Posted on 09/26/2004 3:09:48 PM PDT by thierrya
"His non-Greek comment, refers to the fact that the histories of Balkans peoples are seldom accepted by their neighbors. Take Macedonia for example, they say that they are descendants of the ancient Macedonians, the Greeks say that the ancinent Macedonians were Hellenistic and the Macedonians are largely Bulgarians and slavicized Greeks."
Well aren't the modern Macedonians Slavs? The Slavs didn't come to the Balkans until about the 6th or 7th century, if I'm not mistaken.
"As far as Albania's hisory, the mainstream version is not accepted by certain other Balkan nations."
Are you referring to the notion that the Albanians are descended from the Dacians or the Thracians? The ALbanian and ROmanian languages do have a good deal of similarities, despite occuping different language family branches of Indo-European. However, the original Romanians/Vlachs probably originated from the S and Central Serbian/Northern Macedonian/NW BUlgarian and NE Albanian area. By the way, I'm sorry about the tagline from my previous post.
>>>Are you referring to the notion that the Albanians are descended from the Dacians or the Thracians? The ALbanian and ROmanian languages do have a good deal of similarities, despite occuping different language family branches of Indo-European. However, the original Romanians/Vlachs probably originated from the S and Central Serbian/Northern Macedonian/NW BUlgarian and NE Albanian area. By the way, I'm sorry about the tagline from my previous post.
Well, the mainstream theories have them descending from either Illyrians or Thracians, or some type of mixture of the two. However many Serb and Macedonian historians and certain Greek historians, completely put aside this notion and claim that the Albanians didn't come into the Balkans until the 15th century from the Caucasus, and they cite Caucasian Albania as proof.
The following paper discusses (among other things) the apparent similarities between Albanian and Romanian.
http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/balkan/ehamp.html
However further than that I have to plead ignorance for etymology/linguistics is only a hobby for me.
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