george knysh wrote:
> I found an interesting (if somewhat awkwardly
> translated) interview with the Albanian scholar K.
> Resuli-Burovich. Cf.
> http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/art-cafe/Week-of-Mon-20030324/001530.html
>
> Any comments from our Albanologists?
just a little quote:
> Dr. Kaplan Resuli-Burovich: - On the territory of today�s Albania, as
> has already been confirmed by the most distinguished world scholars,
> from whom I have already mentioned some, first settled the Slavs. In 548
> A.D., they enter also in Durrachium (Drach, Durr?s). The Albanians
> come via Transylvania (Romania) and Bulgaria much later, IX-X century.
> In the meantime, understandably, the Slavs have already named all
> mountains, valleys, rivers, towns and villages, and built some new ones,
> giving them their own names. When the Albanians arrive on the Balkan
> and today�s Albania, there is nothing else they can do except to take
> those toponyms.
So? The religious terminology of Alb. which is from Latin and shows all the
ancient changes for the words which entered the language in the time of
Roman Empire. Second, if they are comming in the IX-X century from
"somewhere" then where have they been until that time? In a Germanic space
or in a Slavic place? Neither one possiblity nor another possiblity appears
to be true, then where have they been until IX-X century? In the IX-X
centruy via Transilvania have been just the Hungarians as "migrating"
people, other folks are not known to us in that time. It seems not very
founded to me what Mr Kaplan intend to say. The story with the Slavic
toponyms is out of date since _overall_ are Slavic toponyms. From East of
Germany until Greece. With the presence of Slavic toponyms, one has no
chance but one has to put all the folks which are not Slavic somewhere
outside of the Slavic area ( means nort-East and East of Europe) and the
only logical sentence should be that these folks ( Vlahs, Albanians,
Hungarians) have arrived in Europa from somewhere after the Slavs. I am
afraid that is not true and if this is not true then the Slavic toponyms are
to be explained other way.
Alex