Tosks

Tosks
Toskët
	Çerçiz Topulli, a prominent leader of the Tosks.
Total population
	Unknown
Regions with significant populations
	Southern Albania (Toskëria), Southern Epirus, Southern Italy
Languages
	Tosk Albanian
Religion
	Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam (Predominantly Bektashi), Eastern Catholicism (minority)
Related ethnic groups
	Arbëreshë people

Tosks (Albanian: Toskët) are one of two major ethnic subgroups of Albanians (the other being the Ghegs)^[1] differentiated by their cultural, linguistic, social and religious characteristics.^[2]^[3]

^ Piotr Eberhardt (January 2003). Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-century Central-Eastern Europe: History, Data, and Analysis. M.E. Sharpe. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-7656-1833-7. Retrieved 13 July 2013. The Albanians comprise two ethnic subgroups: the Ghegs, who generally occupy the area north of the Shkumbin river; and the Tosks, most of whom live south of the river.
^ Monika Shehi (2007). When East Meets West: Examining Classroom Discourse at the Albanian Socio-political Intersection. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-549-12813-7. Retrieved 13 July 2013. There were and there remain distinct cultural and linguistic differences between Albanian Ghegs and Tosks^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Hugh Poulton; Suha. Taji Faruqi (January 1997). Muslim Identity and the Balkan State. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-85065-276-2. Retrieved 13 July 2013. the two ethnic sub-groups to which Albanians actually belong: the Ghegs in the north and the Tosks in the south... The Ghegs and Tosks differ from each other in linguistic, historical-cultural and socio-religious character.