Why Does Greece Have Thousands of Slavic Place Names?

Why does Greece have thousands of place names of Slavic origin — including deep in the Peloponnese?

German and Greek scholars documented an extraordinary Slavic linguistic footprint across Greece: thousands of place names, regional vocabulary, and traces preserved for centuries.

In this episode of The Slighthouse, we examine the work of German linguist Max Vasmer and Greek scholars Phaedon Malingoudis, Dimitris Petalas and Konstantinos Oikonomos.