Why Is Shqipëria Called Albania In English?
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Anyone watching from Shiqipëria?
Me! 😅
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@Bee Sixteen Shqipëria
@Bee Sixteen error i guess
Po unë
The Irish word for "Scottish" and the Irish word for "Albanian" differ only by an accent mark (Albanach = Scottish, Albánach = Albanian)
Celltics and Albanians are same people!! Ilirians Celltics
@@virtuallifter2438 Doesnt albanach come from latin (Albe or alba idk) meaning white or something?
As someone who is a mix of both of those we share more than our name. Both cultures have kilts, both venerated bagpipes, both are known as highlanders, both carried the tribal culture and if you look at pictures of rural Scottish women of 50s you basically couldn't tell which were Albanian and which not.
Oh and based on legends both came from the same parents Kadmus and Harmonia or their Roman counterparts
Well illyrians Gauls and Celts started as 3 brothers and spread their genes.
Albania has the coolest flag in the world, hands-down. It could be a metal album cover as-is.
According to tradition, when the early Aztecs moved into the Valley of Mexico, they saw an eagle perched on a cactus, with a rattlesnake in its beak. So they built Tenochtitlan on the island where the eagle had been. And of course, Tenochtitlan later became Mexico City.
The eagle is pictured on the Mexican flag.
So at least two countries were founded because of eagles carrying snakes.
Shqiponja-Eagle
Shqiperia-Land of Eagles
In fact Albania eagle in flag is based on ancient illyria.
Shqipëria as a name is recent (relatively)... dating to around 1400s and only commonly adopted by the 1700s. The name before that and until around the 1800s (except for some pockets of Albanians away from Albania) was Arbëria. Shqipëria itself is most likely from shqiptoj than shqiponjë, with the latter being a folk-etymology.
Not that uncommon for people to call themselves "we understand eachother-people"
There is also a chance that the term "Arbëria" simply transliterated to "Labëria" which today indicates all the southern side of Albania.
Shqiptoj derives from "shqip" which is the Albanian language in Albanian. The exact meaning of shqiptoj is "to pronounce".
Shqip means "the language of Shqipëria" that derives from "shqiponja", referring to the two-headed eagle in the Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu's flag and to the bird, which is a proud animal and loves the freedom, just as Albanians.
Is that Albanian word for speaking well a cognate of shibboleth?
@@moremir1529 Shqip is a nominalised variant of shqiptoj
@@jbrecken No, it's either an albanian construction or loan from latin, both with the meaning of "understand" (receiving/taking in information)
*FACT:* Arbënesh (Gheg)/Arbëresh (TosK) is the previous name of Albania before it turned into Shiqipëria.
"Albania" probably comes from there
Or calabria. cala arberia. Castle of arberia
@@lorik0109 The name Calabria was used in Roman times
Arberet were an Illyrian tribe like Dardanet, Taulantet etc. So no, Arberia was just a small province of todays Albania reaching from the Albanian/Montenegrian Alps to Saranda. Also Laberia, todays region from Saranda to Himare is just a slavic transliteration of Arberia, because a lot of Southern Albanians are of Slavo-Dinarian heritage and not Illyrian. We have proofs for that in Geneology. Brother, we are not Shkiet, who are lying about history in every book of them, claimin Jesus Christ to have spoken serbian (ridiculous). We are Albanians, a truthfull people, who hasnt anything to hide. Also the Southern Albanians and some of Shkoder, who actually are of slavic heritage are perfectly integrated and are a part of Albania, not Serbia. Thats why we are exact when speaking about history. We are not afraid of the past like our neighbours.
We have an Albanian community in Syria but we call him Arnaut or alarnawwt mini Albanian my name in Syria have that name of alarnawwt
Al Albani and Al Arnawuti two famous theologians in the Middle East
My dad uncle is from Syria so my cousins are in Syria but we have no connection they gone to Syria in ottoman time. You have to understand Lebanon is a country made on ottoman time from Albanians traders. So yes the world call us Albanian w
E call our self eagles
@@lorik0109 I never mention Lebanon I said about the family name of Albanian descent
This is because otomans called us Arnaut.
Yes you have in Syria we have Albanians family and you call them arnaut because the ottomans was calling Albanians arnaut and Turkey is calling us even today arnaut
*ARBERIA!*
Albania's national animal is the golden eagle, which has all-brown feathers, but your depiction of the eagle has a white head, which is miles wrong. The bald eagle is only native to north america and not Europe, plus the golden eagle is found in your country, though it isn't very common.
Correct, though there are several other sea eagles that have the bald eagle appearance as well. I don't think any of the ones that look like bald eagles are native to southern Europe though.
I think part of why Patrick used the bald eagle is to visually specify that the bird is an eagle, as the bald eagle is a species that is easily recognizable across cultures. While that is mostly due to the USA, as Liethen has pointed out in their reply there are other eagles with similar colouring.
Also, bald eagle chicks/juveniles don't have white heads.
The influence of American media.
I found out the golden eagle can be found throughout the northern continents.
The Albanian languages is bonded with earth life its nature and sounds and is for real old root of many new languages(new civilizations). Even though many powers in the past for centuries wanted the Albanian to be stopped and not spoken damaged and stoled from it and its culture and history to create other countries around like serbs greeks montenegro macedonia etc.. .it still holds alot words that proves
A beautiful example for Sound of Rain 🌧
In Albanian we call it the rain > (Shi) when it rains it sounds (Shhh)(Shiiii) belive it or be still ignorant 7ntil you die on day as one . saying to those like greeks who claim and live with our history and legends
The term Albania comes from the Albanian word "Arberia" which was also the name Albanians referred to themselves prior to the 16th and 17th century until the terms "Shqiptar" and "Shqiperija" replaced them. Old Albanian communities in italy still call themselves "Arberesh", the same for the "Arvanites" in Greece, "Arnauts" in Turkey and "Arbanasi" in Croatia. The term most likely means "Lowlander"
Shqiperia not Shqiperija. Stop adding intrusive "J's" where it doesn't make sense at all like Serbs do.
@@katerpese Potato Patata
@@katerpese Oh, sooo, other nations should change their language based on your perception?
@@TooGumbica WTF are you on about?
Nope totally wrong, it comes from the illyrian tribe Albanoi
Albania is most likely a latinisation of the Albanian name ARBENIA (Arberia). Arbenia meant lowlands and Malesia means highlands. It is a pity you didn't include this as it is the most likely hypothesis.
The name Shqiperia is a more recent ethnonym which comes from the word "shqipoj" to speak clearly, and defined all its people.
Shqiponj = aquila. Shqiperia...shqiptoj., shqip, tutte queste frasi e un esprimere in anlbanese. Shprehem shqip = mi esprimo in albanese .tutto deriva dalla parola aquila... shqiponja... per quello albanesi si chiamano shqipetar. 🇦🇱❤ viva shqiperia. 🇦🇱❤👋🇮🇹👋
shqipoj was a hypothesis that does not make sense whatsoever! it remains a hypothesis! EPIR and SHQIPERI are a lot closer linguistically
@@deborahpavia838 Bravo Dëbora!
There's no word in Albanian shqipoj you can say shqiptoj.
WRONG
Albania comes from the oldest Illyrian tribe known as The Albanoi, which meant The Highlanders.
Alb -Alp
Alb means Alp as of Mountain.
We were called Iliria ,then Arberia then Shqiperia for us ,known worldwide as Albania.
Basically the oldest tribe in that Region, the Original Europeans if you wish.
Peace out and much love to all my Illyrian brothers all over the world - NEVER FORGET YOUR ROOTS!
So the legend of origin of the country or rather the naming fo the country of Albania has an eagle and a snake?
How funny that Mexico's foundation or rather Mexico City (then Tenochtitlan) and by consequence the Mexica Empire, also known as the Aztec Empire, has also a legend of an eagle devouring a snake linked to it.
I think there is something deeper there, eagle and snake symbolism keeps showing up everywhere I look.
@@Liethen probably because eagles like to eat snakes.
@@benthomason3307 Yes but I kind of think there is some symbolic dual opposites thing going on. Eagles are kind of heavenly hard power and snakes are more chthonic earth or water sneaky soft power thing.
@@Liethen occam's razor leans twoards my idea.
@@benthomason3307 Rule of cool leans towards mine.
Well explained,however the name before shqipëria was Arbëria in albanian,and the albanians were called Arbëresh,Shqipëria name came after 1912 independence.
The Arbëresh..basically the Albanians with that name are found in italy,many albanian tribes in the 1400s migrated to italy and kept the name Arbëresh and the archaic or old Albanian language(Arbërisht) is still preserved and spoke,same with the arvanites in greece though sadly they are dying out cause of greek assimilation and propaganda making them think they are "greek"
Basque is also a language isolate.
It's not indo European, like Greek or Albanian
@@BeithirBlue that’s right…… my bad. lol
@@BeithirBlue
Basques are Native Europeans my friend
Albanian isn't an langauge isolate lol. It's indo-european.
@@alb-333 the language isnt of the *language family* my idiot friend
Interesting that the neighbouring country of Montenegro is literally named "Black Mountain" when one possible origin of Albania is "White Mountains."
@@ben-fc5tt "Malësi" means "mountainous area", not "black mountain". While Montenegro is called "Mali i Zi" that has the meaning of "the black mountain". And Malta is more likely to be connected with the word "mjaltë" (eng. "honey").
We have a story where a young hunter found an eagle nest high in the mountains and took the chicks. The mother eagle found him and asked for the chicks back and when the Hunter gave them back, the eagle gave him the eye sight, bravery, independence and strength of the eagle.
Albanian from northern Albania.
Its the only intelligable languague? So that is the opposite from "barbaros" of the greek.
No to dissimilar to Slavs calling themselves "slovo" (word) & the Germans "niem" (mute) meaning Slavs can speak and the Germans can't.
@@modmaker7617 dang!! I had forgotten the old germanic - slavic rivalry ahaha
So I can confidently call Albany, NY's etymology as an Albanian city)))
Albania has 4.2 million inhabitants, Kosovo has 2 million inhabitants, Macedonia has close to 1 million inhabitants and in Serbia we are +200,000, also in Montenegro there are many Albanians, so only in the Balkans we are more than 7 million Albanians
In Greece alone are 3 million including the Arvanites.
That Albanians exaggerate their numbers is common knowledge as everything else they have put into their propaganda media and feed the outside world with lies They are not even half as they have
@@milan1646 i think hes including the diaspora aswell hes not far off
The Word Shqiperia or Shqiptars Comes from The Word - Skopje Skorpje 🇦🇱 SE KA ARDH PI YJE = That Has Come from the Stars - 🦅- Eagle -🇦🇱 Je Qiellis = You are from the Sky - Angel Engel - 🇦🇱 En Qiell - In the sky - Aquila - I Qiellis - From The Sky - Illyria - 🇦🇱 Yll Rri = Star Dwellers - Albania - Albanoi - Yll Banoj = Star Dwellers - 🇦🇱 We are unique cause we still speak the Mother language of all Europe Languages, not the other way around, but linguistic don’t see it cause all European language have accepted the Latin language of the Catholic church and the eastern Roman romeyka Greek language of the Orthodox Church, what came after religion 🇦🇱 Ri ligji jon - Our new law - the new law was wipe out pagan Albanian language of the gods - and introduce bible language what leads only to Jesus.
te pjerdhsha ne vesh.
Please keep doing endonym explainer videos ❤
Interest it fact- the theory that the name of ancient Albanian people called Albanii comes from the Proto-Indo-European word “albho” meaning white (see the image at 6:02) might have influenced one of the most recognisable Albanian traditional garment - the famous Albanian skull hat. or the Plis (Pilos in Greek), which when put on the head really is reminiscent pf white snow mountain peaks
Great video and I’ve wondered for a long time about this! I wish people would understand how hard it is to include every single minuscule fact that they know into a 10 minute video. Keep your head up! Great job!
The last idea reminds me of Germans being named the "mute ones" in many Slavonic languages, simply for not speaking a Slavonic language. WTF? And even more insulting, the Hungarians, whose language is totally different from any Slavonic language (much more so than German, actually), BORROWED the word and refer to Germany as 'Németország', which is the word for "mute" borrowed from the Slavonic language familiy (német) combined with the Hungarian word "ország" meaning land.
But they top it off with calling the Netherlands 'Németalföld', which is the same borrowed word for "mute" combined with the Hungarian "alföld" which means "low-laying plain".
Regardless of when they’ve been called Illyri, Arbër, or Shqiptar it’s always been the same people!
Nice video but you got to learn more about Albania.
1st the two headed eagle it belonged to Illyrians far long before Roman empire had their one with one head, then Costatine the great an Illyrian gave two headed eagle to Byzantine empire.
And the main thing and very interesting many powerfull countries or empires have used the eagle symbol but none of them been able to keep it in their nationality flag and we Albanians have this flag over 500 years.
About language yes it is been teached to everybody that is it not connected to no other language and that's it, no one will tell you the truth that Albanian language it is the mother of all European languages, the indo-european should be called Illyrian-european language.
@@virtuallifter2438 the problem it is that European countries and all religions the try to destroy Albanian population, language and their history and that's why no many knows a lot about Albania, even you did mention that Costantin the great may be 🤔 and you don't except that he was an Illyrian, no one talks about Illyrians everything is hiden or past as a Greek history and mythology, eagle symbol was used in many countries or better to say empires but origin it is ILLYRIAN as well as troyans were Illyrian and no matter how much they try to manipulation the history it always come up, but to understand you most learn Albanian language and their history and you and everyone will understand the truth.
No it doesn't 😂😂😂
@@wankawanka3053 I don't expect you to understand ! Isn't that you aren't educated or you don't have knowledge, it is because that what you've been tough at school and what it suits you.
Please can you explain one thing if I invaded your home who will be the owner of home after my invasion?
@@virtuallifter2438 the troy was nothing else than ILLYRIANS people the name of it self troy or troyans is pure Albanian name or in albanian language, for example when in a city my family members have houses and lands then we say in albanian ( ato jane troyat tona) witch means those are our lands, or we say also (ajo esht troya ime) which means this is my land or my property
Albania is not English, Albania comes from the ancient Albanian tribe "ALBANOI"
Why aer Finnish so weird when it come to country names? Like the whole world say "Finland" that is the name it been called long time, but for them it is "Soumi", and Sweden is Routsi, Denmark it Tanska, German is Saksa and Russia is Venäjä and so on.
i'm pretty sure finnish is weird in its entirety 😅
I heard that the Name for germany in finish comes from the saxons that were a big group of ppl in the north of germany. Sounds plausible dunno about the others tho
As with everything else, blame the british and other colonizing powers for these names becoming cannon. Eire, Alba and Cymru were bastardized into Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They would conquer the territory and strip them of their identity by labeling them as they wished. It goes back way before the modern times to the Romans who started the trend.
It is probably because Finnish belongs to the Uralic language family and not the otherwise dominant Indo-European language family.
"Tanska" sounds a lot like "danska" though, which is the Swedish name for the Danish language.
*Suomi *Ruotsi
The toponym Shqiperia is not related to eagles. It stems from the verb "Shqipoj" in old Albanian which means to "understand" and is a cognate of latin verb Excipio.
The verb Shqipoj is still in use in the Albanian diazpora in Ukraine, but no longer in the homeland.
The verb Shqipoj gave rise to the ethnonym Shqiptar which means "The one who understands".
The ethonym Shqiptar gained traction upon the spread of Islam in Albania and it was used to clarify that though muslim and christian Albanians practiced religions alien to each other they could understand each other.
It made sure that the sense of common identity persisted.
The new ethnonym Shqiptar gave rise to the new toponym Shqiperia.
Very well explained, my friend! It' still all so interesting that it still has similarities also with the word eagle in albanian ("shqiponja") at the same time (although it's not directly linked with each other). Just very cool coincidences, which is why "Shqiperia" is so fitting to us for so many reasons.
I'm Albanian and have never heard of the story you mentioned and I'm quite passionate about our history and language.
I am also from Albania (Malsia e Madhe) and I have heard it.
You, like most zoomers and millennials in the world, are nothing. You are neither Albanians, nor Greeks, nor British. You are literally MUTTS, half breeds. Influenced by a pseudo-cosmopolitan degenerate US propaganda... Citizens of the world, and citizens of nowhere...
Well it's about time you educate yourself
This sounds far fetched.
Shqipëri or Shqiptar or in English The Albanians. If you get to know one Shqiptar keep this people close to you it’s like you’ll learn a new religion this people are the best people in the whole world, they’ll teach you how to be a decent human being, they can be your best friend brother type of people, you go to their house they’ll treat you like a king they’ll protect you with their own life like I said they can be your best thing you’ll learn in this world but always remember they are nice very kind people but they are far from weak don’t try to do them wrong don’t disrespect them they can be your worst nightmare, in United States the mafia was one of the most feared group of people but the mafia feared the Albanians they never messed around with Albanians and I’m not saying this to paint Albanians as bad people no just they don’t play around they don’t mess around.
That's because most people in Mafi came from Sicily or South Italia and guess what in Southern Italy you have Albanians, who moved there in the XV-century.
I thought they pronounced it “shkeep”, where the Q sounds like a K, and not “ship”, as you are saying it…
It's not "ship" either. It's pronounced like "shchip". It's kinda hard for non-Albanians to pronounce the word so I understand that lol.
"The language of the Albanians is unformed and adulterated. In many areas Italian elements have been incorporated into the language, in others Greek and in others Slavonic. Therefore Albanians who live fifty or sixty miles apart do not understand each other. In addition, there are racial differences between the Gegs who live in the wild north and the Tosks in the less rugged south. One would say that they belong to different ethnicities. And indeed this is the case. It would be easy to prove that the Albanians are not one people but half a dozen peoples."
Sir John Foster Fraser, "Pictures from the Balkans", CHAPTER XXIV. THE ALBANIANS, p. 257-258)
Këtu në Brazil kemi shumë shqiptarë. Është gjithashtu pjesë e kulturës sonë.
Albania getting invaded for thousands of years from all kind of kingdoms while being one on its own has definitely adapted throughout the years not only people from all around the world but cultures, languages, movies in the latest years from India, China etc. What unites the Albanians mainly is the language which has survived and its so rich and they give so much emphasis to the words they use and the meaning of them, NOT religioussnes or any kind of symbols, a country with different values. Somewhere was written that the meaning of the double headed Eagle is the connection of East and West (one head looks left and the other right), black and red if I remember well had something to do about bloodshed. Albania, being the center of many empires was doomed to always be in war.
"It has been reported that at the end of the 20th century some Christian Albanians still used the term "TURK" to refer to Muslim Albanians."
Matvey Lomonosov, "On Albanian Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire", Porta Balkanica, vol. 5, 2013, p.12
It’s used as an insult and degretory term rather than any speck truth in it
@@Trontotario Did you know that in 1913, while some Tosks raised the Albanian flag in Avlona, most Gegs, mainly those in central Albania, in Tirana, Siak, Durres, etc., lowered the Albanian flags and raised the Ottoman flags with the slogan "dumi Baben"?!
I discovered this name thanks to the third odyssey eu4 mod
Arbanon
Arbi
Abroi
Arbër
Arben
Arbëreshë
Arvanite
Arnaut
Arbëria
Raban (Serbian)
Just to point out an error in the video. Grece is called "Hellas" in Norway . . and is therefore called by its own name i norwegian 🙂
In Croatia in our Geography class we had a teacher that personaly prefered to use "Šiptaria" inspite of also saying that it might be derogatory
thats because we albanians call each other SHQIPTAR with emphasis on the A while the serbian ultra nationalists used to (and still do) call us SHIPTAR with emphasis on I and excluding the Q. It automatically became associated with some type of derogatory language. We albanians should not be offended by it but we really dont prefer to be called any other version except Albanian.
In conclusion if you want to call an albanian as another albanian then you have to put some efford and respect the holy ancient albanian language.
Ps. we call SHQIPTARIA whats in reality the land of ETHNIC ALBANIA (where albanians still remain in their autochthonous land)
We love croatia bosnia and montenegro half illyrian brothers and sisters. You guys should return to the original language of the adriatic people which is traditional albanian (illyrian origin) not slavic (russian origin). We should unite and finish the serbian evil cancer and heal the heart of the balkan peninsula and the rest of the european continent once and forever
@@ardianarnori This reply went from normal to average Balkan behaviour real quick
@@quakeknight9680well its true Serbs made South slavs believe they're only slavs but our people are much more similar than we think. Of course we sre because we are neighbours for 1,000 years
Just FYI, the ancestors of Albanians are the Illyrians. Hence the Illyricum Province.
I lire means to be free in albanian (Shqip).
albanian...olso iit means. the white people...
Curious why in English it was never called "Albany".
1:56 I would like to correct you there. Albanian grammar is obviously unique but the vocabulary has been heavily influenced by foreign powers, especially Latin. Albanian barely escaped full Latinization unlike Romanian.
Hahaha not true, it does not have that much latin brother
@@Ea-dp9gr albanian language has lots of influences from Latin and ancient greek. the thing is though, that the core words of the language, those that are used to describe essential stuff, are untraceable, and its precisely these words that give Albanian an ancient and separate status.
Albanians are the Oldest people in the Western Balkans of the Mediterranean and still speak one of the oldest languages of the Indo-European group, a 6,000 to 8,000 years old language
Really.. Show us one ancient written documents from Albania language.. 😂 😂
@@Johnny-pk3iq you're not as slick as you might think
@@armandalikaj show us ancient... 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
The Serbs are the oldest people in Europe, the Illyrians, the Thracians, the Vedics, the Reibals, the Sarmatians, the Goths, the Gethi, the Rasinians, and...are groups of the Serbian people that have existed since 12,000 years ago. They made Albania the English and Austrians on the territory of Serbia and Montenegro &çé" years under pressure. This was done so that Serbia would not have a sea....Albanians are mountain nobles who came, the Turks brought them to fight for them and.....
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Iliro- Albania starts from Crete..Athens.. Maqedonia..monte negro..Bosnia..Dalmatia- Croatia..the only people speak the oldest ilyrian languages are the Albanians
Dream big sqhiptar 😅
@@wankawanka3053tqi motren
Damn I'm early
6:35 also if you google Traditional southern albanian man dress and traditional scotish man dress, you can see that man of both places wore kilt
(FUSTANELLA SHQIPTARE) ILLYRIAN/ALBANIAN KILT = CELTIC/SCOTTISH KILT...
Name explained I suggest you do video asking if there's any relatives of Charles Darwin alive today
Very interesting thanks
The original name of the "Albani" tribe was "ARBANI" it is known that an Illyrian tribe "Arboi" was recorded from the greek scholars since the 4 century bc.And the name "Arban" became "Alban" by the later greek and roman scholars.The name "ARBAN" means Ar - land (farmin land) and Ban - do or make.So in albanian ARBAN means the one who works the land or the other meaning is AR - GOLD and BAN - make/do and also in albanian mean "the ones who work the gold.The name shqiperia is new and we still are not sure from where it comes or what it means
what intrigues me most is why romans , who went till scotland, didnt enter in albania. only pompeo stayed in durres. and thats all ???
Not sure about the accuracy of this video. The name Albania derives from the Illyrian tribe of Albanoi, who lived in the present day territory of Albania. There is also the city of Albanopoli located in Albania. The medieval Albanians called themselves "Arber" and the country "Arberia", which was the way the locals pronounced the term "Albania" and is inherited from the Arberesh communities in Italy and Arvanites in Greece. The meaning of the name "Shqiperia" is not related to the word "shqiponja" for eagle, but from the word "shqiptoj" which means "to pronounce" or "to speak the albanian language" which is called "shqip".
You have a lot of mistakes in this video. I've spent my life on this topic:
1. Shqiperia comes from Shqipetar, which in translation means: the one who speak clearly (te shqipetosh) or who is able to speak our language. So the land of the people who speak clearly (their Albanian language). It is a misconception to believe it has something to do with the eagle (Shqiponja), even if you are right with that funny myth about the snake and the eagle. But it remains a myth. Reality is, that the word Shqipetar is newer than the word Albanoi. So we are totaly fine people calling us Albanians.
2. Albania is derived from the Illyrian tribe of the Arbers and the Romans spread the name of the Arbers. They just called them Albanoi instead of Arbanoi. But modern Albanians are descendants of a lot Illyrian tribes, not only the Arbers. Also the Dardanians, Taulantians, Penestians, Pirustians etc. Most Kosovarians are Dardanians, while most Albanians are Arberians. But we are heavily mixed. We are the outcome of Illyria.
3. Albanians are not alone on that tribe of Arbanoi, also the Arberesh in Italy (around 2 Mio people) are descendents of the Arbanoi. They speak a similar language (mixed with Italian and Sicilian).
4. The Thracians were a neighbouring people, not our occupators. The are relatives of us, who spoke a similar language. They lost their language due to heavy latin and slavic impact. We kept it. But still in todays Romanian some words can be explained by Albanians.
5. Albanian is similar to old greek! While the new greek is called "greek", they have 0 similarities to old greek. Albanian does! I guess, thats the old greek impact on the Illyrians which we derived.
6. The eagles symbol in a lot of peoples flags world wide in Heraldic means "Freedom". We might have adopted it from the Byzantines. They also had heavy impact on our country. Anyways the 2 heads in our flag have a different meaning: its the connection between 2 subpeople joining in 1 body. Northern Albanians are Gegis and Southern Albanians are Toskis. We speak 2 different main dialects of our language, but still the eagle connects us to 1 body or 1 people.
Another fun fact, which I believe to be an accident: I did a YDNA paternal heritage test 6 years ago. It came out that I am of Illyrian heritage and that my ancestors lived 10 thousend years ago already in the land of todays Albania and Montenegro. But on the migration map, it showed me that before that, we were living in today Schottland region. And that I have blood relatives in Schottland. But I really believe thats just by accident.
Albania is called Albania because of the Alban tribe of ancient Illyrians that lived in Illyrian Peninsula (today Balkan Peninsula). Their central settlement was called Albanopolis, the central part of present-day Albania. So, the name Albania is not an English word, but the name of an ethnic ancient Illyrian people. The Albanians of Kosova, for example are Dardanians of Illyrian people. After the fall of Illyrian Kingdoms the names Albani/Albanoi and Arbanitai/Albanitai referred to medieval Albanians as an ethnic group for all Illyrians.
Why is Shqiperia called Albania in English, is a wrong question!
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Scotland is also called 'Yr Alban' (the Scotland) in Welsh. Many countries have the definiate article Y (or yr if before a vowel) like Yr Almaen (Germany), Yr Eidal (Italy), Yr Aifft (Egypt) etc. Don't know why they have definate articles and others don't.
Same for Georgia, named "Grusinia" in Russian and "Sakartvelo" in her own language.
Correct!! croatia and horvatska, albania and sqiperia/ arnaut, georgia and grusinia or sarkatvelo or hungary and magyar and many many others. So nobody sees the obvious connection here?? Everybody is indoctrinated by their countries nationalism. The reason why all those countries have an official name and a real own name is that those nations were all created by foreign powers from outside who sought power in those regions owned by other empires and tried by war and propaganda to create nations based on historic existing states millenials ago! BUT those people living in this areas today never have been those nations created by powers from far outside. So all those nations are literarly inventions as not the people created their own states basednon their own culture, no others created fairly tale states which they wanted to annex in the end. But those artificial states became independent and the leaders of those states started systematically to indoctrinate their people into these artificial states. So all of those states are fake states with no history no nothing .. just inventions from others FOR others. Nationalism destroyed those facts and made a fairy tale out of those ridiculous states. A good example is hungary where blonde white ethnic north europeans pretend to be an asian former nomadic tribe because they speak this weird language from east asia but cant connect to east asia as theyre no asians and their.cultures is european not asian. This.is.the reason for hardcore nationalsim when a modern nation can not connect with their so called past. The same goes for albania a state.created by italia for the christian minority in this region but the people there were predominantly muslims. Today they forgot this only nationalism remains..
Analbania never existed as a state before 19th century,all of Northem Epirus belongs to Greece.
According to census data released in june 2024, the population of Albania fell in 2.4 million from 2.8 a decade ago. People are fleeing away because of the corruption and the lack of opportunities
You forgot to mention the legendary Ancient Albanian Sign Language, sad :(
history 1802 Albanian Macedonian war against the Macedonian Turks there were no Macedonians
stan borrow from Persian because Persian have a lot of influence in Armenian
ILLIRICUMU SACRUM DANIELE FARLATI FILIPPO RICEPUTI, PELASGIAN ILLYRIAN ALBANIAN SHQIPËTARË 🇦🇱🇽🇰
Epirus and Kosovo are Albanian!Serbia and Grease go elsewhere!
There is also an Albania in the Caucasus region. I wonder where that is from.
I can't understand when a srbian or Macedonian reffer to them as shiptar thay find it ofencive yet thay call them self shiptari 😅
We never called Albania Albania, since it was just one tribe. Albanians called each other Arberesh up until the Ottoman Empire, somehow after that it changed to Shqiptarë. I dont know though why or how that changed.
shqiptar its the real name Albania- from latin Alb mean white Caucasian Race ottomans call you Arnavut
The irony of Albania, not the United States, calling itself Eagleland.
What's ironic about it? Our country name Shqiperia literally means land of the eagles.
Super super mysterious language. Love it.
Many languages are unique and have outlived their siblings
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I was out one evening around sunset when I saw the silhouette of "a bird" on the power lines. As I approached it suddenly raised TWO heads and for a moment I thought it was a real life double headed heraldic eagle before I realised it was two pigeons huddling together. 🤣🤣
Serbs have a double headed pigeon on their flag because they are gay like that
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"Byzantines" =)
Yeah what about Albanians?
Language Albanian is ilirian language
we were known as arberia before 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Impressive 👍🏻
One of the few times the eagle is not a reference to the roman empire
In Romania, it is called "Albania"
There are around 3/4 of Albanians with Gheg dialect where Eagles are called Shqipe and 1/4 Tosk where Eagles are called Shqiponje , so i believe it comes from the Gheg variation
It comes from neither. Shqiperia and Shqiptar come from the verb "Shqiptoj". Albania and Albanian translates to "The land of the people who speak the language/clearly"
@BleTrick There is no fact for either theory. I just think it makes more sense from the eagle because of the flag of skanderbeg. Till that time we were called Arber (people who work the land) and they have met enough foreigners till then, they didn't have to wait more to come with that name from Shqiptoj.
The eagle stuff its just a theory.
We say 'Arnaut' for Albania LOL
Good video
Romans and Byzantines were the same nationality. Nationality BTW means from what nation state you emanate (for those in the back)
There were no Byzantines! Nobody called them Byzantines, neither called themselves. It was a made up name in the 16 century by a german historian Hieronymus Wolf in his book Corpus Historiae Byzantinae. It is a created term to make it easier to differentiate the west or east roman empire. They were all called Romans
Byzantines throughout most of their history where Greek, which is why Hieronymus Wolf calls them that way.
hi great video, but this is very wrong, Albanoi comes from the Albanian place of Arbënia, which means farmland (contrary to Malësia which means highlands) and Shqiperia probably comes from the word Shqiptoj, which means to pronounce clearly, Shqiptar meaning people who pronounce clearly
Hi, there! I have an Albanian friend (he's from Rreshen, about an hour by car north of Tirana). This guy is absolutely awesome; he's a genius in maths, and has good linguistic skills. I've known him for about 18 years now, and we get on quite well with each other. By the way, I enjoy watching your videos!
According to Wikipedia:
All terms share the same Albanian root shqipoj that is derived from the Latin excipere with both terms carrying the meaning of "to speak clearly, to understand".[4] While the Albanian public favours the explanation that the self-ethnonym is derived from the Albanian word for eagle shqipe that is displayed on the national Albanian flag.[4]
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_... the Romans and the Byzantines ..._
Who were actually Romans as well, the eastern Romans who predominantly spoke Greek.
The Kingdom and dominion of Epirus?
Eper,Eperm, S-iper
Iperius was called from Romans. In Albanian means
up, mountainous area. The The main city in Epirus is still called "PERMET" = Eperm-et. There are hundreds of villages and towns in Albania and Kosovo with the suffix "Eperme" which means "mountainous"
I might be able to explain the name Shqiperia that goes back to Pyrrhus of Epirus even earlier than him. After military expeditions in Asia minor Pyrrhus returns to Albania (Epirus) where he's given the title "Son of the Eagle" or Order of the Eagle. The name Shqip comes from the Eagle's sound Skip, Shqip and Shqiptar. TOR=TAR=TAN=TER is a suffix that means (ALL) so having said that we have Shqiperia meaning Sons and Daughter of the Eagle. During the Roman conquest the land was called Superiore by the Romans. Supe means our shoulders and Periore means Epirus or just Epir or Eper meaning Upper and Advantage in English. Barra mi Supe means Burden on your shoulders. Best of luck from Dardania.
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From word Star 🌟 👉 A’sht ar+ban Arban-Al+ban (Lamp) Labë,Labëri ->Molon Labë -> Brilliance of Moloson 🦅🇦🇱🦅🫡🫡🫡
Albania comes from Alba = Morning star
Shqipëria = Skip-ëria = Land of the Eagles
Seems the bit about "Shqiptoj" (to "speak intelligently") was tacked on the end at the last minute, but it's actually a much more plausible explanation than "land of the eagles". Perhaps "eagle" is an alternate meaning if this root word and the eagle flag was designed after the fact.
4:55 How does this follow? Ptolemy could have come up with it simply to name the part of Macedonia inhabited by the Albanoi.
Albania has it's name from the Alban ( Albanet ) Illyrian tribe. Nothing to do with any other versions mentioned.
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Fun fact : Term "shiptar" is a slur word of Albanians.
Funfact it isnt it just means albanian in albanian language
@@danielndou9414 I know but it's still considered a slur word.
@@danielndou9414 It is. Slavs use it as a anti Albanian slur. Most use it in daily life like normally when not even speaking about Albanians.
The term "Shqiptar" comes from the word "Shqiptoj" meaning to pronounce (correctly), so to say "Shiptar" instead of "Shqiptar" is an insult to the very definition of the word. It is used as a slur by Serbs who are incapable of pronouncing the word correctly. And like wise, Serbs are called "Shkije" or "Shkavel" in Albanian.
Accipiter scipio aetos