Why Is Shqipëria Called Albania In English?

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Shqipëria Possible Etymology: www.theguardian.com/notesandq...

[@NameExplain]

Anyone watching from Shiqipëria?

[@stratospheric37]

Me! 😅

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

Me

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

@Bee Sixteen Shqipëria

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

@Bee Sixteen error i guess

[@AR_Channel12]

Me!

[@aaronodonoghue1791]

The Irish word for "Scottish" and the Irish word for "Albanian" differ only by an accent mark (Albanach = Scottish, Albánach = Albanian)

[@ArbenGeci-gd1op]

Celltics and Albanians are same people!! Ilirians Celltics

[@slobo8971]

​@@virtuallifter2438 Doesnt albanach come from latin (Albe or alba idk) meaning white or something?

[@theunknownfragment5473]

As someone who is a mix of both of those we share more than our name. Both cultures have kilts, both venerated bagpipes, both are known as highlanders, both carried the tribal culture and if you look at pictures of rural Scottish women of 50s you basically couldn't tell which were Albanian and which not.

[@theunknownfragment5473]

Oh and based on legends both came from the same parents Kadmus and Harmonia or their Roman counterparts

[@metigame1450]

Well illyrians Gauls and Celts started as 3 brothers and spread their genes.

[@kittyprydekissme]

According to tradition, when the early Aztecs moved into the Valley of Mexico, they saw an eagle perched on a cactus, with a rattlesnake in its beak. So they built Tenochtitlan on the island where the eagle had been. And of course, Tenochtitlan later became Mexico City. The eagle is pictured on the Mexican flag. So at least two countries were founded because of eagles carrying snakes.

[@Meteorul]

Fun fact: Norweigan do say "Hellas" for Greece

[@roberthak3695]

Albanians use Hol(l)anda for the Netherlands.

[@gigachadgaming6071]

Shqipëria as a name is recent (relatively)... dating to around 1400s and only commonly adopted by the 1700s. The name before that and until around the 1800s (except for some pockets of Albanians away from Albania) was Arbëria. Shqipëria itself is most likely from shqiptoj than shqiponjë, with the latter being a folk-etymology. Not that uncommon for people to call themselves "we understand eachother-people"

[@fabiobeka]

There is also a chance that the term "Arbëria" simply transliterated to "Labëria" which today indicates all the southern side of Albania.

[@moremir1529]

Shqiptoj derives from "shqip" which is the Albanian language in Albanian. The exact meaning of shqiptoj is "to pronounce". Shqip means "the language of Shqipëria" that derives from "shqiponja", referring to the two-headed eagle in the Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu's flag and to the bird, which is a proud animal and loves the freedom, just as Albanians.

[@jbrecken]

Is that Albanian word for speaking well a cognate of shibboleth?

[@gigachadgaming6071]

@@moremir1529 Shqip is a nominalised variant of shqiptoj

[@gigachadgaming6071]

@@jbrecken No, it's either an albanian construction or loan from latin, both with the meaning of "understand" (receiving/taking in information)

[@erti4531]

Shqiponja-Eagle Shqiperia-Land of Eagles In fact Albania eagle in flag is based on ancient illyria.

[@aidanconnor5124]

Great video and I’ve wondered for a long time about this! I wish people would understand how hard it is to include every single minuscule fact that they know into a 10 minute video. Keep your head up! Great job!

[@zariaalhajmoustafa2573]

We have an Albanian community in Syria but we call him Arnaut or alarnawwt mini Albanian my name in Syria have that name of alarnawwt

[@rmeherremli]

Al Albani and Al Arnawuti two famous theologians in the Middle East

[@lorik0109]

My dad uncle is from Syria so my cousins are in Syria but we have no connection they gone to Syria in ottoman time. You have to understand Lebanon is a country made on ottoman time from Albanians traders. So yes the world call us Albanian w E call our self eagles

[@zariaalhajmoustafa2573]

@@lorik0109 I never mention Lebanon I said about the family name of Albanian descent

[@moremir1529]

This is because otomans called us Arnaut.

[@yourfavouritetv1]

Yes you have in Syria we have Albanians family and you call them arnaut because the ottomans was calling Albanians arnaut and Turkey is calling us even today arnaut

[@katerpese]

Albania is most likely a latinisation of the Albanian name ARBENIA (Arberia). Arbenia meant lowlands and Malesia means highlands. It is a pity you didn't include this as it is the most likely hypothesis. The name Shqiperia is a more recent ethnonym which comes from the word "shqipoj" to speak clearly, and defined all its people.

[@deborahpavia838]

Shqiponj = aquila. Shqiperia...shqiptoj., shqip, tutte queste frasi e un esprimere in anlbanese. Shprehem shqip = mi esprimo in albanese .tutto deriva dalla parola aquila... shqiponja... per quello albanesi si chiamano shqipetar. 🇦🇱❤ viva shqiperia. 🇦🇱❤👋🇮🇹👋

[@uneti463]

shqipoj was a hypothesis that does not make sense whatsoever! it remains a hypothesis! EPIR and SHQIPERI are a lot closer linguistically

[@roberthak3695]

@@deborahpavia838 Bravo Dëbora!

[@a-k9161]

There's no word in Albanian shqipoj you can say shqiptoj.

[@bletrick3352]

The term Albania comes from the Albanian word "Arberia" which was also the name Albanians referred to themselves prior to the 16th and 17th century until the terms "Shqiptar" and "Shqiperija" replaced them. Old Albanian communities in italy still call themselves "Arberesh", the same for the "Arvanites" in Greece, "Arnauts" in Turkey and "Arbanasi" in Croatia. The term most likely means "Lowlander"

[@katerpese]

Shqiperia not Shqiperija. Stop adding intrusive "J's" where it doesn't make sense at all like Serbs do.

[@bletrick3352]

@@katerpese Potato Patata

[@TooGumbica]

@@katerpese Oh, sooo, other nations should change their language based on your perception?

[@katerpese]

@@TooGumbica WTF are you on about?

[@maskinisten019]

Nope totally wrong, it comes from the illyrian tribe Albanoi

[@billyr2904]

Albania's national animal is the golden eagle, which has all-brown feathers, but your depiction of the eagle has a white head, which is miles wrong. The bald eagle is only native to north america and not Europe, plus the golden eagle is found in your country, though it isn't very common.

[@Liethen]

Correct, though there are several other sea eagles that have the bald eagle appearance as well. I don't think any of the ones that look like bald eagles are native to southern Europe though.

[@damhnaitcockburn2970]

I think part of why Patrick used the bald eagle is to visually specify that the bird is an eagle, as the bald eagle is a species that is easily recognizable across cultures. While that is mostly due to the USA, as Liethen has pointed out in their reply there are other eagles with similar colouring.

[@arthuruppiano3211]

Also, bald eagle chicks/juveniles don't have white heads.

[@benthomason3307]

The influence of American media.

[@billyr2904]

I found out the golden eagle can be found throughout the northern continents.

[@umbelorapaz]

Please keep doing endonym explainer videos ❤

[@revinhatol]

*FACT:* Arbënesh (Gheg)/Arbëresh (TosK) is the previous name of Albania before it turned into Shiqipëria.

[@k.umquat8604]

"Albania" probably comes from there

[@lorik0109]

Or calabria. cala arberia. Castle of arberia

[@k.umquat8604]

@@lorik0109 The name Calabria was used in Roman times

[@elatirones]

Albania has 4.2 million inhabitants, Kosovo has 2 million inhabitants, Macedonia has close to 1 million inhabitants and in Serbia we are +200,000, also in Montenegro there are many Albanians, so only in the Balkans we are more than 7 million Albanians

[@southepirote7676]

In Greece alone are 3 million including the Arvanites.

[@milan1646]

That Albanians exaggerate their numbers is common knowledge as everything else they have put into their propaganda media and feed the outside world with lies They are not even half as they have

[@xhepik]

I'm Albanian and have never heard of the story you mentioned and I'm quite passionate about our history and language.

[@Witnessmoo]

I am also from Albania (Malsia e Madhe) and I have heard it.

[@roberthak3695]

You, like most zoomers and millennials in the world, are nothing. You are neither Albanians, nor Greeks, nor British. You are literally MUTTS, half breeds. Influenced by a pseudo-cosmopolitan degenerate US propaganda... Citizens of the world, and citizens of nowhere...

[@a-k9161]

Well it's about time you educate yourself

[@revinhatol]

*ARBERIA!*

[@tastedifference5672]

The Albanian languages is bonded with earth life its nature and sounds and is for real old root of many new languages(new civilizations). Even though many powers in the past for centuries wanted the Albanian to be stopped and not spoken damaged and stoled from it and its culture and history to create other countries around like serbs greeks montenegro macedonia etc.. .it still holds alot words that proves A beautiful example for Sound of Rain 🌧 In Albanian we call it the rain > (Shi) when it rains it sounds (Shhh)(Shiiii) belive it or be still ignorant 7ntil you die on day as one . saying to those like greeks who claim and live with our history and legends

[@Witnessmoo]

We have a story where a young hunter found an eagle nest high in the mountains and took the chicks. The mother eagle found him and asked for the chicks back and when the Hunter gave them back, the eagle gave him the eye sight, bravery, independence and strength of the eagle. Albanian from northern Albania.

[@Besajone1]

Interest it fact- the theory that the name of ancient Albanian people called Albanii comes from the Proto-Indo-European word “albho” meaning white (see the image at 6:02) might have influenced one of the most recognisable Albanian traditional garment - the famous Albanian skull hat. or the Plis (Pilos in Greek), which when put on the head really is reminiscent pf white snow mountain peaks

[@FreddieHg37]

So the legend of origin of the country or rather the naming fo the country of Albania has an eagle and a snake? How funny that Mexico's foundation or rather Mexico City (then Tenochtitlan) and by consequence the Mexica Empire, also known as the Aztec Empire, has also a legend of an eagle devouring a snake linked to it.

[@Liethen]

I think there is something deeper there, eagle and snake symbolism keeps showing up everywhere I look.

[@benthomason3307]

@@Liethen probably because eagles like to eat snakes.

[@Liethen]

@@benthomason3307 Yes but I kind of think there is some symbolic dual opposites thing going on. Eagles are kind of heavenly hard power and snakes are more chthonic earth or water sneaky soft power thing.

[@benthomason3307]

@@Liethen occam's razor leans twoards my idea.

[@Liethen]

@@benthomason3307 Rule of cool leans towards mine.

[@Lisbonese]

Basque is also a language isolate.

[@Drake56242]

It's not indo European, like Greek or Albanian

[@Lisbonese]

@@Drake56242 that’s right…… my bad. lol

[@alb-333]

​@@Drake56242 Basques are Native Europeans my friend

[@bletrick3352]

Albanian isn't an langauge isolate lol. It's indo-european.

[@Somebodyherefornow]

@@alb-333 the language isnt of the *language family* my idiot friend

[@sportsfisher9677]

Good video

[@adlmnop1147]

Impressive 👍🏻

[@wrecked8746]

Well explained,however the name before shqipëria was Arbëria in albanian,and the albanians were called Arbëresh,Shqipëria name came after 1912 independence. The Arbëresh..basically the Albanians with that name are found in italy,many albanian tribes in the 1400s migrated to italy and kept the name Arbëresh and the archaic or old Albanian language(Arbërisht) is still preserved and spoke,same with the arvanites in greece though sadly they are dying out cause of greek assimilation and propaganda making them think they are "greek"

[@Alb-Patriot]

There are around 3/4 of Albanians with Gheg dialect where Eagles are called Shqipe and 1/4 Tosk where Eagles are called Shqiponje , so i believe it comes from the Gheg variation

[@bletrick3352]

It comes from neither. Shqiperia and Shqiptar come from the verb "Shqiptoj". Albania and Albanian translates to "The land of the people who speak the language/clearly"

[@Alb-Patriot]

@BleTrick There is no fact for either theory. I just think it makes more sense from the eagle because of the flag of skanderbeg. Till that time we were called Arber (people who work the land) and they have met enough foreigners till then, they didn't have to wait more to come with that name from Shqiptoj.

[@denissaliaj9459]

The eagle stuff its just a theory.

[@gregoryferraro7379]

Interesting that the neighbouring country of Montenegro is literally named "Black Mountain" when one possible origin of Albania is "White Mountains."

[@ben-fc5tt]

Good point. Montenegro is known in Albanian as Malësi, meaning montaneos area. This translates for latins as Mal=mountain and si=black hence Montenegro. Likewise, Malta is Mal=mountains thatë= dry, hence dry mountains.

[@brainstormer3938]

​@@ben-fc5tt "Malësi" means "mountainous area", not "black mountain". While Montenegro is called "Mali i Zi" that has the meaning of "the black mountain". And Malta is more likely to be connected with the word "mjaltë" (eng. "honey").

[@fredbrenno]

Just to point out an error in the video. Grece is called "Hellas" in Norway . . and is therefore called by its own name i norwegian 🙂

[@vangelisskia214]

"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

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

09:30 Anyone still not polyglot thinks that his language is the only intelligible one. When I was a child, I thought that "Deutsch" which is German for "German" came from "deutlich" which is German for "clear" because I understood it whereas in French which my grand aunt often spoke I didn't even could tell jokes apart.

[@SionTJobbins]

Scotland is also called 'Yr Alban' (the Scotland) in Welsh. Many countries have the definiate article Y (or yr if before a vowel) like Yr Almaen (Germany), Yr Eidal (Italy), Yr Aifft (Egypt) etc. Don't know why they have definate articles and others don't.

[@AlenSaqe]

Just FYI, the ancestors of Albanians are the Illyrians. Hence the Illyricum Province. I lire means to be free in albanian (Shqip).

[@shpetimahmeti8008]

Nice video but you got to learn more about Albania. 1st the two headed eagle it belonged to Illyrians far long before Roman empire had their one with one head, then Costatine the great an Illyrian gave two headed eagle to Byzantine empire. And the main thing and very interesting many powerfull countries or empires have used the eagle symbol but none of them been able to keep it in their nationality flag and we Albanians have this flag over 500 years. About language yes it is been teached to everybody that is it not connected to no other language and that's it, no one will tell you the truth that Albanian language it is the mother of all European languages, the indo-european should be called Illyrian-european language.

[@shpetimahmeti8008]

@@virtuallifter2438 the problem it is that European countries and all religions the try to destroy Albanian population, language and their history and that's why no many knows a lot about Albania, even you did mention that Costantin the great may be 🤔 and you don't except that he was an Illyrian, no one talks about Illyrians everything is hiden or past as a Greek history and mythology, eagle symbol was used in many countries or better to say empires but origin it is ILLYRIAN as well as troyans were Illyrian and no matter how much they try to manipulation the history it always come up, but to understand you most learn Albanian language and their history and you and everyone will understand the truth.

[@wankawanka3053]

No it doesn't 😂😂😂

[@shpetimahmeti8008]

@@wankawanka3053 I don't expect you to understand ! Isn't that you aren't educated or you don't have knowledge, it is because that what you've been tough at school and what it suits you. Please can you explain one thing if I invaded your home who will be the owner of home after my invasion?

[@yourfavouritetv1]

​@@virtuallifter2438 the troy was nothing else than ILLYRIANS people the name of it self troy or troyans is pure Albanian name or in albanian language, for example when in a city my family members have houses and lands then we say in albanian ( ato jane troyat tona) witch means those are our lands, or we say also (ajo esht troya ime) which means this is my land or my property

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

So I can confidently call Albany, NY's etymology as an Albanian city)))

[@FteriSkipteri]

Albania getting invaded for thousands of years from all kind of kingdoms while being one on its own has definitely adapted throughout the years not only people from all around the world but cultures, languages, movies in the latest years from India, China etc. What unites the Albanians mainly is the language which has survived and its so rich and they give so much emphasis to the words they use and the meaning of them, NOT religioussnes or any kind of symbols, a country with different values. Somewhere was written that the meaning of the double headed Eagle is the connection of East and West (one head looks left and the other right), black and red if I remember well had something to do about bloodshed. Albania, being the center of many empires was doomed to always be in war.

[@HalfEye79]

Its the only intelligable languague? So that is the opposite from "barbaros" of the greek.

[@modmaker7617]

No to dissimilar to Slavs calling themselves "slovo" (word) & the Germans "niem" (mute) meaning Slavs can speak and the Germans can't.

[@roberthak3695]

@@modmaker7617 dang!! I had forgotten the old germanic - slavic rivalry ahaha

[@albcan3549]

I might be able to explain the name Shqiperia that goes back to Pyrrhus of Epirus even earlier than him. After military expeditions in Asia minor Pyrrhus returns to Albania (Epirus) where he's given the title "Son of the Eagle" or Order of the Eagle. The name Shqip comes from the Eagle's sound Skip, Shqip and Shqiptar. TOR=TAR=TAN=TER is a suffix that means (ALL) so having said that we have Shqiperia meaning Sons and Daughter of the Eagle. During the Roman conquest the land was called Superiore by the Romans. Supe means our shoulders and Periore means Epirus or just Epir or Eper meaning Upper and Advantage in English. Barra mi Supe means Burden on your shoulders. Best of luck from Dardania.

[@armendzaplluzha6122]

The toponym Shqiperia is not related to eagles. It stems from the verb "Shqipoj" in old Albanian which means to "understand" and is a cognate of latin verb Excipio. The verb Shqipoj is still in use in the Albanian diazpora in Ukraine, but no longer in the homeland. The verb Shqipoj gave rise to the ethnonym Shqiptar which means "The one who understands". The ethonym Shqiptar gained traction upon the spread of Islam in Albania and it was used to clarify that though muslim and christian Albanians practiced religions alien to each other they could understand each other. It made sure that the sense of common identity persisted. The new ethnonym Shqiptar gave rise to the new toponym Shqiperia.

[@gregorsamsa2271]

Very well explained, my friend! It' still all so interesting that it still has similarities also with the word eagle in albanian ("shqiponja") at the same time (although it's not directly linked with each other). Just very cool coincidences, which is why "Shqiperia" is so fitting to us for so many reasons.

[@ianeons9278]

Regardless of when they’ve been called Illyri, Arbër, or Shqiptar it’s always been the same people!

[@quakeknight9680]

In Croatia in our Geography class we had a teacher that personaly prefered to use "Šiptaria" inspite of also saying that it might be derogatory

[@jtinalexandria]

Seems the bit about "Shqiptoj" (to "speak intelligently") was tacked on the end at the last minute, but it's actually a much more plausible explanation than "land of the eagles". Perhaps "eagle" is an alternate meaning if this root word and the eagle flag was designed after the fact.

[@kennylex]

Why aer Finnish so weird when it come to country names? Like the whole world say "Finland" that is the name it been called long time, but for them it is "Soumi", and Sweden is Routsi, Denmark it Tanska, German is Saksa and Russia is Venäjä and so on.

[@cfgp]

i'm pretty sure finnish is weird in its entirety 😅

[@youbrah1661]

I heard that the Name for germany in finish comes from the saxons that were a big group of ppl in the north of germany. Sounds plausible dunno about the others tho

[@damhnaitcockburn2970]

As with everything else, blame the british and other colonizing powers for these names becoming cannon. Eire, Alba and Cymru were bastardized into Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They would conquer the territory and strip them of their identity by labeling them as they wished. It goes back way before the modern times to the Romans who started the trend.

[@Furienna]

It is probably because Finnish belongs to the Uralic language family and not the otherwise dominant Indo-European language family. "Tanska" sounds a lot like "danska" though, which is the Swedish name for the Danish language.

[@k.umquat8604]

*Suomi *Ruotsi

[@MartinIbert]

The last idea reminds me of Germans being named the "mute ones" in many Slavonic languages, simply for not speaking a Slavonic language. WTF? And even more insulting, the Hungarians, whose language is totally different from any Slavonic language (much more so than German, actually), BORROWED the word and refer to Germany as 'Németország', which is the word for "mute" borrowed from the Slavonic language familiy (német) combined with the Hungarian word "ország" meaning land. But they top it off with calling the Netherlands 'Németalföld', which is the same borrowed word for "mute" combined with the Hungarian "alföld" which means "low-laying plain".

[@rolfjacobson833]

greatr

[@Z3rk]

According to Wikipedia: All terms share the same Albanian root shqipoj that is derived from the Latin excipere with both terms carrying the meaning of "to speak clearly, to understand".[4] While the Albanian public favours the explanation that the self-ethnonym is derived from the Albanian word for eagle shqipe that is displayed on the national Albanian flag.[4]

[@vangelisskia214]

"The language of the Albanians is unformed and adulterated. In many areas Italian elements have been incorporated into the language, in others Greek and in others Slavonic. Therefore Albanians who live fifty or sixty miles apart do not understand each other. In addition, there are racial differences between the Gegs who live in the wild north and the Tosks in the less rugged south. One would say that they belong to different ethnicities. And indeed this is the case. It would be easy to prove that the Albanians are not one people but half a dozen peoples." Sir John Foster Fraser, "Pictures from the Balkans", CHAPTER XXIV. THE ALBANIANS, p. 257-258)

[@youtubejosephwm6699]

Name explained I suggest you do video asking if there's any relatives of Charles Darwin alive today

[@michaeldriscoll8537]

I thought they pronounced it “shkeep”, where the Q sounds like a K, and not “ship”, as you are saying it…

[@brainstormer3938]

It's not "ship" either. It's pronounced like "shchip". It's kinda hard for non-Albanians to pronounce the word so I understand that lol.

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

Same for Georgia, named "Grusinia" in Russian and "Sakartvelo" in her own language.

[@ilgrandearthas6429]

Schip or Shqip comes from root gjuh or Gjuhva in. Sanskrit.. İt an other fascinaitg example of Albanian language which the only language which perform transsition among Europian Languages from. Gj to - - > Sh.. So basically word Shqip or Shqipto =Talk or Speak is from the PIE root Gjuh which means Language.

[@CeBePuH]

I like that the drawing is that of a bald eagle

[@beargreen1]

Many languages are unique and have outlived their siblings

[@bletrick3352]

1:56 I would like to correct you there. Albanian grammar is obviously unique but the vocabulary has been heavily influenced by foreign powers, especially Latin. Albanian barely escaped full Latinization unlike Romanian.

[@Ea-dp9gr]

Hahaha not true, it does not have that much latin brother

[@roberthak3695]

@@Ea-dp9gr albanian language has lots of influences from Latin and ancient greek. the thing is though, that the core words of the language, those that are used to describe essential stuff, are untraceable, and its precisely these words that give Albanian an ancient and separate status.

[@NYCShaolin]

Shqipëri or Shqiptar or in English The Albanians. If you get to know one Shqiptar keep this people close to you it’s like you’ll learn a new religion this people are the best people in the whole world, they’ll teach you how to be a decent human being, they can be your best friend brother type of people, you go to their house they’ll treat you like a king they’ll protect you with their own life like I said they can be your best thing you’ll learn in this world but always remember they are nice very kind people but they are far from weak don’t try to do them wrong don’t disrespect them they can be your worst nightmare, in United States the mafia was one of the most feared group of people but the mafia feared the Albanians they never messed around with Albanians and I’m not saying this to paint Albanians as bad people no just they don’t play around they don’t mess around.

[@casper1581]

Monteneglo?

[@ZyraOnFertilizer]

Damn I'm early

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

01:48 _... the Romans and the Byzantines ..._ Who were actually Romans as well, the eastern Romans who predominantly spoke Greek.

[@ernisstar2978]

what intrigues me most is why romans , who went till scotland, didnt enter in albania. only pompeo stayed in durres. and thats all ???

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Romans and Byzantines were the same nationality. Nationality BTW means from what nation state you emanate (for those in the back)

[@Flavor88]

There were no Byzantines! Nobody called them Byzantines, neither called themselves. It was a made up name in the 16 century by a german historian Hieronymus Wolf in his book Corpus Historiae Byzantinae. It is a created term to make it easier to differentiate the west or east roman empire. They were all called Romans

[@brianedwards7142]

I was out one evening around sunset when I saw the silhouette of "a bird" on the power lines. As I approached it suddenly raised TWO heads and for a moment I thought it was a real life double headed heraldic eagle before I realised it was two pigeons huddling together. 🤣🤣

[@Witnessmoo]

Serbs have a double headed pigeon on their flag because they are gay like that

[@illiryansforeveralbanian5020]

🤣

[@roberthak3695]

lmao

[@spaceslav8954]

4:55 How does this follow? Ptolemy could have come up with it simply to name the part of Macedonia inhabited by the Albanoi.

[@clonecommanderrex8542]

Hi

[@sean035]

hi

[@AC_Milan1899]

Legendary gangsters. Great contribution to the world

[@AI-hx3fx]

Curious why in English it was never called "Albany".

[@zariaalhajmoustafa2573]

stan borrow from Persian because Persian have a lot of influence in Armenian

[@besparmak8211]

I think there is some relation to Greek, it’s just very distant

[@user-hp4hq2zh3o]

hi great video, but this is very wrong, Albanoi comes from the Albanian place of Arbënia, which means farmland (contrary to Malësia which means highlands) and Shqiperia probably comes from the word Shqiptoj, which means to pronounce clearly, Shqiptar meaning people who pronounce clearly

[@EntherM.B]

Këtu në Brazil kemi shumë shqiptarë. Është gjithashtu pjesë e kulturës sonë.

[@NemesisGenetics]

Albania has it's name from the Alban ( Albanet ) Illyrian tribe. Nothing to do with any other versions mentioned.

[@dioritbajrami8283]

We never called Albania Albania, since it was just one tribe. Albanians called each other Arberesh up until the Ottoman Empire, somehow after that it changed to Shqiptarë. I dont know though why or how that changed.

[@Modred-lm3yp]

shqiptar its the real name Albania- from latin Alb mean white Caucasian Race ottomans call you Arnavut

[@thedragonofcanada6659]

You forgot to mention the legendary Ancient Albanian Sign Language, sad :(

[@Peterkonto]

So far, credible historians know there are no Illyrian inscriptions and they have no idea about Illyrian literature. As a consequence, it is not even clear whether Illyrian was one single language or a group of languages. (Until the 1960s, the term was even used to refer to all non-Celtic languages on the western Balkan Peninsula.)...Albanians became more prominent historically in the middle ages under the ottomans. Albanians became Vizers for the ottoman armies against Christianity in the balkans therefore today Albania is more a less a Islamic state in the southern Balkan peninsula..

[@levinb1]

The Kingdom and dominion of Epirus?

[@alb-333]

Eper,Eperm, S-iper Iperius was called from Romans. In Albanian means up, mountainous area. The The main city in Epirus is still called "PERMET" = Eperm-et. There are hundreds of villages and towns in Albania and Kosovo with the suffix "Eperme" which means "mountainous"

[@fabian13333]

Bukur

[@ElevatorFan1428]

In Romania, it is called "Albania"

[@lukedunn974]

Beggin-bania

[@ArbenGeci-gd1op]

Iliro- Albania starts from Crete..Athens.. Maqedonia..monte negro..Bosnia..Dalmatia- Croatia..the only people speak the oldest ilyrian languages are the Albanians

[@wankawanka3053]

Dream big sqhiptar 😅

[@metigame1450]

@@wankawanka3053tqi motren

[@doomsdayrabbit4398]

The irony of Albania, not the United States, calling itself Eagleland.

[@southepirote7676]

What's ironic about it? Our country name Shqiperia literally means land of the eagles.

[@angrymonkeynoises]

"Byzantines" =)

[@southepirote7676]

Yeah what about Albanians?

[@davidscwimer1974]

Slavo turkic Greek maybe 🤔

[@lavdiezeneli7341]

Albania

[@doralasku4172]

The boy was Alexander the Great

[@wankawanka3053]

What has a greek to do with this like Alexander

[@wankawanka3053]

Alexander was never associated with an eagle

[@YoneCynodia]

​@@wankawanka3053Alexander, so-called "greek"? ahhahahahaha

[@dalina25]

The Word Shqiperia or Shqiptars Comes from The Word - Skopje Skorpje 🇦🇱 SE KA ARDH PI YJE = That Has Come from the Stars - 🦅- Eagle -🇦🇱 Je Qiellis = You are from the Sky - Angel Engel - 🇦🇱 En Qiell - In the sky - Aquila - I Qiellis - From The Sky - Illyria - 🇦🇱 Yll Rri = Star Dwellers - Albania - Albanoi - Yll Banoj = Star Dwellers - 🇦🇱 We are unique cause we still speak the Mother language of all Europe Languages, not the other way around, but linguistic don’t see it cause all European language have accepted the Latin language of the Catholic church and the eastern Roman romeyka Greek language of the Orthodox Church, what came after religion 🇦🇱 Ri ligji jon - Our new law - the new law was wipe out pagan Albanian language of the gods - and introduce bible language what leads only to Jesus.

[@katerpese]

te pjerdhsha ne vesh.

[@klodianamile9237]

Albania name is come from King Alban Shqiperi name is coming from shqiponje =shqipe = Shqiperi= eagle The place of eagles. Please get more information

[@makouras]

Before the middle Medieval period there was not much mention of the name 'Albania'. And Durres was an important port of both Roman Empires. So it doesn't seem to be an established name as you make it appear to be. Also, as others have pointed out, Albanians used to call their country Arberia. Much like the Greeks used to call their country Romania, before changing it to Hellas, to symbolize the rebirth of democracy in the land where it originated.

[@wankawanka3053]

There was in the Caucasus of course

[@martychisnall]

Albion was Great Britain as a whole, Alba has always been just Scotland.

[@alb-333]

it is a Roman name, we are earlier than the Scots. The Scots are a Celtic tribe, originating from the Balkans or the Illyrian peninsula

[@lorik0109]

And that is why Scottish use pipebag what we call gajde and fustanella, dress becouse of connection with with illyrians

[@gigachad6787]

The latinized version of Albion is Albania

[@yvonne530]

Albania comes from Alba = Morning star Shqipëria = Skip-ëria = Land of the Eagles

[@arsimdrmaku4626]

ILLIRICUMU SACRUM DANIELE FARLATI FILIPPO RICEPUTI, PELASGIAN ILLYRIAN ALBANIAN SHQIPËTARË 🇦🇱🇽🇰

[@milan1646]

Tell you what is in Arabic history books and you will see who are Albanians and where they come from because it was Arabs who have taken Albanians to Sicily to spread Islam

[@metigame1450]

We probably call our country Shqipëria because of our language called Shqip, and Shqiptoj means pronounce ore speak clearly, when the national awakening was happening in Europe we probably stopped calling ourselves Arbër and went with Shqiptar meaning the people who speak the same tongue

[@Taratjv]

SHChip SHqiponja= Eagle

[@beepboop204]

🙃🙃

[@overtonpendulum2071]

Fun fact : Term "shiptar" is a slur word of Albanians.

[@danielndou9414]

Funfact it isnt it just means albanian in albanian language

[@overtonpendulum2071]

@@danielndou9414 I know but it's still considered a slur word.

[@bletrick3352]

@@danielndou9414 It is. Slavs use it as a anti Albanian slur. Most use it in daily life like normally when not even speaking about Albanians.

[@gigachad6787]

The term "Shqiptar" comes from the word "Shqiptoj" meaning to pronounce (correctly), so to say "Shiptar" instead of "Shqiptar" is an insult to the very definition of the word. It is used as a slur by Serbs who are incapable of pronouncing the word correctly. And like wise, Serbs are called "Shkije" or "Shkavel" in Albanian.

[@gemerRo]

Accipiter scipio aetos

[@aldovuka3500]

Language Albanian is ilirian language

[@ilgrandearthas6429]

Previous name of İtaly was Albalonga which mean Frozenlake or Frozen water by time became (White) a from ice or snow.. So basicaly its an Celtic rooted word.. Albania is an Celtic Hellenic word which means place where Alba people leave. Alba (white) in pagan religions was quite important concept.. İf there were happen to come a cross with an animal with white color or patirtly white color on their body.. They used to beleive that an village should be established in that region cuz it was considetef an holy place as per pagan religion .. So where they used to see white(Frozen) ice they defined it as Alba.. Which comes from the root of PİE languages Bardh(white) which is the same yet in Albanian.. This is the reason why they called the region white Alba. There are plenty Alba region in Europe and USA .. But what is fascinaitg about Albanian language .. İs the fact that Albanian language preserved PIE)(proto indo Europian) version of Alba (White) which is Bardh.. Even though Albanian was not clearly written until 15th Century.

[@albania75]

history 1802 Albanian Macedonian war against the Macedonian Turks there were no Macedonians

[@mishagelenava2962]

There was a country in Caucasus on the land of modern day Azerbaijan that was called Albania. It would be nice to investigate how two countries got the same name.

[@andygjekaj]

What about langue lool

[@fkyouezekiel]

Their exonym was Albania but endonym is Aluank, and they spoke Udi language, which isn't related to Albanian and different family trees. Different people, region, religion, culture, DNA, language and even different names it just somehow got translated the same. Some google translate time traveler typo shit haha,

[@drazantodoric6040]

Caucasian Albania was a vassal of Armenia from the 3rd - 9th centuries (more precisely until 826AD). Then it disappeared under that name, since it fell under the authority of the Arab Emirates. The Caucasian Albanians were displaced and the rest assimilated from the neighboring states of Armenia, Georgia, and later Azerbaijan. Only Azerbaijan recognizes them and says that they are descendants of Albanians from the Caucasus. In 836AD, the Arab Emir sent them to war with Byzantium in Sicily (ITALY). They fought there for 210 years, losing the war for 1043 years. they send them back, as auxiliary troops, this time to Byzantium under the leadership of ĐORĐO MANIJAK (Byzantine commander) who wanted to raise a rebellion in Byzantium (in THESSALONIKI). Đorđe Manijak died, and the Albanians forcibly landed on the shores of Montenegro in (Duklja). VLADISLAV, Duke of DUKLJA, gave them temporary permission to stay, the Albanians agreed and broke the agreement and stayed forever on the territory of DUKLJA (MONTENEGRO). There, in 1920, they proclaimed a state that was soon transformed into a colony of ITALY, and again in 1946. they get a country called Albania. Well, that is the connection between CAUCASIAN ALBANIA and ALBANIA, which AZERBAIJANS and ALBANIANS know. ALBANIANS pretend not to know where they come from, and say that they have been there forever, although history says otherwise, as well as genetic tests. Descendants of the Caucasian Albanians still live today mostly in SICILY and CALABRIA (ITALY), where the strongest branch of the SICILIAN MAFIA with the Albanian name originates. Throughout history, Albanians continued to expand and illegally settled permanently on the territory of SERBIA, MACADONIA, GREECE and MONTENEGRO. They consider all these territories their own and say that they have lived there forever. since they are not interested in the truth, they steal territories, stay permanently, and if the opportunity arises, they settle illegally forever. The most drastic example of this is the territory and heart of Serbia (KOSOVO and METOHIA) where ALBANIANS illegally settled from ALBANIA in KOSOVO in 1690, 1740, 1946 and 1998 and completely changed the statistical data of the population of KOSOVO. TURKISH SOURCES who were then the occupiers of KOSOVO say that in 1690 there were 96% Serbs and 0.5% Albanians. I REPEAT: 1690...96% SERBS ...0.5% ALBANIANS ...3.5% VLACHES and CINCARS and JEWS. 2011...93% ALBANIANS ...1.5% SERBS ....

[@southepirote7676]

@@drazantodoric6040 Hahahaha!

[@samwill7259]

Or just call it "Land of That is a FUCK TON of bunkers"

[@SamanthaSweetAnne]

Al-banoi means small house. If celts and albanians are related the celtic language jeltic and related to sanskrit. Kilts come from Southeast Asia. (pakamah or short sarongs) and bag pipes come from Thailand and Laos. The instrument is called the Kahn. Albanians are mixed Southeast Asian and White. Look at Asian and white mixes. They look Italian, Turkish, Brazilian. The word for the kilt in Thai literally translates to the fabric to kill horses. It must be from the Mongolians.

[@branimirradinovic9535]

ARNAUTLIK!

[@rmeherremli]

No Caucasian Albania? Sad

[@abdelhamidsherif4995]

Exactly

[@Drilaaaa1912]

Caucasian Albania has nothing to do with the Balkan Albania, dumbass

[@shqipemalesore2620]

Well,it has nothing to do with Albania and Albanians...