Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tosks" in English language version.
... some Ghegs from the most remote regions of the north cannot converse with Tosks from the extreme south.
Almost all of the Albanians who immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were Tosk peasants in search of a better life. Many Tosks also immigrated to northern Greece.
The Tosk people are shorter and have rounder faces and smaller noses than the Ghegs.
The Albanians comprise two ethnic subgroups: the Ghegs, who generally occupy the area north of the Shkumbin river; and the Tosks, most of whom live south of the river.
There were and there remain distinct cultural and linguistic differences between Albanian Ghegs and Tosks[permanent dead link]
the two ethnic sub-groups to which Albanians actually belong: the Ghegs in the north and the Tosks in the south... The Ghegs and Tosks differ from each other in linguistic, historical-cultural and socio-religious character.
The territory of the Tosks is poetically referred to as Toskeria.
... the region of southern Albania—Toskalik...
Although the Albanian population in Yugoslavia is almost exclusively Gheg, the Albanian writers there have chosen, for sheer political reasons, to write in Tosk
The political-cultural relevance of the abolition of literary Gheg with literary Tosk....Albanians identify themselves with language...
Religious differences also existed before the coming of the Turks. Originally, all Albanians had belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Church... Then the Ghegs in the North adopted in order to better resist the pressure of Orthodox Serbs.
....the sense of true separation between Catholic Albanians and Orthodox Ablanians dates only from the mid-eighteenth century.
... Ghegs are mostly Sunni Muslims,..., while Tosks are predominantly Bektashis and Orthodox Christians....
The Tosks live in southern Albania and parts of northern Greece. Because their territories were easily accessible, the Tosks developed substantial contacts with the outside world, and as a result, foreign influences were more pronounced
The peoples to the south of the River Shkumbin (the 'Tosks', more sober and refined in nature) were more open and progressive.
The Ghegs, who make up about two-thirds of the total, are less intermarried with non-Albanians than the Tosks,
...Tosks, who had abandoned the tribal system by the time of the Ottoman conquest...
Ghegs, who are often described as fair, are taller than Tosks, who are darker and more Mediterranean.
... Ghegs speak a slightly different dialect of the language, and are often taller and thinner than Tosks, but these traditional differences (often exaggerated in vulgar anthropology) have been much diminished by population movement in the post-communist period
These differences existed before appearance of Turks. Traditionally there has been the division between the Ghegs in the north and the Tosks in the south, the Shkumbi River being the line
This dichotomy intensified through time as Tosks developed strong intellectual and cultural links with Istanbul,...
In the south, home of the Tosks, impoverished peasants were still treated essentially as serfs by their feudal Moslem landlords.
The ACP was largely a creation of southern or Tosk Albanians.
The Communist victory had realized the transference of political power from the Ghegs to the Tosks, and as around three-quarters of the membership of the ACP were Tosks,
