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Look, i want to tell you a short story. A scholar of German origin, but a true German, not an internet warrior hidden behind his PC who pretend to be a german, named Robert Elsie, now he is no more among us, gave an interview to an Albanian television years ago where he spoke as the author of the Historical Dictionary of Albania and Kosova. I will try to translate with the help of my faithful friend Google a small but significant part of his interview:My opinion is irrelevant, but Matzinger & Schumacher are the foremost experts on the Albanian language and they have shown that Albanian cannot possibly come from Illyrian. Zero respect from me for people trying to stifle research.
Do you have any idea how much story there is in this country? Do you have any idea of how many authors have wrote about this country named Albania and these people called Albanians? It's a question without an answer. But i will help you to have an idea.These books that came out in English recently, are periodical books that includes every country in the world and i was charged with designing a publication for Albania. Called historical dictionary of Albania and Kosovo but in the end are more like vocabulary, general encyclopedia with information not only historical but also about culture, economy, geography, etc.. I started with the volume of Albania. I put a limit on the volume no more than 250 pages needed to do this and when i finished i had more than 500 pages. The publisher was a bit disappointed. She said, "If we walk so, the volume of the country will come greater than the volume of Russia" nonetheless accepted and actually went greater than that of Russia, this small encyclopedia of Albania.
2018 is proclaimed here in Albania the year of Scanderbeg because it's the 550 anniversary of his death. Among other things, i was reading that the number of the books dedicated to Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu was around 1800. 50 years ago, during the 500 anniversary the number of the books dedicated to HIM was roughly 1000. There are even legends and folkloric creations from Iceland to Filipine.
And you really think that you can impress me by repeating like a broken record the name of these two persons, how did you said their names, Norris and Schwarzenegger? Seriously?