--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> ...Ptolemy's Albanoi (presumably identical with the later Albanoi/Arbanoi) can be placed somewhere in the northern part of Roman Macedonia, possibly in modern Kosovo...
But according to
Wikipedia :
"In the
2nd century BC, the
History of the World written by
Polybius, mentions a city named
Arbon in present day central Albania. The people who lived there were called
Arbanios and
Arbanitai."
Also
Noel Malcolm on Origins: Serbs, Albanians and Vlachs /Kosovo, a short history writes:
"In the
second century Ptolemy referred to a tribe called the 'Albanoi', and located
their town, 'Albanopolis', somewhere to the east of Durres. Some such place-name
must have survived there, continuously if somewhat hazily, ever since;
there was an area called 'Arbanon' in north-central Albania in the
eleventh
century, and in the early twentieth century 'Arben' was the local name
for a region near Kruja (which lies just north of Tirana)"
Alvin