Kosovo described as Albanian by Turkish traveller of the 1600's

[Vlatko Vukovic]

They were not numerous as today.

Illyrians were more numerous.

Illyrians could mobilize 300.000 soldiers and were always a threat to Rome. (Ancient Rome)

Illyrians were backward in comparison to Slavs in that period (whoever liked it or not.)

Slavs were also primitives, hiding in forests, but later adopted some Sarmatian iranic strategies and surely were superior to Illyrians when came to Balkan.

[Bosniensis]

Illyrians were backward in comparison to Slavs in that period (whoever liked it or not.)

Slavs were also primitives, hiding in forests, but later adopted some Sarmatian iranic strategies and surely were superior to Illyrians when came to Balkan.

It is true that Illyrians, while numerous were very primitive up to 2nd century A.D. when they were Latinized and when they adopted Roman way of life.

But Slavs became civilized much later... Illyrians are far in front of them.

[Vlatko Vukovic]

It is true that Slavic language has Aryan words from India in it. That's... crazy right?.

I don't believe it's derived from india, just cognate.

I think it was native for proto-Balto-Slavic as well, in some form.

[CommonSense]

The most important thing we need to consider is the opinion of Carleton S. Coon. What I am about to show you is true to this very day, I have been to 1389 and can confirm the veracity of his work:

The Serbs expanded, during the period of their efflorescence, into Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly; the arrival of the Ottoman Turks, however, in the latter part of the fourteenth century, terminated this period of expansion, and many of the Serbs fled northward, while others became Turkicized and Albanized. The Albanians, many of whom were converted to Islam, worked with the Turks rather than against them, and after the flight of the Serbs from the plain of Kossovo, this region was soon colonized by Albanians, many of whom still remain there. The once important Serbian influence in Albania has left few vestiges, other than Slavic place names, and the presence of a few islands of Moslem Serb speakers in the mountains, as in the Gora district of Luma.'