Gorgonzola
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i do not see about religion,
the irish monks speak about language
I don't see where they mentioned language.
I think we are walking around the bush here. Durres, previously Epidamnos, was founded by Greeks and there was also a Greek presence there until the late Middle ages.
There is no evidence of greeks living in Durres in the middle ages, but on the other side we have alot of albanian principalities in the entire area of epirus, thats why the second name for the albanians at the time became Epirotes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_principalities
The Byzantine Greeks never referred to other Orthodox non-Greek speaking peoples as Greek/Romios. Could you offer a source where it says that Albanian speakers were referred to as Greeks?
Yes of course. (Ch. Kohler, Recueil des historiens des Croiades, Paris 1906, vol. II, p. 487.)
(V. Tapkova-Zaimova, Lâ idee byzantine de lâ unite du monde et lâ Etat Bulgare,Sofia 1966, p. 228.)
(K.Fasheri Etnogjeneza e popullit shqiptar)
(The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond: 1204-1461-George Finlay)
In the last book it also shows the ones who used the name illyrians for the albanians in the middle ages (Mazaris ;George Pachymeres ;Nicephorus Gregoras.etc) but also macedonians (Chalcocondylas).
You se that the name was not really important as even though albanoi,albanite was standart there were used other names by different authors.