ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME "ALBANIA"
A curious item about Albania is her very name, that is, the etymology of the word "Albania."
The country was known as Illyria in ancient times and until the eleventh century A.D. Since the name "Albania"
appears in 13th century Latin dictionaries, the term was probably in use even earlier.
During the Middle Ages the Albanians called their country Arb'r or Arb'n
and referred to themselves as Arb'resh or Arb'nesh. To this day, there are communities
of Albanians who migrated to Greece and Italy, in the wake of foreign invasions and pressures,
who know themselves by those names (11). According to the Albanian scholar Konitza,
the term "Albania" did not displace "Illyria" completely until the end of the fourteenth century (12).
The term is believed to derive from "Albanoi," the name of an Illyrian tribe in what is now north-central Albania,
which was first mentioned in the second century A.D. by Ptolemy, the Alexandrian astronomer.
The term slowly spread to other Illyrian tribes until its usage became universal among all the Albanian people.
From: Prifti, Peter R. Socialist Albania since 1944 -
Domestic and Foreign Developments. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1978.
where do you people get this information? who said albania was known as illyria in ancient times? ptolemaus says it was part of macedonia, and so do strabo. and so do the romans. and so do the poppe during the middle ages. scanderbeg was known as the king of macedones in 14c, not the king of illyria. you know why? couse illyria was in the region of montengro and croatia. but in order to make the macedonians as greeks the origin of albanians from illyrians was cleverly was invented by philo-greek european hitorians. but sceletons cannot live in the closed, the truth will comw out.
ReplyDeleteyea there u goe will wayt and see the truth then we talk again iliria arberia albania jane tgjitha nje pa asje ndryshim koha do e tregoje (almakaghetoboy4life)
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