The Origins of the Albanians | Who Are We?

The Albanians are an ethnic group located in the Balkan Peninsula of Southeastern Europe. Because their origin is clouded and highly contested, I have created this simple video as a basic rundown of the various theories and data on the Albanians and their ethnogenesis as a culture unique from those around them.
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[@BlueShiftna]

Love from your Thracian, Pelasgian brothers! ❤ You are doing so much for our history! 🇦🇱🇷🇴

[@sumax-nz1je]

Yes Romanians and Albanians are related the most

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

😂😂😂 not a bit.albanias are greek DNA

[@infucktus4899]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9w we share the same dna but we're not the same and by ur logic i can say that ure albanian😂😂😂

[@venomvenom9926]

@@sumax-nz1je rumanians is vlach olah macedons getodacians was scitians sarmatic kazar tribe gypsy and central asia vlah bulsit greek is from liban gypsy is from hitite mittanii jews aramaic phonecians

[@mafiozndoj8452]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9w cry kid 🤡

[@hoti47]

Very interesting and informational video. I can't wait for your future uploads.

[@arianhoti4090]

Gustav Meier: "Albanians are young Illyrians". George Hahn: "Albanians are descendants of Illyrians, but the descendants of the Illyrians were Pelasgians ... Albanians are grandchildren of Pelasgians". Haki Pasha: "If the Albanian history emerges, the Ottoman Empire will go to the river". Harold Whitehal: "Egyptian hieroglyphics, created 4,000 years ago have Albanian significance". Henri Braisford: "In Macedonia, Albanians are the only indigenous people." Johan von Han: "The Albanian derives from Illyrian and the Illyrian from Pellasgian one".

[@MrGentilushi]

You might check Messapic inscriptions who were an Illyrian tribe. They match Proto-Albanian words. Albanians are of mainly Illyrian stock to a very high degree. My DNA kit matches Daunians (illyrian tribe) in illustrative DNA and after that Thracians. I am R1b

[@ashala4183]

Wich subclade do u have from R1b.?!

[@fascistmonke]

Pfft, no

[@ashala4183]

@@fascistmonke what no.?

[@Tito_Barleti]

I am E-by4590 from Kelmendi tribe but probably my ancestors were Celtic in ancient times.

[@ashala4183]

@@Tito_Barleti Celtic people have r1b and are under the subgroup r1b - 51 nothing to do with E.

[@Gafnner]

Ngl this is the most objective video I've seen on this topic you really covered all.

[@lefterismagkoutas4430]

Incredible video! Greetings from Greece!

[@user-rp7ex2tu5w]

Albanian dont pretend the Greek Thracian!

[@il30esimocavalierediren2]

Great Video!!!

[@rrezet_]

Very thought provoking and well presented 🌞

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

THIS IS SERBIAN ANTI ALBANIAN PROPAGANDA

[@edisondinaric4374]

even though you're Albanian this video seem nice and fair its doesn't seem pro-Albanian nor anti-Albanian

[@TheOneWh0Knocks]

For looking at distorted narratives regarding the region, you have to check serbian videos on that matter.

[@Arber-4673]

@@TheOneWh0Knocks serbian propaganda 😂 since decades

[@Gafnner]

@@TheOneWh0Knocks idk what you are watching but if you watch "Ozbiljne Teme" which is in my opinion most influental Serbian history channel you'll get a good and objective information

[@TheOneWh0Knocks]

@@Gafnner explain in detail for each and every Balkan country+region+ethnicity how he is objective considering the relationship constellation in the region including a direct comparison with the opposing views from each side.

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

@@TheOneWh0Knocks Serbs do carry lots of Slavs. And don’t know why you Serbs keep bugging to much, lol

[@doubleheadeagle4008]

Sharrë in Shqip mean "Saw". I would like to remind the owner of the video that if he has ever seen the dense forests of Sharri? the shape of the cordillera confirms what I am saying because they are reminiscent of saw teeth.

[@JohnathanMaynard]

Thank you for this beautiful video about our history, my fine friend!

[@EminencePhront]

The pic at 1:35 is Bronze Age Japan, not Mesolithic Europe.

[@highevan]

"Much has been written and speculated about the origins of the Albanian people. From their language, we know that they are Indo-Europeans, and they seem to be native to the southern Balkans. However, whether or not they stem directly from the ancient Illyrians, as is widely assumed by the modern Albanians, or from the Dacians or Thracians or some other ancient Balkan people or peoples, IS VERY MUCH OPEN TO QUESTION." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.

[@tonyselmanah7411]

I can tell with the highest certainty that Albanians have been living in their land since the human race was created . My claim is very strongly supported by the facts that there is no scientist in the world that can relate their language and customs with any other nation on the planet. The archeological finds very solidly reinforce my claim as well, also the unique and very old popular traditional costumes that you can’t find similar anywhere on the planet .

[@skend3489]

You cant call any Civilization before 200BC Albanian

[@zoranaleksic9804]

Maybe you are from Mars? Hahaha

[@greatalexander404]

@@zoranaleksic9804 ALBANIANS PEOPLESIS AUTOKTONS 500000000000GODINA !100% !PEOPLES SERBIANS IS ORIGINS SIBERIANS NORDS RUSIANS NO BALLKANIANS!!

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

@@zoranaleksic9804 Your ancestors slavic is from Belarus, right?

[@ashala4183]

@@zoranaleksic9804Who is talking ur people russians kicked ur as from there and then u camed to balkan , slavic siberian.👌🏻

[@someguysomeone3543]

Good job

[@kapajsanije5356]

.....cdo gje e vertet edhe se vidio e shkurter ...na duhet te dim edhe me shum ne vidiot e tjera ...faleminderit..

[@highevan]

"So while linguists may debate about the ties between Albanian and older languages of the Balkans, and while most Albanians may take the genealogical connection to Illyrian as incontrovertible, the fact remains that there is simply insufficient evidence to connect Illyrian, Thracian, or Dacian with any language, including Albanian" Curtis, Matthew Cowan (30 November 2011). Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence. p. 18.

[@mariosofar7487]

The name Illyrian is rooted in Albanian illir meaning “free”, ian meaning “they are” roughly

[@highevan]

@@mariosofar7487 Source: Trust me bro 🤣

[@highevan]

@@mariosofar7487 "We KNOW TOO LITTLE about the Illyrian language TO PROVE A CONNECTION linguistically, and THIS IS A CRUCIAL DEFICIT." "It is virtually impossible to see through the various strata in the Albanian language to discover any particular ancient ethnic origin." "As has been noted above, the first millennium of Albanian history had little to do with the Albanian peoples themselves. As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.

[@bfairifudare1964]

@Encyclopedia Albanica, Te lutem vendose ndonje muzike Shqiptare...kemi edhe klasike nese preferon te tille (Cesk Zadeja, Tonin Harapi...) por une do preferoja Silvana Licursi... Walzeri Austriak nuk shkon me kete video.asesi.....

[@DaelniMajac]

This video seems objective and more focused on certain historical facts and references, rather than opinions based on culture or nationalism. I enjoy the tone of the author, especially his mentioning of many theories and the uncertainty involved in the “true” historical record. I do wonder if the Proto-Albanians were related to the so called Pelasgians at all and what the author thinks of the Albanian language being it’s own branch in the Indo-European language tree.

[@One-IronOX]

No Pelasgian was not an Indo-European language, and we Albanians need to drop that ball. While it is possible that Greek and maybe Albanian preserve some elements from it, we know that Pelasgian was a remnant from before Indo-European people settled into Europe. There may be genetical connections, other than that we have nothing in common with Pelasgians. Albanian being its own branch just means that every other language related to Proto-Albanian (probably Illyrian or Thraco-Dacian) didn‘t survive as languages, which makes Albanian the sole survivor of its own branch. Albanian as a language survived because of its mountainous terrain. I mean it already started getting latinized, a couple of centuries more of roman occupation and Albanian would have been a fully latinized language.

[@meshari-sx7gg]

The albanian language is the key to the truth!

[@DaelniMajac]

@Gjergj Kastrioti idk if this video is a middle position, but I like that the author doesn’t seem to have an agenda aside from trying to find historical fact. People can have the same theories on things, but there’s a difference between the people that say “I think the truth is A, but if evidence comes later to suggest it is B, then I will reconsider,” and the people that say, “I think the truth is A because that’s what I’ve known my whole life and anything anyone says to the contrary is a lie for political or personal gain.” Both people believe in “A” but one person seems to be more objective in their belief.

[@DaelniMajac]

@Gjergj Kastrioti that’s correct, beliefs and opinions don’t matter in regard to “truth” but when the “truth” is unknown and in contention, the character of the people arguing their points can add or take away credence to or from their arguments. If they’re arguing in good faith or if they’re blind zealots matters in shaping the conversation.

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

DANIEL CAMAJ YOU STUPID FUCK THIS PERSON IS A SERBIAN THEY PRETEND TO BE ALBANIAN AND MAKE ANTI ALBANIAN VIDEOS LIKE THIS THAT CLAIM ALBANIANS CAME FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. WAKE UP STOP GIVING THESE SERBIANS FAME STOP SPREADING THEIR LIES IN THE NAME OF GOD. HOW CAN YOU BE THAT STUPID. THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO IS SERBIAN

[@bfairifudare1964]

I strongly believe that replacing this voiceover with some slightly more native english, as well as replacing this music in the background (the Austrian waltz) with some nice Albanian music (e.g. Silvana Licursi) would significantly improve the video.

[@kevdeanstudios]

No it’s Good like it is

[@bfairifudare1964]

@@kevdeanstudios To you maybe but to us wh have been in the voiceover amd narration business for some decades we believe it can be a little more eloquent.

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

i believe that serbians ned to stop pretending to be albanian and making anti albanian history videos. and try to make out albanian as africans when we are not in no way shape or form african.

[@pendu6378]

Nice

[@tarongaming9507]

Hello sir, good video. What do you think about Caucasian Albania, is it related to the modern day Albania or not. Just curious.

[@777Lxxx]

No relation, just the naming. We don't even call ourselves Albanian in our language tbh

[@adamdemirs3466]

My grandfather is from Koritza, Korce Albania. An area disputed by Greece at the time. I'm looking for family there. His given name is Xheffari Demir. Him and his brother Jamail added the s at the end when they came to America.

[@sumax-nz1je]

And you claim to be Greek being a traitor to your blood and your people

[@georgioskanderbeg]

Hello. I'm from Korca too and I live in U.S. Even today Demiri is a popular surname in Korca region.

[@adamdemirs3466]

@@georgioskanderbeg Are there any with no I at the end of the surname?

[@meshari-sx7gg]

If they didn't divide us in religions... They could have never conquered us :)

[@aleksanderkeca3110]

That’s crazy bro. My whole family is from Korca.

[@christianv6894]

Nice video. Unluckily for us, our ancestors haven't attested the language we're speaking today like other Mediterranean civilizations, making it very hard for linguistics to reconstruct the evolution of our language. I generally believe that a branch of our ancestors, the proto-Albanians, indeed came from the Shtip - Nish - Shkup triangle and were pushed south-westwards by the Slavic invasions, but that was not the end of it though. In the territory we know as Albania today, there were living southern Illyrians and they got assimilated thus giving birth to the Albanian proper identity. (or I'd say Arberor identity) My paternal haplogroup is J2B2-L283 which has been found in the Cetina culture in high frequency, the predecessor of Illyrian-Dalmatian culture and the majority of Albanians is E-V13 which has been found in classical Greece and Thracia (I believe we got it from Thracians). Yet again I (like the average Albanian) am more southern leaning than Iron Age Balkaners and more northern leaning than Greeks, so I'd say that we're some sort of hybridization between southern Illyrians and eastern Illyrians or Dacians from Moesia with a % varying from 10 to 20 % of Slavic influx (autosomally) depending on where you go.

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Albanians do not have the genetics associated with Illyrians. Albanians are closer to the genetics of the Greeks in that they have the mediteranean haplogroups. Albanians are genetically descended from Paeonians and Dardanians. Albanian homeland is not present day Albania. Ancestors of the Albanians came from the north, beyond the Jirecek line. Paeonians were most likely of Greek stock it is believed by scholars which explains the connection between Albanians and Greeks. Of course this is a problem with the Makedonskis of the Republic of North Macedonia who are Bulgarians and are trying to hijack Albanian history for themselves

[@christianv6894]

@@rafaellagaribaldi9391 The Nish, Shtip and Shkup triangle is Dardania. Dardania last time I checked was Illyrian or thraco-illyrian because it was the place where Bardylis came from, which established the first Illyrian dynasty. These were much like "Serbia's" Illyria because they received much of the northern Illyrians being displaced by the Scordiscis, who were celtic tribes. During the arrival of the Slavs in the 7th century, these tribes, that we can describe as proto-Albanian, did indeed migrate southwards but the place they were stabilized in was not a desert. Southern Illyrians and Epirotes were living there and they got assimilated thus giving birth to the Albanian identity and bringing Albanians closer genetically to Greeks. This is the first theory, the second theory is that we directly derive from a central Albanian tribe called "Abroi" or "Albanoi" quoted by Polybius in 2nd century AC.

[@christianv6894]

@@rafaellagaribaldi9391 if you have discord or any other platform I can discuss genetics of Albanians more into the deep.

[@illyrianmc9169]

​​@@rafaellagaribaldi9391only lies. These days come the bigest study in world for albanian and they said Albania language is one of oldest in Europe together with Greece and Armenia. The old city found in Pogradec city tell the scientists that the building use there were older then 6k years and are conection with Albania language.

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

@@illyrianmc9169 yep

[@maestrozilla]

sumarian tablets show illyrian symbols .... can discussion can go way back annunakis?

[@durimmiziraj4815]

The first mention of Albanian is from a Bulgarian priest listing the languages of the world in the 11th century.

[@gazmirgiata4956]

Me ndimen e zotit e gjith europa duet ta dij nga e ka perardhien

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

ME NDIHMEN E ZOTIT JU SHQIPTARET KENI ME SHKU NE SHKOLL DHE ME LEXU PAK. KY NE VIDEO ESHTE SERB THOT QE SHQIPTARET JAN ARAB QE KAN ARDH PREJ LINDJES SE MESME DHE KUR ERDHEN NE EUROPE VJEDHEN GJUHEN NGA SLLAVET. MOS U GZONI ME VIDEO ANTI SHQITARE OH SHQIPTAR TE MJER OH KUKU ZOTI JU NDIHMOFT KY ESHTE SERB

[@parkerburrus289]

Where have you’ve been?

[@aaravos29]

finally somebody who made a really good video on this topic

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

NO NOT FINALLY THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO IS A SERBIAN SERBS ON YOUTBUE MAKE VIDEO CLAIMING ALBANIANS ARE MIDDLE EASTERNERS SO THAT THEY CAN CLAIM OUR LAND. YOU DONT LEARN ABOUT ALBANIAN HISTORY FROM SERBS. LOOK AT THE PICTURES HE USES PICTURES OF ISLAMIZED ARNAUTS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

The Albanians were an Illyrian tribe, from which the Albanians took their early name. They are mentioned for the first time as "Albanoi" in the century. II of our era from Ptolemy, in the area after Dyrrah within the territory previously inhabited by the Parthian tribe. They are thought to be the same tribe, with the new name translated parthinoi = bardhinoi = albanoi. Their main city was Albanopoli, which is thought to be the Zgërdheshi of Kruja. In the central province inhabited by Albanians, toponyms are still preserved that are related to the name of this tribe, such as: Arbana, the bands in the district of Tirana, the Alban spring near the village of Zgërdhesh in the district of Kruja. In the historical sources of the century. XI Albanians are mentioned by Michael Ataliati, the Byzantine historian and writer, during an uprising against Constantinople. In the Middle Ages, Byzantine authors used the term "Albanoi" and "Arbanitai" to identify Albanians. These were the ethnic names of the Albanians in the Middle Ages as evidenced by the fact that they were taken with them by the Albanians in exile in Greece (XIII-XV centuries) in the Arvanite form, while in Italy (XV-XVI centuries) and Dalmatia (XVII century). ) in the form of arbëresh. The Arbs were an Illyrian tribe in Central Albania. thread

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

Illyrians-serbs have the most l2 haplogroup with is native to west balkans.albanians have small percentage of it but a lot greek DNA with is not illyrian

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9w When Slavic invaders came in 7 century in Balkan… they saw indigenous folks who lived by Illyrians… in 11-12 century… Slavic-Serbians started to make a big mass to kill innocent Illyrians… some of them flew to south and some of them are assimilated into Serbian. Albanians ghegs have very high Dinaric more than Serbs. This is fact. While tosk down to south is related to ancient Epirotes but Epirot is connected to Illyrians. Do some research.

[@venomvenom9926]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9w serbs is scityians tribe with polish and hungaryans r1a haplogroup with kazar and gypsy turkmoman uzbek tajik \arya avestan scityians

[@sailircani3185]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9wserbs are a country made of russians ukrainians bulgars romanians albanians and others thats why u get all different dna mean while albanians gets all balkanic dna why we get dna from greek is cos half of greece was albanian dont listen to My Heritage cos it denys the existence of albania

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

No, Albanians are high in J2 marker and Illyrians were not. So there is no real link between Albanians and Illyrians.

[@macfiona4545]

The gene pool has been mixed more on the Proper Albania for the reason of trade. It was easier at that time to travel by see than through the mountains passes.

[@mariosofar7487]

Was the original language that, Homer's: The Odyssey, was written in a form of Albanian? Heard that and then found a video on KZbin about the story that showed artwork of the main character, Odysseus, where he is depicted wearing traditional albanian clothes. Seemed to add evidence to this being the truth. Does anyone know where to get more information on this?

[@ideos5]

assuming that youre questions are not rhetoric and you really want the truth , i will try to the best of my capability to answer you . I hope we will have an honest and civilized dialog with no ethnocentric overtones . Let us then begin with youre first question, was the Homeric odyssey written in some form of Albanian ? The answer is not , the Greek language has being evolving for the last 5.000 years and belongs to a separated branch of the indoeuropean family of languages very much as Albanian is , perhaps 5.000 years a go both of this languages had more similarities than today but, by the time of Homer ( 1.000 bc ) those languages had become irrevocably separated . the fact is that today an educated Greek could read the Iliad or Odyssey and understand every single word , while an Albanian wold be hard pressed to understand a single word ,let alone its meaning ! You are saying ,, people in KZbin say that Odysseus in art work is depicted as he is wearing traditional Albanian clothes !!! But ,, please tell me who are this people ? are they Germans Italians English Greeks French ? No ,,, they are some ethnocentric Albanians spreading unorthodox pseudo history and pseudo linguistics to innocent you tube viewers . To make my point clear ,,, how do this people know how Albanians were dressed 3.000 years a go ? Greeks could tell how Greeks were dressed 4.000 years back, from thousands of archeological finds in amforeus , cups , and wall paintings , could this people produce one single painting of Illyrian origin ? Again ,, the answer is no ,,, the art work they refer to is Greek and it depicts how Greeks were dressed 3.000-4.000 thousand years a go ,,, oh ,,yes ,, i know ,,, they are showing Odysseus wearing a head scalp ( hat ) and because even today in rural Albania they were the same hat they claim Odysseus as Albanian !!! Dont you see how absurd and stupid this is ? About 200 hundred years a go Parisian French invented the paints ( Pantaloon ) ,,, today all Albanian men are wearing paints, but not knowing who invented the paints , are calling the Parisian French Albanians !!! I hope i was of help ,,,,,,, have a good day my friend

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

THIS IS SERBIAN NATIONALIST ANTI ALBANIAN PROPAGANDA. GOD HELP ALBAINAS WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS SERB

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Homeric Greek has no connection with Albanian. Odysseus wearing Albanian clothes???? Really, stop making such dumb statements please.

[@besnikillyrian8520]

​@@ideos5what about changing many authentic homeric verses ??? What about 130 pure albanian words , in gheg dialect , still in homeric poems

[@ideos5]

Pure Albanian words ? And how do you know they are pure ? At the time of Homer there was no Albanians,Gegs,or Tosks . Illyrians lived in whats today is Northern Albania and Montenegro from this Illyrian language only a few words has survived , so,, please tell me how do you know what pure Albanian is ? In all probability this Homeric words you are referring are loan words from Greek and not the other way around, dont forget Greek people were living in south Albania for thousands of years and even the capital city of Albania has a Greek name Tyrana that could be explained in Greek but not in Albanian @@besnikillyrian8520

[@xyiroo]

This Video is very well made and contains alot of information i didnt even know about

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

NO ITS NOT THIS IS SERBIAN ANTI ALBANIAN PROPAGANDA. SERBS ON THE INTERNET PRETEND TO BE ALBANIAN AND MAKE ANTI ALBANIAN VIDEOS THEY MOSTLY GET VIEWS FROM EXTREMELY UNEDUCATED ALBANIANS

[@southepirote7676]

It's anti Albanian propaganda

[@xyiroo]

@@southepirote7676 How bro he explains how we can be from a very old tribe how is this anti albanian lmao

[@southepirote7676]

@@xyiroo He claimed that Albanians are not native in Albania. This guy is a Slav making lies against us. We are south Mediterranean people, not east slav nomads lol.

[@xyiroo]

@@southepirote7676 bro tell me when he said that give me the time and ill watch it because i think i remember him saying that Albanian were either always in that region or migrated and that we are one of old tribes that were in the balkan peninsula and that we were the ones that have a claim to these tribes and that no other country can claim it except albania

[@bfairifudare1964]

This nice educational video is also a perfect example how even a good video needs a professional narration to be complete. It is not enoug just to know the English words and grammar in order to be understood clearly - it is important to pronounce words in a certain way. While this speaker certainly has a good knowledge of English grammar, the way in which he pronounces the words does not make his narration quite clear and certainly not native- sounding.

[@hellenicsouliote5250]

Tell me one nation who teach albanian history!!! And how many people come to YOUR country to visit YOUR ,,old culture,,

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

@@hellenicsouliote5250 You are suliote? Then you aren’t Greek….

[@bfairifudare1964]

​@@hellenicsouliote5250 Nations that teaches our history are Western countries...Eastern countries...Everyone... ANYTIME ANYONE speaks abouy ancient Greece they mwntioned modern Albania simply bcs it was the ancient Greece's northern neighbour. Also, parts of Epirote are now in modern Albania... Also, even in the ancient Greek architecture there is a mention of "northern neighbors" providing engineers and wotkers to build Perthenon...Delphi...etc. And yes, many people visit lands wwhre Albanians live (Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro....)

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

yes every good serbian propaganda anti albanian propaganda the serb who made this every is very smart. but we know who and what he is. everything in this video is anti albanian the person who made this video is not albanian

[@bfairifudare1964]

@@gjergjkastrioti8067 What specificalluy makes you think that?

[@anitalusha8533]

You forgot to mention also, the Ion sea, which in Albanian means, my sea.

[@sarandaa4087]

Good job... but just a suggestion... that symphony music needs to go.. or turn it down a few notches. It gets hard hear to you

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

i got a better suggestion serbians like the guy who made this video should not do this kind of things because it is sick and evil and perverted. the guy who made this video is a serbian nationalist making propaganda videos about albanians claiming we came from africa and that we are not european.

[@AsAbovesobelow952]

Well, there are other qualitative data we can still tap into it, i.e., traditional costumes or the prevalence or rather the lack of endemic diseases, which still would make your point, we came from northern or central balkan, some say that we might be a branch of an ancient proto- romanian language, since the two languages share certain words that their origins dates back before the latinization of the Romanian language. Another interesting fact is that words related to animal husbandry, names of fauna, trees, and flowers are words of proto-albanian origins. And words related to the sea are loan words from Latin and Greek. Which means two things either the proto-Albanians were a sea faring people( if we would accept the Illyrian theory) but due to the invasions of Northern Tribes such as the Goths and later on the southern Slavic waves, the natives moved up to the mountains and lost the sea faring connection. Thus, with the pass of time, those words were lost, or we never were a sea faring people to begin with, but a collection of proto- Balcanic tribes who lived in more elevated areas. Also, the fact that we Albanianians traditionally have low iodine level indicates that we did not live close to the sea which means that especially during the first and second waves of southern slavs, the native folks moved to higher elevated areas. As for Slavic influence in Albania proper, we have a lot of topographic names that are Slavic. It is important to point out that these sites are not founded by the slavs per se, but the locals were influenced phonetically to a certain degree, even though in terms of gastronemy and other traditions it does not seem the case. For example, the ancient city of Berati which is a 2500 years old city, it's name is of Slavic origin, but In terms of ethnicity is made out of Albanians and southern Vlachs, a Romania group who has contributed toward the state-formation of modern day Albania and intersting enough of Modern day Greece as well. It is interesting to point out that at least , folks from proper Albania have politically and commercially had historically limited interactions with our Slavic neighbors. I think it has started to change. I believe that balkan people need to come together for our own greater good. Sure, we will argue about many historical events, but as long as we exchange ideas, goods, and services, we all will gain out of this. I have to say, quite an impressive work you have done. There are many so-called experts out there that have no respect for the science of Albanolgy and just are a bunch of pundits who say outrageous stuff just so they can gain clout and $$$.

[@Dimitrios9393]

I did not know that a country with the name Macedonia existed. Do not spread false information. Learn and study before you make a video.NMK It is a new Slavic country with the name North Macedonia in Balkan (former FYROM and before that Yugoslavia and before Vardaska Banovina- NEVER Macedonia) and not only Macedonia. Only Macedonia is a county in Greece since the ancient time. Megas Alexandros Macedonia have no connection with the NMK. Now....There is no confirmation that Albanians ever called themselves Illyrians. That was something we the Greeks and later Romans called them. Albanians do not call themselves “Albanians” but “Shqipetar”. The Illyrians were not a homogenous nation but rather an exonym describing a very large group of different tribes, inhabiting a vast area. It is one thing to claim that Albanians descend from the ancient Illyrians, which is probably true (leaving beside the fact that there is always some genetic admixture at the very least, there is no such thing as pure blood), and a whole different thing to claim that the Albanians are actually the ancient Illyrians, that they are basically the same people.

[@kingdomofepir9020]

The narrator does injustice to this, very interesting and otherwise, well informed piece.

[@boogiedesignco2217]

Before ı will go to albanian and kosovo this is video learn so light up my culturel background about albanians Thank you :)

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

NOOOOOOOOO DONT GO TO ALBANIA AND KOSOVO WITH HISTORY FROM SERBIAN NATIONALISTS WHO ARE VERY ANTI ALBANIANS AND SPREAD ANTI ALBANIAN PROPAGANDA ON KZbin YOU DONT LEARN HISTORY FROM SERBS ON KZbin. SERBS ARE THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY OF ALBANIANS. THEY CLAIM ALBANIANS ARE ARABS TO THAT THEY CAN CLAIM OUR LAND. IN THE NAME OF GOD DONT GO TO ALBANIA WITH SERBIAN PROPAGANDA BECAUSE YOU MIGHT DIE

[@agron_639]

So you're basically trying to tell us that the heritage of the Albanians is not sure where they came from and there's no evidence that the Albanians are the descendants of the Illyrians even if the definition of ILLYRIA is related from YLLI RI ? But mentioning Greece has for sure not to be forgotten right ? Even if Ancient-Greek has nothing income with Modern-Greece. Peoples from the Balkans all know that the first invaders of the modern Greek Republic came from Bavaria. Even the first Greek national flag contains the Bavarian emblem on it. Search for Otto II from Bavaria and you will start learning Greece history starting 1821 when the Modern-Greece Republic was formed and declared it's independence.

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

NJERI KY ESHTE SERB. SERBIAN NATIONALISTS ON YOTUBE ARE MAKING MANY ANTI ALBANIAN VIDEOS CLAIMING WE ARE ARAB WHO CAME FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. IN ONE PART HE SAYS ALBANIANS WHEN THEY CAME FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TOOK THE LANGUAGE FROM SLAVS.

[@853dlg]

On 2.30 you said "We Albanians are culturally indoeuropean but genetically Neolithic middle eastern" first of all Y dna and autosomal dna are 2 different things, Y dna do not determine how much indoeuropean or neolithic you are but autosomal dna does, autosomally Albanians are roughly 30% steppe derived indoeuropean and %70 neolithic and that is more or less same with other Southern Europeans, Northern Europeans have more indoeuropean dna than Southern Europeans but they also have significant amount of Neolithic dna, we all europeans are of the same stock but the percentages are different. On Y dna the more tests we have the more R1b results comes from Albanians, it increased a lot in the recent years now almost 30% of the Albanian results are R1b and specifically Z-2103 branch of R1b which is direct descendant of the Yamnaya people who are the main source of indo europeans. R1b Albanians are directly connected to Yamnaya but Northern Europeans are of Corded ware descent not directly descendents of Yamnaya. We are linguistically and culturally indoeuropean and genetically mix of indoeuropeans and Anatolian Neolithic farmers or as known as ANE or EEF which means Early European farmers. I really liked your video you were generally objective and informative. By the way speak a little slower bro i had to listen very carefully on some parts :) keep up the good work

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO IS SERBIAN SERBS ON THE INTERNET ARE MAKING A LOT OF VIDEOS CLAIMING ALBANIANS ARE MIDDLE EASTERNERS. THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO IS SERBIAN

[@aegeanenjoyer668]

You got things mixed up a bit. Nobody is culturally Indo-European today if you refer to the Yamnaya and Corded Ware cultures. Genetically Albanians, just like most Mediterraneans, are mostly Anatolian Neolithic with additional Iran Neolithic and Steppe from Yamnaya (and not CWC as you correctly stated). Also ANE are a different group than Yamnaya, they're hunter-gatherers fron 20,000+ years ago. Their connection with Yamnaya is through EHG and CHG, both of which carried ANE ancestry (EHG about 75%, CHG had 10-20% if I'm not mistaken).

[@853dlg]

@@aegeanenjoyer668 i actually said the same thing bro, Albanians are autosomally 70% Neolithic farmers just like other Southern Europeans (northern europeans are almost 50%) but that is not the reason why some people say Albanians are middle eastern, if that was the case all europeans with EEF admixture would be middle eastern, they say Albanians are middle eastern partly because majority of the Albanians are muslim even if they are not really practicing and another reason is because of the abundance of E-v13 on Y dna, people who are ignorant in genetics when they see the E they say ok it is African or middle east, oppositely E-v13 is one of the oldest haplogroups in Europe, yes it did come from Africa initially, we all come from Africa but E-v13 is not an african branch it is a European branch and because of those old genetic results which are not relevant anymore it is portrayed as all Albanians are E-v13 same is being done to many other ethnicities. Yes E-v13 is found a lot on Albanians but so do R1b-z2103 almost as much as E-v13 and there is also j2b I283 Albanians are not only made of E-v13

[@aegeanenjoyer668]

@@853dlg Yeah I get what you're talking about it, I've seen it happening. Truth is, we can't really do anything about that, when someone has a very superficial (or zero) understanding of genetics. It stops over time due to genetic studies being published but never completely, since some will do it on purpose to anger someone they're talking with by shittalking him even if they are aware of the genetic studies. I assume it will go away with time since archaeogenetics become more and more mainstream.

[@lypcizhenaf8988]

@@gjergjkastrioti8067O budall nuk tha qe jem arab, po qe paraardhsit tone para 10.000 viteve kan pas lidhje me njerz nga Turkia, ata nuk jan turk as arab, anatol jon kan. Ju se kuptoni qe para 10.000 viteve ska dal njeri tu fol shqip si sot, ather u kan tjererqysh krejt bota

[@AsAbovesobelow952]

Hi there, I actually wanted to add that there is a project called Rrënjet (roots in english) that is collecting all the data of albanian males(y-haplo group) who have tested themselves using independent labs. The project goal is to create a database large enough so it can give us a picture of who we albanians are. So far at least 1650 samples(which is fairly large for a country of the Albania's size) have been collected and categorized. The results are as follow: 80% of Albanians of Kosovo and 75% of Albanians of proper Albania belong to the following three haplogroups: EV13, J2B-L283, R1B-Z2013 which based on the DNA studies of old Ilyrian tombs found in southern Serbia,Croatia and some Ilyrian tombs in Albania proper, match with these ancient haplogroups. This proves scientifically that over 2/3 of Albanians are natives of western balkans. Secondally, another interesting finding (which technically was known by many) is that Albanians are overall one of the most homogeneous people of europe, meaning that we Albanians can trace our origins from only 20 ilyrian men, who after the collapse of the Roman Empire and the early incoming waves of slavic people; (The illyrian tribes went through a near total population collapse during this time ) Moved up to nearby mountains that we all Albanians can trace our paternal lineage, which is really crazy when you think about it. We can see this phenomena in the DNA data that the Project Rrënja has compiled which shows the Albanians of Kosovo paternal lineage comes from the ilyrian tribes of Dardania and some from the other ilyrian tribes of Mat-Diber region. From these two paternal lineages both regions of modern day Albania and Kosovo were repopulated. This has major implications for it debunks the theory of Serbian academics who during the 20th century made the claim that the Albanians of Kosovo moved from the Alps of Albania to Kosovo where in fact it was the opposite. The Ilyrians of Dardania(today Kosovo) were the ones who repopulated this western balkan region after 7-8th Century AD. Another interesting fact which you pointed out in this video and that the Project Rrënja confirms it as well is that in Albania proper 15% of the Albanians have slavic origins( This is due to the early slavic waves and not due to invasions of the slavic-emperies, i.e., serbian or Bulgarian) As for our southern neighbours, greeks have even a higher % of Slavic DNA than Albanians, up to 25% od the entire population. It is interesting to point out that the Albanians of Kosovo have one of the lowest slavic DNA % in the whole Balkan, prove that your video is based on some real solid research. Still it is not clear why the albanian language lacks words related to the sea, most likely the ilyrians tribes who later underwent the process of Albanization (since there are ilyrian tribes who became slavic or adapted the helenic culture) lost the sea faring conection. Happy New Year!!!

[@highevan]

"As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.

[@southepirote7676]

Lmao, poor Greek nationalist. You will always be Albanian shadow 😢

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 "Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Persians, Chinese and Japanese could be cited as examples of ethnic continuity, since, despite massive cultural changes over the centuries, certain key identifying components-name, language, customs, religious community and territorial association-were broadly maintained and reproduced for millennia.“ Anthony D Smith 2003, Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity, p. 98

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 And the analbanians?! Where are they?! Nowhere to be found! 🤣

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 "It has been reported that at the end of the 20th century some Christian Albanians still used the term "TURK" to refer to Muslim Albanians. " Matvey Lomonosov, "On Albanian Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire", Porta Balkanica, vol. 5, 2013, p.12

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 😂🤣

[@zjarr6279]

Daca Mediterranea is likely where proto-Albanian speech survived and was the lunching point where we came to Albanai. Dardani, Treres, Triballi, Krobyzi, all these tribes seem to have Albanian sounding names. Dardania can simply be named after the feature of the land, where many rivers pour out and flow in every direction (Danube, Adriatic, Aegean), similarly the Dardanell straits can be explained as pouring passage (Mediterranean connects with the Black sea). Triballi, tre val, implying it is bounded by three rivers (Morava, Danube and Iskar). Krobyzi, kryebuza?

[@DinaricUbermensch]

Proto Albanian survived in the remote Dinaric alps which stretches from Croatia all the way down to northern Albania, The three most common Albanian haplogroups have been found in cultures which would later on be called "Illyrian". E1b-L618 which is the father clade of E-V13 was found in Dalmatia, R1b-Z2103 was found in the Vucedol cultural area and J2b2-L283 was found in a proto-Illyrian site in Croatia. Also autosomally Albanians are close to the Neolithic samples from the Balkans

[@user-db8ht2hg9k]

@@DinaricUbermensch Tomorrow is friday ore Turkoalbani ☪️

[@DinaricUbermensch]

@@user-db8ht2hg9k sorry but we are not turks, u prob think all albanians are muslim, i am catholic

[@user-db8ht2hg9k]

@@DinaricUbermensch OK ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qabZh6SgetiKsNE

[@sheep.herder]

@@DinaricUbermensch some wouldn't even know the differences between the same abrahamic sects that also invaded in the name of god. a first gen arab that his wealthy father sent to harvard university, that the ottomons did not bring islam by the sword...no they came bearing sweets and gifts and asked politely, _can we rule you for 500 years_ it is fair to say that abraham would be ashamed of all his sons if he was alive today, but proud of albanians keeping harmony between all religions. let me end this friend: if tomorrow religious wars errupt under the guise of nations, albanians would still be the same towards one another.. the so called leaders of these religions could learn something from the albanians...peetty sure they have their horse blinkers on though aha

[@WesternAmerican2]

I remember when Albanians were dropped from Mars to Earth and straight in Ballkan.

[@Besajone1]

Nice content but the vlice and thw background music...should ve improved aittle...1. Music is a cllasical Waltzer piece, totally not matching the content . Instead you should use some nice anfient-sounding Albanian music. Voice - ok the guy probably has bee living in the U.S. for a while (or in Germany but tries to aound as an American), but the way he pronounces certain words (pronounces them faster and different than than a native english speaker would), immediately reveals that not only the narratornis not a native english speaker, but he also speaks in a way that is often unclear and unnatural.

[@tradingproducts6793]

Hello there Thanks for the information ℹ️ about your origin but please 🥺 to everyone who repeat the word Albania or Albanians or albanoi or arbs the first name ever in your history of the existence as a "first" human race I can say you were and are SKIPER or SHqiptari that means bird of the sky. Pelazog pelazg ipe skipe shqipe it's about eagle 🦅 Ip el a zog = Pelazg as the (i) in Glu/gloss fall down, then from IP it's P. And el/al it's same as il / yll (energji) or 🌟 Then it's what it means and Albanian it's a later so later term of word. Never forgot your roots, Skiptar. Because due to the energy that this word has the Greek changed the place name called SK IP ER they took out the Star or light sound of SK And change the place of these letters IP ER . Energy up means. They took the energy down doing this EPIR. Of course the word changed and disappears thousand of year before you even imagine , nobody know anything what occurred 2000 years before Christ. Then how have been dated before the 2000 years shqip language about your race or history, who knows if they took all your history and manipulated that, I'm sure 100% about it because all Ilíada it's explained only in Shqip language , not at all in greek, as a lot of linguistics and academics even are saying the same about Shqipe and shqipetar. Ipe no o it's pe. Ipe. Hipe like hypertension or hypermarket... Means higher or bigger I think hip/hyp as my teacher said in his videos. My teacher is an intelligent Austrian linguistic and he shows me also another thing thats not public or known even today , the embrio Morphems that only the shqip language can develop those it's by fusion of Morphems that are formed the words of all IE languages origin. No other language in the world. Because only shqip it's the main frecuency of the sounds and can explain it with the GJU even it's never studied scientifically GJU, there it is, and GLU it's the Geg, that it's considered the human communication methodology. Then, here you have more information from a new student of Albanian language but I prefer the name Shqip language. All white race comes from SKiper. One day the true history will explode to the pression of the time.

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

the person who made this video is a anti albanian sebrian nationalist who claims albanias come from the middle east. dont be fooled serbians nationalists have been pretending to be albanian and make youtube anti albanian videos. nothing in this video is true we did not come from the middle east. this is a serbian lie this video is anti albanian propaganda from serbs

[@Secular_Iran_GE]

wow glad to hear that from Iran

[@hkrasniqi]

Interesting content bur just a small advice... please speak slower because I can barely understand what you are saying during your reading.

[@spaghettiking7312]

I ask myself this everyday.

[@yvunglouis1839]

Great analysis

[@valihoxha4722]

Good Job👍🏻

[@totoal9068]

The truth is that we have lived in our lands since the creation of humanity, the truth is known but the anti-Albanians manipulated it, we are Pelasgians, Illyrians, Albanians, we defended this Europe from the Slavs, the Turks, the Persians, the thirst, and this Europe stole us, divided us and assimilated us. with the Slavs with the Greeks, but we are still though in a small territory and we will be until the end of humanity whether you like it or not…

[@enisi91]

Respekte 🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@adamdemirs3466]

Id like to know about the people from Corce Koritza. My grandfather was from there. Surname Demir.

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

You are not illyrians.you dont have l2 haplogroup.albanians have high greek DNA with is not illyrian

[@totoal9068]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9w po kari po

[@infucktus4899]

@@user-ci7vu7eo9w vlla 😑

[@Sleader134]

Something I've found very peculiar about these new theories of the origins of the Albanians is that they, otoh, say the Illyrian theory lacks evidence, only to propose a theory that lacks even more evidence. These include the Dardanian, the Carpathian and the Trojan theories. All of which are related proposals for the origin of the Albanians and all of which are based on extremely speculative linguistic arguments. It is assumed f.e. that because South Slavs adopted the names of certain placenames according to Albanian pronunciation, but not elsewhere, is an indicator of the place of Albanian origin. Meaning that somehow Albanians lived in Shtip, the Sharr Mountains and Nish...but not in Skopje, situated right between all of these places. It's hard to know exactly why the Slavs adopted the names of these places like they did, but it's hardly a good indicator of Albanian origin, especially because this theory excludes Albania itself as such a place in a very arbitrary manner. Extremely speculative. Moreover, think about blatantly stupid assumptions in Albanology that the Albanian pronounciation of such placenames developed from the Latin and Greek, when it could very well be that the ancestors of the Albanians always pronounced them as Nish or Shkodër and so on. Latin and Greek didn't have the /sh/ sound, so of course they wouldn't have written it down that way. Then it is assumed that because Albanian maritime vocabulary is heavily influenced by Latin that they couldn't have lived near the coast, when that's exactly where you'd expect that they'd be in contact to be exposed to these Latin maritime terms. Does the lack of native Iberian and Gaulic maritime vocabulary in Spanish, Portuguese and French indicate that native Iberians and Gauls didn't even know what a coastline is until the Romans taught them? Are we seriously to believe that the Latin and French influence on English maritime terminology indicates that the English didn't live near coasts? Stupid assumptions. Lastly, I know you are grasping for straws when you use these genetic arguments, because Thracians haven't been sampled to say that E-V13 is a Thracian haplogroup (and haplogroups do not belong to ethnicities). In fact, the oldest samples of E-V13, and the highest diversity, seem to have been in Pannonia. We've also found all of the ancestor clades of the three modern Albanian haplogroups in bronze-to-iron age Croatia.

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO IS SERBIAN SERBS ARE MAKING A LOT OF VIDEOS ON KZbin ABOUT ALBANIAN HISTORY AND ORIGINS CLAIMING ALBAINANS ARE ARABS THAT CAME FROM THE MIDDLE EAST 3000 YEARS AGO TO STEAL SERBIAN LAND. WAKE UP ALBANIANS THIS VIDEO IS ANTI ALBANIAN PROPAGANDA

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Albanians can't be related to Illyrians since Albanians have too high a J2 haplogroup which was not a characteristic of Illyrians. Another oddity is that the Albanian language has similarities with Romanian. The Illyrian language connection has been trashed by linguists. The high J2 frequency amongst Albanians with the expected 10 to 1 or so ratio between J2 and J1, is dissimilar from northwestern Balkan populations. Past studies have shown however, that J2b is dominant in Albanian, rather than J2a. So there is no connection with Illyrians who were not of J2 lineage

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Albanians as a whole have abundance of all the typical Mediterranean Neolithic lineages, except G: J2b, E1b1b1 and I. Again, characteristics lacking in Illyrians.

[@Sleader134]

@@rafaellagaribaldi9391 None of this is true and doesn't even acknowledge bottleneck effects and such. And that's all I'll say. I don't care what women think.

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

@@Sleader134 Its all true, Illyrians were a northern people related to Celts, while Albanians have southern neolithic lineages of haplogroups.

[@NS-mz8gq]

The mountains are the reason why the ilirians survived from all the different peoples trying to conquer them.Being so close to the Greeks and south Italians shows in the genetics

[@Karadaklija2004]

this is bs, we descent from the abroi tribe in north albania which is also known as albani. even the name is similar to the old name albanians referred to themselves which is arbanit/arbereshe

[@sumax-nz1je]

We have many paleobalcanic words with romanians we arent sea people we decend from Dardania look Dushmani tribe

[@venomvenom9926]

@@sumax-nz1je greek is sea peoples greco iranic semitic hitite mitani mix tribe phoenicians rumunii is vlah sheperd macedons alexander father was greek philip the second hes mother was albanians macedons is stole history of greek

[@venomvenom9926]

@@sumax-nz1je etruscans was phonecians sanskrit farsy parthians frigians hitite mitani was father of scityians and celtic tribe galatyans or kazar gypsy tribe estern iranic jews asiatics

[@southepirote7676]

@@sumax-nz1je Albanians are sea people. Maloks maybe not

[@southepirote7676]

@@venomvenom9926 Albanians are sea people. Greeks and Maloks are not sea people. Greeks and Maloks are slav people.

[@liltachanka9913]

This was a great video, very objective and respectful to the current events, however be careful with the wording of paleo-balkanic, the Albanian language and culture is an undisputed Indo-European language, the term paleo-balckanic refers to a people who pre-dates the Indo-European westward migrations, they were people who were more likely related to the Etruscans and modern day Basque people.

[@armentajredini7434]

Albanian were Etruscans now days toske THEY ARE THE ONLY ONE TRANSLATING ETRUSCANS LANGUAGE THEY WERE ILLYRIAN WARRIORS. The time line matches with old illyrian warriors and equipment

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

Paleo- balkans have l2 group.albanians have it very little.but have greek a lot

[@One-IronOX]

You are actually wrong here. Paleo-Balkanic languages is a grouping of various extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans in acient times. Greek as a descendant of a Paleo-Balkanic language (Hellenic). Another example would be, as in the video stated, the proto-Albanian language from which modern Albanian developed from.

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Interesting you should say that. Greeks cluster with Tuscans AND Basques. Ayub et al determined that Greeks cluster genetically with other south European populations (Like Italians) and are close to Basques in the phylogenetic tree. Chao Tian et al clustered Greeks with Tuscans and southern Italians with a genetic distance of 0.0005 and 0.0001 respectively, indicating that southern ITalians are little more than latin speaking Greeks.

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

@@armentajredini7434

[@haristhebosniaklion8584]

We Bosniaks ,most of us,love Albania and Albanians. Kosovo is not Serbia.Sadly thousands of our Bosniak women and young girls suffered during the aggression ,(RAPED In Brutal Ways).We should be little devils also back then and stretched out Serbian women and girls but there is always time for that in the other round ( if it comes to it ).Srebrenica was also very sad and a war crime against us Bosnian Muslims.

[@arandomdudehere1370]

Very good video

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

In the history of the peoples of Europe, it is difficult to find any people who have been the object of national oppression such as the Albanian people, who live in their autochthonous lands in Kosovo and elsewhere. The most drastic means, except oppression, terror, violence, physical liquidation, etc. there was also ethnic cleansing of Albanian lands and colonization with the Serbian element. Thus, Kosovo, although an ethnic territory of the Albanians, was constantly confronted with the claims of the Serbian government for colonization and thus forcibly changed the structure of the population that would then lead to the Slavization and gradual merging of the indigenous Albanian people. Throughout history, Serbia used all models of colonization of Albanian lands, especially Kosovo, which is also the subject of treatment in this paper. The colonization of lands in Kosovo is a process that the main goal of all Serbian and then Yugoslav politics and military machinery, in all periods of time, has been the Slavization of Kosovo. Meanwhile, throughout history there have been oscillations, sometimes slowing down and sometimes rapid acceleration of the colonization process, which depended on the political, economic and social circumstances that were

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

@@nebi923 Dear Kosovo, it has received some Serbian names from Serbia because you conquered Juna, we became your slaves as conquered, we were from you, so there were Serbian names in Daradan, but there are not only Serbian names, but there are also Turkish-Montenegrin names, Bulgarian names, Byzantine names occupied us because ruled masculine therefore the names have gelur o friend

[@meshari-sx7gg]

@@nebi923 when you got under Danube river in the 6th century, who did you find there living? Since then you have been slayering, burning, killing, torturing the illyrian bloodline...

[@avruvimtu2204]

@@meshari-sx7gg Glad you slaughtered the hounds of Greco-levantines back.

[@DJ-st4rs]

@@meshari-sx7gg 6th century Albanians are not the same as the Albanians after the Ottoman conquest, most albanians today are really left over Turkish people from the Ottoman empire which bred out the native European hence why it was always backward.

[@meshari-sx7gg]

@@DJ-st4rs :/ don't worry... we are going to be fine as long as we preserve the wild Gegë

[@highevan]

"We KNOW TOO LITTLE about the Illyrian language TO PROVE A CONNECTION linguistically, and THIS IS A CRUCIAL DEFICIT." "It is virtually impossible to see through the various strata in the Albanian language to discover any particular ancient ethnic origin." "As has been noted above, the first millennium of Albanian history had little to do with the Albanian peoples themselves. As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.

[@southepirote7676]

Albanians have always been in antiquity under the name as Pelasgian whereas Greeks emerged only in medieval times.

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 "As an ethnic group, the Albanians first emerged from the mists of history in the early years of the second millennium A.D." Robert Elsie, Keeping an Eye on the Albanians: Selected Writings in the Field of Albanian Studies, 2015, p. 11-40.

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 "The “Pelasgian theory” was formulated, according to which the Greek and Albanian languages were claimed to have a common origin in Pelasgian, the Albanians themselves are Pelasgians... Needless to say, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to support any of these theories." Peter Mackridge. "Aspects of language and identity in the Greek peninsula since the eighteenth century."Newsletter of the Society Farsarotul, Vol, XXI & XXII, Issues 1 & 2. Retrieved 2 February 2014

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 🤣

[@highevan]

@@southepirote7676 "Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Persians, Chinese and Japanese could be cited as examples of ethnic continuity, since, despite massive cultural changes over the centuries, certain key identifying components-name, language, customs, religious community and territorial association-were broadly maintained and reproduced for millennia.“ Anthony D Smith 2003, Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity, p. 98

[@mandrinvuthaj4543]

There is only one problem with your theory as for the Albanians of Kosovo can not trace the history of there families more than several generations in those lands . According to there’s last names such as krasniqi, bearisha, hoti,kelmendi .

[@orestisaretos3869]

hahah good one

[@vangelisskia214]

"The “Pelasgian theory” was formulated, according to which the Greek and Albanian languages were claimed to have a common origin in Pelasgian, the Albanians themselves are Pelasgians... Needless to say, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to support any of these theories." Peter Mackridge. "Aspects of language and identity in the Greek peninsula since the eighteenth century."Newsletter of the Society Farsarotul, Vol, XXI & XXII, Issues 1 & 2. Retrieved 2 February 2014

[@nmesterritshqip1621]

I think that you repeat like a parrot what you find from those, whom I call pseudo-historians and pseudo-linguists. The Albanian language has 25,000 monosyllabic words in its lexicon. When we form a new word to name a phenomenon or toponym, they join and create a new word which is actually a sentence which clearly shows us the function of the object we name or the toponym. Example: Dardanelles = dar d an e le. Split in two when you leave. All the toponymy of Europe before Christ has meaning only in the Albanian language. I do not claim that they were named by the Albanians (because history is a total darkness) but the Albanian language preserves the oldest form of the Indo-European bed. So as long as it has been preserved and not assimilated, it means that it was a language used by a people who had a dominant role in the Balkans. being the first to name the toponym means that you are there for a time that even history itself cannot. that's enough and no one can reject you. What is written on paper today by pseudo-historians and pseudo-linguists are just ridiculous interests for me. I have collected more than 560 toponyms throughout Europe that are clearly understood in the Albanian language and I am not even a linguist. that was the whole truth.

[@meshari-sx7gg]

Truth will prevail! Very soon! Albanian language is the key! Zgjohuni, shkollohuni, VEPRONI! ❤️🖤🕊️

[@pompiuspilatus6411]

You bringing linguistics to this subject is a joke. Linguistics is the biggest bullshit theories I have ever heard. To educate yourself properly please study the University Of Michigan 2013 anthology on albanian language. Everything else is nationalist propaganda.

[@meshari-sx7gg]

@@pompiuspilatus6411 if you only knew albanian :) you'd never make nonsense statements like this ;)

[@pompiuspilatus6411]

@@meshari-sx7gg Where is the nonsense? Come show me proof and prove me wrong. I think you are a nationalist propaganda troll with 0 historical evidence who comments on everything thats not propaganda.

[@nmesterritshqip1621]

@@pompiuspilatus6411 I didn't write this for you who find things funny that you don't know. I have in my library almost every language book since 1700. 1) I am not suggesting anything to you because you seem to know nothing in this area. 2) and most importantly, you do not know the Albanian language at all. So have fun tonight and study (stu - dy) translation "add knowledge"

[@goat1521]

why did such an old nation not have a kingdom in the time of ancient Greece and after Rome .. why is their history hidden and written only until 1912?

[@mendjelire8392]

The proto-Albanian theory does not stand because we have evidence of Albanian language being spoken (as the stone writings in the area testify) by the Messapian who migrated from the region of today's Korca into the south-western Italic peninsula and that happened about 3000 years ago, much earlier than the Romans appeared in the Illyrian peninsula. Before the Romans most population moves were from Balkan towards Italy due to pressures from the east. In my opinion, all three theories are true, hence the complex DNA. There is something to be analyzed about Latin and Greek loaning or borrowing from Albanian. What is Latin, how did it get formed, who were the populations who contributed to it? Be careful with following what western widely accepted concepts are. There is much propaganda and arrogance in them. In my opinion there are many Latin words that clearly seem to be nothing else but Albanian short sentences. Some words are short and very similar but they can only be explained in Albanian. Of course the Romans were not one ethnically pure population, they were an empire and as such their population grew by many ethnic groups via migration, slavery, enrollment in military etc. Latin as a language had no choice but to grow through the same process. Just like English has done more recently. When Italy was united by Garibaldi there were still many languages spoken in the peninsula that were very different from Italian. Languages borrow words as synonyms for sure but mostly they borrow words to reflect new concepts that do not exist in the borrowing culture.

[@servetdishi8646]

THIS DESCRIBE IS NOT CLEAR. NOWDAYS ALL ALBANIANS HAVE THE NAMES OF ILLYRIANS . LIKE BATO TAULANT ARDIAN LIBURN DARDAN KAON TEUTA AGRON GENT THIS TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE ILLYRIAN HERITAGE BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR FATHERS WHY SERBS AND GREEKS HAVENT THIS NAMES THE ANSWER IS CLEAR ILLYRIAN ARENT THEIRS FATHERS ONLY OURS ISNT POSSIBLE A NORVEGIAN TO CALL OLD NAME HASAN BECAUSE THEY HAVE ODIN OR OTHER OLD NAMES.

[@bariuslippius]

oi oi bro chiiiiill we get that you need to find your identity but like relax ning depends on many facotrs especially religion, cmon you guys are like 50% muslim, so many of you are named according to your religion like mustafa, ali and some of you not

[@nmesterritshqip1621]

@@bariuslippius you are right, you who call yourself Greek today have solved the riddle. You are all Albanians alienated from the Koion language of the church which was voted by manipulated Albanians. So you are the newest and most spectacular creation that has ever happened in the history of planet earth. so you are the only one who has solved the riddle of the origin

[@Enis617]

@@bariuslippius cap what that guy said is 100% true.

[@robertolang9684]

agroantonious is a iber name , it proves the iber colonized all europe egypt to baluchistan , the aryan race

[@jbdbcication1037]

Show me an ancient albanian relic or a document.

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

Or any written document before 1450 Or any archeological places in today Albania.. All are from Greeks and Romans

[@avnishala1857]

Simple. They were destroyed by invaders/enemies. Have you seen ISIS detroying artifacts, and other cultural creations.

[@Johnny-pk3iq]

@@avnishala1857 what you.. Mean that all archeological plqces frrom illyrian.. Had destroyed.. 😂 😂 😂??

[@Rus_and_NATO_Slayer]

@@avnishala1857 🤡💩😂😂😂

[@dhimitrimetaj4522]

Ata qe nuk shkruajne drejt gjuhen Shqipe , me mire te mos komentojne fare. Nje vrejteje per folesin....fol me ngadale dhe qarte. .nder te tjerat pergezime....

[@user-db8ht2hg9k]

Your name is GREEK....DIMITRIS 🦅🇬🇷🦅💪🏻

[@dhimitrimetaj4522]

@@user-db8ht2hg9k sosta ...etsi me vaftisane stin Hellas. To sevome Kai to timo... Esena pos se lene?

[@greatalexander404]

@@user-db8ht2hg9k NO NAME IS ORTODOKSIS NO GREEKS

[@user-db8ht2hg9k]

@@greatalexander404 Selam Alban Koran Islam Ramadan Erdogan Mohammed Mosque Hassan

[@harmonious0803]

Koherenca jote zero me xhufkë!

[@albertkalaja5236]

great content - delivered too quickly.

[@muhamedshaini4386]

The English subtitles are cursed don't turn them on

[@mikeny5020]

What the hell this guy talks so fast blabla

[@illyrianalbanesi2692]

Kosove its DARDANIA illyrian its albanian popel

[@ujkunatesmezanatemaleve7376]

this chanell deserve 100m abo

[@daku088]

How the E-V13 and J2b Albanian didn't speak any language? We just borrowed words from Greeks ! Albanian are, Pellasgian E-V13 + J2b and later mix with north invasion mostly celt R1b, some I plus some left over R1a. I am pretty sure the Dorian are E-V13 who came from north and still there in Peloponnese .Gegs from Kosova now days 45% are E-V13. "E tan e epi tas" you must know Albanian to translate this Spartan saying to greek.

[@dadatoto7371]

RESPEKTE🌠🇦🇱🌠

[@dikdiku5184]

Ne te pakte jemi por kemi histori te pa zbuluar akoma. Jemi popull indereuropeo jemi te vjeter ne trojet tona. Europa na ka ber keshtu na ndau ne tre pjes ku fqinjet tan moren tokat e shqiperis si greku si serbi si maqedonia. Por nje dit do dali e verteta dhe tokat doti ven atyre qeu takon brez pas brezi. 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@erjonandreanikolli4903]

Nuk ka shtet te lasht shqiptarë se pse po ishim si Greqia do ishim pjes e BEs nga viti 1990 jemi arnaut shumica dhe ruman nuk ka emer shqiptarë thanas ose xhengo jan rumun emer hasan turk.

[@southepirote7676]

@@erjonandreanikolli4903 Greqia eshte toke Shqiptare nen sundimin anglez

[@takukoka5420]

@@erjonandreanikolli4903 kush te tha ty je historian ti shko re hap libra .

[@isiqershori9070]

@@erjonandreanikolli4903Dua te kuptosh qe te lashtet nuk besonin ne fe por ne diell, natyre, deti etj . Fakti qe shumica jane musliman nuk na ben qe te mos jemi pellazge, sepse e njejta veretje vlen dhe per orthodokset dhe katoliket. Greqi eshte ne BE per shkak te fese qe europa eshte kristiane! Kaq

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

The Illyrians, as heirs of the Pelasgians, are among the most ancient inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula. They are indigenous. The culture, language and anthropological features were formed by the Illyrians in their country, in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, where ancient writers mention them in their works. The territories of the Illyrian population are quite wide; they cover the whole western part of the Peninsula, in the north, up to the bay of Ambrakia (Preveza), in the south, and in the east to the lands around Lake Lyhind (Lake Ohrid). Separate Illyrian groups also settled in southern Italy. The name ILIR appears in ancient works since the century. V.p.K., while the names of some Illyrian tribes begin to be mentioned in the century. XII p.K. by Homer. But the time of formation of the Illyrian ethnos is very ancient. The beginnings of Illyrian origin are from the middle of the second millennium BC, from the Middle Bronze Age, when the Illyrian ethnic features begin to form. In the Iron Age (last millennium BC) the Illyrians were fully formed, inheriting from the earliest Eneolithic and Bronze Ages cultural linguistic and anthropological ethnic features.

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Pelasgians were a people indigenous to the Aegean basin and the earliest neolithic ancestors of the Greeks. Minans were of Pelasgian origin.

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

@@rafaellagaribaldi9391 where the emery has existed. Greek. Deceive. this much. that you are a thief and the Greek women of today have DNA. Albanians of their origin are Albanian and they are the majority. local in their ethnic lands Byzantine Romans from the conquest of their city by the Turkic Mongols. which today is called Istanbul, they flocked from the Arberian Albanian lands, massacring the local Arberites. today it is called Greece, your history was stolen from Albania. and your lands are in today's Istanbul. and it is true that today's Greeks. they are the descendants of the Pelagians of the Illyrians. Their DNA of origin is Albanian. the Russian Slavs also have the same story when they came to the lands of the Serbian emirate. those Dardanian lands. it's not gezistonqe today it's called beograda or serbia gypsy race have red. stolen every Kosovo gang. Don't let our story trick you. it is as ancient as our earth itself..

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

@@emanuelhalilaj5164 As I said, the Pelasgians were a people indigenous to the Aegean basin and the earliest neolithic ancestors of the Greeks. Minoans were of Pelasgian origin as were the early inhabitants of Greece and the Aegean basin before the arrival of the proto-Greeks. So Pelasgians were the earliest ancestor of the Greeks. Reply

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

@@rafaellagaribaldi9391 ok, i understood you. but the Greek name in those lands of today, did not exegete. because it is the land of the Arbers, i.e. (Albanians). occupied. from the Byzantine Romans and the Hellenic colonies, which today is called, today's Greece there. it was the Illyrian empire. King Mbardhyle and the queen, Teuta and his brother. the taulanti, who escaped from the empire. when the King turned blue, the war took place. unlike Alexander the Great, he also fled to Italy, I did not deny that Greece, today, are not the descendants of the Illyrian Pelasgians, (but that land, there is Arbero land occupied by the colonists, the Hellenes, which had the Byzantine Romans, in the emperor Theirs.

[@emanuelhalilaj5164]

@@rafaellagaribaldi9391 but what about you, we Albanians, what are we? We are not descendants of the Illyrians, because the Serbs say that we Albanians are immigrants here, but you Greeks have this opinion like the Serbs about us Albanians, that in fact In the history of the Balkans, the stories of different nations and ethnicities have overlapped in an incredible way. A greater push towards this stifling ethnic confusion was the 500-year Turkish occupation, for the Ottoman invaders played the role of a cauldron-mixer of the Balkan peoples so badly that even today it is very difficult to find where an ethnically pure people begins and where the other ends.

[@nycopperwarrior9734]

I love your narration but you got to slow down your words bro

[@chrisnewbury3793]

It's like he's trying to speed-read

[@DRGBTL23]

The sun is warmer in Albania. That’s a fact.

[@hellenicsouliote5250]

HOW MANY TOURISTS COME TO ALBANIA TO VISIT YOUR ,,OLD CULTURE,, AND HOW MANY COME IN GREECE 💪🏻🇬🇷💙

[@venomvenom9926]

greek is greco bactrians persians iranic

[@hellenicsouliote5250]

@@venomvenom9926 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3zPiHmQm9Z5i9E 🇮🇷🧕🇹🇷🧕🏽🇦🇱🧕🏻🤣👍🏻

[@meshari-sx7gg]

You should thank Albanians that Greece exists :) Marko Boçari me shokë ta ka ba Greqinë injorant.The truth is coming up slowly ;)

[@qerqiztopulli1708]

Souliote grek hahahhaha.

[@hellenicsouliote5250]

@@meshari-sx7gg You should thank GREEKS that Chameria no more exists RROFT MARKOS BOTSARIS who punished your ancestors in ARTA SOULI PETA MESSOLONGHI & KARPENISI

[@hshdjdjsjjsjs6075]

My theory is that We were Illyrians but then the other Illyrian Tribes got assimilated to Slavic culture and then the Albani Tribe was the name for all Illyrians

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS VIDEO IS SERBIAN THIS VIDEO IS SERBIAN ANTI ALBANIAN PROPAGANDA. YOU DONT LEARN HISTORY FROM SERBIAN NATIONALISTS

[@hshdjdjsjjsjs6075]

@@gjergjkastrioti8067 how do you know it’s an Serb ?

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

@@hshdjdjsjjsjs6075 i read albanian history from real historian like mathieu aref, fahri xharra and others. what this person in the video is saying is totally untrue everything every word

[@hshdjdjsjjsjs6075]

@@gjergjkastrioti8067 i agree it is fake we are Illyrian not some stupid Turkic tribe migrating from Asia we’re as ancient as Europe itself

[@gjergjkastrioti8067]

@@hshdjdjsjjsjs6075we are autochthonous. serbs are jealous because they originally come from kazakhstan. serbs came to balkans in the 8th century. so the put out anti albanian propaganda on youtube video after video talking about albanians origins saying we come from the middle east. these people are sick minded perverts spreading lies. im more shocked about the stupid uneducated mentally ill albanians who actually believe this shti this anti albanian shit. if it wasnt for turkey and rusia serbia would not exist. they make youtube accounts and tell albanians that they are arabs while they steal our land our traditional clothing our lahuta our churches.. he says in the video albanian came 3000 years ago but the vinca-dardanian civilizations are from 6000-9000 years old. they are trying to steal everything that belongs to us

[@saz1935]

You speak too fast that is hard to catchup

[@bfairifudare1964]

@Encyclopedia Albanica, I would suggest you use the term Ethnic Albanian bcs saying just Albanian unfortunately implies a citizen of the country Albania, which automatically excludes the Albanians from Kosovo, people whose merits a d contributions to the e tire ethnic Albanian culture immediately are attributed to the country of Albanian, or perceiving Kosovo as a province of Albania, which it is not. Kosovo Albanians are Albanians in the ethnic sense, BUT they did not come to Kosovo from Albanian and they are seemingly different from Albanians from the state of Albania. They are a separate nation. So, Mr. Qendrim Thawi (the creator of first ethnic Albanian supercar), the American pop si ger GASHI, Dua Lipa, Rita Ora, Era and Nora Istrefi, Dhurata Dora, Bekim Fehmiu, Faruk Begolli, Aziz Salihu, Olympic medal winners in Judo - Majlinda Kelmendi, Nora Gjakova, Akol Gjakova, etc rtc etc ARE NOT from Albanian and HAVE NOTHING to do with the country of Albania except for the common ethnic origin!!!!!

[@uhmlellesn6766]

Shoko në banj të të apen syt jemi popull të na diskutosh ti sa tvjetër jemi më tvjetrit të parit të njerzimit ti ke dyshim emos bëj vidjo po ke dyshim se na ka bekuar zoti se robi sna do na do zoti na ka bekuar👍

[@myzaferxhepmeta1080]

You are calling the oldest language in the world is latin and greec, that’s not true, do you know why, because the old greec and latin language has died because they didn’t resist but the old Albania language still exists and spoken today, that’s mean we are the oldest people in Europe 🙏🇦🇱🌎🇦🇱🦅

[@jorham1]

the modern standard albanian spoken in albania now is a completely fabricated language. it's fabricated in 1908 importing 10000000 italian words . there is no ancient albanian because noboty wrote it

[@chamberv5261]

Boll e mos na turpëroni. Sumerët dhe Egjiptjanët kanë kultura shumë me të vjetra nga qytetërimi Europian. Njerëzimi vet, i njohur si homo sapiens sapiens ka evoluar nga terreni i Sudanit të sotëm. Çka dua të them esthë qe këto teori nacionaliste jo vetëm nuk janë të bazuara në fakte por gjithashtu shkaktojnë dem në zhvilimin e Shqipëtareve e të Shqipërisë. Le të jemi krenarë me historinë dhe kulturën tonë e të shikojmë përpara.

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

Vlla… mos tepro. Sjemi mat vjeter nbot.

[@hellenicsouliote5250]

Look your turkish name ( Safer ) and than talk about history & culture 🤣

[@Zatara023]

😂so much complex

[@user-zr2lw1sc3k]

These are just theories and guesses. History says that you are originally from the Caucasus and that you are related to Azerbaijan.

[@bfairifudare1964]

Not all Albanians claim univocally that Albanians originate from Illyrians. What most Albanians are aware of is that the Albanian language is obviously paleo-Balkaniv (or pre-slavic), made up of Proto-Albanian words ( that are most closely related to the Proto-Indo-European - a languahe that ALL European languages stem from - except from Hungarian and Finnish), and the rest pf the Albanian language comprises of ancient Greek (Doric dialect) and Latin (again, both pre-slavic). In addition, traditional Albanian cultural identity still to date is made up of pre-slavic Balkan cultural elements, such as the traditional Albanian folk costumes and dresses (white with thin black lines - just like the dresses on Emperor Justinian and other. Byzantine figures,, Oddyseus on Riman Frescoes, etc.) and the famout white Albanian scull cap called Plis , identical with ancient Pilos….also, concentric circles and zig-zag patterns on traditional Albanian clothing which are found on both Roman and Greek clothing but not on slavic…..

[@ervin7muskaj496]

we are epiriot we are dardan we are ilir = free we are pelasgian= shpelasgian = human of the cave

[@user-db8ht2hg9k]

You are not Epirote you are only Albani ask Napoleon Zervas !!!

[@derauserwahlte5402]

@@user-db8ht2hg9k Balli Kombetar fucked him lol

[@jorham1]

bullshits...you are nothing

[@greatalexander404]

@@user-db8ht2hg9k XA XA XA XA EISAI POLU MALAKAS GAMIMENOS !OLOKLIPO EPIRO EINAI 100% ILIRIKO ALBANIKO !PREPO NA GAMITHIS STO KOLO DINATA JIA NA KATALABEIS !👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🙋‍♂️

[@ledionsyla7906]

@@user-db8ht2hg9k Zervas was Albanian himself he was Arvanites from Arta!!!

[@Nbazigos]

My friends apart of all the theories, where provide political propaganda, the truth is that greek and Latin tribes live together in balcan and Italian peninsula for thousands years. Thracians, Dacians, Vlachs and Albanians, Greeks were lived outside of Polis system, had similar cultural system.The blood haven't borders. The only difference is the choice of language and the religion.

[@jairoquintanilla9357]

This video has something that makes it difficult to follow, and that's the speaker's voice, obviously he never had take a damn eng pronunciation class!😂😂😂

[@jessereichbach588]

Yup. Think we can safely say, the majority of people living in the Balkans are descended from Illyrians, Thracians, Slavs, Hellenes, Celts, Romans, Ottoman's no doubt. All in different proportion of course but not the less. Northern Illyrian tribes liek Dalmatae and Panonai were known to have been "Celiticized" culturally, just not linguistically, which makes sense considering the geographic surroundings and the Celtic presence throughout the Alps and Austria, Northern Italy etc. And likely genetically as well, which we can see a bit in the genetic makeup of the Northern Balkans. Southern Illyrians were likely closer to Hellenes. Some suggest that the ancient Albanian ancestors are indistinguishable from ancient Greeks really. And that it's not just Thracian and Illyrian combining, but all the Greeks and Macedonians on the fringes, and the Illyrians and Thracians in the region, all combining to form what are now both Albanians and Greeks, since they are, really, genetically very similar. Like as similar as Croats and Slovenes, in ancestry. The Balkans were pretty much the Europe's "drain" into the Mediterranean. Well really, the Adriatic, including Italy, and the Balkans/West Anatolia. All tribes converged on that region consistently for thousands of years. Italics, Germanics, Celts, Slavs, eventually, the Norse and "Normans" made it there as well. Which is I think why Italy and the Balkans are where most of the recorded history come from too. Anyway, it's interesting that generally, mainland Balkan populations are closer to one another than say Greek mainlanders to Greek Islanders, and Croat mainlanders to island and Coastal Croats. Showing far more ancestral homogenization the further central in the peninsula. Which makes sense, and that was likely always the case. And it can be seen in the genetic makeup of the modern Balkans really. With Albanians and Greeks being shifted more towards the Mediterranean and Near East and Croats, Slovenes being a bit closer to Czechs, Poles, Austrians. But they all have the same components just different proportions. Coastal Croats tend to be closer to Peloponnesian and Italian populations, likely due to the Greek and Roman presence. While Island Greeks are closer to Italians and Arbaresh actually, than Arbaresh are to Balkan Albanians. At least from what I've read. But that makes sense too considering the amount of time they've been living in Italy. And Western Turks too, basically a Balkan branch population, with a little more Near Eastern flair. But within close genetic proximity.

[@NS-mz8gq]

Any dna dug up by Serbian government will not be shared with the rest of the world,but dna technology is getting better and with more interest in this field and not so much reliant on promiscuous fable’s

[@haristhebosniaklion8584]

I admit I am horny a lot and do think of Serbian women and girls,(❤️❤️)but you see ,it’s human nature ,and I was called ugly so many times when it’s not my fault ,mostly by Bosniak girls ,who were so mean to me,and I will remind you that only thousands of them were RAPED in very brutal ways in Bosnia during that aggression against us,Bosniaks .If I don’t deserve some after all my sufferings,then I don’t know who does.Justice for me and all victims of any injustice and some love for us is what I want baby..

[@bulqizafotovideo8602]

🇦🇱🤝🇽🇰🇦🇱👍🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@rafaellagaribaldi9391]

Albanians do not have the genetics associated with Illyrians. Albanians are closer to the genetics of the Greeks in that they have the mediteranean haplogroups. Albanians are genetically descended from Paeonians and Dardanians. Albanian homeland is not present day Albania. Ancestors of the Albanians came from the north, beyond the Jireck line. Paeonians were possibly of Greek stock it is believed by scholars which explains the connection between Albanians and Greeks.

[@southepirote7676]

Source: nationalist Greek propaganda

[@southepirote7676]

You are trying to say Albanians are not native in Albania. Our neighbors are ridiculous 😂

[@southepirote7676]

Greeks are not even Mediterranean but rather are slavic. Greeks are blonde and blue eyed.

[@southepirote7676]

According to genetics, Greeks are a heavy mix of various races ethnic groups such as Albanians, Turkish, Slavic and Persian.

[@southepirote7676]

Greeks homeland is not present day Greece but is rather further north beyond the jirecek line. That explains why Greeks, and other slavs are mostly orthodox and get along more well than others.

[@MuhammedSise-qv8wg]

due i like the videos because i like albanians

[@abc-00000]

Love Albaniaaa ❤

[@shpigelos8645]

Cujte srbi da vas nema na balkanu nigde

[@shqipnietnikeeeekosovoisal1379]

Illyria🇦🇱Albania🇦🇱

[@francobue8147]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος Sorry,but this is rejected by historians,maybeyou can go to Caucasus mountains for holiday,Albanians have nothing to do with Caucasus.

[@francobue8147]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος No,actually you're rejecting history.

[@GimPukaleshi-Kurtishi]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος I asked to Chechens that Albania and Albania Caucasus are not connected. And remember… without Arvanites… Greece wouldn’t exist from now.

[@shqipemalesore2620]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος Go to study some history😂😂😂😂

[@StarJes1]

@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος tf caucasian albania is proven to not have any relation , even if it did it was in the 8th-2th century BCE so theyre still older than fukin slavs, they should go away :)