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..... Anon from the castle walls
The crescent banner falls,
And the crowd beholds instead,
Like a portent in the sky,
Iskander's banner fly,
The Black Eagle with double head.
And shouts ascend on high
.....'' Long live Scanderbeg.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
VENIZELOS (Famous Greek Statesman - Prime Minister: 1910-1920, 1932)
By Herbert Adams Gibbons, Ph.D
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY - 1920
[At The Peace Conferance]
Page 346:
"...Venizelos advanced the famous theory of national consciousness as the test of nationality..."One may be temped", he said, "to raise the objection that a substantial portion of the Greek population uses ALBANIAN as its mother tongue, and is, consequently, in all probability, of Albanian orgin.."
"It may be useful to add that the present vice-president of Greek Ministerial Council, Mr Repoulis; the commander-in-chief of the Greek army, General Danglis; the commander-in-chief of the Naval forces and Minister of Marine, Admiral Koundouriotis; and the majority of the crews of the Greek navy, speak ALBANIAN as their mother tongue"
"Greek Islands; an up to date travel"
By Anne Midget & Nelles Verlag
Page 44
"...The Koundouriotis family, which produced the first president of the Greek Republic, was Albanian, like many of Idra's settlers, who fled here from the Turks in the 15th century. Despite popular mistrust of the Albanians today in the face of a new wave of immigration, elements of Albania have penetrated Greek culture: the foustenella or kilt that's a part of the formal attire if Greek soldiers is based on the Albanian fighting gear, and is sometimes referred to as the "Albanian Kilt".
"We are not the Serbs or Greeks but, the courageous Albanians!"
"We Albanians, be from any religion, are all brothers on our country. We will always be going nice and in peace with each -- other, as we are going, we will work together for the prosperity of our nation, and we will protect it with our blood. "
- Hafiz Ibrahim Dalliu
"When spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we, Albanians, have suffered too much to forget."
- Isa Boletini, leaving the Ambassadors Conference in London, 1913
"If you want a hundred Italians to be quiet, shoot one.
If you want a hundred Albanians to be quiet, you must shoot ninety-nine."
-Old Albanian Proverb
Ah kadale Nikolle, t'vrafte Zoti! Ketu i thone Oso baroti: se s'ké pá Shqíptár me sy, se djeg vehten edhe ty!
- Gjergj Fishta
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires--past Powers--only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
- Edith Durham
"The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey."
- Dursam Bey, during the second siege of Kruja
Awaken, Albanians, wake from your slumber. Let us all, as brothers, swear an oath, not to mind church or mosque.The Religion of the Albanians is Albanianism.
~Pashko Vasa, O moj Shqypni, ca. 1878, translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie.~
"The Albanians, these tigers of mountain wars ... have as their religion rebellion. Even their worst warrior is one of the strongest and bravest on the battle-field, just as if he was a knight on the legendary horse. But he has no horse, nor proper weapons for battle. Instead of the horse, he has a lance which strikes as lightning, he has spears who's points are full of posion as the sting of hornets, he has also a wooden bow with some arrows. Furthermore, he is stronger than iron ... "
- Ibn Kemal, Historian of the Turkish court during Skanderbeg's war against the Turks.
"They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians — something between kings and tigers."
- Henry Noel Brailsford
Lucy M. J. Garnett
"Greece of the Hellenes"
Page 32:
"...The Athenian women are neither beautiful nor well made; they have neither the physiognomy of French women, nor the full beauty of the Roman dames, nor the pale white delicacy of the Turkish women --one sees nothing in the town but ugly creatures with broad noses, flat feet and ill-formed waists. It is because Athens, twenty five years ago, was only an Albanian village. The Albanians formed and still form, almost the whole of the population of Attica; and within three leagues of the capital, villages are to be found where Greek is hardly understood. Athens has been rapidly peopled with men of all kinds and nations; that explains the ugliness of the Athenian type."
ps; he is not talking about the Albanian population but the "greek" one
Hometown
Ulqini,Ana Malit,Albania
Country
Albania
Occupation
Patriot
Companies
Kachak Inc
Interests
Oath of the Flag Around our flag we are united, With but one will and one desire, A sacred oath are now proclaiming, For our salvation to aspire. May only those avoid the struggle, Those who are traitors to our laws, Undaunted is a hero through and through, He dies a martyr to the cause. With weapons in our hands a-brandished, We will defend our fatherland, Our sacred rights well not relinquish, The foe has no place in our land, For God has told the world, proclaiming: The nations of the earth shall wane, And yet will live, will thrive Albania. For her our fight wont be in vain. Our flag, our nations sacred symbol, We swear an oath to your fair name, Defend our country, our Albania, Protect her honour and her fame, Our praise goes to those mighty heroes Who in our nations past did fall, Their memory will be cherished evermore, In life and death will they live all.
