Archive for November, 2009

Montenegrin’s – Their Albanian Origin

Slavic invasions certainly decreased the enormous territory of Illyria, which according to APPIAN  (The Foreign Wars Ill. 1.1) extended from Istri (modern Danube) to as far as Chaonia and Thesproti (precisely, Ambracia bay). A large portion of the northern Illyrian population shifted farther south in the rocky mountains of northern Albania, where their culture and ethnic identity survive today, an Illyrian identity which is represented by the modern Albanians. continue..