Johane Derite
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It's interesting you don't consider it likely that speakers of Proto- or Pre-Albanian may have lived in Moesian flat lands because of the "shepherd's culture" of the more historically recent Albanian tribes, since many Albanian members, apparently very nationalist ones, have repeatedly presented linguistic evidences of Proto-Albanian presence in Dardania (the toponym itself), in parts of Macedonia and in towns of present-day Serbia (e.g. Nish). Therefore, either Proto-Albanian speakers could well have lived in flat lands, too, and were not somehow intrinsically restricted to the mountains and to shepherd activities, with a much broader geographic range and a more diversified economy than you're implyign; or all those supposedly Albanian etymologies that evidence the Albanoid character of people living in those lands are in fact incorrect. You can't have both ways.
What do you not understand about Albanians being erased from Epirus being the problem here? Albanians were in Dardania...And they were in Epirus. Thats it, thats what the evidence shows, not that it was either or.
And actually its good that we talk a bit about Dardanians and Moesians. See, the first time the ethnonym "Illyrian" is mentioned is sometime around the 5th Century Bc. Whereas the term Dardanian is mentioned in the Iliad and the Homeric Hymns in ~8th-7th Century BC.
Likewise are the Mysians mentioned in the Iliad.
Its already established that the Dardanians, Mysians and Phrygians of Troy are related to the Dardanians, Moesians, and Bryges of the Balkans. (See: The Wanderings of Dardanus and the Dardani).
So this is actually very interesting, since if Homers Illiad is faithfully talking about events that happened at the Bronze age collapse, then the attestation of Dardanians and Moesians is confirmed from around 1300BC.
Thats almost a thousand years earlier than the ethnonym "Illyrian" is attested. So semantically what you call Albanians is irrelevant, the point is that we have the Albanian language popping up in Epirus, Macedonia, Dardania, Moesia. And Greeks since the time of the Iliad seem to have been interacting with them.
So if Matzinger and Schumacher want to find some tribes maybe speaking some proto germanic or something, and want to brand them as the Illyrians only, for their own agendas, I do not care.
This does not undo the fact that the Albanian language is found in antiquity where it is found.