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Post by ngadhnjyesi on Dec 29, 2009 12:04:56 GMT -5
Most Albanians do not like to admit they are anything but Albanian, however, if you look at some Albanians, you will see some similarities with that of our neighbors. Well because most of those neighbors are assimilated Albanians. No kidding there are Greeks who look like me considering there are hundreds of thousands of Greeks of Albanian stock. Same goes for some Montenegrins.
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Post by leshte on Dec 29, 2009 13:09:28 GMT -5
Highland Catholic here too but that don't mean s**t especially the religious aspect of it; who's so sure to say who fvcked who 500-1000 years ago. What makes you Albanian, Serb, Greek, German, or whatever is not how much blood you have from an ethnicity (that also is a naive phrase to use in my opinion). What makes you a person of a certain nationality is your own conscience, the tradition you follow, the culture you follow, how dear you hold your language to be and how much pride you associate with you being of that nationality, which nationality your loyalties lie with. With all the things happening starting with the Illyrians and Greeks, later on with the Romans, Illyrians and Greeks, and then later on with the slav invasion nobody can tell who fvcked who back then. Nobody in Europe much less in Balkans that they are pure something.
As to the topic, its purely for political reasons. Whenever something doesn't go right all of a suddent Berisha turns into the most ardent patriot, which we all know he clearly isn't. Well most of us know.
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Post by ngadhnjyesi on Dec 29, 2009 13:25:05 GMT -5
Highland Catholic here too but that don't mean s**t especially the religious aspect of it; who's so sure to say who fvcked who 500-1000 years ago. What makes you Albanian, Serb, Greek, German, or whatever is not how much blood you have from an ethnicity (that also is a naive phrase to use in my opinion). What makes you a person of a certain nationality is your own conscience, the tradition you follow, the culture you follow, how dear you hold your language to be and how much pride you associate with you being of that nationality, which nationality your loyalties lie with. With all the things happening starting with the Illyrians and Greeks, later on with the Romans, Illyrians and Greeks, and then later on with the slav invasion nobody can tell who fvcked who back then. Nobody in Europe much less in Balkans that they are pure something. As to the topic, its purely for political reasons. Whenever something doesn't go right all of a suddent Berisha turns into the most ardent patriot, which we all know he clearly isn't. Well most of us know. Our case is different since to remain Albanian under the constant pressure of the Greeks, Turks, Slavs, and Italians one had to pretty much retreat to the mountains to maintain his way of life. I'm not saying there aren't mixed Albanians but you usually find them in the large metropolitan areas like Shkoder, Korce and Gjirokaster.
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Post by Novi Pazar on Dec 30, 2009 6:21:19 GMT -5
At the end of the day you Albs call yourselves Albanians thats what matters.
I hope you don't mind me saying this toski, if we look at toski his 1/4 Greek but in my opinion the way he fights for the Albanians makes him 100% Albanian in my opinion.
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Post by branislavnusic on Jul 18, 2018 4:57:54 GMT -5
The slavic toponyms in Albania are Serbian not bulgarian. Divjake in Albania is derived from Serbo-Croat Devojke, in Bulgarian it is Momcile Trebinje in Albania also occurs in Herzegovina but never occurs in Bulgaria Kucove in Albania from Serbian Kuca in bulgarian it is not "Kuca" but Dom
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Post by Pyrros on Jul 19, 2018 1:48:49 GMT -5
My studies have shown, that the Albo tooponyms are ekavica mostly. Our toponyms in Epir are mix ekavica/yakavica.
Bulgarians and Serbs were actually the same SLAVIC people with minor differences in accent .
Bulgarians were comprised of the main ekavica-based local folk, and yakavica based elite, but its basically very close either way.
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Post by branislavnusic on Jul 19, 2018 2:18:43 GMT -5
My studies have shown, that the Albo tooponyms are ekavica mostly. Our toponyms in Epir are mix ekavica/yakavica.
Bulgarians and Serbs were actually the same SLAVIC people with minor differences in accent .
Bulgarians were comprised of the main ekavica-based local folk, and yakavica based elite, but its basically very close either way.
"Bulgarians" were Slavicised by 7 slavic tribes in the 8th century AD
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Post by Pyrros on Jul 19, 2018 2:30:01 GMT -5
the 7 tribes were local ekavica (mleko, levo, leto) speakers. their military elite (Anci / Antes) were Yakavica (mljako, ljavo, ljato) speakers. Their (supposed asian) elite (turko speakers) just vanished.
that;s why in west of Sofia still they speak Ekavica.
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