Gawrych, George (). The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913. London: IB Tauris. p. 91. ISBN9781845112875. „In one case, a guerilla band executed Father Kristo Negovani (1875-1905) on 12 February 1905, two days after he had performed a church service in Albanian. To avenge his death, a guerilla leader named Bajo Topulli (1868-1930) waylaid and murdered Phiotos, the bishop of Görice, in September 1906.”
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Blumi, Isa (). „The role of Education in the formation of Albanian identity and its myths”. În Schwanders-Sievers, Stephanie; Fischer, Bernd J. Albanian Identities: Myth and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 55. ISBN9780253341891.
Bociurkiw, Bohdan R.; Strong, John W.; Laux, Jean K. (). Religion and atheism in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. Macmillan. p. 397. ISBN9780333150603. „Papa Kristo Negovani... Both men were victims of Greek fanaticism, incited by their devotion to the teaching of the forbidden Albanian language.”
Skendi, Stavro (). The Albanian national awakening, 1878-1912. Princeton University Press. pp. 206–207. ISBN9781400847761. „In the south, the Greek guerillas were active and tried to suppress the Albanian movement by persecuting its supporters. In 1905 they assassinated the Albanian priest Papa Kristo Negovani because he taught Albanian and had published books in Albanian.”
Ramet, Sabrina P. (). Eastern Christianity and politics in the twentieth century. Duke University Press. p. 9. ISBN978-0-8223-0827-0. „Not surprisingly, language has been a salient issue in Orthodox church politics. Albanian Orthodox priest Papa Kristo Negovani was killed by Greek fanatics in 1905 when he tried to promote the Albanian language in schools and introduce it into the liturgy.”
Blumi, Isa (). Reinstating the Ottomans, Alternative Balkan Modernities: 1800–1912. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. p. 167. ISBN9780230119086. „Negovani’s actions caused institutional responses that ultimately intensified the contradictions facing the church and its imperial patron. In the end, Papa Kristo Negovani was murdered for his acts of defiance of the explicit orders of Karavangjelis, the Metropolitan of Kastoria, who condemned the use of Toskërisht during mass.”
