The Albanians: Europe's Original 'White Muslims'
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.พ. 2018
- Who on Earth are the Albanians: the enigmatic, mostly Islamic peoples of the Balkans? Today we're going to delve into some of the history of Albania and the Albanians in depth, including their origin, the country itself, the Greater Albania region and a global diaspora that easily rivals that of the Armenians, Greeks and others in terms of size and impact.
Please let me know your thoughts on the Albanian nation and their emergence over the centuries. Sorry about the gap guys, still getting over the flu, but I'm pushing through! Thanks for watching!
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I’m in Albania now. Their loyalty is much more tied to their nationality and language than to any religion. This country is also probably the most ecumenical society on the planet.
Albanian language.. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂.. Is old as coca cola
@@Johnny-pk3iq The hypothesis of the "Balkan Indo-European" continuum posits a common period of prehistoric coexistence of several Indo-European dialects in the Balkans prior to 2000 BC. To this group would belong Albanian, Ancient Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, fragmentary attested languages such as Macedonian, Thracian, or Illyrian, and the relatively well-attested Messapic in Southern Italy. The common features of this group appear at the phonological, morphological, and lexical levels, presumably resulting from the contact between the various languages. The concept of this linguistic group is explained as a kind of language league of the Bronze Age (a specific areal-linguistics phenomenon), although it also consisted of languages that were related to each other.[61] A common prestage posterior to PIE comprising Albanian, Greek, and Armenian, is considered as a possible scenario. In this light, due to the larger number of possible shared innovations between Greek and Armenian, it appears reasonable to assume, at least tentatively, that Albanian was the first Balkan IE language to branch off. This split and the following ones were perhaps very close in time, allowing only a narrow time frame for shared innovations.[62]
That’s probably thanks to Marxism destroying their religion and turning them all into atheists. But I do believe many of the traditionalist Albanians want to bring Islamic values back to their country, while the liberal Albanians want to keep atheism.
Have you ever been to the USA? There is not a place in the world as ecumenical as the USA. PERIOD.
@@yeahright4659 Sorry your wrong, Even the Pope had traveled to Albania saying so. I live in the State born here so were my parents, and have been to Albania several times The United States is not even close
Albanian "white muslims"
Bosnian: Am I joke to you?
Bosnia isn’t really a Muslim country Islam makes up about 50% of the population rest is Christian so it’s not fully Muslims while Albania is over 80% I think.
@@umaryusuf537You are wrong! Today Albania has around 65% Muslims
thermal take ok
@@umaryusuf537 go ask those albanians how many PRAY 5 Times per daY! bwahaha
@@umaryusuf537 and many muslims there have ADOPTED christian lifestyle: alcohol, pork, non-marriage sex, lying cheating gossips. and many many more! only 10% of those muslims are PRAYING MUSLIMS. and THANK ALLAH I am one of them!
We actually share history with Albania here in Algeria! 🇩🇿 Barbarossa brothers were Albanians and they ruled Algeria for a while
@@inxhitafa6909 I mean they were famous pirates and inspired a lot of movies
@@inxhitafa6909 I’m Albanian and honestly your comment was pointless
@@inxhitafa6909 stupid nationalist lol
Including Arnaut Mami the one who captured Servantes
Barbarossa brothers were from the island of Lesbos, from the village of Palaiokipos, they had a Greek mother and their father was a janissary, they were not Albanians
as an Albanian we are really united, most of us celebrate each others religion, we don't divide but unite. its weird but cool.
@Mr K
Weace
Thats so nice!
@@hossamsa4205 Par?
Religion for us Albanians don't really matter a very small % of us practice it
@єрīҭ๏๓є Roman Catholic
Other countrys are more busy about our religion than us
Religion is Very important in other countries, I know it was strange for me when I read comments from others
I am from Azerbaijan, and we see our religion also more 'cultural' then what others see.
I only experienced division of people based on religion after I visited and lived in a western country, I never experienced that shit in Kosova or Shqiperia, and I fucking hate it here, even though I am non religious I just cant stand the hate they have for each other(I live in Germany).
I also hate the misconception that Albanians are Muslims and also devoted hahahahaha thats so stupid, my whole family fathers and mothers side with uncles and grand grand father all identify as Muslim but none of them ever practiced it
@Tyler Durden only a shqipetar understands the comment this guy made.
Or maybe you laugh on purpose just to make the comment lose its worth, and then ur propaganda works, because as we all know, slavs love to mention that albanians are muslim and spread propaganda
Like who the flipping hell cares ? LoooooL. We're the oldest Europeans and that's a widely supported statement among global universities . In that respect-ciao Bella ....
I live in Italy and two of my grandparents have Albanian origins, in fact, near my town, there is another town that is called "Spezzano Albanese", wich means "Albanian Spezzano", and here in Calabria there are a lot of arbereshe towns
Frank Diodati I love Albania very much Iam khaled from syria I want to be friend of Albanian youngs . who is ready to be my friend
@@thegoodeffect410 i know there are many Arnaouts in syria and they have albanians origins, they migrated in syrian 300 years ago
Matteo Berisha. how are you my brother or my sister maybe your speach is right the Albanian people migrated to my country Syria 300 years ago. and we are similar to Albanian people. Albanian people have beautiful faces and syrian people as you.... I want muslim friends from Albania. how can I communicate with them
What does spezzano mean
الأثر الطيب The good effect what the fuck ? How are we similar with you ? We are white you’re dark skin and we don’t have the same religion, there are no Muslims in Albania!, if you want friends with Albanians don’t ask them about religion cause we don’t give a shit and don’t tell that we are the same as you !
Bruh calling us "White Muslims" is offensive. Not everyone in Albania is muslim. Most people aren't really that religious.
Thanks man u fucking said it !!!
and not everybody in spain or austria is catholic, but a majority are so they're catholic countries, dont try to find a deeper meaning to it
haha bruh you got offended by THAT? I’ve seen racist Serbs say suuuuper offensive things about Albanians, but this is what you get offended by?
SanFranGiants14 they talking about Kosovo 🇽🇰 not about us Albanians🇦🇱
but it’s okay...
@@albo-_-killazz7392 kosovo je serbija
I am Turk and there are lots of Albanians in Turkey.
@@kosovar_floppa No matter albania is not really muslim, turkey should stay away from them
@@farhab9184 Sorry this was my little cousin.
And no,we and turks are very good friends and 70% are muslim so kinda yes.
And the bosnians are muslim too and there are no turks there.
You dont have to be Turk to be a muslim, everybody is welcome in Islam.
@@kosovar_floppa Yes but turks are religious, albanians and bosnians not really
@@farhab9184 Yes, they are not,but you can call them still tho
@@kosovar_floppa I don’t consider them muslims whatever
The majority of Albanians do not even practise religion they just say that they are Muslim
Same dude I can confirm that
@sadhom najran Not true... it is just that serb propaganda tried to make us on the eyes of the world that we are a islamist country but they are hypocrites as always cause they say "We fought in Kosovo and Bosna against Muslims" but they killed people in Croatia Bulgaria and Slovenia and they were not Muslims 😬🙄 it was just the serb propaganda.. and as for Albanians turning more in to muslims now it is not true it is just that the technology makes it more easier to spread that but the situation is the same here about religions.. we have mosques and churches in the same place with 10 metters distance away from each other because the tolerance is bigger than the rivalry and this all because in Albania/Kosovo 'Albanism' is supposed to be more important than Religions... I'm Muslim but I don't feel proud or happy if someone knows me as a Muslim instead of being known as Albanian. Most of Albanians are Muslims but only like 30% of Muslims are Islam practicants the others they say they are Muslims but they don't even go to Mosque or Church(christians who say they are christians), here in Albanian people the religion is more like 'Pagan style' people say they are Muslim/Christian but not practicants and everyone of them puts the country first then the religion.
@sadhom najran I never said It is bad for me being Muslim I just said that it didn't change the situation for Albanians about religions it is just that technology made it easier for people around the world to learn more about those things... it is still the same situation about religions here it is just that 20 years ago didn't exist the likes of youtube insgagram facebook etc to reveal the situation 🙄... but even now here are the situation the same people say they are muslim or christians but most of them not practicants... this is the thing ...
@sadhom najran If you want to know about Albanians then don't learn about their religions but learn about their history 😜
Very interesting. It's the same in Bulgaria. We are Christian only on Easter and on Christmas while all other Balkan countries are very religious.
call Albanians all u want lmao, I’ve been there and a majority of the people that call themselves ‘muslims’ don’t even practice the religion
Lol if you're asked what kind of religion you belong to, you'll say muslim or else. Practicing it is another thing. At least that's how it works for us
yea they're more like secularist/atheist
Very true! All my family from my father and mother side declare themselves Muslim, but if you ask them they don't know anything about Islam accept the holidays. We eat pork, drink alcohol, and respect women rights.
I think the real muslims in Albania are less than 10% of the population. The other "muslims" are basically theists who believe in a non specific God.
As for me I'm an Atheist 😘😘
@@hafiz7008 than Your Kafir And Aposate when Sharia will come Wait than see your Fact and Send you to hell Enemeis of Allah and His Prophet Murtad
@@goldeneyes9622 whatchu babbling about?
as a member of serbian community i can say that i dont hate albanians. they are very kind and honor people. we could learn something from albanians
@@wrecked8746 Yes i‘m from the central serbia, i dont have much experience with serbs on the south, i visited albania 3 times and it is amazing. Love your people also. History is BIG behind albanian people. And cheers for some better times 🤝💪
@@wrecked8746 My neighbour, i wanted to tell you something. Generally speaking a lot of people here knows only to shout „kosovo is serbia“ like a donkeys, but actually they all don‘t know anything about kosovo.. And also you have some radicals still leading the country and spreading the hate. This nation still lives in some Mythical bullshit story, those donkeys are celebrating 1389 aaaand from that year we fell under the turkish empire for 500 years... You get it? crazy people mixed with fake history and nationalism...YES there are normal people here who thinks like me. Greetings
@@unknown75332first serbian who admits our history and isn’t arrogant thank you so much
first time i see a serb say something nice about albania thanks @@unknown75332
@@eibkujxhiu7845 There are many of us dont worry ;)
Albanian, Armenian and greek are the three individual Indo-European languages spoken today.
Albanians are the oldest out of all 3 of them very ancient people of the world
@@infuriousgamer1505 Albanian is NOT the oldest language. It is only attested from after 1300 (though it is older than that). Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian and others are all older. Among living languages Greek is considered the oldest as it has by far the best documented history.
InFuriousGamer Albanian isn’t the oldest man cmon 😂
@メKANUNI Greece took influence from Phoenician alphabet. And then... Latin took influence from Greek... . English language for instance has 150.000 words which the 40.000 are Greeks. Historically Latin Greeks and Albanians aren't the same language nor are from same era. Greeks are older even from Chinese. Is the oldest speaking language on the planet. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
@@AlphaSigmA1 Greece is an artificial staate bevor you were all albanians or let’s say Arvanite, it was them who fought against the ottoman and gained independence. Anyway Greek and Albanian are from the same race and blood you can not contradict to that Fakt, I mean the Fakt that we are both the only non Slavic Country’s in the Balkans shows everything so if we like or don’t like there is a deep connection. The only thing that separated us was and is faith. Look at 5:02 were Albanians live in Greece, and they are no data that shows that they emigrated there ,!
Your title is totally misleading and problematic.
We Albanians are the one of the most secular nation in the world. In Albania proper a majority of us are irreligious, but even when we identify with a religion our identity still remains our ethnicity. Reducing our identity to religion is simply wrong.
I think he was remarking on how unique the Albanian people are to have such large religious diversity living together and yet united as a nation. Consider sunni vs shiite, catholic vs protestant, catholic vs jew, muslim vs jew.... I dont think of this is a "reduction", but a tribute.
Be proud you can call your neighbour "brother" and not "enemy"
yeah i agree, religion in albania is a very personal undertaking and not really part of your identity that you portray to the world. we identify more with where we live.
You wish, you are ran over by Islam, again.
This is reason why Albanian Christian womans marry for Serbs with support of familiy? Albanians Muslims go in big steps for re islamization.
@@itsme-lj6oy religion has nothing to do with that , I don't think in Albania anyone will care about religion of partner .. .... Your brain is "fucking shit "with all these ideas of religion ...
I don't care about religion" fuck" religion all of them ...
Actually most of Albanians don't have a religion.. they do however believe in God but don't actually care about religion.. in my house we celebrated both christian and Muslim (and some other kind of pagan) holidays... Yeah we were confused as f....
albanians were forced into atheism by decades of communist dictatorship. since religion was banned for a few generations , alot of people lost touch with thier islamic or christian identity.
@@kevinbrown2481 I'm quite aware of that I was talking about the current situation
Mos rrej kuqke
@@kevinbrown2481 yeah but it kinda turned out to be a good thing right now tbh
Albanians don`t give a fuck about religions
Watched a documentary about Gjergj Kastrioti (aka Skanderbeg) an albanian lord who rebelled against the Ottomans. After his death, Mehmet II was recorded saying. "The Christian land, has lost his sword and shields.
Great man!
Its Europe and not christian land . "Europe land , has lost its sword and shield " . Don't misunderstand it . Europe as a continent and christianity as a religion are 2 different thing .
Gjergj kastrioti rejected muslim and reverted back to christianity when he came back to albania
@@DinaricUbermensch well thats because he was allied with the pope and of course he would change his religion . Skanderbeg had 3 religions . He changed religions mostly for political reasons . But many people misunderstand it .
@@loretakrasniqi8452 His main religion was Albanian
Kastrioti was not Albanian. He did even speak albanian.
We have a number of Albanians here in Sweden. Many of my colleagues are Albanian and they're really chill people. I am part Greek so it's always fun to have a bit of balkan banter with them, calling them organ harvesters and drug traffickers but it's all in good fun 😄 And they call me a poor wannabe turk in return 😂 Love to our Albanian friends 🇸🇪🇬🇷❤🇦🇱
half of the joke its true, qesh e ngjesh i love ur friends also 😜😂
Love greeks who live outside of greece. Their best qualities come out. Most greeks in greece are unbearable.....
@@kiki_ci3880 I have to agree with you, unfortunately.
its not joke ur gypsies and we dont like u at all
Albaner och araber är ju Sveriges befolkning så förstår inte varför du ens nämnde det.
I am from Poland and according to my genetics related to Albanians. I am the nephew of President Andrzej Duda and originally we come from the mountains Beskidy, in English Beskids. The word Beskidy is said to derive from the Illyrian. Anyway Greetings from Poland, I will visit Albania soon.
Duda/Dede/Dodo is a surname also used in Albania .
Bjeshkët or Bjeshkë, or Bjeshka in Albanian 🇦🇱🇵🇱
Lazar Cvetkovic Serbia is Kosovo😉
Lazar Cvetkovic
You have no life...
Lazar Cvetkovic
Because all you Serbs do is search for Albanian videos, dislike them and then comment hate and bullshit in the comment sections... that’s why you have no life.
We might be Muslim,Christian,orthodox but at the end of the day we are Albanian🇦🇱
@Бастин Џибер and youf proof is???
@Бастин Џибер that is beyond stupid
We are autochthonous here unlike serbs who came from asia during the 6th century so the only expansionists here are you and your people
Orthodox are Christians
@єрīҭ๏๓є well what is yours?
In Russia during 00s was keeping a common expression to call someone who does strange behavior - there was a trend - "Albanets" that's mean Albanian . Nowdays things changed , we call strange one "Indeyets" its mean Indean .
Respect and love from a Greek, there is no reason to fight, we are brothers 🇬🇷❤️🇦🇱
tosks are pretty much greeks genetically
@@theodore6288
Are you an idiot?
@@181ld7 yeah
Finally someone who get it respect bro❤
nah bro greece is albania over 70%of them have albanian greatgrandparents
One of the most interesting and unique countries in Europe. I love Albania!
Respect!
I love bulgarian mountains hope 2 visit it someday. also ur women can be very beautiful with black hair and darke eyes. from what I saw
And I love you for that.
@Dardan Serbia
🤮🤮🤮
I am greek and I know a lot of albanian families , they work a lot and are good people I respect them .
true they work here like the slaves for a piece of bread
first greek who talks good about albanians because most of greek people hate albanians and love serbian people more 👍🏼
hi ran
is nice to hear that from you as a Greek
this mean
that is all ways nice peple in this world
we have the good and the bad
well said
all the best to you neighbour
Greeks who hate albanians have Low IQ.
you can't be proud greek and hate albanians.
Why so Matteo ?
im from south africa i thought i should tell you an interesting fact, king Leka of albania spent many years exiled in Bryanston in johannesburg in South Africa, where his son, Prince Leka Anwar Zog Reza Baudouin Msiziwe.he even gave his son a zulu name aswell as an egyptian name
surge knight yes the Royal family lived in various countries like Greece,France,USA,South Africa,Yugoslavia ect.Leka Junior now lives in Albania and works for the government :)
My family used to serve the king as bodygaurds and advisors. He was exiled by communists. Even now propoganda is spread and taught that the king actually sold his country. Sad lies. If you wish to know more i would be hapoy to teach. Anything to spread the truth.
Albania losing zog was worst thing for us. The communist then spread lies about him stealing the national gold reserve which is false.
big respect from albania , i know pretty well about za , good country good people , they are a bit gamblers though
We real Albanians are indebted to you South African Brothers for giving refuge to our Royals. We will repay you for your good deeds.
This video was so well done. Subscribed!
6:45 for the record it's "VOY-vodina", not "VAG-vodina"
You should have mentioned that Albania is the only country in Europe that at the end of WW2 had more jews that at the start of WW2.
( And King Zog the heaviest smoker in history, and a King that returned fire on would be assassins !! )
albanians are jews them selves
England history Killing Stealing Raping so thats why serbia lost all wars they started. Because the serbian mafia controls the world good one mate.
England history Killing Stealing Raping come at me bro and dont forget your serbian mafia who controls the world but couldnt assure the wins of the started wars.
England history Killing Stealing Raping Serbian maffia loses to some poor bosnian militias
I am Ukrainian, really enjoyed working with few Albanians in the US.
geothon im from kosova and I worked with Ukrainians in Wisconsin , big respect for you guys in those hard days for your country
Ukraine , another country suppressed by the same breed we are / were .
Regards from a Brit- Alb .
Michael Anderson we are humans just like everyone else 😎😎
Who allowed you ? You're just like the rest , of European origin . You're not Native American either . I'm British , in mother words , above you .
Brits ARE native to UK. White Americans to America aren't ! America belongs to the native tribes , which some call native Indians . Therefore , quit licking his ass and know your place . Both of you are dumb . Do you even have an honours at all ?
I remember meeting an Albanian student in biology laboratory years ago. At first I thought he was a typical white American, then at some point he recognized I was middle eastern/muslim and he started wanting to chat more. He told me hes Albanian, so I took interest in that fact and was surprised to realize there are ”white” muslims lol
Even if they're non practicing it's still pretty cool that we can call white Europeans ”brothers”. It's weird but its hella cool especially at a time where muslims were demonized by ”white” people in the past decade lol
We Don't care at least about religion we have a millions albanian religions that we don't express to the world and we believe in millions of Gods
We ain’t your brothers
@@frostie7359 😬
😅😅😅😅😅
@@inxhitafa6909 Speak for yourself
Thank you for a very informative video
I'm Polish and I have a weird interest in this country. It's one of the most culturally and geographically interesting countries in Europe, but you never hear about it.
Cuz its artifitialy made by britain in 1912.... Tribe. Check their faces on pictures.
Yes also the military in Kosovo is supported by Poland.
y dont u visit albania . over 250.000 polish visit albania every summer.
briantravelman u know what I like doing? Going to my Dominican friends and talking about how Albania is better and they just get mad saying DR is better and there hard working and shit but my uncle went from pizza delivery man to multimillionaire
Dnt go there
im christian and im albanian
Nice to meet you Christian
Me to
I am also Christian and I am Albanian from Kosovo
@@The.steppenWolf you mean northern Albania ❤️❤️❤️
Albanian Mafia AKSH Yes, but now Kosovo is a country 😃 Second Albanian country 🇦🇱🇽🇰
I remember traveling to Yugoslavia before the war, when Albania was the "North Korea of Europe" under the Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.
No point in your coment totaly lost i'm Croat i dont understand what are u taking about! Yugoslavia-Albania
@@nrno7419 before the war like a couple 20 years ago and Enver Hoxha ruled Albania
@@nrno7419 Yeh albania wasnt part of yugoslavia, two completely different countries, don't know what this guy is talking about lol
Albania and yugoslavia were seperate countries
Albanians are the most secular people I've met in my life.
And that’s bad
@@hyamick7584 not necessarily.
They dont tend to mix their religion in any other institution or anyone else's business.
Religion is religion, school is school, the government is the government..they believe religion is their relationship between their god and selves which is the most important thing for a spiritual follower and should always be private and not be anyone elses business.
@@Leeeeem I am albanian and I can tell you it does sound beautiful but it is not. Atheist or (not so religious) today they are producing a lot of problems because not so religious people are very nationalistic and that is a big problem
@@hyamick7584 its not bad. I am a muslim albanian but I have never been in a mosque. I did visit a church once tho, loved it.
@Itadori Yuuji I'm not saying its good or bad. I am simply not a religious person... I believe in science, philosphy and technology.
I don't like fighting for religion or any God but I would die only for two things:
1. Family and 2. Albania
That's just who I am, respect to everyone tho!
Our identity it is created from other ideals like the fact of being Albanian... )not from religions.
@ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ is МАКЕДОНИЈА a slav who pretends to be ancient macedonian with no identity talks about anyone else r u dum
@ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ is МАКЕДОНИЈА go steal some history better
@ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ is МАКЕДОНИЈА yes u tried to say something with all of this material that i would say is bias but tell me one thing that cannot be Changed its Dna and that proves Albanians were here autochthonous and u migrated here , Still ur dna don’t proof that u weren’t here but migrated , The dna shows that ur roots where u come from so cheers to that my lad and ur biased opinions 😆
@Chris Kiustenoglou ok turk
yeah, that's what he said....
I'm Portuguese and I lived in Italy for three months and I met some Albanian people ... most of them from a place called "Valona" ... and wow ... They are extremly nice people... I totally had the wrong Idea of them because of the movie "taken"
Dramatic Scar lol every country has "hotheads,mate
Epiri Cham "Valona" is the way they say it in Italy... the nice people did told me it was called "Vlora"
Dramatic Scar My family originated from Vlora but we live in the US
Dramatic Scar no the majority of albanians are bad boys and mafia and shit
I loved the movie taken, it was really fun watching the classic stereotypical albanian scumbag even tho i am albanian. Btw those fuckers did not speak albanian like wtf (if i remember correctly, I am also not a fluent speaker so I might be wrong)
In Roman empire = Albanians were Emperors
In Ottoman empire =Albanians were Generals ,Comanders , Vezir`s , Pasa`a ,Bey`s etc
In US = TOP SECRET
Who has the Albanians on his side, power is guaranteed
And in the 21st century Albanians wash cars and carry fake passports..
Both of the empires were already strong before albanians
Both of the empires were already strong before albanians
@@janakolasinac1686 source?
İ love Albania and his history. Albanians one of my favority nations in world. 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
🤮🤮🤮
@@ivanakurc serbia is gay
@@ivanakurc
Serbia is shit
Thanks🇦🇱❤🥰
Not history*
Most countries think of Albanians as wild and rough people. The truth is, it’s hard to stay soft when most of the countries around you try to dissprove your history and your existence. Our language is unique, we share a lot of elements of our culture with some of the ancient tribes of Illyria. Although the documentation is limitied, there is enough evidence to support our presence on the region of balkans since the b.c ages. It is infuriating when a nation of slavic roots, which has absolutely nothing to do with our people whatsoever, tries to claim our land as their own. We appear as wild and rough, because we have been forced to act that way, in order to protect what’s left and rightfully ours of our currently severly mutilated country.
@Emag No,here`s where you come from-www.emersonkent.com/images/maps/europe_814.jpg
Agent FoK Nice, nice. But did you know that Albans were an Illyrian tribe also? 😅
Yes Albani,but your tribe is Gege or Toske from Albania on the map,next to Armenia,where you come from under Georg Maniac Byzantin general in year 1041.You are not Ilirian,sory.
Agent FoK and where is your proof? You know, there is no chance that an entire population moved inside Byzantine empire without somebody writing about it. On the other hand, there are a lot of documents for slav migration. Albanians are descendants of the Illyrians, or atleast the language is, because illyrians dont exist anymore because there is no dna clean people in the Balkans today. You should also check for pileus hat, that hat can be seen in old greek statues, but the only people that wear it are albanians.
This Croatian scientist will explain it better-th-cam.com/video/g5OK1rLrOlc/w-d-xo.html
I am greek and I visited Albania in 2017, they are very hospitable, albanian countryside is very beautiful and their cities become better. Of course I met a few people that didn't sympathize me but that doesn't change my good opinion for them. It is true that greek people are suspicious to albanians at first but by the time they know each other they become close friends. Many albanians leave in my village for more 20 years, we cooperate each other and I have started learning albanian language. Peace and respect in Albania.
LOL ALBANIA LOOKS LIKE A VILLAGE I WAS IN TIRANA ONCE AND I REGRETED IT, ID RATHER GO IN A GREEK VILLAGE, ITS MORE DEVELOPDE THAN TIRANA
A reasonable Comment from a Greek, thx.
Albania was a close economy for many years. People there leaved under communism and finally a bank corruption. It is not fair to compare them with Greece that Europeans countries helped it a lot. By the time Albanians are hard-workers deserve respect. When you respect them it is sure that they will do the same to you. Tourism is growing with high rate last 3 years and it is a cheap destination for holidays.
ΣΤΑΘΗΣ ΔΩΡΗΣ πηγές στο Αργυροκάστρο
Ναί, πήγα για λίγες ώρες. Ήμουν περαστικός
All love and respect to Albanians from Morocco!
Morocco doesn't recognize kosovo tho
@@doraphoneuser2589
Because of Western Sahara
Thank you for making an unbiased video on this topic.
There is so much misconceptions about Albania. People and even Albanians themselves, still don't realise it what religion Albanians really are.
Albanians are SPIRITUAL PAGANS who believe in God without the need of religions.No matter how much Albanians say I'm a Muslim or a Christian or whatever,they will drop any religion the moment it goes against their traditions and their superstitions. Everything that Albanians do during the day, they unconsciously follow all pagan way of behaving or acting upon something.
They will follow the Moon if they want to cut their hair, they will protect a snake on the walls of the house as it is "the protector of the house", will try not to walk under the trees at night" because you might step on a baby Genie", will not look outside when the trees prey to God, otherwise your head will swallow and you might never get it inside from the window", " will not comb their hair at a certain timings and moments because it is bad".
Oh, I can keep you all day with little things like this. No matter how much we try to ignore these habits, they still seem to keep us on our toes. There is nothing religious( Abrahamic religions) about these beliefs.
This is the big reason why Albanians are so tolerant towards any religion. We celebrate Eid, we fast as well, but we celebrate Christmas too, Easter as well, and we find nothing wrong getting on top of the Mountain to the Saint Antony's church in Lac town, even though we are Muslims. We believe there is one God for all people of the world and we can make this connection with Him, without the need of an Imam or a Priest.
This is the reason why Orthodox Churches of Greece and Serbia along with Ottomans,prohibited and cursed the Albanian language to be written and even spoken.
The Romans claimed that Albanians were never fully Christians, Turks claimed Albanians were never fully Muslims. By simply being Albanian, it means a threat to organised religions such as Christianity or Islam. Those Albanians who were fully Christians or Muslims are assimilated into populations of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia. The true Albanian has stayed loyal to its ancestors religion, the Paganism.
I have respect for all religions, I don't hate anyone of them. I have fasted, celebrated Eid, but I have prayed to Church too.
In the end, aren't they all coming from one person( Abraham)and believing on each other' s Prophet's ?
Te lumtë , sa bukur qe e spjeguar per te gjithë, kto jemi ne 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Bravo te qofte.
Liljana smund te isha me shum dakord me ate cka ke shkruar , e lexova me shum interes edhe kenaqsi gjithashtu :) . Shqiptaret u be kohe qe po kalojne nje faze krize identiteti dhe nuk e di kur do vije kohe qe ta pranojne ate cka ata me tvertet jan ... Besoj do ishte dicka goxha e mire edhe per injorancen e madhe qe ka pushtuar vendin , flm zotit qe shohim njefare fije shprese tek tuk. Me vjen keq qe mu desh te largohesha nga vendi im , ashtu sic po bejn shumica e moshes time , shpresoj qe mos te ket pasoja fatale per vendin .Pershendetje te perzemerta nga Gjermania
@Albozz Gjet My last intention is to change someone's beliefs. You believe whatever you want. I simply expressed my idea about the majority of Albanians and I am very well aware about the history of Christianity and Islam in these lands.
Liljana Sufaj this is legit how my Albanian family is
I like how Serbs are so obsessed by videos about Albania so much lol
don't worry,Berisha..they are all the time on videos about Croatia also..
it is fascinating,you hardly can find Croats or Albanians on videos about serbia,but videos about Croatia or Albania here you go - 80% of butthurted serbs in a comments.
Greek nationalist soldier Greek nationalist soldier : The only thing Greeks can do, is to fuck one another, LOL !
Greek nationalist soldier Greek nationalist soldier watch out greek THE DEBTS ARE COMING THE DEBTS ARE COMING
Matteo Berisha bull shit
yes, we are blue dabadee dabedaaaa
Fascinating video. Thanks!
Amazing and very professional video!
I went back to work recently and there is an elderly Albanian gentlemen on the team now... I am making it my goal to learn some of the language! I've never met an Albanian before and I want to show him some respect.
Good luck learning Albanian, it's one of the most unique languages that exist in this world.
My granpa is albanian my grandmother is croatia i love you too crotia🇭🇷💓🇦🇱
😂😂🤣🤣🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 thanks bro!
Brits buy it still and sell it too ....
Ask the Jews we've saved from people like you . We are the most special breed in Europe. We are different . We shit on religion when it comes to helping someone in need . Codex . Something we've had for thousands of years . I'm proud to be of Albanian origin .
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I spent three weeks in Albania, which I thoroughly enjoyed. They are an interesting people to say the least, and have a very unique history. My longest stays were in Tirana and Shkoder, so those are the two cities I know the most about personally. I visited Muslim mosques, Catholic and Orthodox churches, and also Bektashi tekkes. And one thing that really struck me is just how nominally religious Albanians are. The four faiths (Bektashi branches from Sufi-Shi'ite Islam but diverges greatly from Sunnism) intermarry among each other, and seem to all be animated by a common Albanian identity where Albanians are Shqiptarët before anything else, religion being strictly personal. I saw so few religious places of worship in such large cities, clearly a hold-over from Communism but also what I got to know as a peculiar characteristic of Albanian history even before that with a quite relaxed approach to religion....The language is very unique and in no other country where I spent so much time had I absorbed so little of the language; it can be difficult and hard to master, but this fact speaks to just how unique it is, occupying its own branch of the Indo-European language. I do lend some credence to the Illyrian theory and see some links also to the Thracians, but perhaps there were also links to other pre-Slavic peoples of the Balkans, such as the Dacians?
Sean Jobst I hear that often that albanians in albania are nicer than those in Kosovo and Macedonia.
Jovi Zapp I don't know about friendly or hospitality wise, but I was told by some Albanians in Albania that the ones in Kosovo and Macedonia tend to be more religious and conservative.
Sean Jobst Wrong. It's the same in Kosovo, we are one nation and one culture and majority are very secular.
As a Kosovo Albanian I don't care about religion, our nation and language has always United us, not religions.
Only Albanian in Macedonia are more religious.
Bardh Dardania Faleminderet. Good that it is the same. I have challenged propaganda before about the KLA being "Islamist" and other ridiculous claims. Albanians are a good case of how a nation can stay united and be truly one, regardless of other considerations.
Sean Jobst The KLA is not an Islamist organisation. It was a nationalist guerrilla force against Serbian military occupation. There were Muslims, atheists, Christians in the KLA and they fight for Albania not Jihad. Plus I have never ever seen a video of a KLA fighter shouting Allah akbar like the ones in Syria.
I'm also glad to hear you enjoyed your visit!
You kinda messed up some stuff in the video, the biggest haplogroup in Albania is E-V13 which is early neolithic farmer DNA that originated in west anatolia and exapanded to europe through the balkans at around 6000BC, its also the main haplogroup of Greeks. And not the i2 as you said.
99.7% E-V13 Pure Serbian from Old Herzegovina here!
@@ogimia Watch surah al qalam (the pen) merciful servant video
@@ogimia more like albanian lmao, take a ancestry test I bet you will have albanian ancestors
@@DinaricUbermensch I did, and they are all Serbian,going many generations from Orahovac (Orovac) near Trebinje in Herzegovina.
Same as those "relatives", there is like 90% Serbian people and other 10% is everyone else including some Albanians or maybe albanized Serbs...
@@ogimia show me ur test results
Not bad indeed. However, I think the title of the video " Europe's Original White Muslims" is a little misleading for the fact that Albanians are really not 'real' Muslims but rather former Albanian Christians (and pagans before Christianity reached the Balkans) who converted to Islam some years after the occupation of the Balkans by the Ottoman Turka simply oit of necessity (primarily to avoid the Ottomans possesing their women if they remained Christian - and they were a proud honor-based clan society like the Scotish Highlanders, but also in order to avlind heavy taxes that the Ottams imposed on Christian population, as well as outnof opportunistic reasons). In other words, Albanians have historically been known to never give up on their Albanian ode toty and replace ot with the Ottoman one (which included Islam)...They never really succbed to the Ottomans and never gabe up their Albanianess to embrace Ottoman identity, and used various methods to preserve theor identity (inuding the fake ismamization - they would publically declare themselves Muslima bud i reality and in their hearts they never really embraced Ottoman culture (including Islam). In faft they always considered the Ottoman the occupier. This is even reflected i many Albanian traditional sayings like "Turku do zor" (The Thrks only u deratan the language of force), " As e mira e turkut as sherri i shkjaut", etc etc. This is something that many non-Albanian- friendly Serbs either are not aware of (still naively thinking that Albanians are a muslim people) or ignore this fact on purpose in order to continue with their propaganda portraying Albanians as people who were just poor and illiterate but dangerous asian muslim people who came to the Bakkans and lived on tje mercy of Serbs, only to raise to power by serving every occupier of the Balkns (incmuding the Ottomans) and raising to power that allowed them to i crease their polulation, overpopulate Kosovo (a cradel.of Serbianism) and put the Serbs in a servamt position under the Ottomans. Of course, Albanian national.romantics also have a version of history charged with nationalist romanticism (the Albanian one).....
Majority of the so called "muslim" Albanians (both in Kosovo and Albania) are actually only nominally muslim as their primary and most important ide toty os Albanian. aThis is why I believe
I think maybe he just means in comparison to more modern day migrations of Muslims to Europe, in that they were Muslims already here for a while
I grew up with Albanians from Kosovo. I became a part of their family as they became a part of mine. I didn't have a family so they became my family. The family cohesion is very important for them and that's what blessed me. I learned their language and got a national consciousness.
John Qysh je shqipe
Te pershendes 👐🏻👋🏻💪🏻😂😍👍🏻
Love ya bro
you're always welcome!
Glad you found and felt unconditional love from us Albanians brother!!!😎
Albanians are the most hospitable People that I and my Friends have ever met. We have traveled more the Part of northern Albania but stayed in Theth and Kosovo. We were almost forced to stay as Guests although we didn't want that. At the latest when the Housekeeper asked to 100th time If we are well or hungry, it was too much of appreciation. My Souvenir are some beautiful Socks and the alcoholic drink Raki (way too strong for me to drink). We have traveled the Balkans, south and the north of Europe several Times but this type of hospitality has never met us elsewhere. Culture-conscious People who cherish their Identity, Customs and Culture like true Patriots without hatred of other ethnic Groups. Also their Music is awesome. I love this People. Peace.
Thanks for your kind Words. Northern Europeans are always welcome. Which Music do you mean those traditionally or the modern one?
malesor Hi I'm Dutch :). I l like in general traditional Folklore with Drums and Flute. The Songs from the albanian Singer Alban Skenderaj are also adorable, if you think his Music is modern.
Arjan van Daalen thanks
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I mean albanians are great people. But I do know that there are a lot of "bad apples" and trust me the ones that hate those people the most are albanians themselves
Ataturk the founder of the Turkish Republic (man on my profile picture) was half Albanian as his grandfather Piroush Conko migrated to Thessaloniki from Southern Albania in 1861. There’re 6 Million people with partial Albanian ancestry in Turkey (including me through my great-grandfather Sulejman who came to Izmir from Macedonia)
it's false. just legend he was not of albanian ancestry...maybe he was of ashkenazi jewish origin but it's not sure.if you look at his pictures it's impossible he was albanian
jorham1 His real name was Mustafë Conko. There’re many incidents of him speaking in Albanian to his friends from the military academy. His grandfather even had lands in Southern Albania until the communist regime. He even helped many Albanians find refuge in Turkey. Almost %10 of the Turkish population has Albanian roots because of him. Calling Ataturk a jew is nothing but an Islamist propaganda to make everyone hate him.
@@jorham1 “If you look at his picture it’s impossible he was Albanian”
WTF are you talking?
Plenty of Albanian have blue eyes and similar physical features.
@Dottor Cisafrulli Which comment?
HE IS AN ETHNIC SEFARDI JEW, HIS REAL FATHER IS FROM THE DÖNME JEWS ( THE JEWS WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAM DURING THE OTTOMAN TIMES BUT SECRETLY STAYED JEWS IN THEIR HOMES). Y’ALL READ ABOUT IT.
Nice Video Respect for you
I am proud to be Albanian
We are Nr 1 Religion Tolerance.
Absolutely number 1..
Të fala vlla.
Adam Jashari is the epitome of resistance and self-sacrifice.
Bravo ta hanksha loqken
@Serbia Romania Russia Slovakia PWNS Albania Adem Jashari was Serbias nightmare 😉
@Serbia Romania Russia Slovakia PWNS Albania Adem Jashari was pure blooded albanian descendant of skanderbeg and a nightmare to serbs
we shot him as a dog
@@shokybgd Serbs committed suicide?
Albanian men dress is very ancient and I appreciate it seems unchanged until recently with pop culture. They do want to try to be modern but can't because who wants them to change the beauty of who they came from?
What does FYROM want here? they probably already accepted the fact that they would be Eastern Albania a part of Greater Albania very soon, everyone of those Bulgarians already started learning Albanian
True
@@sultanswifegetsgreeceaswed5352 Mongol Turk
Great albanian will never happen but it's okay to dream 👍
You got the yDNA haplogroup wrong. Modern Albanians have the highest E-V13 and J2B-L283 haplogroup a. I2a is one of the minority haplogroups below 10%.
No mostly Kosovar Albanians and Macedonian Albanians have more than 30% I2a
@@bakeee1453 incorrect. Macedonians as a whole yes, but Macedonian Albanians have percentages similar to Albanians which are majority E-V13, J2B, and R1B. This was shown recently (Coklo 2016). Wikipedia article from 2004 is measuring only I-subgroup frequency, the 2008 article is also measuring people in Montenegro which have high I-P37 frequency. Newer studies show and confirm previous studies that the groups listed above account for up to 80%+. I-groups account for +-10%. This makes sense because marriages are within the same language/culture. This is represented in the paper I mentioned where they study the frequency of Albanian people in Croatia and detail the frequencies being similar to Albania/Kosovo/Macedonian Albanians. I have nothing against I-group. It is said I and J were once the same group IJ long ago!
I'm Romanian and I have a really weird interest in this country. We are related, the Illyrians he has mentioned are related to the Dacians who were conquered by the Romans. Respect to Albania 🇷🇴❤🇦🇱
romanians and albanians are a bit similair bc of the genetiks and language. The illyrians in romania where the only one who didnt asimilate too much in slavic kulture like for example bosnians did and we albnains did survive fully as illyrians but only our languge did change a bit but not our illyrian blood. Love romanian people❤ our brothers and sisters🇦🇱🇷🇴
@@Al_Mizan99 How did Bosnians change if they are actual Slavs?😂
@@Cris-hd1wb the dalmatians(illyrians) who lived in bosnia did asimilate extremly into slavic kulture but all over balkan there are traces of albanian blood and even language bc if there were no albanians the slavic people in Balkan wouldnt say for example the albanian word "raki" for alcohol. They would say vodka or the folk costume of the slavic people in balkan wouldnt look like the folk costumes of the albanians.
hana ibraim Bosniaks are pure Slavs
@@davidarianiti8790 NO ONE in balkan are pure slavs bc of us albanians. If there were no albanians allll the slavic people in balkan would talk pure slavic and would look like pure slavic people but i se alwayyyys people for example in bosnia who look like albanians or in greece, romania, even serbia. And they have many words taken over from the albanians like jakna,raki,stikla or words that sound like albanians words. So pls stop talking shit and start thinking logical. I give a SHIT about your opinion that we albanians shouldnt allegedly "steel" historys from others.
Croatian people say: when u have an albanian as a friend u dont need god but when hes ur enemie u need to fear more of him than the devil #sorryformyunprofessionelenglish
That’s true
J J greeting to all my croatian brothers and sisters 🇦🇱❤️🇭🇷 we stay together and forever !
J J its amazing how dalmatians still known they have illyrian bloodz and also hundez or kalashat in pakistan they have also illyrian roots and still talk the old language but in greece are 65% albanians (arvanites) and most of them are asimilated and the newer genwration of them are hiding it and cant learn the language
J J hahaha yes thats why the put „is tis os tos popous osis isos osos“ in every word or name ... fake language
thats only because both hate the serbs. otherwise they wouldnt give a fuck about eachother
Regards and respect from Bangladesh !
I believe you do know that considering Illyria became part of the Roman Empire and later part of the Byzantine Empire, Albanians had nothing to do with Islam. I mean what do you mean with original Muslims?
there is also allot of albenian immigration in the middle east in the time of the ottoman empire as they prefered them as elite troops or officers. Mostly recognise dnow by the surname Arna'ot (albanian in turkish) as an example the Egyptian dynasty of Alawits which descendant from an Albanian officer from Thessaloniki that become king of Egypt Mohamed Ali.
Albania was the first atheist country in the world. To this day religion holds no great importance, as a national proverb says: ‘The Religion of Albanians, is Albanism’. Many religions coexist in peace in albania today, but most of the young people remain atheist
isn't Estonia 84% atheist?
I am albanian anx atheist
No we are muslims
@@flowmotion4664 no we're not :)
@@punchingbag277 kqyri xhamiat premtev po ju ateistat jetoni nboten e juv keni qef mi ja bo vetit rrafsh krejt bota na njeh si muslimon edhe muslimon jemi edhe kena me kan
Interseting fact:
TROYA in Albanian means THE LAND.
People who still don't know Albanian can write in plural form of TROJA:
TORJET TONA = OUR LANDS
Ahaha
@@37Dunja Everyone who know Albanian understand what TROJA means. Unfortunately you can't speak Albanian :) but you can translate from google...
Troy was a Greek exonym, in Luwian (Trojan) they called themselves Wiluša, or in Ancient Greek, Willios (Later Illios)
@@AlexBigShid Illio (Yllio) in Albanian means the Starness...
@@evladifat6322 Wiluša is what Troy was called was my point lmao, we've found Luwian writing on the site.
CRAZY.....HISTORY....
COOL STUFF. THANKS...
INFORMING
Some corrections from an Albanian
Great Albania-Ethnic Albania
Religion Islam- Religion Albanian or Shqiptaria as we call it
I can guarantee you most dislikes are from serbs and greeks
No they are not, honestly! Just about every TH-cam video has dislikes if you have noticed..
Serbs maybe but why greeks? Greeks love albanians more than your own brothers the turks
@@makisman6047 sure they do but there are also very very racist greeks
@@pee_ga8894 yes, every country has very racist people including both Greece and Albania
@@makisman6047 sadly we cant stop it lol
My grandparents come from Piana degli Albanesi, don’t know if that counts though
Ciao , obviously counts . You are descendants of medieval Albanians who left their own country in 15 century . In motherland Albania we love you .
I2a is not the main paternal haplogroup. The main haplogroups are E-V13, J2B2, R1B.
Lol
@@drinmaliqi9531 I2a is extremely low in gheg albanians and non existant except for albos that had ancestors that mixed with slavs
@@DinaricUbermensch po shqiptaret gheg nuk jane marut me shkije
@@albanianshit-skingypsysubh7167You’re wring Dinarics are Finno Ugric migrants
I live in Canada where my hometown has a lot of Albanians and the rest are Portuguese, Italians, Greeks, Polish, Dutch, Germans, Ukrainians and Croatians. It is unique of how the Albanian language has its own isolate Proto-European branch.
Clarke Road Trojans 🇨🇦🇦🇱❤️
In which city in Canada you found a lot of Albanians? I live in Canada too and looking for Albanians.
Clark Road Trojans
Have you ever been in a school yard or in a classroom ??????
#brothabox stay behind you pc idiot , and don't talk for civilization
djordje milanovic yep
Albania is a very secular country. There is an old quote from an Albanian poet of the 1920': Feja e Shqiptarit eshte Shqiptaria (The religion of the Albanian is the Albanianism). Hoxha has left a positive print into out culture. Even if most families consider themselves Muslim or Orthodox, they don't really practice it, it's just the religion of their grandfathers. Albanians are mostly agnostic, if not atheist.
Maybe you can say it for the albanians of Albania, but not for sure for the albanians in North Macedonia and Kosovo.
I am an albanian from Shkupi (Skopje) in North Macedonia, and i can garantee you that in my region the religion is taken quite seriously.
@@musaaziri3568 Your age group maybe, but people 30 years or less are becoming less and less religious...and not just in the Balkans but everywhere.
@@Albanez39 he's right. Enver Hoxha has impacted Albania greatly, and sadly we still see the consequences. In Kosova or in Macedonia we wear our faith heavier. Nonetheless, it's not a good thing to be secular, it shows others on what weak people we are. So sad . I hope the best for my people.
@@sm3675 Honestly, I think people like you show the world how we weak we are, and how weak Albania could have been. Secularism is a must for any modern country wishing to be part of the global community. Division of church and state must be a necessary requirement for all such countries. No offence.
@@musaaziri3568 are you a practicing Muslim/Christian?
nice work
Good video
Their flag is dope though
thanks, everything about us is dope hahah
Their flag is stolen from Byzantine Empire though
@@dennismtz817 it's not you dickhead
Albanian flag is designed by Marigona! And is one if not the oldest flags. The eagle represents Albanians and the red color represents Albanian blood, those Albanians that gave their life/blood for Albania.
I guess your country's flag is ugly, and meaningless
Also not just Albania have an eagle in their flag, there are many other flags but the thing is that only Albanian Flag stands out from the rest and it's a badass flag, thus many haters like you are envious
Have all these countries stolen the flag from "Byzantine empire" though?
Have a great day!
@@dennismtz817 the Albanian flag is the Symbol of Skënderbeu one of the biggest Albanian Heros Who lived in the 13. Century So It has nothing to do with what you said
A while ago I read an article on why most eastern european nations had an eagle or a doubleheaded eagle as their symbol in their flags, it said that either those nations wanted to emulate Rome or were part of Rome at some point in history. The article even brought up one of the shield designs used by elite legionaries from the late roman empire at the time of Diocletian. I think that specific legionaries were called Herculiani Juniores (Rookie Herculians) and wielded an oval shield with a yellow-golden border, a red background and a one-headed black eagle in the centre, implying that Albania was pretty much clinging to its past as a former roman province and a former major roman recruitment base along with the rest of Dalmatia, trying to remember its origins and implicitly remaining loyal to Rome, intially Constantinople and later, after the Ottoman invasion, to the Vatican Church.
I'm from Turkey, I know that one of my great-greatparents was Albanian (Arnavut). So, I'm about 1/16 Albanian descent. Many Turks are similar.
We Albanians don’t care what religious we are, we just love our country more than anyone thinks. We respect and love anyone really who shows us respect. My religion is Albanian 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Of course we do.
@@jurgenjurgentk5931 he is saying that we Albanians do not care what religion people have. people can have any religions they want. but we Albanians love our country and ancient identity.
@@AlbanianHighlander21 Are you a Muslim brother???
If we need to show respect to the country that consider herself older than Greece then better make racist slurs about Albanians
@@tonivoul1971 Albanians had their own country and independent states before modern country of greece was created at 1831. if you want to argue which language is more older then we have to talk about Illyrians and Hellens. history shows that people like Illyrians and thracians other people settled southern Europe at least 900 hundred years before first hellenic speakers arrived.
I would love if you did a video about the Tartessians--I've always wondered who they were. Or just pre roman iberia in general but with a bit more on the tartessians.
One of the greatest islamic scholars of the 20th century was from albania , sheikh Muhammed nasiruddin al Albani . ( may god have mercy upon him )
Ameen
@Anika pova peace ❤️
Well sheikh albani did . and it made him a legend
Afrobeardz prob cause his family was forced to be Muslim during the ottoman or his family would have died.... so that’s all his family knew
Neo Nazi tf are you talking about
Great video very fascinating topic the Albanians. I'm from Macedonia originally and they're part of the culture and history of the place. Just gonna help you with some prononouciations it's "Voy-vodeena" and "Shkeeperia" :)
Hello my friend, i am Albanian and i have family from Macedonia. I also just wanted to make a small correction for pronunciation of the word Shqiperia - Albanians actually pronounce it with the ch sound as in the ch of the english word of challenge. So it would be pronounced as Shcheeperia,
Fuck you
Shqipëria !
Your country is Not macedonia because you are bulgarians and albanians
Well a little correction, first Pelasgia than Illyria last Albania - Shqiptar, which means Eagle, and the name came from Zeus’s stick with the eagle in the top, most of the languages call that stick Scepter, sceptre! Shkiptar (q-k)
Pelasgian - Peleshi (whoop hat) they used to wear and they wear today Plisi.
Illyria symbol aldebaran crescent moon - ylli hyri means star entered!
There is way more many blessings to all
Nice but needs a small correction. The most dominant paternal haplogroup among Albanians is Ev13 (also dominant among Greeks, southern Italians amd Macedonians) and not the I2a2 (ascribed to either the hypothetically earliest Europeans or the Slavs that came to the Balkass around 6th century AD).
I am Somalian and my best friend is albanian he has the roughest person but has the biggest heart
If u been Christs u been murded on biggest disgustin way. ( by your " friend")
@Dukagjin Lezha AHHAHQHAHAHAHAHA good joke
@Dukagjin Lezha I know you Albanians have Kanun,but from what I have heard from older people traveling to Skadar,I heard there is a lot of Albanians who can't really get along because of religion
KosovoJeSrbija I am christian and all my friends are muslim and we all get along just fine.Sometimes we even forget about each others religious beliefs.
I am Albanian 🇦🇱❤️
Damn bruh we albanians need to chill an focus on the future or the NOW. We have bigger Problems than argumenting with other People about our ancestors.
Ari Haxhija keep your bloodline pure because you are real Semitic people
@@DestoV2 like other balkans
Patrick Cerka lol u wish
@@DestoV2 what? That all the balkans are a shithole?
what are u saying dude... there are countries like slovenia and greece that have nothing to do with balkan at all... evne if they are located in it
There are sooooooooooooo many mistakes in this video its actually unreal.
The name "Albania" is not derived from Latin, Albania is the latinized VERSION of the actual native Albanian name "Arberi" "Arberia"- Latinized Albania.
As seen by the map Ptolemy drew mentioning the tribe of the Albani in central Albania and other toponyms throughout Illyria that had the "Arb" part in its name like the dalmatian island "Arbona" or the "Abri" tribe - true name is "Arbi" but the Greeks did a wrong translation of the name.
Shqiperia is mentioned for the first time in the 13th century but it replaced "Arberia" at the 17th-18th centuries. Its theorised by various scholars that it derives either from "Shqiptoj" which means "To speak clearly" or the more folk etymology of "Land of the Eagles" which in Albanian the word for Eagle is "Shqiponje"
Also the genetic of the Albanians is NOT l2a.
Its actually J2b2-l283 which is associated with the Illyrian colonization of the Dinaric Alps which also correlates to the Dinaric Race in northern Albania which is over 50%.
The biggest haplogroup is E-V13 neolithic farmer haplogroup that entered the Balkans at around 6000BC with its mutation happening in Western Anatolia and its distribution started in the Balkans.
E-V13 is seen alot in Albanians but also Greeks due to the fact when Illyrians and Myceneans came, they mixed alot with the native populations of the Balkans and gave birth to the Albanians and Greeks which is why J2b2-l283 in Albanians is just 20% but E-V13 is 35% and those in Kosovo have 45% and Greeks at around 30-35% in certain regions, but E-V13 is also seen in South Italy which ALSO correlates with the Illyrian and Greek colonization of South Italy.
Illyrians colonized Apulia as seen by the Messapic inscriptions and the city of Brundisium/Brindisi for example which has an Albanian etymology, same with Dalmatia and the ancient name of Kosovo "Dardania" also being of Albanian etymology.
Also your map of the Illyrian language is super wrong, its about x4 times smaller than the actual extent of the language was.
Illyrian was spoken from Pannonia to the north, till Epirus to the south, Apulia to the west and Dardania to the east and mind you, the PROPER Illyrians as mentioned by the Ancient Greeks lived in Albania, Montenegro and a part of Kosovo, so Albanian might be the proper Illyrian descendant but Illyrian had numerous dialects like Messapic and Dardanian.
Btw, Albanian is not theorised to be related to Balto-Slavic or Greek.
The only theory out there about Albanian is the Paleo Balkan continuity of Illyrian, Thracian or Dacian, most belivable theory is the Illyrian one, not just geographiclly but also alot of toponyms in ancient Illyria and Messapic are related to Albanian so this itself disproves the Thracian or Dacian continuity because Thracians or Dacians never lived in Italy.
Albanian, Balto-Slavic and Greek are related but not directly, they all come from Proto Indo European but were divided in about 2000BC.
Albanian & Greek are the last surviving Paleo Balkan languages
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@ 3:27 "The three haplogroups most strongly associated with Albanian people are E-V13, R1b and J-M172". E-V13 is verified in many tests with over 30% among albanians, which are clearly a peak in nowadays kosovo (ancient Dardania). Dardania has a meaning even today in albania (dardh/pear) and was mostlikly an illyrian tribe. And in general from genetics and linguistics facts albanians have a lot in common with italians, there are some italian historians who consider italians also as illyrians.
R1b is connects you to pakistan and north india
check my dna ..www.gjenetika.com/e-ft61048-lidh-arbereshin-me-shqiptarin/?fbclid=IwAR2MJ32CA5vG878LWqkMnrjkonnBq3bzh28vSkirdGlZGI6zC2zY_FA061k
This was surprisingly well balanced and researched. I appreciate the work that went into the video.
National Anthem of Turkey was written by an albanian poet M. Akif Ersoy...
Ayhan Ozcimbit i Hope the othoman Empirie come back in the balkans
selimi a Yes, the Ottoman Empire makes Albania great again. Long live the Ottoman Empire.
A servila muti
Ca palla kari kta Shqiptart ..mjer skenderbeu qe luftoj Turqit ..ju i hapni kembet e thoni Ishalla Vin.ottomanet prap...E un musliman jam ama nuk harrohet historia o njerez te mjer..Lexoni pak ma.shum mos folni palidhje
+malesor Ta qifsha tradhtarin e nones. Mos fol o klysh turku..
Spot on brother, spot on.
Ermmm what do you mean with ''Albanians in Macedonia are over 90% muslim""? Almost everyone here is greek orthodox. I am from Florina, a city in the borders with Albania and most albanians here are orthodox. You should check your facts again, they are wrong.
@@stevie6203 oh I m sorry then. I like to call things with their names.
Hey Masa, I've noticed what appears to be a small but prominent Asian looking community in Serbia. I've tried looking up if they're of Asian ethnicity but I get no results (Not in English or any other language I know anyways).
With well known Asian looking Serbs like Natasa Djorjevic and Milan Stankovic, I want to know what the story behind these Serbian "Asians" are.
How did they get there? Why do they live there? And why do they look the way they do if they're not Asian? These answers as much appreciated, but nonetheless your videos satisfy my curious needs so keep up the nice work and efforts you put in your videos!!
Serbs share altaic genes. It may be that the origin of the Serbs is Mongolian.
Servs are originally from Siberia Russia so no surprise they look Asian
The Serboi tribe originated in Pakistan
Most Albanians I've met have been incredibly secular. More so than any other group of muslim immigrants here in Sweden, a lot of the ones I've encountered have been Christians as well.
Muslims in Albanian drink , many eat pork , women dont wear hijabs those albanians you met in Sweden are generally from Kosovo and they are more religious then those from Albania.
We do not care about religion. Our nation state is created based on language, group awareness, flag and national hero. even if you ask an albanian he/she will say the religion of the father but that does not mean that he/she belives or pratices it
@@reservationbalkanpearls369 National Hero? You don't have one, though. Georgios Kastriotis was half Serb half Greek. You came from Caucasus and that's why you look alike with Muslim people from Dagestan.
@@hermespsychopompos8753 if you are servian you’re names says it all (Servus=servant ore shkllav in Albanian) and you’re language it has 43% Turkish loan Words
If you are greeek look yourself in the mirror and go back to Asia where u came from.
U can tell and sperate the Albanian from 100 ethnicities, we are not like you u don’t have a face.
@@hermespsychopompos8753 The Dagestani people are obviously whiter than Greeks. Modern day Greeks are only 50% European.
Albanian love your video good job,
FYROM is Albanian
FYROM is Bulgarian
Albanians doesnt belong to I or I2a haplogroup.They mostly belong to EV-13, J2B2 and R1B aswell
Leutrim can you explain this a little further?
goran gruev okay then How come a slavic split group has taken on a completely different nonslavic language and identity and from whom did they take it from?
alboholic I1 is a skandinavian Viking DNA
alboholic A real germanic haplogroup
Leutrim thought that map of haplogroups was total shit too
I have always been curious to know more about Albania. Thanks for the video, it's loaded with interesting information!
Arvanites view themselves as Albanian? That's news to them.
Karpuz is delicious.
That's literally their name in Turkish
Arvanites literlally means albanian.
4:15 because arbëria, albania in albanian used to be called arbëria for a long time, so they just adopted it as albania, and then later on shqipëria was the official name for the republic, pretty weird though
Great video of this underrated country. All historians from US, UK, Russia, Italy *agree that Albanians are descendants of Ilyrians and their language has a unique branch on the language tree*
Great job.
_Respects from Oxford University, Department of History and Ancient_ Civilizations
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Albanian language its roots of Indo-European, ....
@George Prasinos Even your Greek academy accept our Illyrian origine . So who the fuck are you to deny that NO ONE .
Thanks 🇦🇱🇦🇱
@@nightprogrammer7474 This was reply to a comment of user called "another sapien". I don't know why you found yourself touched...
Thank you @Masaman for the time and effort to produce this video! A video of 11 minutes can of course simply never manage to mention the endless crucial aspects of one nation's/country's history, but you have managed to list up some important of them, including those which are disputed. As an Albanian I can only be thankful to anyone who takes the time and the energy to produce some informative material on my people without prejudice (be it positive or negative!)!
P.S. the comment section below shows the very ugly side of the global opinion's exchange...
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Albania was a most closed country in the World !
They have for first time in their lifes stepped out of a country in 1991 !
Enver Hodgia was asked why do you keep them closed and very detained by Police ?
He said :
If I let them out they'll ruine all Europe , they like someones elses objects , but dont give their !
Since 1991 they made overpopulation in Kosove !
All serbians were tortured and expeled to Belgrade and now Kosovo is theirs !
It is not for the good !
Multiplying like rabits !
Faleminderit. I have been living in Albania for 6 months. I love it here. Today I read about the massacres of Albanians during the first world war as well as the war in 1990. Sad. This people have suffered much in the past 100 years.
@Q Q Why highlight this bloodthirsty reply? Do you not have any compassion/ humanity? All people who hate other nation will soon be removed from this planet - not by any other people - but by the true God, YHWH himself, the god of the bible.
@Q Q Stop living with hate.
@Q Q You slavs will get to feel Generalplan Ost ✔️😁
9:28 dont forget that there are 5 million Albanians in turkey, due to Serbs forcing Albanians to flee under the Balkan wars in 1912-1914
So, u are saying that Turkey has more albanians than Kosova and Albania combined? Albanians should look for "Pavarsi" in Turkey too...xD
@@snoken8981 in fact most of the ottoman commanders from ww1 was Albanian. Mustafa Kemal too.
@@snoken8981 servia started in 1912 the colonization programm of kosovo where they bring in servian settlers and forcefully take albanian lands and move them to turkey in hopes of creating a demographic majority of servs in kosovo
This program ended almost 100 years later only due to them losing the war..
these are facts just google colonization of kosovo
@@soul8938 Paris 1919 Woodrow Wilson 🇺🇸 Europe & Russia signed the agreement . 4 September 2020 was Trump who finalized everything in Washington with Vuçiç . Nothing Putin can do about it. ( Everything was singed before Putin was born 😂 ) 100 year's of colonization is over 🇦🇱🇺🇸❤ ( very soon will have to start with Greeks, unfortunately)
@@soul8938 you occupied Kosovo when Turks disputed Serbs, don't worry we will come back