Prizren, Kosovo described as 'Capital of Albania' by the Austrians in 1689.

[Your Old Comrade]

O.K cool. That does not answer my question. You quote a Dutch historian, and you're not certain of the name. I want the name and publication. You are, after all, referring to him and I would like to be able to verify it.

[C0de]

Here some more:

Kosovo did not fall within the Serb territory of Rascia, which was further to the north-west: the Serbian expansion into Kosovo began in earnest only in the late twelfth century. About the other early Slav settlers in this part of the Balkans we have much less information.

Obviously some Slavs did spread through all these areas sooner or later. But there is one intriguing line of argument to suggest that the Slav presence in Kosovo and the southernmost part of the Morava valley may have been quite weak in the first one or two centuries of Slav settlement. If Slavs had been evenly spread across this part of the Balkans, it would be hard to explain why such a clear linguistic division emerged between the Serbo-Croat language and the Bulgarian-Macedonian one. The scholar who first developed this argument also noted that, in the area dividing the early Serbs from the Bulgarians, many Latin place-names survived long enough to be adapted eventually into Slav ones, from Naissus (Nish), down through the Kosovo town of Lypenion (Lipljan) to Scupi (Skopje): this contrasts strongly with most of northern Serbia, Bosnia and the Dalmatian hinterland, where the old town names were completely swept aside.

SOURCE: ORIGINS SERBS, ALBANIANS AND VLACHS. https://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/nm/kosovo.html#18.




Since you doubt my posts, why don't you show us some Serbian history prior to the Serbian invasion in the 12th-13th century into this territory ? Or are you just joking ? These are well known historical facts. You don't even have to posts sources.

[Your Old Comrade]

Here some more:








SOURCE: ORIGINS SERBS, ALBANIANS AND VLACHS. https://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/nm/kosovo.html#18.




Since you doubt my posts, why don't you show us some Serbian history prior to the Serbian invasion in the 12th-13th century into this territory ? Or are you just joking ?

I don't care. You quote a Dutch historian, and I am Dutch, so I would like to be able to verify it. End of.

Zo heb je de bron ? Ja of nee ?

[C0de]

Here some more:

Although sometimes he tends to overestimate the role played by the Roman-Romanian population in the Balkans, Petrovici has affirmed that “the population found by the Slavs in the Eastern region of contemporary Serbia was not Romanized.” One of the arguments brought by Petrovici to support his theory are the contemporary names of the cities mentioned above. Linguists like Van Wejk have concluded that according to the toponymical arguments, the separation of the Serbs and Bulgarians from a non-Slavic population in the early Middle Ages, could be explained only with the presence of the Albanian population in these areas.

According to him, the presence of a population which had Romanic origins belonged to a later phase of the Slav expansion. Some of these scholars, particularly Henrik Baric, have convincingly demonstrated this through the study of the ancient and medieval onomastic of the Dardania. Examining these ancient toponyms, Baric argues that,

“the phonetic characteristics show that they are ancient names that Southern Slavs have taken through the Albanian language. The reason for making this argument is that in these toponyms we find that the phonetic changes were performed before the arrival of the Southern Slavs in the historic territories of the Albanians.”

SOURCE: On the Autochthony of Albanians in Kosova and the Postulated Massive Serb Migration at the End of the XVIIth Century
Selami Pulaha Institute of History
The Albanian Academy of Sciences

[Your Old Comrade]

Name seems to be misspelled. There is no van Wejk. This is not how we spell the name here.

[Your Old Comrade]

The only ones I can find is a linguist, Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) who specialised in Slavic languages and old Slavonic and a historian Rob de Wijk (born in 1954), neither of which published in the 1970s as de Wijk only studied history in 1985. He published one book on Kosovo in 2001 and that was only from a military perspective.

[Far_away]

Name seems to be misspelled. There is no van Wejk. This is not how we spell the name here.

typical albanian propaganda, he wants to manipulate. Ask him is there a single stone on Kosovo that is Albanian? why Kosovo could not enter the UNESCO? because all culture heritage is Serbian

[C0de]

If you look into some of the sources I post you'll find plenty of other things. These are sources from the actual events. And not like the Serbian version that is basically invented later. Baric, Van Wijk, etc these are all interesting authors too.

Also Oliver Jens Schmitt has done some work too. But I like Selami Pulaha the most but he's Albanian and not foreign like most of these

[Victor]

typical albanian propaganda, he wants to manipulate. Ask him is there a single stone on Kosovo that is Albanian? why Kosovo could not enter the UNESCO? because all culture heritage is Serbian

This guy appears on this forum under different names for years, with same style of topics full of bedsheets of text and pastes related to Arnauts and Kosovo.

[Your Old Comrade]

If you look into some of the sources I post you'll find plenty of other things. These are sources from the actual events. And not like the Serbian version that is basically invented later. Baric, Van Wijk, etc these are all interesting authors too.

Also Oliver Jens Schmitt has done some work too. But I like Selami Pulaha the most but he's Albanian and not foreign like most of these

I only want to see what I asked for. Man! How could you survive high school if you don't even know how to provide a source?