Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Αργυρόκαστρο" in Greek language version.
About 4,000 Greeks live in Gjirokastër out of a population of 30,000.
Under communism the Greek minority was subject to serious human rights abuses, particularly in terms of religious freedom, education in the Greek language and freedom of publication. It played a leading part in the struggle to end the one party state, with the demolition of the monumental statue of Enver Hoxha in Gjirokastra in August 1991 an important landmark