29-year old Croatian student tracking the roots of the Albanians

[Illyrius]

But serbs are cool people.
I like them
No jokes.

[CommonSense]

Do they teach kids you come from Caucasus?

They don't. It's not part of the textbook or teaching programme.

[Aldaris]

That guy must have had devastantigly good reviews on his theses. I wonder, who was his supervisor?

[Dick]

He looks like he could be Miroljub Petrovic's son. Maybe that not his real name

[πολεμιστής]

Albanians are not mentioned much if at all in Serbian history classes since Albanian history is not really relevant.
As for you origins when i was in 6th grade in our history book it was written than Albanians are descendants of Native Balkan populations, there was big fuss about this book few years back so i think maybe they removed it. Hopefully not.

Fighting Romans, Ottomans, Slavs, being invaded by all types of empires and people while still surviving in some remote mountains and even being able to expand at one point, and in addition contributing to some of the biggest empires. I guess this is not relevant.

[πολεμιστής]

Continuing my post:

Albanian history is irrelevant because that is what you are taught in your schools of course. Meanwhile Stefan Dusan had thousands of Albanians in his army and proclaimed himself as emperor of Albanians, Greeks and Serbs.

Stefan Dušan, king of Serbia (1331–46) and “Emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, and Albanians

This part of Serbian history cannot even be written without Albanians. But Serbs are taught this was some pure Serbian kingdom.

Serbs are taught the Battle of Kosovo was some pure Serbian battle when actually even Albanians fought in that battle. The ''hero'' Milos in some versions is even said to of been an Albanian.

You had even some Serbs fighting on the Ottoman side. When Albanians marched to Kosovo in the 2nd battle, they were ambushed by a Serb who was from the Ottoman side. You're not taught this part of history either.


It is also ironic your whole national identity, when it shaped in the 19th century, and your nationalism was based off Dusan's empire when there is no continuity with that empire. We are looking at 500 years of discontinuity here and before the idea of modern nationalism even took it's shape.


So how can a modern nation claim right to that empires ''territorium'' when many of it's subjects were possibly not even Serbs to begin with ? It is possible many Albanians, Vlachs and various other people at this time fused into Serbs which could explain Serbian genetics being a mix of Balkan and Slavic.

Many Serbian tribes also owe their origin to Albanians.


Albanian history might be irrelevant from the Serbian point of view where you are taught that everything is Serbian and everybody else is an ''invador''.


However, that is not the reality.

[CTPAXOTA]

bruh you post so much cringe

Continuing my post:

Albanian history is irrelevant because that is what you are taught in your schools of course. Meanwhile Stefan Dusan had thousands of Albanians in his army and proclaimed himself as emperor of Albanians, Greeks and Serbs.

Common knowledge.

This part of Serbian history cannot even be written without Albanians. But Serbs are taught this was some pure Serbian kingdom.

Not true and everyone knows that it wasn't a purely Serbian empire.

Serbs are taught the Battle of Kosovo was some pure Serbian battle when actually even Albanians fought in that battle. The ''hero'' Milos in some versions is even said to of been an Albanian.

In some versions of history, George Bush was Albanian too.

You had even some Serbs fighting on the Ottoman side. When Albanians marched to Kosovo in the 2nd battle, they were ambushed by a Serb who was from the Ottoman side. You're not taught this part of history either.

Because it's just a theory and completely unconfirmed that Brankovic stopped the army from joining.

It is also ironic your whole national identity, when it shaped in the 19th century, and your nationalism was based off Dusan's empire when there is no continuity with that empire. We are looking at 500 years of discontinuity here and before the idea of modern nationalism even took it's shape.

It was not based on the empire. Stupid claim.

So how can a modern nation claim right to that empires ''territorium'' when many of it's subjects were possibly not even Serbs to begin with ? It is possible many Albanians, Vlachs and various other people at this time fused into Serbs which could explain Serbian genetics being a mix of Balkan and Slavic.

Serbs don't claim the Serbian Empire, which included most of Greece and none of Bosnia(!). Serbs claim lands that belonged to us before the Ottomans arrived.
Every western Balkan people has mixed Balkan and Slavic genetics, nothing to do with the empire.

Many Serbian tribes also owe their origin to Albanians.

Of course

Albanian history might be irrelevant from the Serbian point of view where you are taught that everything is Serbian and everybody else is an ''invador''.

The first time Albanians became a majority in Kosovo was at the turn of the 20th century and that's a fact you can't seem to swallow.

[Moje ime]

He says "the evidence" Albanians are here for long time is fact Albanian language is influenced by Latin.
So then why is Serbian language also influenced by Latin?

[Bosniensis]

But serbs are cool people.
I like them
No jokes.

They are very interesting people with a lot of dumb leaders.

Among them I have found an equal amount of friends and enemies.

Some of them would do anything for you, others would cut you in half for entertainment.

[vbnetkhio]

He says that in Serbia the fact that Albanians were here when the Slavs came is not accepted.

LOL.
"Albanians from the Caucasus" is a theory spread by a couple of youtube conspiracy theorists. it started couple of years ago, at the same time as "Albanians are Dardanians". it's a part of the Kosovo-Serbia online troll war.

among the older generations, Serbs think Albanians are Illyrian. None of them heard about Dardanians.