Professor of the University of Athens Nikos Dimou in an interview for NY Times for the new Museum of Athens said that today's Greeks speak one time Albanian and have no connection with the ancient Greeks...

Its the fault of a German, Mr. Dimou said about Greek pride in this cause. He was referring to Johann Winckelmann, the 18th-century German art historian whose vision of an ancient Greece populated by beautiful, tall, blond, wise people, representing perfection, as Mr. Dimou put it, was in a sense imposed on the country to shape modern Greek identity.

We used to speak Albanian and call ourselves Romans, but then Winckelmann, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, they all told us, No, you are Hellenes, direct descendants of Plato and Socrates, and that did it. If a small, poor nation has such a burden put on its shoulders, it will never recover.

Mallakastriot vellai aman lere te shkretin Kapterr rrehat se eshte gjynah prej zotit. Pse behesh kaq i keq or burr me te ? Cte bej ai sot sipas teje? Te neperkemb stergjyshin e tije qe ja blene trurin Gerxhet e qe bene Himaren si burdello e ja zeruan historine apo te pranoje se ceshte e mos te shoh endra se cdo te jete ( si psh vetdeklarimi i famshem) . Bej sevap e lere kurven e gjore te grekut te dashuroje Greket e ata si te cilet nuk eshte. Nuk behet fjale ne jemi me te miret a te keqinjte e kasaj bote po Shqiptare jane ato qe nuk e dredhin nga fryn era e sna duhet me i be prap shqiptar fekalet tona prandaj te lutem lere rrehat gjynafqarin ... lol

J.Millingen
(Memoirs of the affairs of Greece,London,1831,page.208-209)

A few days after our arrival in this village , Spiro Milio presented himself to Mavrocordato,
with a corps of two hundred picked Chimariots,the most martial-looking men in the whole army.
They are not to be distinguished from Albanians,their dress and language being perfectly similar;
but though their religion is Greek,they do not understand one syllabe of Romaic..
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Thua ta dije sternipi i spiridhonmillonait cfare etnie ka pasur stergjyshi?...mah

I am Greek and I know that Albanians are Illyrian. Albania holds the Illyrian legacy I think.

BERATLA: e di qe eshte kenge e bukur edhe ndaj e postoj ketu qe te zbukuroj pak kete kanal ...lol

@alketux erdha :)))

@Beratla ............. ty ste pergjogjem se sme me Alketux te te flas ma ka ndaluar ...looooool

@alketux: e the bukur ''. Si gjith bota fundja po prape te semure mbetemi .. LOL'', heheh shiko shpjegoja mire beratla se ,se do na nxjerri ndonje cifte te na vrasi loooooooooool

Semundja kronike e ka burimin e vet tek ajo qe i the Malsorit perpara = injoranca. Kjo e fundit e perzier me nje krenari boshe, ka bere qe jo vetem te jene euforik dhe tu duket vetja me te mire se te tjeret, por edhe te hedhin poshte gjithcka reale qe u del perpara.

@BeratLA: Ku i sheh poetet ti? Une ketu shoh vetem te semure kronike qe duan te duken me te zgjuar se te tjeret... Si gjith bota fundja po prape te semure mbetemi .. LOL Vetem se ca kane lindur me varjantin me te rrezikshem te kesaj semundje dmth ate qe te ha personalitetin ose qellimet qe i kemi vene kesaj jete te vetme.. Shiko Sadjolen si perbuz fshatin e si i therret elladhes ne nje meyre kaq te ulet sa kam zili te jem fshatar e te bertas rrnoft Shqypnia ma fort se gjithnje vec me u distancu nga ky model sjelljeje njerezore, pastaj shih Kapterrin si e harroi Himaren e u largua prej saj duke u krekosur ne YT me Shqipe qe ska per ti ndyshuar ndonjehere duke ditur se Himara nuk mund tja lejoj vetes te shkoj dem nje Spiro Milo me numerin e vogel te banoreve qe kane .... LOL e pse? Se jane te semure kronik varjanti terminal!!!