its population has been decreased significantly, with the remaining residents being predominantly elderly women.

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