History Prior to 19th Century

The earliest known inhabitants of Kosovo were called Illyrians by both Greeks and Romans. Albanians today claim to be direct descendants of the Illyrians. Serbian scholars claim that Albanians appeared on the scene in the early Middle Ages as a result of intermarriage between nomadic shepherds and unromanized remnants of Illyrians and Dardanians from Thrace. Tracing such descents is difficult but the people living in the region before the arrival of the Serbs from the North are likely to have some genetic relationships to Albanians, but DNA data would be needed to definitively settle the claim, which in any case is hardly germane to the current conflict. The region was conquered by Alexander the Great 300 years before Christ and became part of the Roman province of Dardania in the 4th century A. D.

Slavs crossed the Danube and moved into the Balkans by the 6th century. These migrations weakened the Byzantium Empire sufficiently that Illyrian speaking people, known to their neighbors as Albanians moved eastward from the Adriatic into the Kosovo region of the Balkans. Their language became known as Albanian and their culture became allied with Byzantium after the breakup of the Catholic Church into Eastern and western branches in 1054. Slavs migrating into the Balkans divided into three groups; Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, as is still true today. By the 12th century almost all arable land in the region now known as Northern Albania and Kosovo was in Slavic hands.

G. Richard Jansen
Colorado State University
Fort Collins CO 80523
April 25, 1999, Updated June 15, 2007

Last time the Illyrians as such were ever mentioned in history was in the 7th century.

The first ever mention of Albanians is in the 11th century.

The Turks referred to Albanians as "the ones that never returned", since thy came from Azerbejzdan.

Welcome to Serbia - The Country of Mass Murders!

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Jesus beat the devil with two sticks. Colossian 2:13,15

Proud American!

Communism/Socialism is similar to legalizing burglary and murder!

Milosevic obviously didn't finish the job.

No, he finished himself.

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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.-Jonas Salk

Milosevic is only a tiny iceberg piece on the history of of mass murdering of human beings by serbian butchers. Hungry for more murdering?

How many schooling years have you spent on butchering human beings?

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Jesus beat the devil with two sticks. Colossian 2:13,15

Proud American!

Communism/Socialism is similar to legalizing burglary and murder!

If you accuse a whole nation of being murderers, chances are they'll try and murder you whether they're murderers or not. I don't think it will avoid conflict, rather make it worse.

I think the next Olympic games should be in the Balkans or something. That'd hopefully provide a distraction.

Marko, Amused my friends, this may be the best advice I can give you, my niece is in her last year at Zagreb Uni, I want her to become a Croatian MEP, we have already started.

An English saying "the early bird catches the worm" when I meet you in Belgrade, you will get the biggest bollocking of your life if you cannot answer my question about EU elections.

The EU is the future for all of ex yugoslavia, so be in the forefront

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None. Mod edit to remove profanity. Fools to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am stuck up the middle of you!
"Some people have recurrent behavior issues" Catz, proof please?

Not all Religion is a load of bollocks,The United Church of the Latter Day Tangental Tarts is moist yet crisp

Im a Tart, What! you want some of this

Russian @ss licker!

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Russian Imperialism is a greater danger to the World today than AlQueda terrorism

Thats right my friend - Serbs have "brown noses" from all that Russian @ss-licking - its quite digusting really.


For example, here is a very disturbing post made by this particular Russian @ss-licker


Russian laptop batteries last 10 hours

Here this Russian @ss-licker demonstrates his sickening desire to see death and destruction in the Caucasus. Whilst praising the 'mighty Russian army' - Very sad how some so called humans turn out isn't it? - what could make them behave like such animals that they actually crave other peoples death and want to see what others have built turned into a 'big pile of debris' ?

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Russian Imperialism is a greater danger to the World today than AlQueda terrorism