ALBANIANS PEOPLE

Albanians has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN PEOPLE category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

The international name for Albanians people is a latin term, similar to the greek word Albanoi (Αλβανοί) firstly used during the Bizantine Empire age, while in Albanian language it is Shqiptarët and refers to the ancient group of european peoples living since thousands of years in the mountainous region of Balkans: they were the socalled Albi Gens cause of their clear hairs, that settled there around XIII century B.C. and probably were part of the Magog descendants of the Japhet genealogy narrowed in the Holy Byble.

Which ethnicity is considered Albanians people? That original people were called Epiroths, who founded the Dodona temple of Zeus and the polys (πόλις) of Korkyra on the Corfu Island, populating the area around the Mount Pindo and the Ionian Sea within the ancient Kingdom of Epirus, giving name to the homonymous historical region. They shared the territory of actual state of Albania with a previous group of people part of the Illyrians, who arrived in Europe during the Neolithic age (after 8000 B.C.) and spreaded in the Dinaric Alps and all the northern Adriatic Sea coasts, populating the ancient polys of Durres. The last ethnic group entered in Albania had been the anatolic people of Ghegs, a tribal minorance owning cultural, dialectical and religious differencies from the prevalent Tosks group: they are settled in the Kosovo region and in southern Serbia, in the northern part of the country, in Montenegro, and in North Macedonia too, caracterized by an ancient tribal social organizatio, the Ortodoxy Christianity, speaking the indoeuropean albanian language.

Albanians people are in great part a mediterranean phehotype of brown/dark haired with large percentage of brown eyes, tipically of Caucasian anthropologic human group, speaking the modern Albanian and self-identifying with the history of Albania since the establishment of the Principality of Arbanon in 1190 A.D. under the Progon dinasty and the Byzantine Empire dominion, the political entity that included their supposed "relatives" of southern Italics and Illyrians people until the XIII century A.D.: after the IV Crusade against Constantinople, in 1272 A.D. Albania became independent kingdom ruled by the Angioini dinasty and passed to the local Kastriota family with the national hero Skanderbeg (one of the most famous Albanians people!), until it was conquered by Turks that imposed the Islamic religion to the whole population. With the new independence within the Kingdom of Serbia (1878 A.D.), the Albanians people obatined a new principality transformed in republic until nowadays.

The main cities of Albanians people are the capital Tirana, the ancient Durres, Scutari and Valone while the 60% of population live in countryside or abroad, spreaded among the neighbouring states of Greece and Italy (Arbëreshë community) or the european states of Switzerland, Austria and Germany, especially after the communist regime took power in middle XX century A.D. and the Kosovo war.

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