Albanian exodus

Albanian exodus is term used to refer to the deportation or mass migration of Albanians from their homes.
Migration to Italy (15th, 16th century)
After the Albanian national hero, Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg, died and the anti-Ottoman resistance fell, some 300,000 Albanians left their homes and migrated to Italy. Descendants of these émigrés still live today in the southern Italy and retain the old name for Albanian, Arbëreshë.
A significant number of Albanians who settled in Italy came from Greece. Between the 11th and 14th centuries, many Albanians had established important colonies in the Greek regions of Thessaly, Corinth, Peloponnesus, Attica and nearby islands. The fall of these lands to the Ottoman Empire caused another wave of migrations to Italy; Albanians and Greeks landed together on the Italian coast.
Sanjak of Niš (1877/1878)
During the Russo-Turkish War of the 19th century, Serbia and Montenegro, two Serbian monarchies in the Balkans, sided with the Tsar of Russia. This gave them the hope to apply the expansionist projects described by their scholars.
The battlefield between the Ottoman Empire and the growing principality of Serbia was the Albanian populated Sanjak of Niš .
As a result of violence, hundred thousands of Albanians were forced to leave their homes and settle as refugees in the inner parts of Kosovo Vilayet. Prosecuted by the Serbs, at least 30,000 Albanians emigrated.
:Almost the entire population of the western part of Sanjak of Niš handed over to Serbia, was Albanian of Islamic religion… For hundreds of years our people enslaved the Serbian people in their lands and now we were being thrown out of their country! it was terrible! Therefore, when this sanjak was occupied by the Serbian army, the population could not face the invader. They all run away to the inner parts of Vilayet of Kosovo leaving the whole place abandoned. - John Ross, Commissioner for Serbia’s borders
The Çam Expulsion
During the Axis occupation of Greece in WWII Albanian Cham units committed, alongside the Wehrmacht, a number of atrocities against their ethnically Greek fellow citizens, burning houses and villages, killing several hundred ethnic Greeks and forcing thousands others to flee their homes. Muslim Cham units also played an active part in the Holocaust in Greece, including the round-up and expulsion to Auschwitz and Birkenau of the 2,000-strong Romaniote Greek-Jewish community of Ioannina in April 1944. As the Germans and their allies began to lose ground to the anti-Nazi guerrillas in 1944, and started retiring to Albania, many hundreds of Chams followed them.
Joseph Jacobs, head of the US Mission in Albania in 1945-1946, wrote:
According to Stathis Kalyvas, a professor of Political Science at Yale University, these expulsions are "undoubtedly a case of ethnic cleansing", an opinion with which Mark Mazower agrees,
Kosovo War (1999)
In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Yugoslav forces under the command of expelled about one million Kosovo Albanians. Over half a million people found in shelter in Albania, 150,000 among Albanians in Macedonia, a significant portion in Montenengro, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Turkey, etc. The end of war in Kosovo in June 1999 gave way to the return of the vast majority of refugees.

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