>Alexander Mercouris grandfather was Mayor of Athens, Spyridon Mercouris
>Spyridon and the Mercouri were an Arvanite family.[1]
>Arvanites are a bilingual[2] population group in Greece of Albanian origin.[3] They traditionally speak Arvanitika, an Albanian language variety, along with Greek.
>They call themselves Arvanites (in Greek) and Arbëror (in their language). Arvanites today self-identify as Greeks as a result of a process of cultural assimilation,[5][6][7][8] and do not consider themselves Albanian.[9]
I have to say that I am not an expert on Albanian cultural assimilation by any means, but this does raise a rather interesting point.