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The picture quite obvious, Amused.



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Some scholars consider that Albanians are the descendants of Illyrians, perhaps an Illyrian tribe named Albanoi, which was located in modern-day Albania. Other scholars dispute this and claim that Albanian derives from a dialect of the Thracian languages. Some others believe the majority of the Illyrians were conquered and/ or assimilated by the invading Slavic peoples after the fall of the Roman Empire. The perception of Illyrian as centum language was based on analysis of Venetic language in northern Italy which scholars believed was related to Illyrian language. It is not considered Illyrian anymore and those tribes are not considered Illyrian as well.

Those who support the Illyrian-Albanian continuity theory maintain that all Illyrian tribes, except the Albanians, were assimilated or driven southwards into Albania and Greece during the Early Middle Ages after the waves of migrating barbarians. A formidable mountain homeland and resilient tribal society enabled the Albanians to survive into modern times with their identity and their language intact. According to these scholars, the name 'Albania' is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Arbër, or Arbëreshë, and later Albanoi, that lived near Durrës.

One of the first Serbian states, Raška, was founded in the first half of the 7th century on Byzantine territory by the Unknown Archont, the founder of the House of Vlastimirović; it evolved into the Serbian Empire under the House of Nemanjić. In the modern era Serbia has been an autonomous principality (1817–1878 ), an independent principality and kingdom as the Kingdom of Serbia (1878–1918 ), part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1941) (renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929), a Nazi-occupied puppet state (1941–1944), a socialist republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992), a republic within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), and a republic within the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006), before proclaiming independence as the Republic of Serbia on June 5, 2006.

I conclude that Serbians and Albanians both exist as people, and as nations.

Good conclusions. But some people, like TrueAlbo2006, think differently...

Do any of you know or know of Ramadan Ilazi?

Yeah. What about him?

I've been searching for days for some means of contacting him, because he's somewhat of an inspiration to me. You wouldn't know by any chance?

Hey Kiwi,

Have you tried to contact the editor of this article; Jeff Israely...?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...8481-2,00.html

Thanks Donna, I'll try to contact him.

That Time article was actually what got me to start finding out more about the conflict in South-Eastern Europe.

I too agree with you, he's an inspiration.


P.s You're welcome, and good luck... hopefully you'll be able to get hold of him.

Well i hope that you will pay attention to bout sides.
After some time you will find out that in this conflict we are bout(serbs,albanians)losers. And that US is actually enemy of Albanians. Many of Albanians on this forum don’t live in Kosovo or Albania and they don’t know the real situation.