Dominicus de Gubernatis - 1689

" ALBANIA AZIATIKE ( E NDRYSHME NGA AJO EUROPEE, ME TE CILEN THIRRET GJITHE EPIRI)

315.000 shqiptarë rrënjës perbejne shumicen derrmuese te Vilajetit te Janines.10,000 Muslim Turks
180,000 Muslim Albanians
25,000 Catholic Albanians
110,000 Orthodox Albanians
20,000 Orthdox Bulgarians
110,000 Orthodox Greeks
180,000 Vlachs
6,000 Jews
7,000 Gypsies.
“...Ottoman officials saw both unit and divisions among Albanian. They referred to them as ‘Albanians’ (Arnavudlar) or “the Albanian people” (Arnavud kavmi), but also used the terms Tosks and Gegs. The Albanian regions were called Arnavudluk, but the designation of Toskalik and Gegalik also ocurred in the documents. Arnavudluk was a geographical designation, and kavim carried the meaning of a pople in an ethnic sense, with kavimiyet meaning ethnicity.
(...) In the 1880s, Yanya province was composed of some 650.000 inhabitants divided among the four sancaks of Yanya, Ergiri, Berat, and Preveze. Orthodox Christians formed a majority of the province’s population, split mainly between Greeks and Albanians, but with pockets of Vlachs living in the province as well. According to some sources, Albanians formed upwards of three-fourths of the Muslim population. Muslims were a majority in the sancaks of Berat and Ergiri, while Christians outnumbered the ther confessions in Yanya and Preveze. Ottoman officials seemed to regard most Orthodox in the province of Yanya as Albanian in ethnicity, even though many of them spoke Greek.
^The crescent and the eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913 By George Walter Gawrych