1. ^{{cite web|last=Geonames|title=Kurvelesh region|url=http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_40.35_20.083.html}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Kaser|first1=Karl|last2=Pichler|first2=Robert|last3=Schwandner-Sievers|first3=Stephanie|title=Die weite Welt und das Dorf: albanische Emigration am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts|date=2002|publisher=Böhlau Verlag Wien|isbn=9783205994138|page=133|url=https://books.google.gr/books?id=yTZURxZ4iokC&pg=PA133&dq=|language=de}}
3. ^^1 2 {{cite book|last=Hammond|first=Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière|title=Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas|year=1967|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=gI5QjgEACAAJ&dq=Epirus%3A+the+Geography%2C+the+Ancient+Remains&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=contempt|isbn= 9780198142539|pages=28|ref=harv}} "by the vendetta, which is very strong in the whole of Kurevelesh... For example the Albanians of the Kurvelesh call themselves a group of the Liaps (Liapidhes in the Greek form) and hold their neighbour in contempt. The intermarry only within the villages of the Kurvelesh; they are all Mohammedan, some families are polygamous, and the houses in the mahaladhes are built as fortresses with no windows on the ground floor."; pp. 216-217. "While this journey through Kurvelesh... The villages are Albanian in speech, and it is rare to find a man who knows Greek."