Illyria
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:38pm
Illyria (Albanian Iliria; Latin Illyria (see also Illyricum) was in Classical antiquity a region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula, founded by the tribes and clans of Illyrians, an ancient people who spoke the Illyrian languages. In Greek mythology, Illyrius was the...
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History of Albania (1919-1939)
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:30pm
Albania's political confusion continued in the wake of World War I. The country lacked a single recognized government, and Albanians feared, with justification, that Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece would succeed in extinguishing Albania's independence and carve up the country. Italian forces...
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National awakening and the birth of Albania
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:22pm
The Rise of Albanian Nationalism first sparked with the Battle of Deçiq on April 6, 1911, which was located in the town of Tuzi, Malësi e Madhe. The battle was fought between the Catholic Malësor Albanians lead by Ded Gjo Luli, against the forces of the Ottoman...
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History of Ottoman Albania
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:16pm
The expanding Ottoman Empire overpowered the Balkan Peninsula in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. At first, the feuding Albanian clans proved no match for the armies of the sultan. In the fifteenth century, however, Skanderbeg united the Albanian tribes in a defensive alliance that held up...
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Late Middle Ages
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:14pm
The first historical mention of Albania and the Albanians as such appears in an account of the resistance by a Byzantine emperor, Alexius I Comnenus, to an offensive by the Vatican-backed Normans from southern Italy into the Albanian-populated lands in 1081. In the same year, the...
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Barbarian invasions and Early Middle Ages
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:13pm
The fall of the Western Roman Empire and the age of great migrations brought radical changes to the Balkan Peninsula and the Illyrian people. Barbarian tribesmen overran many rich Roman cities, destroying the existing social and economic order and leaving the great Roman aqueducts, coliseums...
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Christianity
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:10pm
Christianity came to Illyrian-populated lands in the first century A.D. Saint Paul wrote that he preached in the Roman province of Illyricum, and tradition holds that he visited Durrës. In 379, under emperor Theodosius I, as part of the Prefecture of Illyricum Orientale, the southern region was...
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Roman period
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:09pm
In the Illyrian Wars of 229 and 219 B.C., Rome overran the Illyrian settlements in the Neretva River valley. The Romans made new gains in 168 B.C., with Roman forces capturing Illyria's King Gentius at Shkodër, which they called Scodra, and bringing him to Rome in 165 B.C. A century later, Julius...
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Ancient Illyria
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:07pm
The Illyrians were Indo-European tribesmen who appeared in the western portion of the Balkan Peninsula about 1000 B.C., a period coinciding with the end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age. They inhabited much of the area for at least the next millennium. Archaeologists associate...
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Ethnic origins
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 08:05pm
Some scholars consider that Albanians are direct descendants of an Illyrian tribe that was named "Albanoi," which was located in modern-day Albania. Others scholars dispute this, while others claim that Albanians and Illyrians are descendants of the ancient Pelasgians, making their history go back at...
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Timeline of Albanian history to 1993
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 07:58pm
1225 BC Earliest known Illyrian King, Hylli (Hyllus), dies. 358 BC Illyrians defeated by Philip II of Macedonia. 312 BC King Glaucius of Illyria seized Epidamnos(Durres). 229 BC and 219 BC Romanat Shkodër. 1st century AD Christianity comes to Illyrian populated areas... |
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Origin of the Albanians
E shtune, 07-07-2007, 07:02pm
The origin of the Albanians has been for some time a matter of dispute among historians. Albanians are people who speak Albanian, an Indo-European language. Though the vocabulary contains some Greek, Latin, Slavic and Turkish words, the language per se has no other close living relative, making... |
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