Albanians changed the Greek name of Mirdita

 Mirdita (that today means Good Day in Albanian) is a region in North Albania.

Mirdita used to be called Orosh or Monte Santo which is another name for Agion Oros , (Holy Mountain). Italians called Orosh in Mirdita - Monte Santo, a name for Mount Athos. The name was changed to hide its Greek name.



Orosh or Mirdita was called Monte Santo (The Holy Mountain)

The word Orosh comes from Greek ὄρος and Doric Greek  ὦρος that means Mountain. It also means year. 

From American Gov records, Mirdita used to be called Mali i Shenjte (in Albanian it means Holy Mountain)
There were Greek churches in Mirdita with Greek crosses on them.

Saint George church in Mirdita takes its name from St. George of Athos. 
There ancient symbols at this church that Albanians do not understand. 



Albanians claim that Mirdita was run by Dukagjini/Ducaginorum which they call Albanian tribes.

Ducange tribes were not Albanian. They intermarried with the Serbs and Comneno Byzantine dynasty members.

Dukagjinis were Dalmatian families. 



Mirdita later in time was controlled by the Italian fascists who set up Northern Albanians against Greeks to embrace fascism and Catholicism.

Terenzio Tocci who Albanians call Albanian was not Albanian at all. He was President of the Corporative Fascist Supreme Council. He is seen in the picture at Radio Tirana with Albanian Military officials of the Albanian Military.


Tocci got from Rome in 1908, he left for the Americas for a propaganda tour in favor of the Albanian question and Italian irredentism. Back in Italy in 1910, he organized an expedition together with R. Garibaldi to free Albania. In 1911, he promoted an insurrection with the leaders of Mirdita and Malsia (Northern Albania) which resulted in a "provisional government". 


But in 1921, Mirdites, disappointed by the creation of the Albanian Islamic State,  asked to enter in relations with the Serb Croat Slovene Kingdom and Kingdom of Greeks. 


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