Editing Aegina (section)

===Second Ottoman period (1715–1821)===
During the early part of the [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)|Ottoman–Venetian War of 1714–1718]] the Ottoman Fleet commanded by Canum Hoca captured Aegina. Ottomans rule in Aegina and the Morea was resumed and confirmed by the [[Treaty of Passarowitz]], and they retained control of the island with the exception of a brief Russian occupation [[Orlov Revolt]] (early 1770s), until the beginning of the [[Greek War of Independence]] in 1821.

Throughout the 19th century, a small minority of Arvanites lived on the island, who were bilingual in [[Arvanitika]] and Greek (spoken more by men and less by women), up until the early 20th century.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sasse |first1=Hans-Jürgen |title=Arvanitika: the long Hellenic centuries of an Albanian variety |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |date=1974 |issue=132–134 |pages=52–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gtVoAAAAIAAJ |quote=The chief propagandists of this more rigorous gait in language policy thus were the school teachers, who systematically forced parents to abandon Arvanitika as a home language and to prevent children from learning it. Parents seem to have readily conformed to this in some of the more sophisticated regions of the Arvanitika-speaking community. ... According to contemporary reports, collective bilingualism, particularly among the male population, was the rule on the islands (Aegina, Salamis, Hydra, Poros, and Spetses, as well as Andros) and in Southern Attica from the mid-nineteenth century on. The women lagged somewhat behind but soon joined in (cf. Hahn's observations cited above). Thus one can say that this part of the community was already well prepared for language shift at the turn of this century. ... This is also true of ... Aegina (which had only a small contingent of Arvanites at any rate). In these villages, Arvanitika was already near extinct in the early 1930s (...).}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Αμπατζή |first=Θεοδώρα |title=Η "Γαρουφιάς" του Νικολάου Λίσβα: ένα παράδειγμα των σχέσεων ανατροφοδότησης μεταξύ λαϊκής και λόγιας λογοτεχνικής παραγωγής |date=2022 |page=81 |url=https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/object/3217429/file.pdf |quote=Αρχικά, σε αυτό το σημείο έπαιξε βασικό ρόλο η αλβανοφωνία των Αγκιστριωτών, καθώς οι Αιγινήτες, οι οποίοι στο σύνολό τους δεν μιλούν αρβανίτικα εκτός από ελάχιστες εξαιρέσεις κάποιων οικισμών, |language=el}}</ref> The Greek-speaking population spoke a particular dialect known as ''Old Athenian'', which was also found in neighboring Megara and Athens.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Trudgill |first=Peter |title=Modern Greek dialects: A preliminary classification |journal=Journal of Greek Linguistics |date=2003 |volume=4 |pages=54, 59 |doi=10.1075/jgl.4.04tru |url=https://summerschool.ac.uoi.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/trudgill-2003-modern-greek-dialects-a-preliminary-classification.pdf |quote=They are: the four 'oasis' dialects on the edges of or surrounded by the Arvanitika-speaking area, as described above — Kimi, Aegina, Megara, and Old Athenian; ...}}</ref>