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The very first recorded mention of a connection between Illyrians and Albanians is in 1709, attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, most famous for being the co-inventor of calculus along with Isaac Newton. In a series of letters, he first speculated Albanian to be related to the other Slavic languages along ...
The Illyrians (Ancient Greek: ... population of Albania to the medieval Albanians who were attested in historical records in the 11th century. Within Albanian ...
Ceka, Neritan (2005), The Illyrians to the Albanians, Publ. House Migjeni, ISBN 99943-672-2-6; Ceka, Olgita (2023). Territorial, political and architectural organisation of koina during the Hellenistic period in Southern Illyria. The example of Byllis (PhD). TU Darmstadt. Dzino, Danijel (2014). " 'Illyrians' in ancient ethnographic discourse".
In classical and late antiquity, Illyria (/ ɪ ˈ l ɪər i ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; [1] [2] Latin: Illyria, [3] Illyricum) [4] was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians.
The Illyrians are known as the ancestors of the Albanians, with deep influences on the culture and language of the country. [2] [3] Ancient Greek and Roman Influences: With the arrival of ancient Greeks and Romans, Albania and Albanians adopted distinctive architectural styles, evident in Roman amphitheaters and the city of Apollonia. These ...
The Illyrians, as most ancient civilizations, were polytheistic and worshipped many gods and deities developed of the powers of nature.The most numerous traces—still insufficiently studied—of religious practices of the pre-Roman era are those relating to religious symbolism.
Albanoid' is also used to explain Albanian-like pre-Romance features found in Eastern Romance languages. [4] The term 'Albanoid' for the IE subfamily of Albanian was firstly introduced by Indo-European historical linguist Eric Pratt Hamp (1920 – 2019), [11] and thereafter adopted by a series of linguists. [12] A variant term is 'Albanic'. [13]
Albanians have a western Paleo-Balkanic origin, and for obvious geographic and historical reasons most scholars maintain that they descended at least partially from the Illyrians, [68] but besides the Illyrians which specific Paleo-Balkan group contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Albanians is still a matter of academic debate.