Editing Magna Graecia (section)

==Modern and contemporary Italy==
[[File:GrikoSpeakingCommunitiesTodayV4.png|thumb|Map showing the areas where the [[Griko language]] is still spoken ([[Bovesia]] and [[Grecìa Salentina]]); the last living trace of the Greek elements that once formed Magna Graecia.<ref name="itinerarieluoghi"/>]]

Greek nobles started taking refuge in Italy following the [[Fall of Constantinople]] in 1453.<ref name="ChatzēdakēCorrer1993">{{cite book|author1=Nanō Chatzēdakē|author2=Museo Correr|title=From Candia to Venice: Greek icons in Italy, 15th–16th centuries : Museo Correr, Venice, 17 September-30 October, 1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nIROAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18|year=1993|publisher=Foundation for Hellenic Culture|pages=18}}</ref> Greeks immigrated once again to the region in the 16th and 17th centuries in reaction to the conquest of the [[Peloponnese]] by the [[Ottoman Empire]]. Especially after the end of the [[Siege of Coron (1533–1534)|Siege of Coron]] (1534), large numbers of Greeks took refuge in the areas of Calabria, Salento and Sicily. Greeks from [[Koroni|Coroni]], the so-called Coronians, were nobles, who brought with them substantial movable property.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Viscardi |first=Giuseppe Maria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHx2DcmptJYC&pg=PA361 |title=Tra Europa e "Indie di quaggiù". Chiesa, religiosità e cultura popolare nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XV-XIX) |publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |year=2005 |isbn=978-88-6372-349-6 |location=Rome |pages=361 |language=it}}</ref>

Other Greeks who moved to Italy came from the [[Mani Peninsula]] of the Peloponnese. The [[Maniots]] (their name originating from the Greek word ''mania'')<ref>{{cite book|title=Greece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qeNXAAAAYAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|pages=204}}</ref> were known for their proud military traditions and for their bloody [[feud|vendettas]], many of which continue today.<ref>{{cite book|title=Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVfgAAAAMAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Time Incorporated|pages=4}}</ref> Another group of Maniot Greeks moved to [[Corsica]] in the 17th century under the protection of the [[Republic of Genoa]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Greece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-uVXAAAAYAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Michelin Tyre|isbn=978-2-06-701520-3|pages=142}}</ref>

Although many of the Greek inhabitants of Magna Graecia were entirely [[Linguistic Latinisation|Latinized]] during the [[Middle Ages]],<ref name="unina"/> pockets of Greek culture and language remained and have survived to the present day. One example is the [[Griko people]] in [[Calabria]] ([[Bovesia]]) and [[Salento]] ([[Grecìa Salentina]]), some of whom still maintain their Greek language ([[Griko language]]) and customs.<ref name="affariregionali"/> The Griko language is the last living trace of the Greek elements that once formed Magna Graecia.<ref name="itinerarieluoghi"/> Their working practices have been passed down through generations through storytelling and allowing the observation of work.<ref name="Agrifoglio2015">{{cite book|author=Rocco Agrifoglio|title=Knowledge Preservation Through Community of Practice: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1t4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|date=29 August 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-22234-9|pages=49}}</ref> The [[Italian parliament]] recognizes the Griko people as an ethnolinguistic minority under the official name of ''Minoranze linguistiche Grike dell'Etnia Griko-Calabrese e Salentina''.<ref name="MolaPennarola2014">{{cite book|author1=Lapo Mola|author2=Ferdinando Pennarola|author3=Stefano Za|title=From Information to Smart Society: Environment, Politics and Economics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=afzYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|date=16 October 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-09450-2|pages=108}}</ref>

[[Messina]] in Sicily is home to a small [[Greek language|Greek-speaking]] minority, which arrived from the [[Peloponnese]] between 1533 and 1534 when fleeing the expansion of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. They were officially recognised in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.provincia.messina.it/repository/albo-pretorio/allegati/2012/Docs3047/44-C-2012.pdf|title=Delimiting the territory of the Greek linguistic minority of Messina|access-date=2016-05-12|archive-date=2013-09-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903123845/http://www.provincia.messina.it/repository/albo-pretorio/allegati/2012/Docs3047/44-C-2012.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>