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Thanks for the quote about Kastrioti. He doesn't claim Albanians to be Macedonians. He actually seems like he doesn't know what he is. If anything, in this quote he is flirting with Greek ancestry if you would ask me. As I mentioned though, Byzantine scholars included Albania into Macedonia at times. Although, it has to be said that most people who are reffered to as Macedonians during the Byzantine era were from Thrace (i.e. Theme of Macedonia). In any case, I won't go further into this.
However, about Epirus, Byzantine Greek scholars did not have any doubts:
“…these mountains [the Pindos Mountain-range near Kasto-
ria] were the limits between the [despotate of] `Old and
New Epeiros’, and our Hellenic lands.”
Written in 1196 A.D. by Georgios Akropolitis: `Annales’, Patrologia Graecae, vol.140 col
Also, an example of a Byzantine Roman, Gregorios Gemistos, speaking of their ethnic origins in 1418:
“Because we are Hellenes in terms of stock, as our language and ancestral education betray… And also, this land… Hellenes always have been inhabiting…”
Or
“Because these words do not come from (the lips of) people who are unwise or ignorant of what is precise and commendable in the language
of Hellas…”
Arethas of Kaisaria approx. 900 A.D.
Also a quote about medieval Thessalonici and Epirus:
The province of Thessalonica (Saloniki) had, together with Greece, been awarded to the warlike Marquis Boniface of Montferrat with the royal title. It comprised the greater part of ancient Macedonia and Boniface carried his victorious arms into Greece, where he everywhere divided the conquered territories among his knights; but having perished in a skirmish with the Bulgarians, in 1207, his kingdom was invaded by the Greek despot, Theodore of Epirus who was received with open arms by the Greeks, and crowned emperor at Thessalonica in 1222.
http://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/quote/560181
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