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Demetrios, you have been discussing the origin of the Albanians for two days. This is not a thread about the origin of the Albanians. Anyway, i will try to be short.
You have quoted here an article without author but you pretend that you know who is the author because he is your friend. I am not going to deal with your friend, because there are millions like him who publish today on internet. Great invention the internet.
You said:
From the other side, again from an historical point of view, it is documented that the nations and ethnic groups, that surround the Albanians, arrived and settled in the region during different periods of history.
I appologise to the other members for this off-topic but i think this clarification was necessary.
You have quoted here an article without author but you pretend that you know who is the author because he is your friend. I am not going to deal with your friend, because there are millions like him who publish today on internet. Great invention the internet.
You said:
The science that deals with the origin of a nation is history, btw, a greek word. From a historical point of view(let`s leave aside Kitselis and others like him), there is not one single primary source, a historical document to prove your conclusion, ZERO. Albanians are native exactly in the region where they live today.I am not absolute either on the matter, other than viewing Albanian as a palaeo-Balkan Indo-European language. Everything else are just hypotheses. As for geographic distribution, it is only suggestive not indicative of Illyrian affiliation, and besides, the modern distribution of Albanians is not that which was 1000-1200 years ago. Furthermore, the widespread assumed homeland of proto-Albanians is placed within the confines of the Roman province of "Moesia Superior" which was inhabited by Thracians, Dacians, Illyrian and Thraco-Illyrian (Dardani) peoples. Therefore geographically it isn't that extreme to consider proto-Albanian as stemming from a Daco-Moesian dialect. But my personal view deviates a little from Kitselis' article, and certainly i don't hold a view that relates Carpi (supposed NE-Dacian tribe) to proto-Albanians, and neither does Kitselis from what i gather. I also, haven't excluded a Thraco-Illyrian, or an Illyrian origin for that matter.
From the other side, again from an historical point of view, it is documented that the nations and ethnic groups, that surround the Albanians, arrived and settled in the region during different periods of history.
I appologise to the other members for this off-topic but i think this clarification was necessary.