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''Are the Albanian invaders of Kosovo ? '' Written by a French historian , I took some parts and had to use google translate
''Admittedly, we witnessed a phenomenon of slavization, of which toponymy is the best witness, but we know that toponymy is an argument of little value in determining the ethnicity of a population: consider the very large number of Slavic place names that can be found in Albania itself, where no one would think to maintain that the population was never mainly Slavic [/ b]. Moreover, such an argument would hardly serve the proponents of the "Serbian thesis" since the majority of the Slavic toponyms of Kosovo as of Albania seem to be rather Bulgarian than Serbian, which is very natural since the Bulgarians occupied the region from the 9th century and especially at the end of the 10th, at the height of the last Bulgarian empire whose capital was Ohrid. At that time, the Serbs were still far from Kosovo: indeed, in the 9th-10th centuries, their first coherent formations are Rascie, in the valley of Ibar, in the west of Morava, and Zéta, which corresponds roughly to current Montenegro; It was not until Prince Stjepan gained royal title in 1217 that the Serbian state expanded and included the region of Peja (Peć) [at the time Ipek], most of Kosovo remaining yet still outside its limits. Let us therefore not insist: any argumentation of the "historical" type can only turn against the "Serbian" thesis since history teaches us that the Serbs are, with respect to Kosovo, very late invaders. ''
''[B]Has Serbian domination made the old Ilyro-Albanian population disappear? [B]In fact, it is the Serbian texts themselves which prove us the opposite: in 1348, a donation made by the great tsar Stepan IX Dušan to the monastery of Saints Michael and Gabriel of Prizren proves to us that it existed, probably in the surroundings of this city, at least 9 villages qualified as Albanian (arbanaš) [/ b] [10]. The following year, the famous code promulgated by this same sovereign proves to us that there existed, in number of villages of his domain, alongside the Slavic populations, Wallachian and Albanian elements [/ b] whose dynamism had to to be considerable, since the tsar endeavored to limit their installation on the territories [11]. Note that if the Wallachians and the Albanians are now considered to be nomads, it is certainly not because they are "original pastors", but simply because they have been reduced to this situation by the economic and political pressure of the dominant people; already in 1328, it was the same [b] in the regions of Diabolis, Kolônée and Ohrid where Jean Cantacuzène narrates the meeting of the Byzantine emperor Andronic III with the "nomadic Albanians" of central Macedonia [/ b] [12 ]. ''
''[B]Certainly, the Serbian domination seemed heavy to the Albanians subjected; even given the author's clear propaganda intentions, there is undoubtedly truth in what is written, around 1332, a Crusade propagandist, William of Adam: "because the so-called peoples, both Latins and Albanians, are oppressed by the unbearable yoke and the very hard servitude of the lord of the Slavs who is hateful and abominable to them, because their people are charged with taxes, their clergy slaughtered and despised, their bishops and their abbots very often chained, their nobles dispossessed ... All, together and individually, would believe to make their hands sacred if they immersed them in the blood of the aforesaid Slavs [/ b] "[13].''
Gonna add some more parts later
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