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Documenting the historical, cultural & esoteric qualities of Epirus, with commentary on Balkan politics and events 🇦🇱
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You know a quick way for Albania to gain millions of population, without resorting to importing third world criminals who don’t speak or aren’t Albanian?
Unify with Kosovo.
Instant 1.5 million people who already speak Albanian, are culturally Albanian… and are Albanians
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I just found out that a majority of Greek national heroes spoke Albanian as an inside language…
Why? 🤔💭
I just found out that a majority of Bolshevik Commissars spoke ‘Yiddish’ as an inside language…
Why? 🤔💭
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Map of Albania, after 1,000 Albanians were asked to draw their ideal borders
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Albanians have some of the lowest crime rates in Europe
We are simply scapegoats for west Euro “nationalist” parties & blamed for crime because their totalitarian governments don’t allow them to criticize non European migrant crime, but only Europeans like Romanians & Albanians
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There’s nothing like waking up to the sound of a rooster in rural Albania
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Just bought the vendor’s entire inventory, with tip
I love spending money in Albania & giving money to my people
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The Albanian Orthodox Church in Tirana held a mass to commemorate the Cham Albanians killed and ethnically cleansed by the Greek government after the end of WW2 ☦️🇦🇱
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Ottoman colonialist project that has nothing to do with Albanians and will be empty and a waste of money
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I just found out that a majority of the Egyptian Royal Family from 1805 to 1952 spoke ‘Albanian’ as an inside language…
Why? 🤔💭
I just found out that a majority of Bolshevik Commissars spoke ‘Yiddish’ as an inside language…
Why? 🤔💭
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A young Albanian soldier with a plis in an oil on canvas by Charles Bargue (1826-1883).
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If all Albanians played for the Albania NT we’d be a consistent semifinals team in major tournaments
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There are 17,513 Albanians in Croatia (2011 census)
They are an autochthonous national minority recognized by the Constitution of Croatia
They elect a special representative to the Croatian Parliament
The Albanian language is also officially recognised in Croatia 🇦🇱🇭🇷
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Albanian journalist Blendi Fevziu implores Albanians to check their real ethnicity on the upcoming census
“When the day comes to declare, Remember who your grandfather fought for, your parents, what language your grandmother spoke, & declare what you really are. Don’t lie”
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The last time Alexander was at the head of an army of Albanians like this was when he marched on Persia
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The first attested written mention of the Albanian language was on 14 July 1284 in Dubrovnik (modern Croatia) when a crime witness testified: "I heard a voice crying on the mountain in the Albanian language" (Latin: Audivi unam vocem, clamantem in monte in lingua albanesca).
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Ethnic map of Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia and Montenegro
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The loss of Ulqin within Albanian borders is perhaps one of the greatest losses to the culture and history of the Albanian people
From the 15th to the 19th centuries, the Adriatic experienced a period of Albanian piracy mainly originating from the port city of Ulcinj, the pirates referred to as “Dulcignotti” & considered the most dangerous pirates of the Adriatic.
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Adem Jashari posing with his biggest inspiration and national hero Skenderbeu in Tirana in the 1990s with other members of the UÇK
His religion was a private matter as it is with all Albanians
RIP to the heroes 🇦🇱🇦🇱
Secular and Christian Albanians literally think sins make Muslims fall from the religion, but the Muslim Orthodoxy (Sunni Islam) believes that sins require punishment in the afterlife. So, Adam Jeton'i* was Muslim.
* Adem is the Arabic form of Adam and Jashar = jeton in 🇹🇷.
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Kosovo is Albania 🇦🇱
Saranda last night
A lot of Serbs in the club
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The blue triangle in the picture below is an area connected to Proto-Albanian toponyms by recent linguistic research, and the likely area where the ‘Illyrian’ dialect which evolved into Albanian - probably the so called Dardanian language or a language close to it - was spoken.
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Rough map of the historical & current distribution of Albanians in the Balkans
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Albanians need to say no to EU membership.
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Crucifixion, Michele Da Verona
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The Roman battle flag, adopted by Skenderbeg as the flag of the Albanian people, can be seen
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The Illyrian Sheepdog (Albanian: Deltari Ilir, Qeni i Sharrit, meaning Illyrian Dog or Dog of Sharr) or Šarplaninac is a dog breed of the livestock guardian type originally from the border area between Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania (the Sharr mountains)
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Marko Boçari (Greek: Markos Botsaris)
by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1874
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Kanye West wearing the double headed eagle on a red background
He joins Drake as the latest American artist to find inspiration from Albanians 🇦🇱
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Long lost cousins.
This one is my favourite. This is the Platonic ideal of a Romanian shepherd, it's exactly as I imagine one to look like when reading folk ballads.
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In May 1845, following Reşid Pasha's outlawing of the right to bear arms, 2,000 rebels from the Gjakova region, and the Gjakova Highlander tribes of Krasniqi, Gashi and Bytyçi rose in revolt. The rebels, about 8,000 men, drove the Ottoman garrison out of Gjakova
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Prime Minister Edi Rama posts tribute to Adem Jashari on Instagram for Flag Day
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@JackPosobiec
I don’t get African Americans obsession with seasoning & claiming Whites don’t season their food
Do they just not know Italians or Meds or southern rednecks (who they copied their entire cousine from) exist?
Their version of “soul food” is just greasy white southern food
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The period in Albania from ‘97 to about ‘06 where the power went out for about 6 hours every day was oddly romantic
No phones, no internet, no lights, no fridge
Just vibes and family
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Hasan Tahsini was an Albanian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. He was the first rector of Istanbul University & one of the founders of the Committee for Albanian Rights. Tahsini is regarded as one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
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Who’s going to tell Romanians that they’re an offshoot of Albanian tribes who decided to speak Latin?
Albanians hating on Romanians... who's going to tell them that their anthem was composed by a Romanian (Ciprian Porumbescu)? 😂
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The original Albanian endonym and name for Albania (Arbëria) was mostly replaced by the new term ‘Shqiptar' and ‘Shqipëria' during the early modern period in late-Ottoman Albania. The new term, from ‘shqip' (‘(to speak) clearly’), itself derived from Latin ‘excipere', meant—
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Loved by few.
Hated by many.
Feared by all 🇦🇱
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Portraits of Skenderbeg & a song praising Adem Jashari & the UÇK in the middle of Athens
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Asking for Blood Forgiveness / End of a Blood feud
by Paja Jovanovic
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90% of “Bosniaks” in Montenegro & southeast Sanxhak are Albanians who chose the Muslim identity
90% of “Turks” in Macedonia are Albanians who simply never dropped the Turk label
Her name is Hazbija Skenderovic (Hazbije Skenderi 🇦🇱) and she says she is Muslim Montenegrin 💀💀💀
Hardcore Assimilation vibes - Shqiptare e Sanxhakut...
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The commander of the “Kukes Division” of the Albanian Ground Forces, General Kudusi Lama, was the KLA’s biggest supporter. He organized troop transports, logistical support, medical evacuation of wounded KLA fighters, & authorized air strikes on Yugoslav border positions
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15th-16th century Albanian tribes in the territory of modern-day Montenegro
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Long live the pagan traditions of Illyrians
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The Republic of Albania should file a formal complaint about the Montenegrin flag to the EU, similar to how Greece raised issues with North Macedonia
Montenegro, while only achieving statehood in 2006, has blatantly ripped off the Albanian flag into a weird version
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Reminder that out of all the eras of history we were blessed to exist in the one where Albanians actually have a state (arguably two states), when for the vast majority of history foreigners ruled over us & foreign languages were spoken in our cities
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Tribal tattoos recorded on elders in the northern Albanian highlands, following an ethnographic study of the Kelmendi tribe in 1975
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Unpopular opinion: I like hearing the call of the mosque
Classical music really out of place in Prizren, the muezzin voice will cleanse.
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Tombstone with the Illyrian name Tritos, Platoros (Tritos, son of Plator), 2nd century BCE)
Apollonia, Albania
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@witte_sergei
This is actually a mainstream opinion and not controversial
The premier expert on Alexander, Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn, thought the same
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The Albanians are the rightful heirs of Orthodoxy in Kosovo, considering our flag is the flag of the Roman Empire, while the modern Serbian flag was created in 2006
It’s time for the Orthodox Church in Albania to enter the territory and assume control of the seat in Peja
Саопштење Епархије рашко-призренске поводом јучерашње провале и злоупотребе храма св. Арх. Михаила код Подујева од стране лица које се лажно представља као албански свештеник и групе кос. Албанаца, који су наводно служили “литургију” и преименовали храм.
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There is currently a low intensity conflict being fought between Albanian and North Macedonian mountaineers who take turns replacing the flag on top of Mount Korab (highest peak of both Albania & Macedonia) with each other’s flags
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According to this chart, Albanian is the oldest surviving Indo-European language
We’ve published a critique of Heggarty et al. 2023 (Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages) as an eLetter in Science:
This figure sums up our concerns.
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Reddit post of an Arvanite in Greece rediscovering his heritage, & attempting to learn & preserve the language
He describes the “almost hysterical” hatred and taboo towards Albanians & mentioning Arvanite heritage or learning about their history
God bless the Arvanites 🇦🇱
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Apparently the guys who administered justice to this fake asylum seeker are Albanians
The violent fake asylum seeker in Switzerland found out. Education is important.
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Not only were Serbia and the Serbs never the “first line of defense” for Christianity (at any point…)
Serbia and the Serbs actually were the first line of attack for the Ottomans during the siege of Constantinople and were instrumental in the fall of the city
25 years ago, the battle for Košare began when the Serbian army managed to repulse the attacks of NATO and Albanian jihadist terrorists who rushed towards Serbian land.
Serbia and the Serbs have always been the first line of defense of Christianity.
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Illyricum boasted having more Roman Emperors than Italy itself
Place of birth of the Roman Emperors from BCE 27 to CE 518. Many Roman Emperors were born outside of modern day Italy. Source:
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The flag of Kosovo used in 1918, by the National Defense League of Kosovo, an Albanian nationalist organization aimed at liberating Kosovo from Yugoslavia & joining with Albania
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Albania sends its regards
Initial Reports from Search-and-Rescue Teams are stating that all Passengers including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have Died.
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In the early 20th century, the Greek state launched a program of extermination towards the Albanians of Çameria, killing 10,000 & expelling over 250,000 people
The region of Çameria contained some of the best Albanian music & beauty
In honor of Çameria, the heart of Albania
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Review from a tourist in Plazhi i Manastirit, south Albania apparently lost forever due to greedy resort construction
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@LandsharkRides
Masons always play the number 33 on Roulette and I’ve been told by workers it eerily hits more than any other single number
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These are the most Albanian looking Albanians I’ve ever seen lmao
@Ieptirica
Photo of (Serbian) Radenković family from the village of Srbovac near Zvečan in Kosovo and Metohija, with the names of members written on it.
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The “Villa Albani” of Rome
Built in 1747 for Cardinal Alessandro Albani of the Albani family, originating from Laç, northern Albania
After taking refuge in Italy following the Alb-Venetian war, the Albani family rose to prominence & high status within the church & government
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According to Rose Wilder Lane in “Peaks of Shala”, possible remnants of Neanderthals or EEF (Early European Farmers) survived in the remote mountains of northern Albania
Attached is a specimen pictured by Rose Lane, a bandit encountered in a cave above Lake Shala
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Coat of arms of the Republic of Albania
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On August 9, 1823, Markos Botsaris was killed fighting the army of Mustafa Bushati, Pasha of Shkodra
His last words, confusing Bushati with a fellow Souliote, were “Më vrau” (Alb. “He killed me”..) upon which hearing the words, Bushati responded in Alb., “You’re Albanian too?”
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Greece interferes in a stolen election in southern Albania, so the Albanian PM goes to Athens and sings our national anthem with thousands of Albanians right in the capital of Greece.
Huge display of strength and conveys that Albanians will never stand down 🇦🇱
🇦🇱🇬🇷 Huge crowd gathered in the Greek capital Athens for a speech by Albanian PM Edi Rama.
Rama responded to Greek critics, stating he came to be hosted by "equal masters" of Greece, not their former "servants".
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“It is generally agreed, and rightly so, that the modern Albanian cap originates directly from the similar cap worn by the Illyrians”
(Stipčević, Aleksandar (1977). “The Illyrians: History and Culture”
History and Culture Series. Noyes Press. p. 89.)
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By the Late Middle Ages, during the period of Humanism and the European Renaissance, the terms epirot, Epir and gjuhë epirote (Latin: epirota, Epirus, lingua epirotica) were preferred in the intellectual, literary and clerical circles of the time, used as synonyms for Albanians
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