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Muhajirs (Template:Lang-sq, Template:Lang-tr, from Arabic muhajir) refers to the Ottoman Albanian communities that left their homes as refugees or were transferred, from Greece and Serbia to Albania and Kosovo during and following various wars. Muslim Albanians, along with Turks, were fleeing and were expelled from parts of the Kosovo Vilayet during and after the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78).[1] During the Balkan Wars, Muslim Albanians were deported from Christian territories, and settled in the Ottoman Empire, as far as the Middle East. Cham Albanians massively fled Greece after World War II, in which they had collaborated with the Italians, fearing reprisals.[2]

References

  1. ^ Jagodić, Miloš (1998). The Emigration of Muslims from the New Serbian Regions 1877/1878. Balkanologie.
  2. ^ Baltsiotis, Lambros (2011). "The Muslim Chams of Northwestern Greece: The grounds for the expulsion of a "non-existent" minority community". European Journal of Turkish Studies. Retrieved 7 May 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)