HC Deb 08 April 1881 vol 260 c1027
MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether he can state to the House the number of Greek and non-Greek inhabitants in the three cities of Janina, Larissa, and Prevesa respectively?

SIR CHARLES W. DILKE

There are no absolutely reliable statements relative to the populations of Janina, Larissa, and Prevesa. Janina is represented as having a population of from 16,000 to 30,000, of whom one-sixth to one-seventh are Jews, one-fourth Mussulman, and the remainder Christians of the Greek Church. Prevesa has a population of about 5,000, of whom 4,000 are Christians. There are no means of ascertaining the exact ethnological character of the inhabitants; but those described as orthodox Christians, as a rule, speak Greek, and call themselves Greek, and have Greek proclivities.