What is Northern Albanian men traditional head covering origin?

[Tauromachos]

Enjoy reflecting on middle age Greece and predominantely male Albanians coming down from the north.

Lol coming down from the North

Always this obsession of people with the North

Is if there would be something special about the North

[Albobalboa]

Lol coming down from the North

Always this obsession of people with the North

Is if there would be something special about the North

Nothing special about the north, just as there's nothing special about the south either. Be yourself and stop clinging to something else.

In the case of Greece there really is something special about the North though, but it isn't related to Albanians.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

"Wearing turbans, funny hats, singing sitted in socks while drinking tea in Mosque-like rooms, dancing with swords like Saudis, etc, doesn't resemble the middle-east at all, it is "100% unaltered ancient illyrian tradtions from a zillion years ago"

Dancing with swords like Saudis? Funny hats? Singing sitted in socks? "Mosque-like"? You're coping hard. Sword dancing is not strictly Middle Eastern at all. Funny hats? Is that strictly middle eastern? Singing sitted in socks? Should they take off their socks inside and make sure to stand up? Mosque-like or house-like?

"Look at those fakking alvanos in their pants, just like the ISIS boiz!" - Captain butthurt (imo, hence why the refference).

I disagree strongly with yurop worshipping Serbian admixture Albanians, but at the same time you're the reverse of them. You're always looking for something, no matter how bottom of the barrel and desperate it is. Worry about your actual recent genetic admixture before you worry about people singing in houses and how that relates to cultural identities.

I know that Saudis have a traditional dance with swords that is performed with drums as well. Check it on YouTube, there are some resemblances.

You know well that removing your shoes, playing sitted and\or being sitted at the ground level, drinking tea from golden teapots in rooms that resemble mosques interiors reminds of Ottoman\Turkish costumes.

I am not just desperatly looking for something, lol. It is just my impression, if you don't find any resemblence then that's your personal view.

[Freeroostah]

Im guessing North Africa, especially Egypt

There was a whole Albanian Dynasty over there who even fought the Ottomans in the 19th century!

[Tauromachos]

Whitest man in Moortugal:

Abdul ibn-Tugali

Make his skintone a little bit paler and he fits in Tirana like a glove

[Voskos]

Enjoy reflecting on middle age Greece and predominantely male Albanians coming down from the north. You cope through fake history and making scenarios in your head, but the reality has been so much sweeter. There's no reason to be butthurt at all.

You're so European the Crusaders had to fuck you so bad the Turks damn near looked like saviours. Muh yurop

Lol, you're so butthurt you even have Greeks in your sig. Your butthurt stretches all the way from Sweden where you live down to Greece, and encompasses even western europe and portuguese people, whom you call moors everytime they say something you don't like.

[Kelmendasi]

Make his skintone a little bit paler and he fits in Tirana like a glove

Oh just stop it, if anything he passes better in Cyprus

[Kelmendasi]

The instrument looks like some Arabic derived instrument. If I remember correctly during the Ottoman age, many Albanians were hired as mercenaries and stationed in Egypt as garrison militias. Perhaps they acquired the use of that kind of Turban and musical instrument during their permanence in Egypt.

P.S. What's the name of the Albanian instrument?

The instrument in the concept is similar to this Arabic instrument, just with a different shape :



This is from Serbia and Dalmatia

In Albanian the instrument is called Lahuta and is the same thing as the Slavic Gusle. I don't think it's MENA in origin, it's a variation of the Lute iirc. It could possibly come from the Byzantine Lyra

[Kelmendasi]

I wouldn't say with the Middle East in general

But certainly they do have with Anatolia,Caucasus,Armenia,Georgia and some parts of Iran

There is no way around it.

Genetics is a different story of course

Our folklore and costumes aren't closely linked to those in the regions you mentioned. If anything our folklore and costumes are closest to South Slavs and Greeks

[Kelmendasi]

Albanian folklore and costumes do seem to have more affinity and resemblencace with the middle-east rather than anything else. Is it just a coincidence? I don't know but it seems factual, no matter how much you try to deconstruct it.

Nope, we are closest to South Slavs and Greeks in terms of costumes and folklore.