Balkan Claims(was: Unknown)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 37803
Date: 2005-05-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mimoza loki <larisa_loki@...> wrote:
> Albanians are descent of Illyrians. Science of History proved that.

The *second* sentence sounds like a propagandist lie. What proof has
been offered?

> I had chat and somebody is writting that albanians are greecs, they
said that albanians are same nacionality with different religions that
happened when Ottoman empire converted albanians from christianity to
islam. How can they say that? They know that is not true, what you guys
think about this?

Isn't there a claim that Greeks are really descended from Albanian
shepherds who switched to speaking Greek?

I'm afraid emotions run dangerously high when Balkan claims of
continuity are made.

Richard.