Among them it is found in the surnames of the founders of the Arbëreshë communities of San Demetrio Corone and Palazzo Adriano in 1488.
[3] According to Alain Ducellier they left their areas of origin in Albania due to social oppression and upheavals.
[4] N.G.L Hammond mentions overpopulation in Albania and underpopulation of mainland Greece as a contributing factor to the migrations.
The Malakasi raided Esau's territories around Ioannina and Gjin Bua Shpata attacked the city.
The settlement in Elis corresponded to that of modern Elaionas and is recorded as Malaḳas in the Ottoman defter of 1460-3, covering much of the Peloponnese.
[2] N. G. L. Hammond considered them to be probably a different tribe from the Albanian one, which descended in Thessaly in 1334 after the first Albanian incursions and was recorded by a similar name in historical records because they both came originally from the Mallakastër plain,[5][15] which according to Hammond evidently has an Aromanian etymology with the meaning 'bad encampments'.
[16][dubious – discuss] Malakasi (Malakaş) is recorded in the Ottoman register of 1454-5 for the Sanjak of Tirhala as a settlement in the eponymous nahiya, and a timar of a certain Gjin Mazaraki and his brother Thodhor.
The village had a total of 13 households, the majority of household heads bearing typical Albanian anthroponyms (e.g., Gjin Muzhaqi, Dhimo Murra, Leka Lavaniti) as well as general Christian names (e.g., Mihal Stefani, Jani Stefano).