Albanian related to other languages

Reading through the threads of this forums I noticed that many members have some knowledge on old and modern languages, as well as on their history. Probably some of them would like to share their knowledge on this topic, that i decided to start because I think that albanian is an interesting phenomenon (as a language). As you might know it is classified among IE languages, but it has no close relative. This language is related to latin, slavic (old bulgarian), greek and turkish, in terms of borrowed vocabulary, it has also a big share of words which are considered albanian propper, but gramatically, synthaxically, morphologically talking it remained an odd language. Historically most of the historians accept that it is related to the old Illyrian, others prefere thracian. Others link it to the Ethruscan, and then to the Basque and other pre IE languages, and others (few of them though) refere to the Caucasus Albania.