Oh please stop Forging History to Fit your Political Agenda . All Albanians like yourself are trying to do is Carving-Up the World Anew and Rewriting History! That’s all! No evidence whatsoever to back up your assertion.
Some elements of the contemporary projects of historical revanchism taking place in relation to the “independent Kosovo and Metohia” represent a continuity of the Third Reich ideas. And willful disregard of the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohia between 1878-1912 and after 1945 is the revanchist stance on behalf of the political forces defeated in both World Wars.
Claims that Albanians are “direct descendants of ancient Illyrians” is pretentious, without basis in historic fact, and is pure propaganda. Illyrians were made extinct by the Ancient Roman Empire. What part of the word ‘extinct’ do you not understand? For centuries Albanians were nomads and shepherds and did not represent a large number in the region. When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was formed in 1918 the Albanians represented less than 5% of the population. But let us take a closer look at Albanian Illyrian propaganda in the 20th century.
In the mid 1970s Albanologists spread rumors that they were on the verge of finding archeological evidence that the Kosovo Albanians were “direct” descendants of Illyrians. Millions of dollars came in from Tirana, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but no such evidence was to be found.
During the construction of the dam on the Fierza River project which flooded parts of Metohija, in the archeological remnants were discovered remains of flooded Vrbnica. The Albanian “experts” were ready to believe it a godsend that they had finally found their traces of an Illyrian settlement.
The money came pouring in for additional research. Meanwhile the discovery turned out to be the remnants of Slav culture and suddenly all financial assistance was discontinued and the project was abandoned. Albanians of influence like Professor Ismalji, at Pristina University, who did not think the Serbs deserved enlightenment of these discoveries, encouraged authorities to sink the site in the newly formed lake.
For my part I only need to use as source not any Western historian nor historian from Serbian Academy of Science but Albanian historian Dr. Kaplan Resuli, who published numerous works from the sphere of the albanian historiography and linguistics, which brought him significant prestige, scientific titles and also an honorary membership in the Albanian Science Academy, to debunk your revision of the universally accepted facts and knowledge about the nations in this part of the continent. Sadly,everyone who debated this Albanians on the internet past several years faced the similar tactics to them rewriting history is as simple as repeating their own talking points until they become accepted as facts.
Now let’s hear it from the ‘horses’ mouth” I do not even have to do talking, how the Albanian racism towards the neighbours is based on historical falsifications. An interview with the persecuted albanian academic prof. Dr. Kaplan Resuli.I need to dispel only one , your side, FAVORITE racists myth on which all the rest are build that you are descended of Illyrians. Once proven lier how can any rational person believe anything else you claim afterwards when it comes to true ownership of Kosovo and Metohija.
VD: – How did the albanian public receive Your albanological research and discoveries?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli: – Once even Enver Hoxha was forced to admit that the albanian science lacks scientific objectivity. The albanian poet Mimoza Erebara in the Science Academy asked them directly what was the situation with my scientific discoveries. They had told her: „We know that very well even before Kaplan, but now is not the time for all of that to be told” Since in the publication „YLBERI” (comes out since 1993, in Geneva) and especially through my albanological collection THE ILLYRIANS AND THE ALBANIANS I demonstrated in written form my points of view, the albanian academic Vincents Golleti, in the printed media stated: „The stances of Kaplan Burovikj about the albanological problems, especially on the problem of the origin of the Albanians, need to be greeted most warmly, while the studies which he publishes in relation with those problems should be propagated throughout the whole of the scholarly world”. After him followed the albanian scholar Dr. Adrian Qosi who in the middle of Tirana openly opposed the hypothesis about the illyrian origin of the Albanians.
With me agreed, via the printed media, several other younger scholars of whom I would especially mention Fatos Ljubonja, Prof. Adrian Vebiu and others. I can say that today appeared a group of new albanian scholars who do not agree with the false myths and courageously accept the scientific truth. I am proud that I lead this group and that they took up from me the necessary scholarly courage. Because, believe me, that is not easy at all, as the extreme albanian nationalists, chauvinists and racists led by Ismail Kadare, through the most severe forms of chicanery and satanising are
attempting to silence us at any cost. The mentioned Dr Adrian Klosi when he stated that the hypothesis for the illyrian origin of the Albanians is unfounded, added: „But it is better not to talk about that because they will declare us anti Albanians”. And they did.
VD: – Since when actually dates the oldest evidence for the existence of the Albanians and the albanian language?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-: – The oldest evidenced text in an albanian language is „Formula ë paleximit” (Formula for communion), translated from Latin in 8-11-1462 by the Montenegrin Pavle Angjelich, whom the Albanians
have albanised with the name Pal Engylli. The first book in albanian is „Meshari” (The Book of Thoughts), a manual for religious sermons, dates from 1555 and is written by the Croatian Ivan Buzuk and published in Montenegro. And, understandably, they albanise him with the name Gjon Buzuku. For your information, the first primer in albanian, after the proclamation of the albanian independence is a work of „Slavs” and Vlachs. Dositej Obradovich is the first in history who opens a school in albanian language, while it was exactly Serbia which was the first state to recognise
independent Albania. The Macedonians have a significant input in the development of the albanian culture. For example,one of the oldest publishers in Albania is the Macedonian Petar Budi (1566-1622) who has published three books in albanian, and also a Macedonian is Jovan Kukuzel, whom the Albanians have claimed as their own and have albanised with the name Jan Kukuzeli, although it is known that when he was born in Drach, XI century, here there still is not even one Albanian. Let me remind you also of Grigor Prlichev (1830-1893) who for some time is a teacher in Tirana and published
the wonderful poem „Skenderbeg”. Undeniable is the fact that always at the forefront of all of their positive processesthe Albanians had namely non Albanians. Lets mention, as well, at this opportune time only Georgi Kastriot – Skenderbeg, of an undeniable „slavic” ancestry, Naim Frasheri (a Vlach, an albanian national poet) or Fan Noli (a Greek, whose real name is Theofanos Mavromatis), Petar Bogdan, a Serb, or Ismail Kemali, a Turk who was proclaiming the albanian independencein 1912. As you can see, the foundations of the albanian culture and statehood are laid by non Albanians, from which a large number are „Slavs”, but that does not stand in the way of the albanian nationalists, or „marxists-leninists”, all the same, to thump their chests and declare that they have achieved everything by themselves and that the other people (nations), especially the „Slavs” have only been their enemies.
VD: – Undeniable is the fact that in Albania the toponyms are, say, without exception „slavic”. To what is that owed?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: On the territory of today’s Albania, as has already been confirmed by the most distinguished world scholars, from whom I have already mentioned some, first settled the Slavs. In 548 A.D. they enter also in Durrachium (Drach, Durrls). The Albanians come via Transylvania (Romania) and Bulgaria much later, IX-X century.
In the meantime, understandably, the Slavs have already named all mountains, valleys, rivers, towns and villages, and built some new ones, giving them their own names. When the Albanians arrive on the Balkan and today’s Albania, there is nothing else they can do except to take those toponyms. A large part of Albania is flooded with serbian and macedonian toponyms. Just as an example I wish to mention the towns of Pogradec, Korça (Korcha), Çorovoda (Chorovoda), Berat, Bozigrad, Leskovik, Voskopoja, Kuzova, Kelcira, Bels and others.
VD: – In the macedonian community little is known that more than 90 percent of the lexical fund of the albanian language are words taken up from other languages. You especially have analysed the subject of the „slavisms”
in the albanian language. It would be interesting some more to be said about this?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli: – For the first time I graduated in Skopje, exactly with the theme „Slavisms in the albanian language”. The second diploma, as well, at the university of Tirana, I defended with a linguistic theme. Especially in „The Dictionary of the Albanian Language in Ulcinj” I have elaborated the etymology of all words. Actually, it can be supposd that if the Turks did not come to the Balkans, the albanian language in not more than 100-200 years would have been completely „slavicised”. The serbian, macedonian and bulgarian languages have penetrated so much into
the albanian language that they have flooded not only the lexicon, but they have displaced its phonetics, morphology and syntax. Besides the significant cultural prestige of these languages compared to the albanian, this is also due to the significant albanisation of not a small number of Serbs, Macedonians and Montenegrins, especially the ones who were previously islamised. As it is known, the Albanians have a strongly developed power of assimilation. That a good part of them by origin is Serbs, Macedonians or Montenegrins, is witnessed by their patrons, surnames, but many of them even today speak their „slavic” language. In Albania there are whole regions along the border, especially towards Macedonia, settled with a compact „slavic” population, which is even more numerous, lets say, than the Albanians in Macedonia.
VD: – Lets talk a little also about the numerous ethnonyms which from the albanian side, often baselessly, are forced as synonyms. How come so many ethnic names for the Albanians?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-: – That, as well, witnesses the ethnogenesis of the Albanians after their arrival on the Balkan and populating the northern albanian mountains. I have already mentioned about the Illyrians, but the second ethnonym to which they pretend, the Dardanians, it is known, were not Illyrians, but Thracians. Even if they (Dardanians) had been Illyrians, again they haven’t any connection with the Albanians, because that kind of connection neither have the Illyrians themselves. Science has proven that very clearly. In respect of the Albanoi(an)s, they are a celtic tribe which on the territory of Albania, in the region Mat, arrives in the IV century BC. Today’s Albanians, actually, only much, much later take over their name, as have done today’s Bulgarians from the non slavic Bulgars of Asparuh, or today’s French, from the old germanic Franks, deforming the old celtic name Arlbn/Arlbr. Arbanasi is the other name with which our ancestors the „Slavs” are naming them during the Middle Ages. Arnauts is the name which the Turks use for them. It should be known that not all Arnauts were at the same time Albanians, as well. Because the Arnauts (Albanians) got a reputation as good hired hands in the turkish empire, the other mercenaries were also called Arnauts.
That means that there were Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians ARNAUTS, because some of them are also islamised, thus as muslims they serve under the turkish flag not only as common soldiers, but also as arnauts (mercenaries). Skiptar (or Shiptar and deformed Shiftar, all originate from the albanian appellative Shqipltar) is the current national name of the
Albanians, spread amongst them in the XVII-XIX century, influenced by the name Osman, as the Turks were naming themselves. Namely, osman in turkish is „eagle”, while in albanian it is „shquipe”. Thus the Albanians of muslim faith wanted to relate themselves with the muslims Turks, which was also the aim of the Porte, even of the original platform of the Prizren League, which originally is not albanian at all, but pan islamic. And if its primary aims succeeded, most probably the Albanians would not exist today because all of them in the meantime would have become Turks.
VD: – Here as well, is the known division Ghegs-Toscs from which originates the known language question which, it seems, still has not been overcome by the Albanians?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli: – The language question in Albania is not settled even today. Although formally (and by force) Enver Hoxha established as a common, official language the Tosc dialect (until then it was the Gheg dialect),the Ghegs have not given up. They still continue to speak and write in their dialect, although they are persecuted and maltreated because of it. When in 1965 in Albania I published the novel „Treason” in the Gheg dialect the Albanians of northern Albania openly requested the language of this book to be declared as the literary and official language of Albania.
That too was one of the reasons for my satanisation which still continues. You should know that the difference between the Tosc and the Gheg dialects is much bigger than the differences between some „slavic” languages, for example the macedonian and the serbian. From another side, more Albanians, about two thirds, speak in gheg, which is lexically richer, purer and
also has much greater expressional opportunities. With the enforcement of the tosc dialect, which was of a pure political nature (motive), a crime has been perpetrated against the Albanians and their culture.
VD: – One of the fallacies (delusions), unfortunately, it seems somehow silently accepted even outside of Albania is the so called monolithic nature of the albanian population in the Republic of Albania in which allegedly live 97-98% ethnic Albanians, for which You have already said something previously. What is, according to You, the reality in that respect in Albania?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli: – When Albania is proclaimed and recognised as an independent nation (1912-1913) its population numbered 700,000 of which hardly 50% were Albanians, while the other half was made up of Vlachs (around 20%), „Slavs” (Macedonians, Serbs, Montenegrins, around 15%),Greeks (around5%) and others (Turks, Roms, Cherkesians, Italians, Jews and others, around 10%). With the passing of time, mostly by force, with denial of all national rights, including the right to speak in their own languages at home, or to carry their own national family names, they are to a certain extent assimilated. But, even besides the such forced albanisation, in Albania even today over 30% of the population speaks a non albanian language and retains its non albanian national identity, although they are registered as Albanians, as they are not permitted to declare differently. The non albanian origins of the population of Albania is also evident from their surnames Bello, Blushi, Bogdani, Buda, Budi, Dida, Dobraci, Dragovoja, Dragusha, Haveri(ch), Kapisuzi(ch), Mexi, Millani, Milloshi, Mojsiu, Muzaka, Najdeni, Peku, Prela, Ruka, Sillil, Shkura, Shundi, Ziu and many others.
VD: – In Your research You have also paid special attention to the ethnic expansion of the Albanians in the past 2-3 centuries towards its neighbouring (serbian, macedonian, greek and others) regions, for which now, the last several decades, to begin to proclaim exactly them as their „ethnic territories” in which they allegedly lived from eternity?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-: – This truly is absurd and, in any case it is good that there remain numerous proofs for their undeniable expansion, which I have integrally collected and published in my study „The origins of the Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece”. One needs to be objective and tell the truth, not because of the truth itself, but because it will contribute toward overcoming of the many problems on the Balkan. That the Albanians only in the past couple of centuries have expanded admitted publicly, via the printed media, the most eminent contemporary albanian scientist, academic professor Elrem Cabej (Tsabej), who, forced by the numerous arguments, was unable, but to conclude that today’s territories on which the Albanians live are not „a zone of RESTRICTION”, but „a zone of EXPANSION”. And not only he! That also is verified in the „HISTORIA Ë SHQIPERISË” itself, compiled by the albanian scientists themselves.
VD: – Recently from Tirana were launched some „evidences” about an existence of 14 million Albanians. Amongst the numerous „Albanians” who had indebted the world civilisation was included, as well, Alexander of Macedonia!?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli: – I’ve read that, as well. The albanian academic, Prof. Dr Skender Rizaj once even in his „scientific” works stated that, also all Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bosnians and Herzegovians are, in reality, „slavicised” Albanians. By that method we should „admit” that they are not only 14, but possibly even 140 millions. I have already published a study about the „scientific” work „The Illyrians spoke albanian – The Albanians speak illyrian” published by Preloc Margiljaj. I would like to present for this suitable moment only a few short quotes which can also be found in other albanian historical-linguistic „experts”: „The Albanians are one of the oldest nations (peoples) in Europe” (page 438) „it is clear that Crete is the first fireplace of culture and civilisation in the aegean region and in Europe. Crete from the forgotten times of the past was settled with the pelasgian, rather the illyrian or albanian people, thus in Crete ruled the albanian language, which in other words, is the starting point and the first source of the european culture and civilisation”. (page296). Starting from this, this albanian „scientist” wants the albanian language to be taught in all schools around the world as a compulsory language because, according to him, without knowing that language it would not be possible to comprehend the world culture(!?). In respect of Alexander of Macedonia, even Enver Hoxha has written that he is an Albanian, expressing that also in one discussion with the indian ambassador in Tirana, as if personally he, Enver, had sent him to India, even as an ambassador to establish friendly relations between these two countries and peoples. These undoubtedly racist yearnings of the Albanians are certainly the result of their economic and cultural poverty, of their backwardness and late development in comparison with the other nations, amongst which are those of its neighbours, I would say of their frustration because of all of that.
VD: – Do You believe, regardless, in the possibility that the young, unburdened scientists and politicians in Albania will accept the reality and they, abandoning the greater albanian dreams, to give their own contribution towards the development in real good-neighbourly relations?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-: – I do believe! I have already cited several names of such young scientists. I can also give you names of young politicians unburdened of the greater albanian yearnings. But they still don’t have the power for that, except their pens and good intentions, with which they can’t act freely because the albanian print media is strictly censured by the greateralbanians, and the streets of the cities, unfortunately, are still patrolled by gangsters who, in the service of the social-fascist band, are ready to hit anyone with a brick on the head or with a bullet in the forehead!
VD: – For ten years, as a political emigrant, You have been living in Geneva, Switzerland. Do you have an impression that the so called democratic Europe and the West, generally, understand our Balkan situations?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: – Democratic Europe, I’m afraid, at least in respect of us, does not exist at all. The antidemocratic one, on the other hand, hand never understood them, nor want to understand our Balkan difficulties. Europe was and still is in the service of The Capital. Its „democracy” is only an expression of that Capital. It uses our Balkan peoples and situations for penetration (expansion) and for ruling the world, for its own battle against the true, real democracy and its carriers.
VD: – Concordant with Your rich life experience, after all that in the past period happened on the Balkan, and which, sadly, culminated with several bloody wars, are You of the opinion that all of that, simply, had to happen?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli: – No! Absolutely not! All of that could and can, even needs to be solved without blood. Let the Albanians prove that even Moscow is theirs, thus give them even it. But until they prove that, they should not be given even one stone from our fatherlands, not only to prevent them from desecrating it, but in order to prevent them from smashing their own heads with it.
VD: – To conclude, I believe it would be interesting to hear Your prediction how the things could be developing in the near future?
Dr. Kaplan Resuli-: – The Americans have reached their aim – on the Balkan they have installed their military bases. Let us hope that they will not support the terrorism and to use the Albanians as cannon fodder. And the Albanians, certainly, in the meantime will wake up and will not allow either the Americans or whoever else to use them as such. For that, understandably, with self criticism, all of us need to assist them.
p.s as for cheap shots, stop acting like kid and such geee thanks ever so! Oh this was RICH. It’s always nice to be reminded how deeply I underestimate the sheer idiocy of the purpordely upright walking. Must be denial for my own comfort’s sale I guess.
