这个城市是伊庇鲁斯Despotate的一部分，并于1336年首次由ArgyrokastroJohn VI Kantakouzenos提及。[10]第一次提到阿尔巴尼亚族游牧团体发生在14世纪初，他们在那里寻找新的牧场和破坏该地区的定居点。[11] These Albanians had entered the region and took advantage of the situation after the Black death had decimated the local Epirote population.[11]在1386年至1417年期间，它在伊庇鲁斯的统治者和阿尔巴尼亚约翰泽内维西的氏族之间有争议。[12]在1399年，该城市的希腊居民加入了伊庇鲁斯的暴君Esau组织，以对抗阿尔巴尼亚族和阿蒙罗族的部落成员。[13]在1417年它成为奥斯曼帝国的一部分，并于1419年成为阿尔巴尼亚Sanjak县城。[14]在阿尔巴尼亚1432-36年的起义期间，它被托皮亚·齐内维西下的部队包围，但反叛分子被图拉汉贝领导的奥斯曼军队击败。[15]在十七世纪七十年代，当地贵族曼托斯帕帕吉尼斯和帕诺斯凯斯托利科斯与神圣同盟负责人讨论了作为希腊和阿尔巴尼亚被奴役的希腊代表，约翰奥地利和其他各种欧洲统治者，反奥斯曼帝国武装斗争的可能性，但这一举措毫无结果。[16][17][18]
Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière. Migrations and Invasions in Greece and Adjacent Areas. Noyes Press. 1976: 153 [2018-04-30]. ISBN 9780815550471. （原始内容存档于2020-06-09）. 南部巴尔克地区古墓葬的连接与库克斯或Mati tumuli不同，但与Vajze和南阿尔巴尼亚的古墓葬相近。例如，在长青铜色的针脚，滚顶针，双容器中。 手柄由一个横杆分开，以及一个早期类型的小眼镜腓骨。 此外，巴尔克典型的'西北几何风格'的陶器现在不在北部，而是在阿尔巴尼亚的中部和南部以及此时的约阿尼纳平原。 Shkumbi山谷南部和Ochrid湖的人们很可能会讲西北希腊语，当移民将许多亲属带入希腊半岛时留下的残留物。
The Cambridge Ancient History: pt. 1. The prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C. Cambridge University Press. 1982: 284 （英语）. Inscriptional evidence of the Chaones is lacking until the Hellenistic period; but Ps.-Scylax, describing the situation of c. 580-560, put the southern limit of the Illyrians just north of the Chaones, which indicates that the Chaones did not speak Illyrian and the acceptance of the Chaones into the Epirote Alliance in the 330s suggests strongly that they were Greek-speaking
Giakoumis, Konstantinos (2003), Fourteenth-century Albanian migration and the ‘relative autochthony’ of the Albanians in Epeiros. The case of Gjirokastër. （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）" Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 27. (1). p. 179: "The Albanians originating... According to the sources, there were two migrant groups, the one which travelled via Ohrid and ended in Thessaly while the other, moving through Kelcyre, reached Gjirokaster and the despotate. The purpose of their occupation was to search for new pasture lands. The combination of fertile plains and mountains rich in grasslands in the region of Gjirokaster was ideal for the poor nomadic Albanians who did not hesitate to ravage cities when they lacked provisions.."; p. 182. "Furthermore, I presented evidence that the in the fourteenth century immigrant Albanians taking advantage of the decimation of the local Epirote population by to the Black death also migrated into the regions of Gjirokastër."
Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière. Migrations and Invasions in Greece and Adjacent Areas. Noyes Press. 1976: 61 [2018-04-30]. ISBN 9780815550471. （原始内容存档于2020-06-09） （英语）. There the Greek pocket of resistance, which preserved the Greek language even when its ruler was Serb or Italian, was the plateau of Ioannina and its hinterland... When Isaou, the Italian ruler of Ioannina, passed to the offensive in 1399, he had already won over the Mazarakii (Albanians) and the Malakasaei (perhaps Vlach- speakers) and he recruited Greeks evidently from Zagori, Papingo (above Konitsa), and "Druinoupolis with Argyrokastro and the great Zagoria" (probably the high country northwest of Argyrokastro, of which a part is still called Zagorie).
Vakalopoulos, Apostolos Euangelou. History of Macedonia, 1354–1833. Institute for Balkan Studies. 1973: 195 [2018-04-30]. （原始内容存档于2018-09-28）. The endeavours of two Epirote Greeks, Matthew (or Manthos) Papayiannis and Panos Kestolnikos, are worthy of mention at this point. As "Greek representatives of enslaved Greece and Albania", they came to an understanding with Don John of Austria..
Cini, Giorgio. Il Mediterraneo Nella Seconda Metà Del '500 Alla Luce Di Lepanto. Leo S. Olschki. 1974: 238 [2018-04-30]. （原始内容存档于2018-09-28） （意大利语）. Delusi rimasero pure i ribelli dell'Epiro del Nord, dove si erano sollevati i notabili greci di Argirocastron Manthos Papagiannis e Panos Kestolicos. Questi notabili si erano accordati con l'arcivescovo di Ochrida Ioachim ed anche con alcuni metropolis della Macedonia occidentale e dell'Epiro, si erano assicurati promesse di Don Juan per un sostegno armato... [Disappointed were also the rebels of Northern Epirus, where they had raised the Greek notables of Argirocastron Manthos Papagiannis and Panos Kestolicos. These chiefs had agreed with the Archbishop of Ochrida Ioachim and also with some metropolitans of western Macedonia and Epirus, and had secured promises of Don Juan for armed support...]
Kokolakis, Mihalis (2003). （[//web.archive.org/web/20170201125340/http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/bitstream/10442/8080/1/N01.074.0.pdf 页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） Το ύστερο Γιαννιώτικο Πασαλίκι: χώρος, διοίκηση και πληθυσμός στην τουρκοκρατούμενη Ηπειρο (1820–1913) [The late Pashalik of Ioannina: Space, administration and population in Ottoman ruled Epirus (1820–1913)]. EIE-ΚΝΕ. p.52. "β. Ο διεσπαρμένος ελληνόφωνος πληθυσμός περιλάμβανε... και μικρό αριθμό οικογενειών στα αστικά κέντρα του Αργυροκάστρου και της Αυλώνας. [b. The scattered Greek-speaking population included ... and a small number of families in the cities of Gjirokastra and Vlora.]"; p. 54. "Η μουσουλμανική κοινότητα της Ηπείρου, με εξαίρεση τους μικρούς αστικούς πληθυσμούς των νότιων ελληνόφωνων περιοχών, τους οποίους προαναφέραμε, και τις δύο με τρεις χιλιάδες διεσπαρμένους «Τουρκόγυφτους», απαρτιζόταν ολοκληρωτικά από αλβανόφωνους, και στα τέλη της Τουρκοκρατίας κάλυπτε τα 3/4 περίπου του πληθυσμού των αλβανόφωνων περιοχών και περισσότερο από το 40% του συνόλου. [The Muslim community in Epirus, with the exception of small urban populations of the southern Greek-speaking areas, which we mentioned, and 2-3000 dispersed "Muslim Romani", consisted entirely of Albanian speakers, and in the late Ottoman period covered approximately 3/4 of population ethnic Albanian speaking areas and more than 40% of the total area."; pp.55–56. "Σ' αυτά τα μέρη οι μουσουλμανικές κοινότητες, όταν υπήρχαν, περιορίζονταν στο συμπαγή πληθυσμό ορισμένων πόλεων και κωμοπόλεων (Αργυρόκαστρο, Λιμπόχοβο, Λεσκοβίκι, Δέλβινο, Παραμυθιά). [In these parts of the Muslim communities, where present, were limited to compact population of certain towns and cities (Gjirokastra, Libohovë, Leskovik, Delvino, Paramythia)." p. 91. Στο Αργυρόκαστρο οι Αλβανιστές διασπάστηκαν ανάμεσα στους φιλελεύθερους της πόλης, που ζητούσαν τη συνεργασία με τους Έλληνες, και στα ακραία εθνικιστικά στοιχεία, που σχημάτισαν στην ύπαιθρο ανταρτικές ομάδες. [The Albanians of Gjirokastër were split between the liberals of the city, calling for cooperation with the Greeks, and the extreme nationalist elements, which formed in the countryside as guerrilla groups.]"; pp. 370, 374.
Ali, Çaksu (2006). Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in the Balkans, Tirana, Albania, 4–7 December 2003 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）. Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture. p. 115. "At least since the middle of the nineteenth century; families or individuals from Gjirokastër (the Ottoman Ergiri or Ergiri Kasrı) in Southern Albania, and from Libohova, a small town located twenty kilometers from Gjirokastër, gave a huge number of Kadıs, who were in charge in the whole Ottoman Empire, making of these two localities important centres of Islamic culture."
Nitsiakos, Vassilis; Mantzos, Constantinos. Negotiating Culture: Political Uses of Polyphonic Folk Songs in Greece and Albania. Tziovas, Demetres (编). Greece and the Balkans: Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. 2003: 197. ISBN 0-7546-0998-7.
Pettifer, James; Poulton, Hugh. " The Southern Balkans. London: Minority Rights Group International. 1994: 29. ISBN 9781897693759. Under communism the Greek minority was subject to serious human rights abuses, particularly in terms of religious freedom, education in the Greek language and freedom of publication. It played a leading part in the struggle to end the one party state, with the demolition of the monumental statue of Enver Hoxha in Gjirokastra in August 1991 an important landmark
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