Nova Lectio Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg è l'eroe albanese che nel XV secolo combatté gli Ottomani per oltre 25 anni. Le sue vittorie schiaccianti, ottenute con un esercito di appena 10.000 uomini, contro eserciti che - in rapporto - ne vantavano almeno il quadruplo, sono ricordate e celebrate ancora oggi in tutta Albania (a

Baba Tomor or Father Tomor is the personification of Mount Tomor, a mountain range which includes the highest peak in central Albania at an altitude of 2416 m. Mount Tomor is considered the home of the gods in central Albanian popular belief. The peasants of the region swear by Father Tomor, Alb...

Greeks were not the first perpetrators to design a device that could eventuate in stealing historical events and twist the accounts of other people. Among the most despicable acts of theft has been the masterminded plan to plagiarize the Iliad. What would be considered a translation in modern ti...

The Albanian language has been variously attached to Illyrian and Messapian, both of which were probably related. Only the latter, to a small extent, has left any evidence that may in any way liken it to Albanian. Consider the Messapic words bilia (Alb bijë “daughter”), brendon “deer” (Alb bri, ...

The ancient term “Pelasgian” is almost as mysterious now as ever, for scholars still have difficulty assigning precise meaning to it. For that reason some linguistic authorities prefer to substitute the term “pre-Hellenic” for the language of the people who antedated the Greeks in the Balkan Pen...

Researches into the History of the European Nations.Paragraph 3. – Of the Albanians or Skipetarians*.The people generally known in Europe by the name of Albanians, by the Turks called Arnauts, and by themselves Skipetares, which means in their language “mountaineers” or “dwellers on rocks,” inha...

Since 1844 when the chauvinistic Serbian platform called ‘Nacertanja’, has been introduced on the first place, until now and the notorious Serbian propaganda has continuously aimed the repudiation of the Albanian autochthony in Kosova and Macedonia. That is all been done with the sole purpose, t...

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The so called “Australian Macedonian Advisory Council (AMAC)”which gathers the Greek diaspora in Australia, it’s well known for its primitive ultra-nationalism which is fu...

It is nestled on rolling hills in an area of farming and agriculture. Settled in the 15th century A.D. by people of Albanian ancestry, many of the customs, language and religion of these original immigrants have survived for over 500 years. Many of the residents speak the Albanian language refer...

MARKO BOCARI: the hero of patriotic and cultural concerns(MARKO BOÇARI 1790-1823)editor of the first bilingual dictionary Albanian-Greekrise brave Markorise, the Greece is calling theefor Marko the Albanian to comethe most famous of the “Suliots” Marko Bocari was born in the village “Sulâ...

1450 - 1512 or 1513, probably Rome. Barleti was a humanist of Albanian descent, the first and greatest Albanian historian, and a Catholic priest.When Barleti lived in Shkodër he was a scholar and a clergyman. In 1474 the Turks besieged Shkodër. Barleti participated in the defense of the to...

Work of 208 pages by Theodor Shkodrani, written in 1210 AD. This guy isdifferent from another writer Theodore Scutariotes. This work was found in alibrary of the Vatican. It is written in north Albania dialect (Gheg), inlatin letters, and it talks about theology, philosophy and history.It ends w...

by GIOVANNI ARMILLOTTAL'OSSERVATORE ROMANOYear CXLI - N 139 (42.777), Vatican City,Wednesday, June 20, 2001Part OneIf we attempt to highlight the Albanian emigration taking place in the early 1990's due to the long politico-administrative crisis of the Enverist government, we can make a connecti...

Appian's History of Rome:The Illyrian WarsWho was Appian?Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165) is the author of a Roman History and one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians. Although only his books on the Roman Civil Wars survive in their entirety, large parts of other books have also ...

MILITARY: ILLYRIAN DEFENSEThe Illyrian military consisted mostly of infantrymen and although it has been argued that the Illyrian infantry was never numerous, it is important to note that in 280 BC King Monunius offered the king of Macedon 20,000 troops to defend his kingdom from a Celtic invasi...

Illyrians Kings, QueenRULERS: ILLYRIA PROPERFor simplicity, the history of the Illyrian Rulers and their kingdoms will be viewed through a "dynastic" timeline. However, what can be said for the Ardiaei, a true dynasty as control was passed within the ruling house cannot be said for Bardylis' kin...

EMPERORS: ILLYRIANSThe Illyrians, exploiting the privileges of allegiance to Rome, moved up the ranks rather quickly and eventually ruled the empire.Emperors of Illyrian origin reigned in both the Roman and Byzantine empires.ILLYRIAN-ROMAN EMPERORSClaudius II - Gothicus, as he was also known, re...

1200 Illyrians arrive at South Italy. Inscriptions discovered insouth-eastern Italy, written in one of Italic alphabets, were identified asusing the language similar to Illyrian. After Illyrians occupied the regionsof Dalmatia and reached the Adriatic shores, they crossed thenarrow sea space and...

Roma comes from the Etruscan clan "Ruma"; the legend said that Eneas was aTrojan prince founder of Roma, and antecessor of Romuluswho led the rape of the Sabianian women.IDEA: Such ancient legend of the rape of Italic Sabinian women by Trojan orEtruscan men, in case to be true, or in the case to...

The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to...

What is the language the Pelasgians spoke?Still remain of the Pelasgians who liveabove the Tyrrheni in the city of Creston--who were once neighbors of thepeople now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited thecountry which now is called Thessalian-- and of the Pelasgians who inhabitedPlacia an...

Albania - Eugenio Barbarich (1905)Albania (Monografia antropogeografica) Con 10 illustrazioni e 13 tavole fuori testo.Eugenio Giovanni Giacomo BarbarichPublished: Roma, Enrico... (More) Albania (Monografia antropogeografica) Con 10 illustrazioni e 13 tavole fuori testo.Eugenio Giovanni Giacomo B...

Albania, A New Nation in an Old World - Scribner's Magazine (1922) - V. I. Paradise, H. Campbell Albania, A New Nation in an Old World - Scribner's Magazine (1922) - V. I. Paradise, H. Campbell

Communist Takeover and Occupation of Albania - Charles J. Kersten; U.S. Congress (1954)C...

Mary Edith Durham (1863-1944) was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropologist accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century. Educated privately, she developed a talent for illustration and watercolouring and attended the Royal Academy of Arts and Bedfo...

Albanians (Bulgarian: албанци, albantsi) are a small minority ethnic group in Bulgaria (Albanian: Bullgaria). Although according to the 2001 census they only numbered 278,[1] their number in the Bulgarian lands was much larger in the past. Between the 15th and 17th century, groups of Albanians (...