Fustanella Whats about its origin?
Who are the real owners of Foustanella?</p>
The dress of Balkan peoples is always rich with a lot of forms. Especially, the traditional dress of ancient peoples of Balkan are more interesting than others traditional dresses. By the way, which people should be regard asthe oldest in Balkan? In Balkan Peninsula live a lot of peoples such as Albanians, Greeks, Walachs, Romanians, Serbs, Bulgars, Montenegros, Croatians, SlavoMacedonians, Turks, Jews etc. But which of above people have right to claim itself as direct descendants of ancient peoples of Balkan? Usually our minds are tended to considering two peoples as more ancient than rest of others: Albanians and Greeks. And what’s about the rest of people? As historical science has proven, all of these peoples like: Slavs and Turks are settlers in Balkan after VII century A.D (Slavs) and XIV (Turks).</p>
The main question now is; who are more ancient: Albanians or Greeks?</p>
The historical evidences shown clear that modern Greeks are not at all descendants by the ancient ones. Greece was a turbulence place of intermingling of many races such as Slavs, Bulgars, Vlachs, etc. All we know how despaired were European philhellenes about peoples of lands (which philhellenes called as Greece) who didn’t resemble with ancient Greeks.</p>
“The philhellenes of America, Britain and Western Europe had called for a free Greek state in a romantic passionate attempt to bring to life the Hellenic culture of the past. Little did any of them know of what extreme changes had taken place in the region of what was once the Greek City States. ‘Naturally, many travelers and philhellenes were shocked at the Greeks’ lack of sophistication, and the ABSENCE OF A PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCE TO THE HELLENES of their classical imagination”.</p>
~”The Balkans, Nationalism, War and the Great Powers” by Misha Glenny, page 33</p>
I guess that is no need to goes further with these precisely explains of Misha’s. The Great Power’s at this time were interested to estabilish a new state in territories of ancient Greece, for their own goals.
The primary errors of them was of their childish misbelief to confuse the actual inhabitants of ‘Greece’ with ancient ones.</p>
I guess that is nessesary to take a place a question like that: to which people belonged these Greeks? Well…it is not easy to give a quick answer because there is an embarrasment issue of forefathers of today’s Greeks. In one hand, these Greeks are descendants of Slavs, Vlachs, Turks (settlers) and in other hand of Orthodox Albanians (natives).</p>
The greeks Thoug the Greeks are descended in part from the people who inhabited their country in ancient times, and thoug they speak a modern form of the old Greek language, it is certain that the present inhabitants are a much mixed race. They are largely Slav, but hold a strong feeling for the great past of their country. This gives them an unusally strong national rallying point”.
~A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR by ALBERT E. McKINLEY PG. 27</p>
Throughout Rumelia, the Peloponnese and the islands, there were large Albanian communities most of them Orthodox Christians althoug Muslim Albanians predominated in the Epirot centre of the rebel pasha, Ali Pasha
(’The Balkans, Nationalism, War and the great Powers’, page 25)</p>
Its the fault of a German, Mr. Dimou said about Greek pride in this cause. He was referring to Johann Winckelmann, the 18th-century German art historian whose vision of an ancient Greece populated by beautiful, tall, blond, wise people, representing perfection, as Mr. Dimou put it, was in a sense imposed on the country to shape modern Greek identity.</p>
We used to speak Albanian and call ourselves Romans, but then Winckelmann, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, they all told us, No, you are Hellenes, direct descendants of Plato and Socrates, and that did it. If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover.</p>
This myth required excavators on the Acropolis during the 19th century to erase Ottoman traces and purify the site as the crucible of classicism. The Erechtheion had been a harem, the Parthenon a mosque. But Greek archaeology has always been a kind of fantasy, Antonis Liakos, a leading Greek historian, noted the other day. The repatriation argument, relying on claims of historical integrity, itself distorts history.</p>
For their part, the British also point out that the marbles presence in London across two centuries now has its own perch on history, having influenced neo-Classicism and Philhellenism around the globe. Thats true, and its not incidental that the best editions of ancient Greek texts are published by British, French, Americans and Germans, not Greeks. But imperialism isnt an endearing argument.</p>
(take by:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/arts/design/24abroad.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&emc=eta1)
The Modern Greek Nation is general totality of assimilating of ethnic orthodox Albanians, Slavs, Vlachs, Turks, Jews, etc. Considering these incontestable proofs, the national dress of “Greek Nation” is entirely Albanian, because Albanians made up the majority of today’s what is
Greece or as Turks called as ‘Yunnanistan’.</p>
The Greek propaganda has begin to accusing Albanians of ’stolen Greek culture and dresses’! Such non-senses are repeat till nowadays. By the way, Albanians are convicted because ‘they borrowed Fustanella from Greeks’. But, how true is this?</p>
The Albanians are the descedants of one of the oldest of the Balkan races...”
~The new Europe by Bernard Newman page 366 (1972)~</p>
The Albanians are the oldest original inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula
~The world book: organized knowledge in story and picture – Page 147
by Michael Vincent O’Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, Geo
Ky artikull eshte marre nga: http://albpelasgian.blog.al/?p=26. Per me shume artikuj te ngjashem vizitoni: http://albpelasgian.blog.al/?p=26
Who are the real owners of Foustanella?</p>
The dress of Balkan peoples is always rich with a lot of forms. Especially, the traditional dress of ancient peoples of Balkan are more interesting than others traditional dresses. By the way, which people should be regard asthe oldest in Balkan? In Balkan Peninsula live a lot of peoples such as Albanians, Greeks, Walachs, Romanians, Serbs, Bulgars, Montenegros, Croatians, SlavoMacedonians, Turks, Jews etc. But which of above people have right to claim itself as direct descendants of ancient peoples of Balkan? Usually our minds are tended to considering two peoples as more ancient than rest of others: Albanians and Greeks. And what’s about the rest of people? As historical science has proven, all of these peoples like: Slavs and Turks are settlers in Balkan after VII century A.D (Slavs) and XIV (Turks).</p>
The main question now is; who are more ancient: Albanians or Greeks?</p>
The historical evidences shown clear that modern Greeks are not at all descendants by the ancient ones. Greece was a turbulence place of intermingling of many races such as Slavs, Bulgars, Vlachs, etc. All we know how despaired were European philhellenes about peoples of lands (which philhellenes called as Greece) who didn’t resemble with ancient Greeks.</p>
“The philhellenes of America, Britain and Western Europe had called for a free Greek state in a romantic passionate attempt to bring to life the Hellenic culture of the past. Little did any of them know of what extreme changes had taken place in the region of what was once the Greek City States. ‘Naturally, many travelers and philhellenes were shocked at the Greeks’ lack of sophistication, and the ABSENCE OF A PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCE TO THE HELLENES of their classical imagination”.</p>
~”The Balkans, Nationalism, War and the Great Powers” by Misha Glenny, page 33</p>
I guess that is no need to goes further with these precisely explains of Misha’s. The Great Power’s at this time were interested to estabilish a new state in territories of ancient Greece, for their own goals.
The primary errors of them was of their childish misbelief to confuse the actual inhabitants of ‘Greece’ with ancient ones.</p>
I guess that is nessesary to take a place a question like that: to which people belonged these Greeks? Well…it is not easy to give a quick answer because there is an embarrasment issue of forefathers of today’s Greeks. In one hand, these Greeks are descendants of Slavs, Vlachs, Turks (settlers) and in other hand of Orthodox Albanians (natives).</p>
The greeks Thoug the Greeks are descended in part from the people who inhabited their country in ancient times, and thoug they speak a modern form of the old Greek language, it is certain that the present inhabitants are a much mixed race. They are largely Slav, but hold a strong feeling for the great past of their country. This gives them an unusally strong national rallying point”.
~A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR by ALBERT E. McKINLEY PG. 27</p>
Throughout Rumelia, the Peloponnese and the islands, there were large Albanian communities most of them Orthodox Christians althoug Muslim Albanians predominated in the Epirot centre of the rebel pasha, Ali Pasha
(’The Balkans, Nationalism, War and the great Powers’, page 25)</p>
Its the fault of a German, Mr. Dimou said about Greek pride in this cause. He was referring to Johann Winckelmann, the 18th-century German art historian whose vision of an ancient Greece populated by beautiful, tall, blond, wise people, representing perfection, as Mr. Dimou put it, was in a sense imposed on the country to shape modern Greek identity.</p>
We used to speak Albanian and call ourselves Romans, but then Winckelmann, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, they all told us, No, you are Hellenes, direct descendants of Plato and Socrates, and that did it. If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover.</p>
This myth required excavators on the Acropolis during the 19th century to erase Ottoman traces and purify the site as the crucible of classicism. The Erechtheion had been a harem, the Parthenon a mosque. But Greek archaeology has always been a kind of fantasy, Antonis Liakos, a leading Greek historian, noted the other day. The repatriation argument, relying on claims of historical integrity, itself distorts history.</p>
For their part, the British also point out that the marbles presence in London across two centuries now has its own perch on history, having influenced neo-Classicism and Philhellenism around the globe. Thats true, and its not incidental that the best editions of ancient Greek texts are published by British, French, Americans and Germans, not Greeks. But imperialism isnt an endearing argument.</p>
(take by:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/arts/design/24abroad.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&emc=eta1)
The Modern Greek Nation is general totality of assimilating of ethnic orthodox Albanians, Slavs, Vlachs, Turks, Jews, etc. Considering these incontestable proofs, the national dress of “Greek Nation” is entirely Albanian, because Albanians made up the majority of today’s what is
Greece or as Turks called as ‘Yunnanistan’.</p>
The Greek propaganda has begin to accusing Albanians of ’stolen Greek culture and dresses’! Such non-senses are repeat till nowadays. By the way, Albanians are convicted because ‘they borrowed Fustanella from Greeks’. But, how true is this?</p>
The Albanians are the descedants of one of the oldest of the Balkan races...”
~The new Europe by Bernard Newman page 366 (1972)~</p>
The Albanians are the oldest original inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula
~The world book: organized knowledge in story and picture – Page 147
by Michael Vincent O’Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, Geo
Ky artikull eshte marre nga: http://albpelasgian.blog.al/?p=26. Per me shume artikuj te ngjashem vizitoni: http://albpelasgian.blog.al/?p=26