Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn, of the British Academy, regarded worldwide as having written the definitive work on Alexander the Great, states in the opening paragraph of his book Alexander the Great that “Alexander certainly had from his father (Philip II) and probably from his mother (Olymbia) Illyrian, i.e. Albanian, blood!”*

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Cleopatra Was Not Greek

John Chika

In November 1963 copy of The Reader’s Digest Magazine, the story of CLEOPATRA was printed, written by Mr. Don Wharton. The story it would be excellent only if Mr. Wharion had made more research in ancient history of Pelasgians, and Illyrians of Antiquity. This is unfortunate to the world’s history that ancient Greek and Roman civilization have overcome the other contemporary civilizations. The reason for this is because the ancient and modern Greek writers have written their fancy history to suit their national pride.

Mr. Wharton, in his story, writes: “Although Cleopatra was queen of the ancient kingdom, not a drop of Egyptian blood flowed in her veins.” This is a true fact. Then he adds that “Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek.” Here he is dead wrong.

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It’s not a rare phenomenon amongst ‘Greek’ and Slav net warriors to truncate quotes out of their real content in order to make intentionally distorted conclusions. Such propagandists have put forth as “evidences” against Illyrian origin of Albanians some misleading pieces from John Wilkes’s book ‘Illyrians’. They always pick up pieces that suits to their low ambitions toward Albanian people.

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Albanian Ties with Illyrian

Many lines of reasoning convince linguistic scholars that the Albanian people and language originated with the ancient lllyrians.
1. The national name Albania is the name Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria about A.D 150.
2. The Albanoi territory then centered at Albanopoli, between Durrës and Kruja, the heartland of modern Albania. continue..

According to the central hypothesis of a project undertaken by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Old Albanian had a significant influence on the development of many Balkan languages. Intensive research now aims to confirm this theory. This little-known language is being researched using all available texts before a comparison with other Balkan languages is carried out. The outcome of this work will include the compilation of a lexicon providing an overview of all Old Albanian verbs.
Different languages in the same geographical area often reveal certain similarities, despite there being no evidence of a common origin. This phenomenon, known as “Sprachbund”, is also evident in the Balkan region where the Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian languages display common words and structures. The question is whether these languages have influenced one another, or whether one specific language has been decisive in shaping the evolution of the others?

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