Calabrian Greeks: Pocket of Hellenism in Italy Has Survived Millennia

Calabrian Greeks: Pocket of Hellenism in Italy Has Survived Millennia

Gallicianò, Calabria: The only remaining original Greko-speaking settlement in Italy’s Aspromonte Mountains. Locals have not been forced to move or resettle on the coast like other Greko settlements. Credit: John Kazaklis There exists today a tiny enclave of Calabrian Greeks, Greek-speaking people in the Aspromonte Mountain region of Reggio Calabria, Italy, that seems to have survived millennia…perhaps since the Ancient Greeks began colonizing S…