Archive for March, 2010
Mar
The purpose of this collection is to show that what we call wrongly as Greece it is Albanian land. Please, spread everywhere these quotes!
1. “The [Greek] claim to southern Albania rests entirely on the assumption that the majority of the population is Greek. The Greeks are stated to number 120,000 and Albanians 80,000. But who are the ´Greeks´? At least five sixths of them, if not more are Christian Albanians of the Orthodox faith, Albanians in sentiment and language, who because they acknowledge the Patriarch of Constantinople are declared to be Greek in point of ´national consciousness´.” (”The Nineteenth Century and After XIX-XX a Monthly Review”, founded by James Knowles, Vol. LXXXVI, July-December 1919, page 645.)
Mar
“Cyclopean” walls discovered in northern Albania
“The Aryo-Pelasgi are supposed to have emigrated either at the same time as, or shortly after, the Kelts, and they followed the same line, by Ariana and Parthia, but a little to the south; this is shown by their traces in Asia Minor and on the Ægean, the Hellespont, and Propontis, till, travelling by land, they reached the Mediterranean shores, Greece, Thrace, Illyria, and Italy, as far as the Alps, where they mingled with the Keltic Gauls”.
(Source: http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/Etruscan_Bologna_etruscman.htm)
24/08/2007
A research team looking for Ottoman-era relics finds something far older.
Mar
Here I’d like to post some essential historical reviews who threw a much-needed light to the history of the Albanians – the survivors of old Pelasgians.
Mar
Sarissa was a 4-7 m long pike introduced from Philip II the Macedon for the forward ranks of Macedonian army. It was a development of dory( δόρυ) , a one-handed spear :
Mar
The National Currency of Albania is called as ‘lek’. ‘The lek takes its name from (and bears the image of) that well-known Albanian hero, Alexander the Great of Macedon, lek being the Shqipetar form of Alexander…’ (In the margin of history – by Sir Harry Luke, 1933, pg. 157).
Mar
Here I’d like to present some accounts of Rose Wilder Lane (1886 – 1968) from her marvelous book ‘The Peaks of Shala’ (1923) which contains her impressions during she visited Northern Albania. Let’s give a short biography of her.
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886, De Smet, Dakota Territory – October 30, 1968, Danbury, Connecticut) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. She is noted (with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson) as one of the founding mothers of the American libertarian movement and is also considered one of the seminal forces behind the American Libertarian Party.[1]
Mar
Here I’d like to present an unique collection of classical quotes regarding Albanian character of ancient Macedonians.
