Albanians The descendants of Illyro-Thracians
A collection of various citations regarding Albanians and their language being most ancient one in whole Europe. </p>
Encyclopedia Britannica, p. 483: The Albanians are apparently the most ancient race in southeastern Europe. History and legend afford no record of their arrival in the Balkan Peninsula. They are probably the descendants of the earliest Aryan, immigrants, who were represented in historical times by the kindred Ilryrians, Macedonians and Epirots; the Macedonians and Epirots are believed by Hahn to have formed the core of the pro-Hellenic Tyrrheno-Pelasgian population which inhabited the southern portion of the peninsula and extended its limits to Thrace and Italy. The Illyrians were also ” Pelasgian,” but in a wider sense. Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the CÍegt, or northern, and the Tasks, or southern, Albanians.</p>
The Via Egnatia, which Strain)(vii. fragment 3) describes as forming the boundary between the Illyrians and Epirots, practically corresponds with the course of the Shkumb, which now separates the Ghegs and the Tosks.
The same geographer (v. 2.221) states that the Epirots were also called Pelasgians; the Pelasgian Zeus was worshipped at Dodona (Homer, II. xvi. 234), and the neighbourhood of the sanctuary was called Pelasgia (Herodotus ii. 56). The meaning of the term ” Pelasgian ” is, however, too obscure to furnish, a basis for ethnographical speculation; in the time of Herodotus it may have already come to denote a period rather than a race. The name Tost is possibly identical with ‘1′im.tts, Elruscus, while the form Tyrrkenus perhaps survives in Tirana”.</p>
Culture worlds, Richard Joël Russell, Fred Bowerman Kniffen, 1951, p. 202: “Thraco-Illyrian was one of the earliest Indo- European languages in Europe. It survives only in Albanian”. </p>
One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups, James Minahan,2000, p. 29: “The Albanian language forms the only surviving dialect of the Thraco-Illyrian branch of the Indo-European languages. Seems to validate the Albanian claim to be the Balkan peninsulas original inhabitants“.</p>
World history, Hutton Webster, P. 530: “No other part of Europe of equal extent contains so many different peoples as the Balkan Peninsula. The original inhabitants are represented to-day by the Albanians”. </p>
Albania, MaryLee Knowlton, Juvenile Nonfiction, 2005, p. 19 ”The Human History of Albania begins in the Paleolithic period, roughly 100.000 to 10.000 B.C. Tools retrieved from along the Ionian Sea show that an ancient civilization existed at the foot of Mount Dajti near Tirana.
More recently, around 5000 B.C, a settlement in the southern coastal area left the remains of the Huts, earthenware, and tools. The civilization known as the Cakran Settlement also left vases decorated with painted motifs of human beings. These people were the ancient Illyrians, a loosely formed group of Mediterranean tribes who were ancestors to the peoples of classical Rome and Greece….”</p>
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A collection of various citations regarding Albanians and their language being most ancient one in whole Europe. </p>
Encyclopedia Britannica, p. 483: The Albanians are apparently the most ancient race in southeastern Europe. History and legend afford no record of their arrival in the Balkan Peninsula. They are probably the descendants of the earliest Aryan, immigrants, who were represented in historical times by the kindred Ilryrians, Macedonians and Epirots; the Macedonians and Epirots are believed by Hahn to have formed the core of the pro-Hellenic Tyrrheno-Pelasgian population which inhabited the southern portion of the peninsula and extended its limits to Thrace and Italy. The Illyrians were also ” Pelasgian,” but in a wider sense. Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the CÍegt, or northern, and the Tasks, or southern, Albanians.</p>
The Via Egnatia, which Strain)(vii. fragment 3) describes as forming the boundary between the Illyrians and Epirots, practically corresponds with the course of the Shkumb, which now separates the Ghegs and the Tosks.
The same geographer (v. 2.221) states that the Epirots were also called Pelasgians; the Pelasgian Zeus was worshipped at Dodona (Homer, II. xvi. 234), and the neighbourhood of the sanctuary was called Pelasgia (Herodotus ii. 56). The meaning of the term ” Pelasgian ” is, however, too obscure to furnish, a basis for ethnographical speculation; in the time of Herodotus it may have already come to denote a period rather than a race. The name Tost is possibly identical with ‘1′im.tts, Elruscus, while the form Tyrrkenus perhaps survives in Tirana”.</p>
Culture worlds, Richard Joël Russell, Fred Bowerman Kniffen, 1951, p. 202: “Thraco-Illyrian was one of the earliest Indo- European languages in Europe. It survives only in Albanian”. </p>
One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups, James Minahan,2000, p. 29: “The Albanian language forms the only surviving dialect of the Thraco-Illyrian branch of the Indo-European languages. Seems to validate the Albanian claim to be the Balkan peninsulas original inhabitants“.</p>
World history, Hutton Webster, P. 530: “No other part of Europe of equal extent contains so many different peoples as the Balkan Peninsula. The original inhabitants are represented to-day by the Albanians”. </p>
Albania, MaryLee Knowlton, Juvenile Nonfiction, 2005, p. 19 ”The Human History of Albania begins in the Paleolithic period, roughly 100.000 to 10.000 B.C. Tools retrieved from along the Ionian Sea show that an ancient civilization existed at the foot of Mount Dajti near Tirana.
More recently, around 5000 B.C, a settlement in the southern coastal area left the remains of the Huts, earthenware, and tools. The civilization known as the Cakran Settlement also left vases decorated with painted motifs of human beings. These people were the ancient Illyrians, a loosely formed group of Mediterranean tribes who were ancestors to the peoples of classical Rome and Greece….”</p>
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