We are going to present in following some pieces from a journal reportage of some European travelers* who met
Albanian ruler of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha (1769 – 1849)**. This journal paper goes to them who thought Albanians as newcomers in Macedonia, while allevidences support the contrary. Alexander the Great has left his traces in memory of native people of Macedonia. That’s why Albanians of Macedonia never forgot their hero and were inspired to follow him.
Jul
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!”*
Jul
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.
Jul
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.
Jul
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..
Jul
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?
Jun
“The Pelasgi would have formed the pre-historical population of Epirus, Macedonia, Illyria, Greece, the Peloponnese and large Italian territories. In Greece, the Pelasgi would have adopted the Hellenic language, when the Hellenix population came to dominate the Pelasgic one, while the native language would have lasted unitl both the Bulgarian invasion of Macedonia and the Serbian invasion of Illyria. In Albania, southern Illyria and Epirus, the Pelasgic population resisted assimilation by the Slavic population. Since the fourtheenth centry the Epirus colonies of modern Greece have sprung from these to little studied countries.Hence there was reverse re-run of the invasion of the first ages, with the difference that the native Pelasgi had mixed with invading Hellenes and the nowadays the new Pelasgi established in Greece are becoming more and more Hellenic. According to the author of Albanian Studies, there would now be Albanians in all the Hellenic provinces, be they in continental Greece, or the Peloponnesian peninsula, with the exception of Aetolia, Akarnia, Lakonia and Messene. In Attica, Megarid, Argolid and Boeotia, they made up the vast majority of the population.
Finally, the islands of Hydra, Spetses, Poros and Salamis, southern Euboeia and the northern part of the island of Andros would be inhabited entirely by Albanians. Moreover, if Mr. Hahn thinks that the ancient Pelasgi and Hellenes were different peoples, he insists on showing numerous ties of kinship which link them: ‘The proto-Albanian is not only a contemporary of the proto-Roman and Greek, but there is an affinity between them, or, in other words, what the three peoples share in terms of their customs comes from a common component, the Pelasgic component”. Theodor Mommsen views “the common origin” of the Albanian, Hellenic and Italian races as an incontrovertible fact. [...].
“The Pelasgi would have formed the pre-historical population of Epirus, Macedonia, Illyria, Greece, the Peloponnese and large Italian territories. In Greece, the Pelasgi would have adopted the Hellenic language, when the Hellenic population came to dominate the Pelasgic one, while the native language would have lasted until both the Bulgarian invasion of Macedonia and the Serbian invasion of Illyria. In Albania, southern Illyria and Epirus, the Pelasgic population resisted assimilation by the Slavic population.
