Explorers and conquestors gave the region the name of Illyria, not Serbs or Albanians. They are a product of conquests and racial mixture. None can claim it their country... only families that have deep roots in the region if any.

Explorers and conquestors exploited the "Illyrian" people which caused tribes to unite against other uniting tribes at the distance. Divide and conquer!

Countries where then formed by their regional names, then came governments.

Governments helped other governments. They kill their own people. This is the end of your race and nationality because your government is about its wealth and not who you are or where you originated from.

Kosovo's flag is not Albanian, its a colony of the European Union or NATO or U.S.

Kosovo is a product of U.S. colonizing. Don't be surprised if a missle site is going to be developed there and Poland.

People are stupid!

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Instead, I have read your posts, which are mainly comments on the comments rather than on the article. Concentrate on the article, please. If you don't, I am sure you must have experienced the same feeling as mine, which is why, you are attracted to what each of you says or makes up.

In my opinion, Gjoni is absolutely right in what he is writing about, despite his style. Others’ reaction to his comments are also understandable. This is what happens when you hear things that you have never heard before. This depends on what you have been educated with, what you have read and what propaganda you have been subject to. I think it’s nobody’s fault.

That the Illyrians are the forefathers of today’s Albanians is true beyond any doubt /see: http://members.lycos.co.uk/illyrians/ Arguments, no matter how they are presented, should not be disregarded out of hand because somebody has not heard or read about them before. Every argument, despite the source, should be taken seriously. This is what I always do, no matter how it is worded or who dishes it up to us, be it the "famous" I.P. [the initials of Iliya Pavlovich, used by a reader who posts his/her comments on this website] or somebody else.

As to the names ‘Albania’ and ‘Albanians’, I would say that they derive from 'Arber' [the name of an ancient Illyrian tribe] or 'Arberia' [the country of the Arbers, the Albanians]. These terms are used by foreigners to denote the country of the Albanians and the Albanians themselves. Such names are relatively new and have gone through a process of evolution.

The change of nations’ names through the ages is not a new phenomenon. The inhabitants of today’s Greece, for instance, were not always called Greeks. The denomination 'Greek' is relatively new. Or, let’s take the name of the country of the Serbs, 'Serbia'. Until the 1930s, Serbia was called 'Servia' and the Serbs were called 'Servians' from the Latin word ‘servus’ meaning ‘servants’, or ‘slaves’. The terms 'Servia' and 'Servians' make sense because the Serbs came to the Balkans as mercenaries, namely, as servants of the Byzantine emperor in 630 AD. And the Servians (servants) settled in part of Illyrian territories, which we call Serbia. Why do we say 'Serbia' and not 'Servia', today? In 17th and early 20th century English works, the country was often referred to as 'Servia'. The usage of this term offended the Serbs because "Servia", as already said, linked the Serbs to the Latin 'servus', a slave or a servant. Because of the protests by Serbs, the British press stopped using the term by the 1930s, because, as can be seen, it was too offensive to the Serbs.

The other Slavs (Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians) had settled in other parts of Illyria not long before the Serbs set foot on Balkan soil. They mingled with the Illyrian local population and today, we have such names as Croats, Slovenes and Bosnians (Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox), the product of the then admixture of the local population and the new comers.

As regards Constantine the Great, he hailed from today’s Nish (Naisus) located in Serbia. Since Nish is in Serbia, it does not mean that he was Serbian and not Illyrian. Things are not as simple as that. In his time, the Serbs were still living in Asia. Since the majority of scholars consider the Albanians to be descendants of the Illyrians, we may as well say that Constantine the Great who made Christianity the official religion of the Empire, must have been Albanian. But this does not exclude other options. For example, he might have come to Naisus from Allemagne, Galia, the British Isles, Normandy, the Alps of Switzerland or from the Baikal Lake area, the original location of the Servians. Nothing can be ruled out. The question is: How can you prove that he was not Illyrian and that the Albanians are not the descendants of the Illyrian population that lived in what until recently was called Yugoslavia? You can in no way rely on hearsay or wishful thinking. Far from it.

Don’t blame others when they say something you don’t know. Blame yourself for not knowing it.

a) Encyclopedia Britanica is not the only authoritative source of history?

b) Byzantine Emperor's name was CONSTANTINE, not Constadine?

c) There were Serbian tribes that lived in and around the town of Sindidun (mispronounced as Singidunum) 600 years before the bith of Christ, and intermarried with the invading Celtic tribes (Scordics)?

d) There never, ever was a war of agression started by any of the Slavic tribes - as long as they have been on Earth?

e) throughout their history Albanians (mostly Muslims) didn't have more than one or two chruches in their own country in spite of claiming to be Christians?

f) the Albanians were always on the wrong side of every major war, and always lost those wars - along with their paymasters (the Turks)?

First Gjoni asks for sources (never does it provide its own sources blaming Russians) - once I provided sources it changes the topic. - FATAL FLAW 1

Second gjoni keeps changing names and posts - treachery and lies - FATAL FLAW 2

Third gjoni ignores any and all arguments it asked for in the prior posts, showing absolute inability to conduct any two way conversation - FATAL FLAW 3 - borders on insanity.

The presence of such people is exactly what brought the terrible wrath on all of Albania - which never had any allies as a country, it was always the bottomless pit of the world - and there it will stay. Thank God there are people like this gjoni who only prove beyond any doubt that Albanians are both immature, un-intelligent, trecherous, liars who are unable to hold a conversation - let alone run a country.