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QuoteReplyTopic: Are Albanians related to Greeks? Posted: 27-Jun-2015 at 17:28
I can't comment as it's not my general area of expertise ie. linguistic identifications perse. Or Genetics or anthro cultural diffusion etc.
And while no doubt a notable ruler and major famed military commander; and major pain in the Roman and Carthaginian arse..he was not the first of his line hence I cant qualify him as the founder of either the Molossian or Epirus or Macedon dynasties.
And I would presume that an appellation as such; would be either reserved for ...or and more probably because of his military fame. And that certainly might be plausible.
Like him or not he was a remarkable and gifted soldier.
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Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 27-Jun-2015 at 17:30
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Albanian language belongs to Roman group of languages.Only other Roman language on Balkans is
Valachian=Aromani as they officialy call themselves in official news on TV.Albania&Macedonia& Greece&... share this population.Personally they remind me on "Assirians" more even if they are a lot of mixture with native population.
What about Romania? It's funny how you compare vlach people with Assirians. I can give you few groups of ancient balkan population that might be in some way related to them, illyrian, thracian or facial. Another story I have heard as a child from my grandfather was that during Roman Empire veteran soldiers were settled down in balkan and mixed with local people. In a way might hold some water, because we know that soldiers couldn't be farmers so they become shepherds and mercenaries (a lot to discuss about this ) to byzantine, ottoman and normans. Why Assirians and not Hittite?
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