The Kalas people are extremely simple, hence, they are being seduced to believe that they are Greeks or Macedonians. They are neither. They are just the true pure Aryans and truly Central Asian. Their language is closer to Rigvedic-Sanskrit-Avestan and is Dardic. Lakshan Bibi Kalas has a big task ahead to maintain the racial, linguistic, religious and cultural tradition of her great people. All the Aryan people of India support her in this.
You are right saying that they are neither macedonian nor greek,cause Aleksander was none of them he was Albanian,and albanian origin is their identity,and we are arians,we are not slavians as macedonians of today,or arabic as greeks, I dont know how the language Rigvedic-Sanskrit-Avestan sound like,but i know that many of their names and words sound like albanian! I have plenty of materials that support that! Stop with the fake history and lies!
such a stupid biased video. these people treat women worse than muslim people do. for example when a woman is on her period she is banished from the house and is deemed physically impure as a person even. i cant beleive how anti muslim this video is. rubbish pathetic video.
these people are not muslims. if you are not muslim you are a kaafir. simple. its okay for jews to call a non jew a gentile. such a rubbish insulting video.
These are my neighbours. They are very Central Asian. They have nothing to do with the Greeks and Macedonians. These simple-minded people are being brainwashed to believe that they are Greeks or Macedoninans. Pakistani Punjab was under Alexander, yet most people in this region are quite dark. This tells you that in the Indian subcontinent it was a taboo to mix with foreigners. The Kalash are an original Aryan people of this region. They are ancient yet original.
@Wani400 The Aryan race is a concept historically influential in Western culture in the period of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The most basic division of the Indian society is of Aryans and Dravidians. North Indians are Aryans and south Indians are Dravidians. This is one complete Lie. Aryans do not exist, it was a concept used by the British people to separate India. In fact, Kalash people are Ancient Macedonians.
@Hipponikos Actually, you get your facts correct, because Kalash people themselves never once identified as being Aryans, they always claim to be of Macedonian origin. A very close friend of mine is from that area they live in. Kalash people are not of Aryan origin. Aryans are merely Iranian people, commonly related to Armenians. Iranian people are mainly Kurds, Pashtuns, Gilakis, Paminirs, Mazandaranis, etc and all of these Iranian ethnic groups are of Caucasus origin.
@Hipponikos Keep in mind, there is Greek invaded settlers still living in Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan due to the Greek conquests in those regions. Kalash ancestry dates back to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, mainly known today as Indo-Greek Kingdom and/or Indo-Europeans, coincidence?
People of Kalash are HINDU. They NEVER screw their bloodline by mixing with Pakis and NEVER turn Muslim.
Thats the reason they are being killed and their families are moving outside. This makes the Pakis happy so their ugly black asses can mix with the Kalash people, and then they can call themselves Kalash... What a fucking joke!
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Which muslims are trying to convert them; they have retained their own culture regardless of muslims living near them. The region is full of evangelists and missionaries; just check out Asia Harvest videos on the Kalash and other central asian tribes and you'll see what I mean.
@uzmamahnaz Kalash people fought tooth and nail and fled to some of the remote places on earth in order to preserve their culture. Other former 'Kafirs' were forcefully converted to Islam. Thousands were massacared by Muslims. You are right in terms of people assimilate over time but Kalash people are forced by surounding muslims to convert.Their culture in that area protrayed as immoral, as result all new generation conveting to Islam.
@Nuristanii Yes I agree, as I have since come across videos showing muslims pressurising the Kalash to convert to Islam, and that broke my heart, to see how Pakistan has become blinded by religion. It is a very sad situation in Pakistan for all Pakistanis of all religions, esp non-muslims. Even those who were secular free-thinking muslims have either had succumbed to the evangelism of these fanatics or either they have decided it is more 'pragmatic' to remain silent admidst threats of blasphemy
@Nuristanii There is a movement gaining momentum that is supporting the idea of humanism first in Pakistan, where all religions are respected and people are not judged on their personal beliefs. Qaid-e-azam built Pakistan on the premise that it was a safe haven for Muslims as well as all other religions and that they should be able to practise their beliefs without interference of the state. The majority of Pakistanis seem to have lost this message. Please check facebook page: Khudi
@uzmamahnaz I am a Nuristani and Nuristan which was formerly known as Kafiristan was converted at swordpoint to Islam.The bad thing about Islam is that it kills other cultures.Nuristan has changed beyond recogniton. The area is infiltrated by Saudi Wahabi groups who produce only mullahs.Nuristani people now have become extremely intolerant to other religions and extremely conservative towards their women.So Kalash is the only hope of our preserved culture & should be protected by Pkstni gvrmnt.
Of course they should retain their own culture, however the documentary makers are ignorant to the fact that the world has grown smaller due to technology and they are going to be exposed to the mainstream culture in pakistan regardless. This is what happens throughout history people migrate and then assimilate. You cannot patronise this ethnic group and keep them frozen in time as a museum piece let them be masters of their own destiny.
save these people- they are the reflections of our ANCIENT PAST- they MUST KEEP THEIR RELIGION AND CULTURE. I am of christian faith but I feel they are a special people that must be HELPED!!!! and preserve their culture.
And one more thing , Kafir right that is what you learned as a word ? well Kafir is an arabic word, and afghans never called us kalash kafirs, those were arabics in 16th century , next time informe yourself about peoples history instead of acting fool coz honestly there is nothing smart in your video , wrong information plus wrong orientation , instead of making video to make muslims and christians ribbons tide , u chose to be one who put in war this two nation. dats why u r low
And also we afghan macedonians did not grow in a families or culturs where it says to hate a whole nation becous they are called muslims or christians, our civilisations is build so high that this modern contries are nothing else but just a peace of abomination , and if muslims hates you guys it is becous all what you doing is a pure abomination even in christianity, afghanistan is build of budishme , christianism and islam so respect us coz this problem u face today we had it in 9th century.
Vietnam had terorists, Afghanistan have teroriste, Irak has teroriste, Iran has terorists, then here is a masseg from all Kalash people and what Kalash people think about europeans. Meybe we have been victim of names such us Kafirs back in a days but we didnt suffer much, today we would like to ask you ? why your people use knowledge for inventing modern arms , and do you guys know that talibans use american and russian weapons ? )) we think u are retarded or you close eyes in ur own crimes ?
I am a kalash and I am an afghan and I am a muslim , even in this video you show such a low cultur and education from your own side , that except relegion and skin color u dont mean anything else, this is your weakness, if we change our relegion or nationality doesnt mean we forget our incestors and it doesnt mean you are my sister becous my hair color is blond. Make a video instead about how your civilisation is retarded comparing to afghans. Coz we have no skin problem we love each other.
And what afghans are really special is that we dont have no skin color racisme in our contry what means half of your informations is totally wrong. Beauty of afghanistan is that afghan nation is build of greeks, persians, pashtons, mongolians, indians, and this is our richness and we had all this skin problem in 7th and 9th century. Instead of making a video about Kalash people make some video about how retarded other modern contries are that still stock in just skin color.
Short greek-afghan: when Seleucids found greeko-bactrian kingdom , he name the capital of this kingdom bactres or known as bactra which is called balkh and situated in afghanistan today, afghanistan have 40% white skined people and 60% indian type or arabic type. We all creat one nation today , exactly the way USA or Europeans creat their own nation mix of black african , chinis japanes , irish and many other.
First Hello every one And this people are in afghanistan and u have few in pakistan, and I am one of them , i was born in nuristan city actual afghanistan we are known as direct desendants of Alexandre the Great, my name is athila and i am light skined and grea eyes, I dont agree with your video. First : Type afghan wedding on youtube and u will see whole bunch of ladies and men mix dancing , why u mix afghans or kalash people with arabic people ? 30%afghans are white basically and we r afghans.
We need to protect the Kalasha culture from preachers (muslim or christians), its part of pakistans rich heritage and must be left alone as it has been for centuries before the road was built.
@cliftonwaterfront Pakistan's heritage? Dude, they have been part of afghanistan for thousands of years. Who is pakistan which has o more then 100 years of history to say they are pakistan's heritage?
The International pressure via International pressure and the secular Pakistanis protect these people. The Muslim clerics, the less tolerant, and hard core Muslims want them converted to Islam. Other than that most Pakistani Muslims don't care either way.
It's always the bad snakes with a bad bight that threatens everything.
Christians, Jews, and Muslims are all being harvested by their 'god' - wiped clean from the face of this planet. It's people like the Kalash and other peoples who know themselves that will live on.
PESHAWAR: Kalash people warned on Friday the whole community would leave the country in protest if the government did not take serious Birir and Rambore valleys in Chitral district for the past 20 years and had a very good record.
No firm evidence of their Macedonian background. In fact, they speak Daric, an Aryan language, write in an Aryan language, their rituals share a fair degree of resemblence to the Vedic-Zoroastrian religions.
Genetic studies have not shown a Macedonian descent.
They are simply an isolated sub-group of the INDO-ARYAN race.
They have a beautiful culture and tradition and their own religion. It MUST be protected and the people must be left to their own devices, education, learning everything to be up to themselves.
However, they themselves should be able to gather together and propagate their own religion and culture and tradition - much like the Zoroastrians/ Parsees have done.
Islamic and Christian missionaries should keep away.
will you fucking retards stop all this non sense who gives a fuck if alexander raped and pilaged ur mothers and grand mothers ...they are people with a beautiful culture end of story ...there have been wars adn conquers for as long as human history dates back im sure alexanders people were slaves to someon else , so stop this bigotry and talk like educated people
Kalasha aren't Greeks or Macedonians. They belong to Dards branch of Indo-Aryan group of big Indo-German family. They are relatives to Scythhians, not to greeks. So they can be considered as Iranians.
they are not white as europeons but they have very fair color like other people of nothern areas from pakistan. And as far as I know they are remaining army of greeks who had left here when gr8 Alexzender came.
"hayastan5" , shut your mouth close.......real makedonians are Greeks on their blood...there is Not deference...and Kalash are Greeks....stepsons of Alexander......
@hayastan5@hayastan5 Hi I dont know where and how you found all this information concerning islam destroy everything , me I am Kalash white skin boy with green eyes and red hairs, I am greek desendand and dont worry about me I am doing great with my new relegion Islam , and my Kalash civilisation is so much higher than yours that we understand the primerily things about respect humans the way they are what is missed up in your education I think, and next time informe yourself about relegion.
the race kalash they is descendants of Alexandros, next they have Greek dna because MACEDONIA THEY IS GREEK AND ONLY, this gypsies is monkey-donians because are from albania and their genuine name they is
What a beautiful people. An original trance tribe. When I stayed in Bomboret they laughed about people saying they were Greek. I miss them and worry about them since 9/11 if there was an influx of Taliban through the passes. They were under a lot of pressure. The school books they read were really indoctrinating crap.
Not being a reductionist but will you say the same thing about the north sentinelese tribe who are pitch black??. What about amazonian tribes who do not have caucasoid features which everybody perceive as beautiful?. Be honest and decorous in your response. If white is beautiful then admit it without reservations.
About 200 years ago the British forces new about them there was movie even with sean connory Title the man who would be king..in the early1900s thousand were forced by the Pakistani muslims to convert by force..Imagine what the Seljuc Turks did in Anatolia..In addition to all remarks about the Kalash if being blond to be Greek is not blood but a set of ideas culture and beliefs..We are not NAZIS
Lets think.The Greeks who got settled down in Pakistan thosands years ago were soldiers. If so, they definitly were men. They took women as their wifes from local tribes. Addopted local customs and traditions. But that still is not the answer.
Ive seen before couple of Greeks, and they werent blonds. Im not sure about the Alexander times though.
Your question provides wrong content, so an anwser would not benefit you. We are Macedonia, do not be shy to say that.
Kalashi people are proof that we are Macedonians, we can actually understand their language. And they are not slavs. Did this answer your question, anyhow?
you are a combination of bulgars , slovenians and serbs you have nothing to do with macedonians , your language is 100% sllav how can you be macedonian!!!
and you greeks have nothing to do with them becouse macedonians fought against greeks , so zip it
Macedonians as well as greeks as well as illyrians as well as everyone else in the helenic civilization fought against eachother and would put their fights on hold if faced with a common enemy. Macedonians fighting against greeks was a very normal thing. Civil wars among a group of people does not form two separate ethnicities. therefore macedonians are helenic and not slavic.
i hope at least the filthy muslims don't annoy those people. they're better than muslims will ever be.
and also slavs you have no case. Macedonians were a Greek tribe. NOTHING to do with you slavs who came in the 6th century. Alexander and Philippos were Greek names. don't forget that.
Alexander the Great was Macedonian and up to his time Macedonians were considered Barbarians by Greeks (meaning non Greek). Since Greek culture was the most advance of its time his father hired Aristotle to educate him. Macedonians were Illyrian(Albanian) people and spoke the Illyrian(Albanian) language.
So,they use to speak Greek language with outsiders, because Greek language it was like English today.But,Alexander always has spoken his language(Illyrian)with his army(soldiers).
This is funny since all the ancient Macedonians kings had GREEK names! Besides, Greece was divided into city states so you can't say enemy of the greeks since they were allies with the Aetoilians and Thesalians who were greek. You don't know much do you?
His mom was an Epirot-Illyrian (Albanian) and on his dad's side,Pelasgian(another Illyrian tribe)Macedonian.
Not(Bulgarian-Macedonian,and not Greek).
When Alexander's dad conquered Greece Macedonians assimilated with Greeks because they were so impressed by Greek culture. Alexander carried his father's principle of assimilation when he conquered Persia. Alexander and his soldiers were Macedonian thus Illyrians(Albanian).
wrong greek , we call ourselves SHQIPETAR , sons of the eagle , and that links to the time of PYRO of Illyria , you call yourselves hellens but the rest of the world greeks ! there is a big difference
oh did you know ! Illyrian in modern albanian language means free !
some one should do responsible and protect kalashan people i dnt want them to convert any other relegion period their culture their bilived is brilliant time is runing out fast
It is just unfortunate that Islam and Christianity have such expansionist views! I'm sure much cultural diversity has been lost because of missionaries of both these faiths.
none3000 say ,,they worship the greek gods and use greek dialects!,, that is nonsense. they not worship the greek gods and they language are one of indo-iranian languages,from one of dardic subgrups
kalash peple were the generations left behind by eastern europe and nurestani people were the real arrayns of afghnaistan(vedic arrayanic)all other euro invaders settled close to the first arrayans becoz of their similar looks
We dont have ANY Names Such As KALOSHI OR KALLASHI. Dont create words to show your on scorn/mock towards other cultures and people...sorry but thats what you are doing! "Kalasha" is the name. Meaning "GOD KINGS"
The Kalash People have distinctive Tribal names which you can find in today's Albanian names such as Kaloshi,Kallashi etc. and Dibra cultural elements. Kalash people are Illyrian/Albanian. Greek arguments that they are Greek should be ignored because they claim that even George Bush is a Greek >>>Giorgios Bousis and Fidel Castro >>>Filippos Kastros hence they are Greek.
They are the reminiscent of balcanic population who were enrolled in Alexander the Great's army.Not only macedonians, who were not slaves in those times. They are old stuck Thracian population. We must protect them by the muslim dogs!!! Long live Aryans!!!!
oh shut the fvck up biatch, better be a muslim than a barbaric bible thumper. Besides their all their kin in the area the ecythians, bactrians, sanskrit aryans, persian, kashmiris are muslims as well. These are not desecended from Greeks in any way, but the quite aboriginal to the area.
They are MACEDONIANS with 2000 years clear blood, and afcourse they are Aryans. They are with some blonde color on them like me, like us true Macedonians from balcan. Zieg Heil !!!
ahahha you just joking? I never have seen some "macedonian" wih blue eyes. And you are not nation all know that, you are a artifical state build by tito. So get a life.
They use so many macedonian words, and they ofiicialy stated that they dont have any conection with greece, greeks payed so much, and they said: no we dont have any conection with greece. And the albanian I wont even coment.
@zangaydaray I certainly hope that they do save their traditions and not drown in islam. They are truly living like a happy people and simple way of life.
I see propagandists are on this topic too ! Kalash people nothing to do with slavs or albanians ! Theirselves claim to be the descendence of the mans of Alexander (who's greek of course) ! Them dialect is ancient Greek and have most of similar words !
This is NOT propaganda at all what you're saying... lol
The Greek gov't is givin these ppl money and supporting them, and they are still saying they "have nothing to do woth Greeks, we are Macedonians". Obviously not Macedonians of today, that would be stupid, but Macedonians of 2400 ears ago, who are still a lare minority in current Macedonia (the Albanians minority as they self identify themselves).
you lier !!!they know they are greek macedonians!!!they even went to greece!!!!many times!!!!!leave you propaganda aside!!!you slavs,and albanian morons...shut up!!!!!
Also... their land: Tsyam?? lol... over 600,000 Chams are living now in Albania, they self identify themselves as Albananians, and the REAL Jelmims (Hellens) of the ancient world. This last statement confuses a lot of minds, however, they still don't identify themselves with ΕΛΛΑΔΑ.
@JososKosos : If you use the word Hellens you tell by yourself that they are Greeks ! The fact they live now in Albanian land made all of they Albanian citizens but their roots are greek ones , nothing to do with the real Albanians ! Yes that's a distorsion of facts and you proof one more time ! But we are addicted now from our neighbourgs !
mhayai 1 ...nobody understand you!you make no sense !!!hellen=greek!!!!!the same thing!!!!we are the hellenes!!!!we call our selves that!!!!nothing change from the ancient times!!!you call us greeks!!!!!we are the hellenes!!!!we are very proud people!!!albanians have nothing to do with us!!!!we live in hellas!!!that is our country,since the beginning of time!!!!
They do speak an ANCIENT Greek dialect. I also waznt to say that I like the Slvs but the have nothing to do with Macedonia. They came in the area 1000 years after.
"Alexander the Great were Macedonian, not Greek." ok tru, but when you're saying macadonian what do you mean. ancient macedonian or modern. because the're two different thing. todays macedonians are alavic people with slavic language, culture, custom and way of life. when on the other hand the ALBANIANS reseble them is every way.
Long live the ILLYRIAN (Albanian) solders of Alexander the Great (Leka Madh)
alexander the great greek,would laugh at you if he was here !!!!give it up leave alexander and the hellenes alone!and look at your ugly lives you miserable being!!!!
People please stop worrying about where they come from and who they were genetically linked to.The important fact that we should be concerned about is they are part of a modern world and as a civilized people we should contact pakistani embassies in our areas and should donate money to upgrade their education and basic living conditions. I know someone who DID just that, and so can you if you really CARE!!
Alexander the Great were Macedonian, not Greek. His father Philip II beat the entire Greek army and enslaved the Greeks! After that defeat, the Greeks obtained a state only 180 years ago.
In their attempt to falsify history, and justify theft of Macedonian land in a 1913 Balkan war, the Greek government have began systematic policy to "convince" the Kalash people that they are Greek! They are not!
The truth about Macedonia: historyofmacedonia . org
bulgarians are slavian people like serbians and all yougoslavian people. kalash are similar to albanians. even their language can be explained only by albanian language.
We also had stories passed down from generation to generation..as well as a line of Greek blood in my family...So for those who oppose the fact that Alexander came to Afghanistan need to do some more research on their part instead of pulling things out of their ass..
For those who deny the fact that Afghanistan was invaded by Alexander..heres some facts for ya...everywhere Alexander went, he left his trademark....he named cities after himself....in Afghanistan Kandahar means Alexander, herat is Alexdria and there were a couple more..not only that, but when I went to Afghanistan my family had artifacts that were passed down in our family from those times such as coins and some art
haha you are not a Macedonian, and neither are your people.
Ancient Macedonians were Greek who spoke Greek.
Modern Skopjean FYRO"M"s are Slavs (like the rest of their fellow YugoSLAVs, Russians, Poles, Slovakians, etc) who migrated to the region 1000 years after Alexander the Great, and you speak BULGARIAN.
The people look like today's Dardanians,(Albanians), their dance is similar to Albanian dances including their use of the flute and the drums which are part of today's Balkan culture specifically those of the Illyrians' Their skin color is partly fair and their hair color has lighter shades. Apparently this is not Greek. This is the Illyrians and Macedonians. Blonde haired and blue eyed Slavs came to the Balkans after Alexander's Empire.
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Remeber that todays sothern Albania was predominatly Greek. Re: Appolonia. What makes you so sure you are Illyrian, when you call your selves Albanoi.
Thier are many reasons why kalash are not liked by the neighbours.They make wine,thier women dont observe pardah,they are fond music and dance,they choose thier life partners.
Late Bhutto made a law to stop these people to convert to islam. It is shameful. But now Kalashas are free to accept islam. Sooner the better. You have the right to accept right religion. No body can stop you.
1n 1970 thethen pm of pakistan passes a law not to convert kalashis in to islam,and i never heard any discrimination of kalashis in pakistan,kalashi culture is very populer in pakistan ppl resprect them
the comentrater say that the kalashies r being force to convert to islam and that the local muslims don`t like thier way of life becoz of thier festivites ,this total unaccurate,in midt 1800 the nuristanis in the afghanistan rigon which r the same ppl as kalashis r converted to islam by thier own choice and so did maney in the chitral rigion and they were converting by thier own untill 1970 when the then priome minister
I have never seen a blonde greek with blue eyes, have you ?
How can Kalash people be ancient greek ?
Look at their language and similarities.
Look at their shepard dogs. That dog is called Illiryan Sheppard until 1954, when it was renamed to Sharr Dog, and it lives only in Sharr mountians in Kosovo (Illyrian = Dardania).
1.if you come today on greece on greekmakedonia you can see blonde greeks men and women with blue eyes!!!
2.Kalash people be ancient greek makedonians today kallas people believe the dodekatheon religion the relegion of ancient greek makedonians of the Alexander the great the 12gods the DIONYSOS ZEUS DIAS ARIS are this in their langueage today!
3 they live today on the region AORNOS PETRA Read the istorical fact the book of Arrianos "Alexandrou Anabasis
that is all Bull Shit they have no link with greeks these people are the orginal inhabitants of the region. these are western lies and to get people to think they are from greeks.
hey u bastards,, Macedonians ARE Greeks u dirty cunts !!!
ratzP 2 months ago
The Kalas people are extremely simple, hence, they are being seduced to believe that they are Greeks or Macedonians. They are neither. They are just the true pure Aryans and truly Central Asian. Their language is closer to Rigvedic-Sanskrit-Avestan and is Dardic. Lakshan Bibi Kalas has a big task ahead to maintain the racial, linguistic, religious and cultural tradition of her great people. All the Aryan people of India support her in this.
LaliSJamwal 7 months ago
You are right saying that they are neither macedonian nor greek,cause Aleksander was none of them he was Albanian,and albanian origin is their identity,and we are arians,we are not slavians as macedonians of today,or arabic as greeks, I dont know how the language Rigvedic-Sanskrit-Avestan sound like,but i know that many of their names and words sound like albanian! I have plenty of materials that support that! Stop with the fake history and lies!
erlintego88 7 months ago
@LaliSJamwal Aryan means also Greek
Graeko-aryan is the ancient proto Indo-European language we know,
iapetoc6 7 months ago
such a stupid biased video. these people treat women worse than muslim people do. for example when a woman is on her period she is banished from the house and is deemed physically impure as a person even. i cant beleive how anti muslim this video is. rubbish pathetic video.
these people are not muslims. if you are not muslim you are a kaafir. simple. its okay for jews to call a non jew a gentile. such a rubbish insulting video.
kaashee 9 months ago
These are my neighbours. They are very Central Asian. They have nothing to do with the Greeks and Macedonians. These simple-minded people are being brainwashed to believe that they are Greeks or Macedoninans. Pakistani Punjab was under Alexander, yet most people in this region are quite dark. This tells you that in the Indian subcontinent it was a taboo to mix with foreigners. The Kalash are an original Aryan people of this region. They are ancient yet original.
Wani400 10 months ago
@Wani400 The Aryan race is a concept historically influential in Western culture in the period of the late 19th century and early 20th century. The most basic division of the Indian society is of Aryans and Dravidians. North Indians are Aryans and south Indians are Dravidians. This is one complete Lie. Aryans do not exist, it was a concept used by the British people to separate India. In fact, Kalash people are Ancient Macedonians.
STARCHYLDGOD 9 months ago
@STARCHYLDGOD The concept of Aryans comes from the rig veda. Get your facts staight
Hipponikos 1 month ago
@Hipponikos Actually, you get your facts correct, because Kalash people themselves never once identified as being Aryans, they always claim to be of Macedonian origin. A very close friend of mine is from that area they live in. Kalash people are not of Aryan origin. Aryans are merely Iranian people, commonly related to Armenians. Iranian people are mainly Kurds, Pashtuns, Gilakis, Paminirs, Mazandaranis, etc and all of these Iranian ethnic groups are of Caucasus origin.
STARCHYLDGOD 1 week ago
@Hipponikos Keep in mind, there is Greek invaded settlers still living in Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan due to the Greek conquests in those regions. Kalash ancestry dates back to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, mainly known today as Indo-Greek Kingdom and/or Indo-Europeans, coincidence?
STARCHYLDGOD 1 week ago
People of Kalash are HINDU. They NEVER screw their bloodline by mixing with Pakis and NEVER turn Muslim.
Thats the reason they are being killed and their families are moving outside. This makes the Pakis happy so their ugly black asses can mix with the Kalash people, and then they can call themselves Kalash... What a fucking joke!
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uzmamahnaz 1 year ago
Which muslims are trying to convert them; they have retained their own culture regardless of muslims living near them. The region is full of evangelists and missionaries; just check out Asia Harvest videos on the Kalash and other central asian tribes and you'll see what I mean.
uzmamahnaz 1 year ago
@uzmamahnaz Kalash people fought tooth and nail and fled to some of the remote places on earth in order to preserve their culture. Other former 'Kafirs' were forcefully converted to Islam. Thousands were massacared by Muslims. You are right in terms of people assimilate over time but Kalash people are forced by surounding muslims to convert.Their culture in that area protrayed as immoral, as result all new generation conveting to Islam.
Nuristanii 1 year ago
@Nuristanii Yes I agree, as I have since come across videos showing muslims pressurising the Kalash to convert to Islam, and that broke my heart, to see how Pakistan has become blinded by religion. It is a very sad situation in Pakistan for all Pakistanis of all religions, esp non-muslims. Even those who were secular free-thinking muslims have either had succumbed to the evangelism of these fanatics or either they have decided it is more 'pragmatic' to remain silent admidst threats of blasphemy
uzmamahnaz 1 year ago
@Nuristanii There is a movement gaining momentum that is supporting the idea of humanism first in Pakistan, where all religions are respected and people are not judged on their personal beliefs. Qaid-e-azam built Pakistan on the premise that it was a safe haven for Muslims as well as all other religions and that they should be able to practise their beliefs without interference of the state. The majority of Pakistanis seem to have lost this message. Please check facebook page: Khudi
uzmamahnaz 1 year ago
@uzmamahnaz I am a Nuristani and Nuristan which was formerly known as Kafiristan was converted at swordpoint to Islam.The bad thing about Islam is that it kills other cultures.Nuristan has changed beyond recogniton. The area is infiltrated by Saudi Wahabi groups who produce only mullahs.Nuristani people now have become extremely intolerant to other religions and extremely conservative towards their women.So Kalash is the only hope of our preserved culture & should be protected by Pkstni gvrmnt.
Nuristanii 1 year ago
@Nuristanii How similar is Nuristani language to Persian, Kalasha, Pashtu, Urdu, Pashai, and Kashmiri? are they mutually intelligible to one another?
anarmehtievful 9 months ago
Of course they should retain their own culture, however the documentary makers are ignorant to the fact that the world has grown smaller due to technology and they are going to be exposed to the mainstream culture in pakistan regardless. This is what happens throughout history people migrate and then assimilate. You cannot patronise this ethnic group and keep them frozen in time as a museum piece let them be masters of their own destiny.
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fhgfjghbfhgfj 1 year ago
save these people- they are the reflections of our ANCIENT PAST- they MUST KEEP THEIR RELIGION AND CULTURE. I am of christian faith but I feel they are a special people that must be HELPED!!!! and preserve their culture.
BOGZASV8MA 1 year ago
And one more thing , Kafir right that is what you learned as a word ? well Kafir is an arabic word, and afghans never called us kalash kafirs, those were arabics in 16th century , next time informe yourself about peoples history instead of acting fool coz honestly there is nothing smart in your video , wrong information plus wrong orientation , instead of making video to make muslims and christians ribbons tide , u chose to be one who put in war this two nation. dats why u r low
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
And also we afghan macedonians did not grow in a families or culturs where it says to hate a whole nation becous they are called muslims or christians, our civilisations is build so high that this modern contries are nothing else but just a peace of abomination , and if muslims hates you guys it is becous all what you doing is a pure abomination even in christianity, afghanistan is build of budishme , christianism and islam so respect us coz this problem u face today we had it in 9th century.
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
Vietnam had terorists, Afghanistan have teroriste, Irak has teroriste, Iran has terorists, then here is a masseg from all Kalash people and what Kalash people think about europeans. Meybe we have been victim of names such us Kafirs back in a days but we didnt suffer much, today we would like to ask you ? why your people use knowledge for inventing modern arms , and do you guys know that talibans use american and russian weapons ? )) we think u are retarded or you close eyes in ur own crimes ?
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
I am a kalash and I am an afghan and I am a muslim , even in this video you show such a low cultur and education from your own side , that except relegion and skin color u dont mean anything else, this is your weakness, if we change our relegion or nationality doesnt mean we forget our incestors and it doesnt mean you are my sister becous my hair color is blond. Make a video instead about how your civilisation is retarded comparing to afghans. Coz we have no skin problem we love each other.
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
And what afghans are really special is that we dont have no skin color racisme in our contry what means half of your informations is totally wrong. Beauty of afghanistan is that afghan nation is build of greeks, persians, pashtons, mongolians, indians, and this is our richness and we had all this skin problem in 7th and 9th century. Instead of making a video about Kalash people make some video about how retarded other modern contries are that still stock in just skin color.
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
Short greek-afghan: when Seleucids found greeko-bactrian kingdom , he name the capital of this kingdom bactres or known as bactra which is called balkh and situated in afghanistan today, afghanistan have 40% white skined people and 60% indian type or arabic type. We all creat one nation today , exactly the way USA or Europeans creat their own nation mix of black african , chinis japanes , irish and many other.
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
First Hello every one And this people are in afghanistan and u have few in pakistan, and I am one of them , i was born in nuristan city actual afghanistan we are known as direct desendants of Alexandre the Great, my name is athila and i am light skined and grea eyes, I dont agree with your video. First : Type afghan wedding on youtube and u will see whole bunch of ladies and men mix dancing , why u mix afghans or kalash people with arabic people ? 30%afghans are white basically and we r afghans.
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
what a voicing! she's just woken up.
ushiman44 1 year ago
We need to protect the Kalasha culture from preachers (muslim or christians), its part of pakistans rich heritage and must be left alone as it has been for centuries before the road was built.
cliftonwaterfront 1 year ago 2
@cliftonwaterfront Pakistan's heritage? Dude, they have been part of afghanistan for thousands of years. Who is pakistan which has o more then 100 years of history to say they are pakistan's heritage?
duffmanaq 1 year ago
@duffmanaq - I agree , the Kalash people are MUCH MORE AFGHANI than Pakistani.
Pakistanis are chuts who think everything is theirs. ONE BOMB On their gaand is enough!
errolmiranda 1 year ago
The International pressure via International pressure and the secular Pakistanis protect these people. The Muslim clerics, the less tolerant, and hard core Muslims want them converted to Islam. Other than that most Pakistani Muslims don't care either way.
It's always the bad snakes with a bad bight that threatens everything.
Get the facts straight.
Aegialeus 2 years ago
People live in Hramony. God knows why these Western go everywhere start all the evil distpute and then enjoy the fights.
Nangapir 2 years ago
Nangapir
There harmony has been disappearing from Islam...you need to do more historical research on them.
Aegialeus 1 year ago
Christians, Jews, and Muslims are all being harvested by their 'god' - wiped clean from the face of this planet. It's people like the Kalash and other peoples who know themselves that will live on.
TheHumanExtinction 2 years ago
fuckin Muslims and Christians destroyed all the beautiful ancient cultures of the world
DariusDaGreat86 2 years ago 8
@DariusDaGreat86
It were the christian churches, which have nothing to do with the orignial teachings of Jesus Christ, because they were created to control people.
123peda123 1 year ago
Idiots the gov of pakistan helps these people to protect their culture.
menec4 2 years ago 2
They are close to Albanians. If you just study their language and compare with old albanian dictionary you will find many answers!
phitooo 2 years ago
these proud people MUST be preserved, they must be kept at a great distance from the filthy barbaricf muslimes
pippy02 2 years ago
By Zakir Hassnain
PESHAWAR: Kalash people warned on Friday the whole community would leave the country in protest if the government did not take serious Birir and Rambore valleys in Chitral district for the past 20 years and had a very good record.
ollieraza 2 years ago
People.. please help preserve these tribes before talibnization or christianization of the area eats up this beautiful culture..
ollieraza 2 years ago 2
No firm evidence of their Macedonian background. In fact, they speak Daric, an Aryan language, write in an Aryan language, their rituals share a fair degree of resemblence to the Vedic-Zoroastrian religions.
Genetic studies have not shown a Macedonian descent.
They are simply an isolated sub-group of the INDO-ARYAN race.
Firewall2153 2 years ago
They have a beautiful culture and tradition and their own religion. It MUST be protected and the people must be left to their own devices, education, learning everything to be up to themselves.
However, they themselves should be able to gather together and propagate their own religion and culture and tradition - much like the Zoroastrians/ Parsees have done.
Islamic and Christian missionaries should keep away.
ibbz 2 years ago
will you fucking retards stop all this non sense who gives a fuck if alexander raped and pilaged ur mothers and grand mothers ...they are people with a beautiful culture end of story ...there have been wars adn conquers for as long as human history dates back im sure alexanders people were slaves to someon else , so stop this bigotry and talk like educated people
furry1457232 2 years ago
wow
hoggg11 2 years ago
Kalasha aren't Greeks or Macedonians. They belong to Dards branch of Indo-Aryan group of big Indo-German family. They are relatives to Scythhians, not to greeks. So they can be considered as Iranians.
COMMANDOSTIGREBRN 2 years ago
but i can see they are white..... how?
hoggg11 2 years ago
they are not white as europeons but they have very fair color like other people of nothern areas from pakistan. And as far as I know they are remaining army of greeks who had left here when gr8 Alexzender came.
Shahzada1prince 2 years ago
amazing!
hoggg11 2 years ago
BULLSHIT they are NOT iranians.
They are Dards. And even Pakhtun they are Iranic but not Iranian. Big difference
Irnaian=people originally from iran which theya re not.
PakistaniShaheen 2 years ago
"hayastan5" , shut your mouth close.......real makedonians are Greeks on their blood...there is Not deference...and Kalash are Greeks....stepsons of Alexander......
theTimeHasCome25 3 years ago
and again we notice that Islamism kills all the other cultures which are next to them.
No matter if the Kalash people are descendents of Greek or Macedonians or are coming from planet Mars: Save that people, that nation, that culture
hayastan5 3 years ago 7
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MegaSHamed 1 year ago
@hayastan5 @hayastan5 Hi I dont know where and how you found all this information concerning islam destroy everything , me I am Kalash white skin boy with green eyes and red hairs, I am greek desendand and dont worry about me I am doing great with my new relegion Islam , and my Kalash civilisation is so much higher than yours that we understand the primerily things about respect humans the way they are what is missed up in your education I think, and next time informe yourself about relegion.
MegaSHamed 1 year ago
between,they are albanian,since aleksander was neither macedonian nor greek!
erlintego88 7 months ago
watch?v=Q3DtfQRWEYo
MacedoniaHellenic 3 years ago
the race kalash they is descendants of Alexandros, next they have Greek dna because MACEDONIA THEY IS GREEK AND ONLY, this gypsies is monkey-donians because are from albania and their genuine name they is
''VARDARSKA BANOVINA''
MacedoniaHellenic 3 years ago
What a beautiful people. An original trance tribe. When I stayed in Bomboret they laughed about people saying they were Greek. I miss them and worry about them since 9/11 if there was an influx of Taliban through the passes. They were under a lot of pressure. The school books they read were really indoctrinating crap.
davebones 3 years ago
Not being a reductionist but will you say the same thing about the north sentinelese tribe who are pitch black??. What about amazonian tribes who do not have caucasoid features which everybody perceive as beautiful?. Be honest and decorous in your response. If white is beautiful then admit it without reservations.
eternallyviv 2 years ago
where did I say they were beautiful because they were white?
davebones 2 years ago
PaunBT you are Greek, my friend.You should do a search about the real story of your family.
prasinithyella 3 years ago
Hail from Germany! Would be sad to see this culture dying too :(
lokloploz 3 years ago 3
Any Macedonian Blood is holy to as
Kalash people are just another proof of
Macedonian culture ,
See the clothes , the colours ,
the red and yelow colors,
DNA does not lie ,our DNA is in the same
group with Kalash but farr away from greek.
PaunBTMakedonski 3 years ago
About 200 years ago the British forces new about them there was movie even with sean connory Title the man who would be king..in the early1900s thousand were forced by the Pakistani muslims to convert by force..Imagine what the Seljuc Turks did in Anatolia..In addition to all remarks about the Kalash if being blond to be Greek is not blood but a set of ideas culture and beliefs..We are not NAZIS
OMADAE1 3 years ago
Оро се завило(чак в пакистан)
vaskoninja 4 years ago 2
Lets think.The Greeks who got settled down in Pakistan thosands years ago were soldiers. If so, they definitly were men. They took women as their wifes from local tribes. Addopted local customs and traditions. But that still is not the answer.
Ive seen before couple of Greeks, and they werent blonds. Im not sure about the Alexander times though.
mishacol 4 years ago
They were not greek but Macedonians and they do have blonde hair and blue eyes. Greeks are decendants of Ethiopian slaves DNA has proven this fact
waguy101 2 years ago
Tubeoliver, here is a question i'm always shy to ask citizens of F.Y.R.O.M. Here it is...
Why exactly macedonians love the Kalasha and how did you figure Balkanic slavic presence in North Pakistan?
florosmani 4 years ago
Your question provides wrong content, so an anwser would not benefit you. We are Macedonia, do not be shy to say that.
Kalashi people are proof that we are Macedonians, we can actually understand their language. And they are not slavs. Did this answer your question, anyhow?
aletem 4 years ago
You mean to say that bulgarian speaking macedonians are able to understand Kalashi???
Whoom are you kidding!!!
I dare you to provide a few words in kalashi that have any close resemblance to modern macedonian
florosmani 4 years ago
Even the Word Kalash - ( KALESH )
IS Macedonian - means Blonde .
Kalesh people have destinctive blonde eye's
and hair , and same face to Macedonians
Not f..n greeks (arab looking faces)
PaunBTMakedonski 3 years ago
haha you have fun. you didn't see to their clothes the greek sumbol "maiandros" and if they are slavs why are thy say that are greeks? goodnight.
paralogon 3 years ago 2
you are a combination of bulgars , slovenians and serbs you have nothing to do with macedonians , your language is 100% sllav how can you be macedonian!!!
and you greeks have nothing to do with them becouse macedonians fought against greeks , so zip it
PaioniaSoldier 4 years ago
Macedonians as well as greeks as well as illyrians as well as everyone else in the helenic civilization fought against eachother and would put their fights on hold if faced with a common enemy. Macedonians fighting against greeks was a very normal thing. Civil wars among a group of people does not form two separate ethnicities. therefore macedonians are helenic and not slavic.
florosmani 4 years ago 2
A small history lesson:
The unifies armies of Athens, Corfu, Lefkada, Evia, Corinth, Ahaia, and Theves faced the macedonians at the battle of Heronia.
Spartans were not there. Were they not greek? What sort of reasoning can that be?
All of the above tribes and CITY-STATES were hellenic (greek).
Try openning a serious foreign book to find out the truth. Or you can find copies of the prototype historical texts , written in (ancient) Greek.
watch?v=V6Y_aFpvOK0
tonionios 2 years ago
where is the greek language here a? maybe albanian? DONT U GET IT? MACEDONIA UNITED SOON!
tomegvg 4 years ago
recent analysis of the y-chromosome indicates that, the Greek admixture could be as high as 20% to 40%
This is in stark contrast to some of their closest Indo-European neighbors, strongly indicating a Western Eurasian origin for the Kalash. wikipedia.
RealAntifascism 4 years ago
i hope at least the filthy muslims don't annoy those people. they're better than muslims will ever be.
and also slavs you have no case. Macedonians were a Greek tribe. NOTHING to do with you slavs who came in the 6th century. Alexander and Philippos were Greek names. don't forget that.
RealAntifascism 4 years ago
@RealAntifascism Dumbass, I'm not Muslim but you really are a fucking bigot. It is Muslims that are protecting this community you idiot.
antistupidity84 2 years ago
Muslims protect those "kaffirs" from what? Themselves perhaps?
OkurkaBinLadin 2 years ago
This is abeautifl culture stop floodign it with your brainwashed propoganda filth....
why are there no Albanian writings in the land of ancient Macedonia?
i though slavs were trygnot call Alexandros their own, now Albanians too,, whats next Turks?
hahaha
Nostos5 4 years ago
there is only one original nation that lives on the Ballkan , that is the ILLYRIAN-ALBANIAN , and you all know it
PaioniaSoldier 4 years ago
........ lol
Nostos5 4 years ago
Alexander the Great with his army have killed 18000 Greeks.
By the way,we are in 2007,today is not easy to manipulate things.
For you that you don't know the history of Alexander the Great,Illyrian(albanian)I suggest that you read history from foreign authors.
Thank you
hunzaboy1 4 years ago
chivfsha shqiptare,you are not Hunza.
natsukiak 4 years ago
Alexander the Great was Macedonian and up to his time Macedonians were considered Barbarians by Greeks (meaning non Greek). Since Greek culture was the most advance of its time his father hired Aristotle to educate him. Macedonians were Illyrian(Albanian) people and spoke the Illyrian(Albanian) language.
So,they use to speak Greek language with outsiders, because Greek language it was like English today.But,Alexander always has spoken his language(Illyrian)with his army(soldiers).
CONTINUE
hunzaboy1 4 years ago
This is funny since all the ancient Macedonians kings had GREEK names! Besides, Greece was divided into city states so you can't say enemy of the greeks since they were allies with the Aetoilians and Thesalians who were greek. You don't know much do you?
Oceania2000 4 years ago 3
Alexander the great was Illyrian(albanian).
His mom was an Epirot-Illyrian (Albanian) and on his dad's side,Pelasgian(another Illyrian tribe)Macedonian.
Not(Bulgarian-Macedonian,and not Greek).
When Alexander's dad conquered Greece Macedonians assimilated with Greeks because they were so impressed by Greek culture. Alexander carried his father's principle of assimilation when he conquered Persia. Alexander and his soldiers were Macedonian thus Illyrians(Albanian).
CONTINUE
hunzaboy1 4 years ago
wrong greek , we call ourselves SHQIPETAR , sons of the eagle , and that links to the time of PYRO of Illyria , you call yourselves hellens but the rest of the world greeks ! there is a big difference
oh did you know ! Illyrian in modern albanian language means free !
jam ilir - I am free
PaioniaSoldier 4 years ago
some one should do responsible and protect kalashan people i dnt want them to convert any other relegion period their culture their bilived is brilliant time is runing out fast
Hammadkazmi7 4 years ago 2
It is just unfortunate that Islam and Christianity have such expansionist views! I'm sure much cultural diversity has been lost because of missionaries of both these faiths.
fsoldaten 4 years ago 2
@ fsoldaten
Well said.
Aegialeus 4 years ago 2
Alexander rock
Hammadkazmi7 4 years ago
big up Kalash
Hammadkazmi7 4 years ago
Wow it shows how amazingly diverse the poeple of Afghanistan are, and thats just awesome!
stdnt85 4 years ago
actually the hunza people speak ancient greek language of alexanders time not kalaash peaple
ammarsarfraz 4 years ago
I thought we pashtun turned these ppl in to muslims?
arfanullah 4 years ago
some of them survived like most hindu's who where turned into pakistan muslims they were proud and survived with their power and the grace of god.
lasog341 4 years ago
Indians,you think
tefaunui 4 years ago
they remind me of native americans a bit
ashleycassie 4 years ago
SpTironc, they not sing like tosk albanians
tefaunui 4 years ago
none3000 say ,,they worship the greek gods and use greek dialects!,, that is nonsense. they not worship the greek gods and they language are one of indo-iranian languages,from one of dardic subgrups
tefaunui 4 years ago
they workshop the greek gods and use greek dialects! good job!
none3000 4 years ago
they sing like tosk albanians
SpTironc 4 years ago
kalash peple were the generations left behind by eastern europe and nurestani people were the real arrayns of afghnaistan(vedic arrayanic)all other euro invaders settled close to the first arrayans becoz of their similar looks
reaperssoul 4 years ago
pakistan is awasome
alpecinoo 4 years ago
Wonderful documentary film,from where we buy full version?
lutfialtinel 4 years ago
KALASHA - GOOD(KALA) KINGS(sha)
kalashamoc 4 years ago
TELL ME KALASHAMOC,are you really from pakistan?and what do you consider your self?
nixter888 4 years ago
do you mean kala,the greek word kala?=good?
nixter888 4 years ago
We dont have ANY Names Such As KALOSHI OR KALLASHI. Dont create words to show your on scorn/mock towards other cultures and people...sorry but thats what you are doing! "Kalasha" is the name. Meaning "GOD KINGS"
kalashamoc 4 years ago
The Kalash People have distinctive Tribal names which you can find in today's Albanian names such as Kaloshi,Kallashi etc. and Dibra cultural elements. Kalash people are Illyrian/Albanian. Greek arguments that they are Greek should be ignored because they claim that even George Bush is a Greek >>>Giorgios Bousis and Fidel Castro >>>Filippos Kastros hence they are Greek.
Pirrothecham 4 years ago 2
They are the reminiscent of balcanic population who were enrolled in Alexander the Great's army.Not only macedonians, who were not slaves in those times. They are old stuck Thracian population. We must protect them by the muslim dogs!!! Long live Aryans!!!!
bonnila74 4 years ago
oh shut the fvck up biatch, better be a muslim than a barbaric bible thumper. Besides their all their kin in the area the ecythians, bactrians, sanskrit aryans, persian, kashmiris are muslims as well. These are not desecended from Greeks in any way, but the quite aboriginal to the area.
omerlives 4 years ago
Omer, they are barbarians but we should be proud that the foreigners know there is someone else from the monkeylike muhajir!
Balkh2Shahan 4 years ago
They are MACEDONIANS with 2000 years clear blood, and afcourse they are Aryans. They are with some blonde color on them like me, like us true Macedonians from balcan. Zieg Heil !!!
Bukefal86 4 years ago
ahahha you just joking? I never have seen some "macedonian" wih blue eyes. And you are not nation all know that, you are a artifical state build by tito. So get a life.
ILLYRICUMSACRUM 4 years ago
They use so many macedonian words, and they ofiicialy stated that they dont have any conection with greece, greeks payed so much, and they said: no we dont have any conection with greece. And the albanian I wont even coment.
zhache 4 years ago
As a Pakistani i believe, there is a need to help these people in saving their traditions and language.
zangaydaray 4 years ago
@zangaydaray I certainly hope that they do save their traditions and not drown in islam. They are truly living like a happy people and simple way of life.
sneighwena 1 year ago
@sneighwena I agree but there is need for people like us to come forward and raise the voice.
zangaydaray 1 year ago
Thanks for the excellent documentary. Wish Kalasha people succeed in preserving their unique culture.
mmanoba 4 years ago
I see propagandists are on this topic too ! Kalash people nothing to do with slavs or albanians ! Theirselves claim to be the descendence of the mans of Alexander (who's greek of course) ! Them dialect is ancient Greek and have most of similar words !
Mhayai1 4 years ago
This is NOT propaganda at all what you're saying... lol
The Greek gov't is givin these ppl money and supporting them, and they are still saying they "have nothing to do woth Greeks, we are Macedonians". Obviously not Macedonians of today, that would be stupid, but Macedonians of 2400 ears ago, who are still a lare minority in current Macedonia (the Albanians minority as they self identify themselves).
JososKosos 4 years ago
you lier !!!they know they are greek macedonians!!!they even went to greece!!!!many times!!!!!leave you propaganda aside!!!you slavs,and albanian morons...shut up!!!!!
nixter888 4 years ago
Also... their land: Tsyam?? lol... over 600,000 Chams are living now in Albania, they self identify themselves as Albananians, and the REAL Jelmims (Hellens) of the ancient world. This last statement confuses a lot of minds, however, they still don't identify themselves with ΕΛΛΑΔΑ.
JososKosos 4 years ago
@JososKosos : If you use the word Hellens you tell by yourself that they are Greeks ! The fact they live now in Albanian land made all of they Albanian citizens but their roots are greek ones , nothing to do with the real Albanians ! Yes that's a distorsion of facts and you proof one more time ! But we are addicted now from our neighbourgs !
Mhayai1 4 years ago
true... you're right... sorry!
buddy, do you even know what a Hellen means?
JososKosos 4 years ago
mhayai 1 ...nobody understand you!you make no sense !!!hellen=greek!!!!!the same thing!!!!we are the hellenes!!!!we call our selves that!!!!nothing change from the ancient times!!!you call us greeks!!!!!we are the hellenes!!!!we are very proud people!!!albanians have nothing to do with us!!!!we live in hellas!!!that is our country,since the beginning of time!!!!
nixter888 4 years ago
I'd like to hear these peoploe talk in their own language... I think it would be interesting to see their similarities with Greek lol
JososKosos 4 years ago
Their culture is dying..but then who cares.. At the end of the day we all be wearing jeans and listening to britney speas..DOH!
sparlaydaykana 4 years ago
The speak the similar language to albanian and they look like albanians.
Xaddi 4 years ago
If Kalash are Greeks, why don't they speak Greek?
Pirrothecham 4 years ago
They do speak an ANCIENT Greek dialect. I also waznt to say that I like the Slvs but the have nothing to do with Macedonia. They came in the area 1000 years after.
poliaek91 4 years ago
"Alexander the Great were Macedonian, not Greek." ok tru, but when you're saying macadonian what do you mean. ancient macedonian or modern. because the're two different thing. todays macedonians are alavic people with slavic language, culture, custom and way of life. when on the other hand the ALBANIANS reseble them is every way.
Long live the ILLYRIAN (Albanian) solders of Alexander the Great (Leka Madh)
N281912 4 years ago
alexander the great greek,would laugh at you if he was here !!!!give it up leave alexander and the hellenes alone!and look at your ugly lives you miserable being!!!!
nixter888 4 years ago 2
People please stop worrying about where they come from and who they were genetically linked to.The important fact that we should be concerned about is they are part of a modern world and as a civilized people we should contact pakistani embassies in our areas and should donate money to upgrade their education and basic living conditions. I know someone who DID just that, and so can you if you really CARE!!
ny28tx 4 years ago
Alexander the Great were Macedonian, not Greek. His father Philip II beat the entire Greek army and enslaved the Greeks! After that defeat, the Greeks obtained a state only 180 years ago.
In their attempt to falsify history, and justify theft of Macedonian land in a 1913 Balkan war, the Greek government have began systematic policy to "convince" the Kalash people that they are Greek! They are not!
The truth about Macedonia: historyofmacedonia . org
kokolo00 4 years ago
bulgarians are slavian people like serbians and all yougoslavian people. kalash are similar to albanians. even their language can be explained only by albanian language.
arbereagle666 4 years ago
Kalashi is an offspring to the ancient bulgarians from Baktria and the Trakians warriors of Alexander. The today ' s bulgarians have the same blood.
martincors 4 years ago
Their music sounds somewhat Turkish too. No wonder some debated that they're related to the Turks.
mjay22 4 years ago
We also had stories passed down from generation to generation..as well as a line of Greek blood in my family...So for those who oppose the fact that Alexander came to Afghanistan need to do some more research on their part instead of pulling things out of their ass..
currypowder08 4 years ago
For those who deny the fact that Afghanistan was invaded by Alexander..heres some facts for ya...everywhere Alexander went, he left his trademark....he named cities after himself....in Afghanistan Kandahar means Alexander, herat is Alexdria and there were a couple more..not only that, but when I went to Afghanistan my family had artifacts that were passed down in our family from those times such as coins and some art
currypowder08 4 years ago
kalash r kool
Hammadkazmi7 5 years ago
Thoose look like Macedonians like me
strumphilip 5 years ago
haha you are not a Macedonian, and neither are your people.
Ancient Macedonians were Greek who spoke Greek.
Modern Skopjean FYRO"M"s are Slavs (like the rest of their fellow YugoSLAVs, Russians, Poles, Slovakians, etc) who migrated to the region 1000 years after Alexander the Great, and you speak BULGARIAN.
The only true Macedonian is a Greek Macedonian.
You are a Macedonian wannabe
stavros1511 4 years ago
Those look like GREEK,like GREEK MACEDONIANS,like ME!
You look like a gypsy idiot bastard slav!
philip11901 4 years ago
The Kalasha last surviving non-Muslim Caucasians in Asia.
mjay22 5 years ago
would you consider the kalash people to be whites/caucasians?
mjay22 5 years ago
The people look like today's Dardanians,(Albanians), their dance is similar to Albanian dances including their use of the flute and the drums which are part of today's Balkan culture specifically those of the Illyrians' Their skin color is partly fair and their hair color has lighter shades. Apparently this is not Greek. This is the Illyrians and Macedonians. Blonde haired and blue eyed Slavs came to the Balkans after Alexander's Empire.
Pirrothecham 5 years ago
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@ Pirrothecham
Remeber that todays sothern Albania was predominatly Greek. Re: Appolonia. What makes you so sure you are Illyrian, when you call your selves Albanoi.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
Thier are many reasons why kalash are not liked by the neighbours.They make wine,thier women dont observe pardah,they are fond music and dance,they choose thier life partners.
kalashamoc 5 years ago
Such evil people i say
suburbanmonk 5 years ago
Late Bhutto made a law to stop these people to convert to islam. It is shameful. But now Kalashas are free to accept islam. Sooner the better. You have the right to accept right religion. No body can stop you.
tarzangorrilla 5 years ago
especially when majority suffocates you for being different
suburbanmonk 5 years ago
1n 1970 thethen pm of pakistan passes a law not to convert kalashis in to islam,and i never heard any discrimination of kalashis in pakistan,kalashi culture is very populer in pakistan ppl resprect them
zorawar06 5 years ago
i am from chitral,the comentry is unaccurate she is teeling rubish
zorawar06 5 years ago
what is inaccurate about the commentary? just wondering....
bungabogor1 5 years ago
the comentrater say that the kalashies r being force to convert to islam and that the local muslims don`t like thier way of life becoz of thier festivites ,this total unaccurate,in midt 1800 the nuristanis in the afghanistan rigon which r the same ppl as kalashis r converted to islam by thier own choice and so did maney in the chitral rigion and they were converting by thier own untill 1970 when the then priome minister
zorawar06 5 years ago
kalash is the last makedonians greeks reople of the Alexander the great in Asia.thank you ,this video is very Hystorical document for us the greek's .
-Where is the intenational aid organisms to protect the Kalash minority ?
aetos1966a 5 years ago
Doint you know the international orgs are there only to protect the religions of books (islam, christianity, judaism)
suburbanmonk 5 years ago
I have never seen a blonde greek with blue eyes, have you ?
How can Kalash people be ancient greek ?
Look at their language and similarities.
Look at their shepard dogs. That dog is called Illiryan Sheppard until 1954, when it was renamed to Sharr Dog, and it lives only in Sharr mountians in Kosovo (Illyrian = Dardania).
drilonsh 5 years ago
1.if you come today on greece on greekmakedonia you can see blonde greeks men and women with blue eyes!!!
2.Kalash people be ancient greek makedonians today kallas people believe the dodekatheon religion the relegion of ancient greek makedonians of the Alexander the great the 12gods the DIONYSOS ZEUS DIAS ARIS are this in their langueage today!
3 they live today on the region AORNOS PETRA Read the istorical fact the book of Arrianos "Alexandrou Anabasis
aetos1966a 5 years ago
pogolem del od SHAR planina e vo Makedonija .
BERZITI 4 years ago
I am a GREEK with blond hair and blue eyes!And I have a lot of greek friends who are blondes!
MACEDONIA is GREEK,and Alexander the GREAT was GREEK from MACEDONIA-the GREEK territory,like Athens,Sparta,Epiros and so on!!
Leonidas was the King of SPARTA..that means that he wasn't GREEK and he was SPARTAN??lol
It's the same with Alexander the GREAT..he admitted that he was GREEK,he was speaking GREEKS and he was from MACEDONIA-a part of GREECE!!
This is the truth!Liars and propangadist slavs!
philip11901 4 years ago
that is all Bull Shit they have no link with greeks these people are the orginal inhabitants of the region. these are western lies and to get people to think they are from greeks.
Aminkhan786 4 years ago