''the towns of Shkodra, Drisht, Lezha, Shkup (Skopje) and perhaps Shtip (Stip, south-east of Skopje) - follow the pattern of continuous Albanian development from the Latin. [48] (One common objection...
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''the towns of Shkodra, Drisht, Lezha, Shkup (Skopje) and perhaps Shtip (Stip, south-east of Skopje) - follow the pattern of continuous Albanian development from the Latin. [48] (One common objection...
''This claim is put forward as a prime argument against the 'Illyrian' origins of the Albanians by Schramm: Eroberer, pp. 33-4; Anfange, p. 23. It had already been answered by Cabej, who pointed out...
Serbs claim Ancient Balkan people welcomed them with open arms yet all the historical records show Serbian expansion and Bulgarian expansion was an invasion.
Serbian expansion into...
Serbs claim Ancient Balkan people welcomed them with open arms yet all the historical records show Serbian expansion and Bulgarian expansion was an invasion.
Serbian expansion into...
It is claimed by Serbs there was a 'Great Migration of Serbs' in 1689 which left a 'vacuum' and that Albanians settled. This was shown by some historians to be false. There was never a great...
Albanians mentioned with Vlachs in Kosovo before Ottoman period:
Are Serbs the original inhabitants of Kosovo ?
Expulsion of Albanians out of Nish and Leskovac by Serbian forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Albanians_1877-1878
The Kosovo conflict was further instigated as the result of...
Kosovo was the birthplace and center of the Albanian national movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1912
Kosovan war is not the result of ancient hatreds:
...
The 'Great Migration' of Serbs in 1690 is a hoax: ...
Edith Durham
Her book: 'High Albania'
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Edith22.jpg/330px-Edith22.jpg
Vlachs that lived historically in the Western Balkans and Central Balkans were Romanians/Aromanians. They had Romanian/Aromanian names and spoke Eastern Latin.
They lived in 'Katuns' alongside...
Yes. it's also not so much where Albanian language originated in Illyrian lands but more like where it survived. Noel Malcolm claims Albanian survived as a result of isolation and contraction after...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo_(1448)
''Scanderbeg intended to go "peronalmente" with an army to assist Hunyadi, but was prevented from doing so by Branković, whose lands he...
Albanian language shows both, Eastern Latin influence and Dalmatian Latin influence actually.
Shkodra follows ALbanian changes from Latin to Albanian as do other toponyms such as Drisht, Shar,...
The difference between Balkan Slavs and Albanians is that Albanians, Romanians and Aromanians are direct descendants of pre-Slavic Balkan inhabitants while Balkan Slavs are people that settled here...
Also there is no evidence that Thracians replaced Illyrians or any other thing. While there might of been migrations, Western Balkans was Illyrian inhabited well into Roman period. And Illyrians...
It was Serbia that attacked the integral territory of former Yugoslav republics such as Croatia and Bosnia, after these republics declared legally independence and was
internationally accepted. They...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/26/kosovo.serbia
Serbs fought on the Ottoman side in the Battle of Kosovo 1448 against Albanians and Hungarians:
...
He never said they belong to the same subclade. They are ancient samples, of course they don't belong to the same sub clades. He said they belong to
the same branch
Such as the one found in...
The 'Great Migration' of Serbs out of Kosovo is a hoax
https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198857297.001.0001/oso-9780198857297-chapter-7
Albanoi inscriptions found in Ancient Dardania:
Serbs were later invaders that arrived here later
There is no evidence of Serbs in Kosovo before the 12th century:
See van Wijk, 'Taalkunde gegevens'; quotation from p. 71. The modern dialect of Serbo-Croat which borders Macedonian and Bulgarian...
Those statistics you showed are after the colonization of Kosovo after hundreds of thousands of Albanians were expelled and Serbs were settled which put the Albanian population down.
All...
Most of those tribes that settled were from the Highlands of Gjakova anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlands_of_Gjakova which included Western Kosovo, North-Eastern Albania and
Eastern...