2000 Year Old Tombs in the Mountains of Albania

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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @bardhylidi1376
    @bardhylidi1376 4 года назад +46

    Rroftë Iliria! Illirians 🇦🇱

  • @aktien_guru1346
    @aktien_guru1346 4 года назад +90

    I have read about Albanians.. albanians are one of the oldest people in the europe... but the new Greeks dont want this... they together with rusian serbian change and stolen the albanian history... if you look the old greek books... only albanians understand it...

    • @shkelzenxeni1245
      @shkelzenxeni1245 3 года назад +15

      KIT CAT absolutely you have right. The Albania’s and the Albanian language are one of the older in the Europe. The Albanian history is horrible coz the neighours was demanding all the Albanian story and the Albanian people’s living separated about each other’s in all the Balkan’s 😔😔😔

    • @tonyalb3863
      @tonyalb3863 3 года назад +12

      @Chris Kiustenoglou
      Todays "Greek" Language has nothing in common with old Mycenean language !
      It is Proven , that modern "Greeks"
      can not understand it !
      at least be a man and accept the facts

    • @metigame1450
      @metigame1450 3 года назад +1

      @Chris Kiustenoglou then you go home

    • @altosh7
      @altosh7 3 года назад +1

      Hahahaha wtf dude only Greeks can read ancient Greek language

    • @metigame1450
      @metigame1450 3 года назад +1

      @@altosh7 no you can’t why do you lie to yourself

  • @marafarnham595
    @marafarnham595 4 года назад +25

    Nice to see you James! Beautiful Albania! Love the history! Thank you! Stay safe and healthy! 🇺🇸❤🇦🇱

  • @rrezartzeqiri7889
    @rrezartzeqiri7889 4 года назад +33

    Go in Berat 2600 old city or more

  • @Klea22
    @Klea22 4 года назад +16

    Amazing!!! Thank you for this video! Më mungon Shqipëria shumë!

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад +2

      thanks for watching!

    • @cheguevara9715
      @cheguevara9715 3 года назад +1

      Klea Cepele ,,,,,po edhe ato qe shkojne ne HENE ,brenda vitit kthehen ,,aq larg je ,ku mbrapa Diellit je 🤰☹

  • @vard633
    @vard633 3 года назад +1

    4:12 thats my village behind the Grajdishta hill called Proptisht :D I was there 2 weeks ago

  • @gabrielfreitas9024
    @gabrielfreitas9024 4 года назад +10

    wow man what a great video! greetings from Brazil !

  • @anisaziu2923
    @anisaziu2923 4 года назад +48

    There is a little mistake in the albanian subtitles: creepy in albanian means ngjethës/ i frikshëm and not i mërzitshëm.
    Cool video! 👍

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад +12

      dang... thanks for pointing that out!

    • @mendjelire8392
      @mendjelire8392 4 года назад +3

      I was just about to comment on that and then I saw your comment.

    • @flog3rt
      @flog3rt 4 года назад

      Also "butchered" is not properly translated.

    • @SachsVDE
      @SachsVDE 3 года назад +2

      I mërzitshëm = Boring ...

  • @albusha5150
    @albusha5150 4 года назад +13

    Here is a tip for you James: with your talent of videography and WWW try to lure archaeologists from USA to discover more about Illyria! You may profit from it. There's tons of history to be discovered there. Unfortunately, Albanian archaeologists have been "too busy with politics" rather than discovering their own heritage. But our history can enlighten the true story of humanity which has been misrepresented until now.

  • @hks4133
    @hks4133 3 года назад +8

    The funny thing is that Tomb (tu:m) in informal rural Albanian means exactly the mound of earth/dirt, like the old burials in antiquity. In fact, the way how the ancient people built their tombs is how archeologists can distinguish whether an area was inhabited by Illyrians or Greeks as the burials differed between the two. In many villages in Albania you could hear the word tume/tuma (or "tume dheu"=dirt mound). Nobody uses that word in cities or media, but it is a word in daily colloquial vocabulary between peasantry.

  • @dragoilir590
    @dragoilir590 3 года назад +5

    Bravo e grazie ALBANIA DI UOMINI E DONNE VALOROSI

  • @TheWorldWalk
    @TheWorldWalk 4 года назад +14

    Great stuff! Love seeing the details of this little known country!

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад +6

      thanks man! it’s fascinating to me, so i like hearing that other people enjoy it as well

    • @vard633
      @vard633 3 года назад +1

      What you hear about European history for almost 3000 years, you will find pieces still preserved to this day. Many Christian missionaries always passed from Albania because of this road. If you go to the south you have still standing Roman buildings, Illyrian (ancestors of Albanians). Alexander the Great fought in Albania the Illyrians as they were the main opponent of Macedonians. Most of Illyrians aided him after the defeated to conquer Asia and the soldiers of Albanian origin that never came back are located in Pakistan under the name Hunzak. You have Ottoman period the most recent empire to invade Albania, still left the marks, this one for worst since forced us to change to Islam by force and heavy taxes. I wish Albania gets more recognition for its history, language and traditions as its one of the last surviving people from the old Balkan population which have been killed, displaced, raped, looted, burned throw-out history.

  • @gentibiraci
    @gentibiraci 4 года назад +55

    Hopefully one day you’ll be speaking Albanian and use English subtitles 😜

  • @jerryjorts4050
    @jerryjorts4050 4 года назад +10

    Quality content as always

  • @marjusdedja9408
    @marjusdedja9408 3 года назад +2

    You always surprise me with your videos ,not just about beautiful places but for information that you give

  • @junazaharia5365
    @junazaharia5365 4 года назад +12

    Man, tomb nr. 5 was right below where you stand in the end of the video. Anyway, nice video. Keep up the great work 👍

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад

      haha oops. well guess i didn’t look hard enough

  • @nmezini7965
    @nmezini7965 3 года назад +2

    Great thank you for visiting my country

  • @daron8982
    @daron8982 4 года назад +27

    Julius Caesar was of Illyrian origin I believe

    • @ermalpula
      @ermalpula 3 года назад +2

      Stop spreading ridiculous rumours...

    • @kolmartini
      @kolmartini 3 года назад

      No he was not! He may have had a battle in Todays Albania...

    • @uneti463
      @uneti463 3 года назад

      no, stop it, he was not one of us, but he did study in Apolonia, Albania

  • @unknowncaller6945
    @unknowncaller6945 4 года назад +6

    I get chills when walking through ancient ruins!

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад

      you sure that’s not the ghosts passing through you? 😳

  • @TheAlien101
    @TheAlien101 4 года назад +7

    Happy Thanksgiving from East Tennessee. Thanks for these amazing videos.

  • @fisnikkulici4219
    @fisnikkulici4219 4 года назад +6

    Quality content , thanks!

  • @qanieking192
    @qanieking192 3 года назад +3

    Thanks for the beautiful video 👍 real respect

  • @iamnotyou1609
    @iamnotyou1609 4 года назад +14

    You are enjoying albania more then Albanians them self I like the views

  • @ianeons9278
    @ianeons9278 Год назад +1

    Contrary to popular belief there was never a unified Illyrian Kingdom as they were all divided into separate kingdoms with different kings, but most of them were buried here as it was considered a sacred site for all Illyrians.

  • @cryptoafc7655
    @cryptoafc7655 4 года назад +9

    I see James,
    I click like

  • @andyg605
    @andyg605 3 года назад +3

    Just WOW!Great!👍

  • @sabinasabinaa3318
    @sabinasabinaa3318 3 года назад +1

    Peisazhe te mbrekullueshme. Bravo

  • @MrBUNNYBASS
    @MrBUNNYBASS 4 года назад +4

    Great video mate xD

  • @markkola4646
    @markkola4646 3 года назад +4

    Thanks for this beautiful video 😘😘😘😘🇦🇱

  • @agronallko3603
    @agronallko3603 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for this video...👌👐

  • @kohade8517
    @kohade8517 3 года назад +1

    Thank you so much for all this contribution ❤️❤️❤️🦅🦅

  • @genius6126
    @genius6126 4 года назад +5

    Hello James here from Greece but l was born in durres and live there until 12 years old. Beautiful videos. 😊😊

    • @genius6126
      @genius6126 3 года назад

      💙💙💙💙🎶🎶🎶🎶🇦🇱🇦🇱🇬🇷🇬🇷🇺🇲🇺🇲Hello James from Greece 🎉🎉

  • @illyrianet5884
    @illyrianet5884 3 года назад +5

    Concrete proof of the Illyrian-Pelasgian origin of Albanians is provided by the study of the Albanian language. Despite some points of similarity in structure and phonetics, the Albanian language is entirely distinct from the languages ​​spoken by neighboring natonalities. This language is particularly interesting as the only surviving representative of the alleged Thraco-Illyrian group of languages, which formed the primitive discourse of the inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula. However, great difficulties, as, owing to the absence of the first literary monuments, no certainty can be reached regarding its previous forms and subsequent events. Eventually the Albanian language was permeated by a large number of foreign words, mainly from ancient Greek or Latin, which is younger than the Albanian language, but there is some indication that the early Illyrian language manifested some degree of influence on the grammatical development of the languages ​​now spoken in the Balkan Peninsula.
    There is, however, one very striking peculiarity in this entire question: that the Albanian language allows a reasonable explanation of the meaning of the names of ancient Greek Gods as well as the rest of the mythological creations. The explanations are so convincing to confirm the opinion that ancient Greek mythology had been borrowed, in its entirety, from the Illyrian-Pelasgians. As it was mentioned before, Zeus survives as "Zot" in the Albanian language. The invocation of his name is the common form of oath among modern Albanians. Athena (Latin Minerva), the goddess of wisdom as expressed in speech, should obviously derive its derivation from the Albanian "E Thëna," which means "simply speech". Thetis, the goddess of waters and seas, would seem to be only Albanian "Det" which means "the sea". It would be interesting to note that the word "Ulysses", if in its Latin or Greek form "Odysseus", means "the traveler" in the Albanian language, according to like the word "udhë", that stands for "the route "and" the journey ", is written with" d "or" l ", both forms being in use in Albania. Such examples can be provided ad libitum (libitum). No such facility is, however, permitted by the ancient Greek language, unless the explanation is an obligatory and distorted one; but in many cases even a mandatory and distorted so is not available at all.
    Moreover, we must not forget the fact that Zeus was God Pelasgian par excellence, his original religious building being Dodona.
    proof that we are Illyrians. The queen who reigned in the Balkans was called Teuta and this is a 1000% Albanian name and the country illir means free. Proof that we are also the ancient Greeks:
    out of 2
    Examples of names of gods and
    deities
    prehellenic
    derived from Albanian
    -
    pelasgic.
    Apart from any prejudice, the etymology of names which we are going to present here, conforms
    strictly to an interpretation based on the conn
    growth of ancient languages, and especially of the
    Albanian. The only one to give the correct meaning to the names of certain gods, considered Greek without being
    never such. The examples which have just been presented here, confirm the importance of the langu
    Albanian
    as a language which can give a reasoned answer to the questions of pre-Hellenic paleography, where
    the names of the gods Pelasgians had been Greekized and pronounced without being able to give them an interpretation
    valid. Follow the etymolog below
    ie appropriation of the names of the gods through the Albanian language.
    Rhea.
    Zeus' mother was Rhea, which derives from the Albanian word "
    re
    ”, And means cloud. What can give birth
    the cloud, if not the storm, lightning and thunder? So the mighty voice of the cloud sky
    them from the Universe, the
    voice = zë or za, hence the Ze (us) = (the Voice), in Albanian Zot (God).
    Ze
    us derives from the Albanian "za or ze" = voice. Thunder is the voice of God, it is
    Ze
    (us) = Ze
    -
    Za = the
    Voice,
    Zot
    (the God) of the Albanians.
    Athena
    in albanian
    Athin
    at
    : this name derives from the Albanian "e thena" = to say, in the sense of the Word, the Word
    of God, hence the goddess of wisdom. Another Albanian etymology of
    Athina
    =
    Ati
    (father) +
    n / A
    (mother),
    hence the protective goddess, Athina (father
    -
    mother) in this sense.
    Kron
    (bone), der
    ive of the Albanian words Koh (time) +
    r
    ron (lively), or Ke + r
    r
    we (that
    live) in the sense
    than
    hard (durable) to give a sense of the perpetuity of time.
    Ouran
    (bones) of the Greeks,
    Vran
    (bone) = sky, derived from Albanian
    vran
    = cloudy; that is to say the earth (Téa,
    G
    éa) produced the clouds, the cloudy,
    vran
    -
    uran
    , in the sense of Heaven. You should know that the Albanians
    pronounce the "V" like "U" (or), and vice
    -
    versa, hence Vran = Uran (Ouran). By adding the particle "
    os ”the Greeks made their Uran + os, Uranos, its
    ns be able to explain the etymological meaning.
    Thea
    or
    Gea,
    earth, derives from Albanian
    Dhè
    = earth, hence the synonym tokë also maintains the root
    of T'héa.
    The T
    (is), from Thét + is (Greek suffix), derives from Albanian
    Det
    = sea, registered Deti = the m
    er.
    The Albanian etymology results from it very clear, as in all the aforementioned names.
    Themis
    , goddess of justice, her name derives from the verb alb. te mys = I kill you, hence the Latin verb "timeo"
    (I'm afraid) that we represent with a scale in the ma
    in the left and a sword in the right hand.
    It was the law of the heel, the justice of the time, which executed after having judged: eye for eye, tooth for tooth and blood
    for blood.
    Hermes
    , was a god recognized as essentially Pelasgius. Hermès, derives from the Alban
    ais
    err
    (darkness)
    +
    my s
    (mus) or mes = to kill, in the sense, "I kill the darkness", hence Hermes the god who dispels the darkness.
    Demeter,
    (Dhimitris) goddess of agriculture, deriving from Albanian:
    Dhè
    (earth) +
    metre
    (mother), hence
    Demeter = Mother Earth.
    Demeter
    was the fourth wife of Zeus. From their union was born
    Kora,
    goddess of
    harvests, from the Albanian verb "korr" = to harvest from where
    të korra
    = harvest.
    Ha
    (bone)
    (Chaos), derives from the Albanian Ha = to eat, devour, or from Hap, Hapsine = in the sense of openness, the
    vid
    e, the abyss, from where
    Ha
    (os) (Chaos), the void that devours everything, absolute disorder, etc.
    Of
    Ha
    os, removing the Greek suffix os =
    Ha
    , was born Tartarus, called by the Greeks (
    Ereb
    us) = Erèbe, We
    find the root of this word in
    the
    Albanian language,
    err,
    errsi
    = darkness,
    u err
    , it's dark, hence
    ferr
    = dark hell.
    Ghig
    (as), was one of the most remarkable giants, born from the union of Heaven and Earth, of a stature
    colossal, strong, proud, fierce. The Northern Albanians, still retain at no
    s days the name of
    Gheg.
    They
    still have a remnant of the high stature of the giant Ghig (without the Greek suffix "as") which points them out
    among the other inhabitants of Albania.
    Atlas,
    derived from Albanian words
    At
    (father) +
    the ace
    (lasht) = old hence At i lasht =
    AT
    tlas
    = old father.
    Aphrodhit
    (is), derived from Albanian words
    afer
    (close) +
    said
    (day) hence in Albanian
    Aferdita
    (close to
    day), the name they gave to the morning star, the planet Venue,
    Aphrodhit
    (is), goddess of beauty and
    love.
    Atlas
    ,
    At + weary
    in Albanian,
    Aphrodhitis
    ,
    Afro
    -
    dhitis
    At (father) + las (old)
    from Albanian Afer
    -
    said
    from where
    Atlas
    = Old father
    close
    -
    day, the morning star,
    Aferdita
    (the planet Venus)

  • @Albanian_History
    @Albanian_History 3 года назад +12

    Illyrian for life ✝️🇦🇱❤️🇦🇱✝️

    • @cheguevara9715
      @cheguevara9715 3 года назад +1

      Ku jane bo ato shoku ska pas kryqa ,o palle

    • @tomiteneqexhi3428
      @tomiteneqexhi3428 3 года назад

      @@cheguevara9715 Po vertet s'ka pasur kryq, por e degjove cfare the tek ura ....Apostull Pavli shkoi per perhapje krishterimi tek rruga Egnatia!!!

  • @brunogogaj5246
    @brunogogaj5246 3 года назад +1

    GREAT VIDEO

  • @veshjepopulloreshqiptare2975
    @veshjepopulloreshqiptare2975 4 года назад +6

    RESPEKTE

  • @kitanosportkitanosport4524
    @kitanosportkitanosport4524 3 года назад +9

    Lots of stories has been stolen by the Greeks. The true was Roman Catholic church was dominated in Ilirian Pellazge language.

  • @fisnikkulici4219
    @fisnikkulici4219 4 года назад +5

    Are you using google translate for the captions ?

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад

      Nope! A friend of mine and his wife have been doing the translation for me and then I put them on the video

  • @joshuaanderson9027
    @joshuaanderson9027 3 года назад

    I've been there! My wife is from Pogradec and one day I talked her father into taking me out there. Very cool.

  • @redfirekla
    @redfirekla 4 года назад +7

    As always amazing content James and Happy Thanksgiving. Pershendetje

  • @illyrian3387
    @illyrian3387 3 года назад +1

    Respect great video 🇦🇱✌🏻

  • @hekuranbershimi3227
    @hekuranbershimi3227 4 года назад +8

    Albania is beautiful the best. 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

  • @iaml1407
    @iaml1407 3 года назад +3

    Thanks a lot for this video 😍😍❤️❤️🇦🇱🇦🇱

  • @simplescrapping
    @simplescrapping 4 года назад +7

    Wellcome back my friend😆😆.. I hope you are ok

  • @liontheking7030
    @liontheking7030 3 года назад +1

    There is older Tombes about 50 or more in north Albania in Mati ( Emathia old name) region 3500 years old , only in Persia find the same stuff like that.

    • @albertkastrioti7624
      @albertkastrioti7624 3 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/5iwd8vBZm4c/видео.html this Albanian graves in Balkan Albanian Lands are more then 6000 years old and Albanian language is the oldest language in Europe long live Big Albania 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱⛪️✝️🏥🦅🦅🦅🦅

  • @luljetakolonja9443
    @luljetakolonja9443 4 года назад +3

    Interesting

  • @speeddemon8977
    @speeddemon8977 3 года назад +1

    i was born in via Egnatia road in the old city of Skampini today Elbasan

  • @aleggel2035
    @aleggel2035 4 года назад +8

    Ayyy bro i thought u were dead
    When u become big for telling these stories remember me

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад +1

      😂😂 not dead yet! just super busy

  • @alohaXamanda
    @alohaXamanda 4 года назад +2

    Man I could feel the creepy vibes...but 10/10 would still explore

  • @muhammadhamza1417
    @muhammadhamza1417 4 года назад +3

    Please upload 1 video per week.
    Or at least 1 in 2 weeks.

  • @alengoretic651
    @alengoretic651 3 года назад +3

    👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @iliramir7001
    @iliramir7001 3 года назад +2

    one of these tombs belongs to the grandfather of Alexander the Great, and they are tombs over 3500 years old.

  • @ThatGuy-xp4ie
    @ThatGuy-xp4ie 4 года назад +2

    I'd like to correct u on the translation lf the word creepy( it means e frikshme in albanian) Btw do u translate them urself or do u have an abanian who helps u?

    • @ThatGuy-xp4ie
      @ThatGuy-xp4ie 4 года назад +1

      E merzitshme means boring

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад +1

      Thanks for the correction! My friend noticed after the video went up that he used the wrong word but by that time it was a bit late to change it

  • @albusha5150
    @albusha5150 4 года назад +2

    What happened to you all this time? No videos for a long while! Were you in the States or something?

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  4 года назад +3

      Nope, just figuring out life stuff. RUclips doesnt pay enough so i have to prioritize other things. One of such things will appear in a video soon

    • @albusha5150
      @albusha5150 4 года назад

      @@JamesLeithart Makes sense. Good luck. with whatever you're doing. Perhaps, you may connect with an Albanian travel agency or a few for that matter and do some aggressive advertising to attract Americans to visit Albania like Google Adwords.

  • @elchupacabra3599
    @elchupacabra3599 3 года назад +1

    Happlo group E ♥️🇦🇱

  • @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax
    @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax 3 года назад +2

    Great video! There is a lot of us Albanians that don't know and have never been in these ancient places.
    Thank you for increasing our knowledge about our country!
    I might even put "Selce e poshtme" on my to visit list!
    That bridge was particularly awesome considering all the history and the people that have gone over it!

  • @zyramemini82
    @zyramemini82 3 года назад

    Gracie Mile 👍👍🇦🇱
    Dirti che vuoi sieti
    Bravissimo.noi Albanesi
    Siamo tutti raca ilirjan.
    Vuoi essere fantastici.
    Gracie Mile 👍🙏👏
    ✝️✝️✝️✝️👏👏👏👏

  • @hellohello4719
    @hellohello4719 3 года назад +2

    finally somebody explained the story about Albania referring to the Bible. Just to let you know that there are more facts about Albanian roots in the Bible;
    -there were all Christians- other religions were created to claim Albanian lands and establish new countries based on religions-some orthodox, some katholics some muslims- however Albanians come from one of the tribes of IS RA EL=STAR THAT FALL from the SKY-
    NEFILLIMET- albanian word in the BIBLE-GENESIS
    God took them over the wings of the eagle (albanian flag) to give them the promised lands of milk and honey
    Read the Bible- You -the jews_ are not the sons of Abraham etc etc etc- who wants more has to do their own research

    • @atedlishi4253
      @atedlishi4253 3 года назад

      Then why don't we speak the same language, why don't we have the same traditions

    • @atedlishi4253
      @atedlishi4253 3 года назад

      Plus the bible has been changed a lot

  • @olebraaten7495
    @olebraaten7495 3 года назад +3

    Pelasgian Illyrian 👐🏻🇦🇱🇦🇱👐🏻🇽🇰👐🏻

  • @stopinjorancestuaj
    @stopinjorancestuaj 4 года назад

    I saw a shadow right behind you lol

  • @rydanslogos
    @rydanslogos 3 года назад

    Visit Butrint please 🙏🏻

    • @JamesLeithart
      @JamesLeithart  3 года назад +2

      ruclips.net/video/kbOlhAYXPoU/видео.html

  • @estia2396
    @estia2396 4 года назад +4

    .

  • @kitanosportkitanosport4524
    @kitanosportkitanosport4524 3 года назад +1

    Will be dislike from Orthodox only because they are jelose of Roman Catholic and Ilirian Pellazge language. Always Greeks were jelose with other countries story's. Will be passed to the generation to come the words of Angela Merkel said that, Greece is for sale. No-one said for Albanian territory is for sale.

  • @sokolmrishaj578
    @sokolmrishaj578 3 года назад

    creepy - e frikshme

  • @GuineveresRoses
    @GuineveresRoses 4 года назад +4

    Try speaking Albanian

  • @hamzasinanaj9132
    @hamzasinanaj9132 3 года назад

    Get the fuck out of there, That video creeped me out too lol "Tombs" This is what you do on you're spare time lol