Science has not proved who are the Illyrians, but with the researchs of haplogroups all will be discovered as research progresses.
There are a lot of Albanians, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, etc. think they are Illyrian.
In Croatia in the 19th century, founded a movement called Illyrian movement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_movement
The
Illyrian movement (
Croatian:
Ilirski pokret, Slovene:
Ilirsko gibanje), also
Croatian national revival (
Hrvatski narodni preporod), was a cultural and political campaign initiated by a group of young
Croatian intellectuals during the first half of 19th century, around the years of 1835–1849 (there is some disagreement regarding the official dates).
[1] This movement aimed to create a Croatian national establishment in
Austria-Hungary through linguistic and ethnic unity among
South Slavs.
...
The movement ... also found supporters among prominent
Serbs of the time, most notably
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the reformer of
Serbian language.
Profesor John Wilkes Of University Of London claims
Bosnians Are Illyrians. He found out that Romanization, Hellenization or Slavenization of the Illyrians has never taken place.
John Wilkes, Illyrian, Willey-Blackwell, 1995
www.amazon.ca/Illyrians-John-Wilkes/dp/0631198075
After that, the survey revealed haplogroup in the Balkans are a lot of interesting things.
So the nations in the Balkans whose share of
R1a is the largest compared to others are
Slovenes and Croats.
Pericic et al, 2005
R1a, Slovenian 37%, Croatian (mainland) 34.3%
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/10/1964.full.pdf+html
Romanians and Serbs are very close populations that are graphically shown Ferri et al in their work in 2010, also Bosnians and Macedonian FYROM are close to the them.
This is not surprising given the dominance of I haplogroup.
I haplogroup
Herzegovinians 70.91%, Pericic et al, 2005
Bosnians 53.65%, Pericic et al, 2005
Serbia 47,97%, Mirabal et al, 2010
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21235/abstract
Romania 43.5%, Rootsi et al, 2004
Croatia (mainland),36.10%, Pericic et al
Of all the people in the Balkans and Europe
closest to the Egyptians are Gheg Albanians.
Ferri et al, 2010.
Among
Gheg Albanian dominates E haplogroup (mainly
E-V13, but are present and
E-M78 *,
E-M81 and
E-M123)
E haplogroup
Gheg Albanians,
41.82%
http://www.springerlink.com/content/dtl1021500429242/
Albanian Kosovar (they are Gheg also), 47.20%
E-M78 1.75%, E-V13 43.85%, E-M81 0.90%, E-M123 0.90%
Pericic et al, 2005
At some Russian sites haplogroup
E-M35 (
E-M78 belongs it, and subhaplogroup
E-V13 belongs E-M78) is called the
Illyrian.
E - иллирийцы,хамитский род E1b1b1 (М35)
E - Illyrian, Hamitic clan E1b1b (M35)
my.mail.ru/community/history_civil/581DC5A5982C9E59.html
In fact the whole story about the Illyrians being the following:
Is the territory of
Roman Illyricum same as the territory
Greek Illyria?
The northern tribes of Roman Illyricum were
I (and maybe R1a) bearers and south tribes were
E carriers?
Did Illyrians belong to I or E haplogroup
, in other words, if the Illyrians were Old Europeans or Hamites?
This will establish the science.
But apparently today we can say that
in the Roman Illyricum inhabitants north and south consisted of
two completely different populations.
Judging by today's schedule haplogroups
the border is most likely went through the middle of Montenegro.
E-V13 may be only made south of Dalmatia which is the northernmost where it reached.
So if it is right that the
Illyrians = Hamites = E carriers, then the northern tribes, who were I (and maybe R1a) carriers can not be called Illyrians.
If it is correct to the
Illyrians = Old Europeans = I carriers, then the southern tribes, who were E carriers can not be called Illyrians.
Roman Illyricum was the only administrative unit and it is not meant to territory that was inhabited by the Illyrians, as one of two main populations of Roman Illyricum, I carriers or E carriers, were not Illyrians.
It is a bit absurd that individuals show maps where act as in wide areas of today's Croatia were the same population as in the southern parts of the Roman Illyricum where lived E-V13 carriers. This is not true because E-V13 carriers never reached those areas in today's Croatia.