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The 1460–1463 Ottoman taxation cadastre recorded the taxable population of the Peloponnese by households ([[wikt:خانه#Ottoman Turkish|''ḫâne'']]), bachelors, and widows. Specifically, there were 6,551 (58.37%) Greek and 4,672 (41.63%) Albanian households, 909 (66.25%) Greek and 463 (33.75%) Albanian bachelors, and 562 (72.05%) Greek and 218 (27.95%) Albanian widows.<ref>{{harvnb|Liakopoulos|2019|p=224}}</ref> Greeks tended to live in large villages and cities, while Albanians in small villages.<ref>{{harvnb|Liakopoulos|2015|p=114}}</ref> Specifically, out of the 580 inhabited villages, 407 are listed as Albanian, 169 as Greek, and four as mixed; however, Greek villages had on average 3.5 times more families than Albanian ones.<ref name="Liakopoulos2019–220–221">{{harvnb|Liakopoulos|2019|pp=220–221}}: "The 580 inhabited locations registered in the TT10-1/14662 are divided into 169 Greek villages, 407 Albanian, and four villages of mixed population (Table 4).{{nbsp}}... The average number of families residing in Greek villages is 41.29 and the Albanian counterpart is 11.86; hence, the average Greek village was approximately three and a half times larger than the Albanian one. The average Peloponnesian village, when we count Greek, Albanian and mixed settlements, hosted 20.69 families."</ref> Many of these settlements have since been abandoned, while others have been renamed.<ref>{{harvnb|Liakopoulos|2015|p=113}}</ref> A Venetian source of the mid-15th century estimates that 30,000 Albanians lived in the Peloponnese at that time.<ref>Era Vranoussi, Deux documents byzantins inedits sur la presence des Albanais dans le Peloponnese au XVe siecle in The Medieval Albanians, NHRF, Institute for Byzantine Research, p. 294</ref> Throughout the [[Ottoman–Venetian wars]], many Albanians died or were captured in service to the Venetians; at [[Nafpaktos]], [[Nafplio]], [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], [[Methoni, Messenia|Methoni]], [[Koroni]] and [[Pylos]]. Furthermore, 8,000 Albanian [[stratioti]], most of them along with their families, left the Peloponnese to continue their military service under the [[Republic of Venice]] or the [[Kingdom of Naples]].
Historian [[Thomas Gordon (British Army officer)|Thomas Gordon]] who traveled in the [[Kingdom of Greece]] in the 1830s and earlier in the 1820s described its Albanian-speaking areas: "Attica, Argolis, Boeotia, Phocis, and the isles of Hydra, Spetses, Salamis, and Andros" as well as "several villages in Arcadia, Achaia, and Messenia".{{sfn|Milios|2023|p=32|ps=:Thomas Gordon describes as follows the Albanian-speaking regions of Greece: ‘Attica, Argolis, Boeotia, Phocis, and the isles of Hydra, Spezzia, Salamis, and Andros, are inhabited by Albanians. They likewise possess several villages in Arcadia, Achaia, and Messenia Among themselves those people always converse in their own language; many of them do not understand Greek, and they pronounce it with a strong accent’}} Historian [[George Finlay]] in the mid 19th century estimated the number of Albanians (Arvanites) in Greece to number about 200,000-700.000 out of approximately 1.
There are no official figures about the number of Arvanites in Greece today (no official data exist for ethnicity in Greece). The last official census figures available come from 1951. Since then, estimates of the numbers of Arvanites has ranged from 25,000 to 200,000. The following is a summary of the widely diverging estimates (Botsi 2003: 97):
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*1928 census: 18,773 citizens self-identifying as "Albanophone" in all of Greece.
*1951 census: 22,736 "Albanophones".
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*Trudgill/Tzavaras (1976/77): estimated
*Sasse (1991): estimated 50,000 Arvanitika speakers in all of Greece.
*Ethnologue, 2000:
*Federal Union of European Nationalities, 1991: 95,000 "Albanians of Greece" (MRG 1991: 189)
*[[Minority Rights Group International]], 1997: 200,000 Arvanites of Greece.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Anderson|first=Bridget|author2=Minority Rights Group|title=World directory of minorities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EQUAQAAIAAJ&q=arvanites|year=1997|publisher=Minority Rights Group International|isbn=1-873194-36-6|page=155}}</ref>
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