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In spiritual sphere, in possessing or creating values never have Albanians had any reason to envy or covet others, much less have they any for such today.
The Albanians are the creators and bearers of one of humankind's fundamental languages, a language that has its unshakable place among a dozen or so of the main languages of the world.

One of the first Europe's Christian countries, Albania has consequently been the original soil of the Western European civilization.
From the great hymn of Christianity "Te Deum" written by an Albanian Archbishop over fifteen hundreds years ago, to the teacher of Western civilization George Kastriot, the most sublime and renowned character in the world not only of Albanians, but of all Balkan peoples as well, described as "the Athlete of Christ", to the Albanian nun Mother Teresa, the most famous Albanian women in today's world, the proof of civilization passes through like a brilliant thread, so much and so persistently denied by the ill-wishers of Albanian nation
(ismail kadare)


"Guided tour" Ladies and gentlemen, here is where Piana degli Albanesi - if I tell you ignored - Albanians inhabit. We have a past that can not be passed over: we have heroes who shine women of legendary steadfastness of men standing unforgotten glory lasted forever ... Zef Schirò Di Maggio

In the fulness of conquest, Mahomet the Second still felt at his bosom this domestic thorn: his lieutenants were permitted to negotiate a truce; and the Albanian prince may justly be praised as a firm and able champion of his national independence. The enthusiasm of chivalry and religion has ranked him with the names of Alexander and Pyrrhus; nor would they blush to acknowledge their intrepid countryman: but his narrow dominion, and slender powers, must leave him at an humble distance below the heroes of antiquity, who triumphed over the East and the Roman legions.
(edward gibbon)


it matters little whether we identify albanians with the pelasgi the epiriots macedonians or illyrians they are at all events a race who never possesed civilization of its own, never comeletely assimilated the culture of its neighbours and always led in spite of greek schols and romans roads, the same wild tribal life in the same innaccesible mountains ...........




the peasants whom you pass are dressed,it is true,in the garb which they ancestors may have worn when they followed pyrrhus into italy.......
(H.N.Brailsford
Encyclopedia Britannica, p. 483: "The Albanians are apparently the most ancient race in southeastern Europe. History and legend afford no record of their arrival in the Balkan Peninsula. They are probably the descendants of the earliest Aryan, immigrants, who were represented in historical times by the kindred Ilryrians, Macedonians a...nd Epirots; the Macedonians and Epirots are believed by Hahn to have formed the core of the Hellenic Tyrrheno-Pelasgian population which inhabited the southern portion of the peninsula and extended its limits to Thrace and Italy. The Illyrians were also " Pelasgian," but in a wider sense. Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the CÍegt, or northern, and the Tasks, or southern, Albanians

the albanians forms a distinct race among the nations of europe they have been supossed by some to be representatives of the pelasgians they call themselves shkipetar.alexander the great must acording to these archeologists have spoken an ancient albanian dialect at his rioutus banquests with his macedonnian officers
(george finlay)

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