Let anyone with reason note:
https://www.livius.org/articles/place/assos-behramkale
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According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Assos was founded by Greeks from Methymna on Lesbos in the tenth or ninth century BCE,note: but archaeologists have established that the site was already inhabited in the Bronze Age. " (comment: Man Strabo really was a good for nothing, did he get anything right?Lets hope the flood rumors he heard, were among his twice a day moments when a broken clock is right)
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Unnecessary Note: Markod would go... Yeah Behrami is Swiss... So what? Yetos would go: no he is from the Moon and post a picture of the moon...)
Assos (/ˈæsɒs/; Greek: Ἄσσος, Latin: Assus), also known as Behramkale or for short Behram, is a small historically rich town in the Ayvacık district of the Çanakkale Province, Turkey. During Pliny the Elder's time (1st century CE), the city also bore the name Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία).[1] Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assos)
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When the Persians attacked Assos, King Hermias was caught and put to death.[2] Aristotle fled to Macedonia, which was ruled by his friend King Philip II of Macedon.[2] There, he tutored Philip's son, Alexander the Great.[2] There is a modern statue of Aristotle at the town entrance.[3]"
https://www.livius.org/pictures/turkey/behramkale-assos/assos-theater/assos-theater-1/
Assos Theater
Assos Cistern
https://www.livius.org/pictures/turkey/behramkale-assos/assos-cistern/assos-cistern-1/
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note: same structure as the above you go in Dyrachium, inside the amphitheater, but there is no pictures online of the inside, I presume due to copyright. Someone from Durrës could easily produce proof for my claim)
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After the reign of Alexander the Great, there was no clear demarcation of the zones of influence of Antigonid Macedonia and Seleucid Asia"
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In the sixth century, Assos became part of the Lydian and Persian empires, but it retained its Greek character. The temple of Athena, built in c.530 BCE, is as impressive today as it was in Antiquity; it is the only temple in Doric style in Asia Minor."
Also note:
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After the Persian Wars, Assos was a member of the Delian League, but after the Athenian defeat in the Decelean War, the city became Persian. In 366, the city offered hospitality to a rebel satrap named Ariobarzanes, was besieged by the Persians, but held out."
Implication of distinct cultural entity, implied from the Doric style...
Implication of distinct political entity, implied by the siege, which held out...
Compare:
To Amphitheater in Dyrrachium... from the style to the foundation. Also notice the cistern.
(note: I am so pissed at the Albanian government for the little care they take of their archaeological wealth... letting it rot.. literally)
Ulqin Castle
And somehow... If I was to listen to Markod or Yetos there is:
a) no continuity of culture and habitation in Dyrrachium between ancient peoples of the area and modern Albanians...
- Despite buildings being continuously build 10 meters aside...
- or 10 meters above.... (They found out the Dyrrachium amphitheater while building communist projects...)(subsequently letting it rot)
b)I will not speak about Ulqin. Se lëshoen zagarët, që vetëm ujq nuk jan.
More sources for people with eyes:
https://www.livius.org/articles/battle/siege-of-dyrrhachium-48-48-bce/
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https://www.livius.org/articles/place/via-egnatia/)
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This is why linguists take several remarks by the authors of ancient dictionaries, which otherwise might have been interpreted as indications for a mere difference in dialect, quite seriously. For example, there is evidence that Greeks were unable to understand people who were makedonizein, "speaking Macedonian". The Macedonian king Alexander the Great was not understood by the Greeks when he shouted an order in his native tongue and the Greek commander Eumenes needed a translator to address the soldiers of the Macedonian phalanx. The Greek orators Thrasymachus of Chalcedon and Demosthenes of Athens called Macedonian kings like Archelaus and Philip II"barbarians", which prima facie means that they did not speak Greek. Now this happens in polemical contexts and is certainly exaggerated, but the statements need to refer to some kind of linguistic reality."
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https://www.livius.org/articles/place/macedonia/macedonia-2/)
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The settlement of these people between others marks the beginning of the history of Macedonia. Although Homer does not mention the Macedonians as member of the Greek coalition in the Trojan War, his younger contemporary Hesiod (
comment: We are talking 800BC, 500 post-factum)
presented the Macedonians as related to the Greeks. The Persians made had a similar view: they made a distinction between Yaunâtyaiy paradrayâ ("Greeks across the sea") and Yaunâ takabarâ ("with sunhats", i.e., Macedonians).The Macedonian principalities were united under one supreme leader, king Amyntas, a member of the Argead dynasty(comment: refer to the earlier post by Derite regarding the book that mentions the flood, and the Rhapsode that could name 30+ Argaed dynasty kings out of heart)"
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https://www.livius.org/articles/place/macedonia/macedonia-3/)
Archaic helmet from Sindos (Ancient Macedonian)
(https://www.livius.org/pictures/greece/sindos/sindos-archaic-helmet/)
"Illyrian" type helmet. Bronze. 6th-5th century BC. From Argolis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illyrian_helmet_1.jpg)
Bronze Illyrian Helmet Replica from Ancientreplicas.com.au
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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/430727151852559579/?lp=true)
A little bonus:
https://www.livius.org/pictures/turkey/behramkale-assos/assos-tower/assos-tower-1/
Assos Tower
http://ul-info.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Kulla-e-Ballshajve.jpg
Kulla E Ballshajve
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The Tower of the Balšić, (Cyrillic: Кула Балшића, Albanian: Kulla e Ballshajve) located on the upper, highest level is a citadel-fortress with a tower that dominates the old town and the surrounding countryside. It is connected to the last representatives of the Balšić dynasty, a wealthy family from the Shkodër area (today Albania, in that time Zeta), who had made Ulcinj their residence by the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries. Later the Ottomans built the third floor of the Balšić Tower as well as the spherical dome on the ground floor. This magnificent edifice has a view of the sea from three sides. It is considered to be one of the most representative edifices of medieval architecture in Montenegro. These days, it is used as a gallery or a location for organizing poets' nights."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulcinj_Castle#The_Tower_of_the_Balšić)
Since I know people did not take the Behrami picture in seriousness... They will not take this either, but just maybe they should.
Lulzim
Basha Opposition Leader, Albania PD (Democratic Party)
You can hate me. But at least believe your eyes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus
"Antigonus I Monophthalmus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίγονος ὁ Μονόφθαλμος, translit. Antigonos ho Monophthalmos, Antigonus the One-eyed, 382–301 BC), son of Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under Alexander the Great. During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's death, declaring himself king in 306 BC and establishing the Antigonid dynasty."
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Antigoni na paska qenë Rambo. 1me3 kundër gjeneraleve të ngelur të Lekës, [
Cassander, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus against Antigonus] [Third Diadoch War]
Se vetëm kështu na rruajn ***** (1v2[te pakten]+Kalin ne Trojë) (1v3 Mbas
Lekës) .
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- 334: Invasion of Asia; Antigonus is commander of the (note: ancient)Greek hoplites
- 333: Antigonus is made satrap of Phrygia; defeats the Persian armies several times, conquers Lycaonia
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Antigonea (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνεια or Ἀνριγονία), also transliterated as Antigonia and Antigoneia, was an ancient Greek[1] city in Chaonia, Epirus, and the chief inland city of the ancient Chaonians. It was founded in the 3rd century BC by Pyrrhus of Epirus, who named it after one of his wives, Antigone, daughter of Berenice I and step-daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonia_(Chaonia)
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Note... my village is ridiculed for saying (std.AL:Shtë-pia) (EN:House) as (colloquial: Shp-
eija), I am sure even foreigners can make the difference)
In fact the std.Albanian
ellagonia, people in my grandfathers village would call Pellagon
eja) Sounds archaic, hence is ridiculed, in good jest)(Për Shqipet: Bastardizim fare kur më ka rënë rasti dhe te dëgjojë "Allbaneja" të shqiptuar nga Katunar... shumë e quditshme gjuha...)
Markod if this doesn't blind you mate, you were born blind.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/antigone
https://www.behindthename.com/name/antigona/submitted
A simple Facebook search will yield you the
current nationality of the name: (
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Antigona ) (Not that a name has a nationality, hope you don't get hung over
semantics, Behrami Swiss yada yada)
Thank God, not another word will I bare from you (Yetos, Markod), or should I thank technology...
Now scramble to find some proof for your bull statements that Pirro or Epirros have nothing to do with Albanians.
Since I know you are a serb @Markod
you can certainly read this, but I cant:
http://pravdabl.com/simbolika-kosovke-djevojke/
Is that a
black double headed eagle on a red shield? In the painting Kosovkse Devojke? About the battle of Kosovo. By a Serb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Maiden
I wonder what a shield symbolizes... in Art I mean... I am sure its just coincidental... Just like
Pyrrus, and
Antigone, and
Dardans, and
Hyllus, and
Illyrians, and
Agron etc... etc..
I am sure all of this is just coincidental.
I mean Homer, I mean Strabo, I mean Virgil... I mean Art... I mean Architecture... I mean Weapons and Helmets and Shields... I mean language...
It is surely ... all coincidental. No
meaning whatsoever...
We Albos just dropped down from the moon...
Meanwhile here we are, 3000 years later, chillin'. **** the haters.
(I really like the
golden finish on the knives, that's
no highwayman for sure, I wonder what he was
smoking xD) (I also really like his
sun hat... or should I say Plis/Qeleshe.)
Painting by PAJA JOVANOVIĆ ( VRŠAC 1859 – VIENNA 1957) (Check out his wonderful work, I give props where its due. I am not a hater)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paja_Jovanović
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His most significant works are: The Wounded Montenegrin (1882), Decorating of the Bride (1886) and Migration of the Serbs (1896). He also painted many famous portraits."