Në fillim të shek. XX ndryshoi qasja ndaj autoktonisë së shqiptarëve në trojet e tyre aktuale, e cila në shek. XIX nuk vihej në dyshim. Sidomos me studimet e romanistit e ballkanologut G. Weigand, midis gjuhëtarëve u përhap teza trake e prejardhjes së shqiptarëve, që nënkuptonte një imigrim nga troj…

It would seem heresy and absurd to deny the albanianism of the poetry of Girolamo De Rada. But whoever wants to be sincere, at least among the Albanians of Albania, cannot deny that there is something that sounds foreign to them; and this explains how in Albania, the poetry of De Rada, first admitte…

Girolamo De Rada is universally credited with having given the greatest impetus to the development of the Albanian language in the 19th century. He is almost the promoter or creator of the Albanian Question, both political-national and linguistic-literary. It is true that long before him the bishop …

"Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg (1405-17.01.1468) is the most important national hero and the greatest strategist and statesman of Albanians who led the war for freedom against the Ottoman occupation for the political-national union of the Albanians.2The many frequent military victories glorified Scand…

Since the beginning of the Ottoman invasions in the Balkans, Ragusa served as a center of information for the Christian Europe related to the circumstances in Albania due to the wars against the Ottoman invader, and through Ragusa were kept the connections with the Hungarian king Sigismund.Therefore…

In the Additional Fund of the British Library manuscripts in London, there are a considerable number of handwritten codices (nearly 451) of Epirote origin.1 At this point, four codices from the British Library have been identified2 that were written or used in the city of Berat: from the British Lib…

The present paper informs about two monographs on Scanderbeg, which belong to the German historiography. The first monograph is titled Georg Skanderbeg, glücklicher Vorgänger des Ali Pascha in Janina (Gjergj Scanderbeg lucky predecessor of Ali Pasha of Ioannina), and the second monograph is titled G…

I was suggested to participate in the second session of the International Albanological Conference in the format lectio magistralis. For some days and weeks, I was somewhat undecided whether to hold this presentation, or another one.Decades ago, since my dissertation on the Albanian heroic legendary…

This year in Albania and abroad marks the celebration of the 600- birth anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg. His place and role in the Albanian and European history are of an extraordinary importance. He organized and led for circa a quarter a century the Albanian people war against the Ottom…

"The use and mеаning of ethnonyms in late medieval texts is a complex scholarly issue. In this paper we try to analyze and clarify the reasons why the mentioned ancient/archaic ethnonyms and geographic names are used for naming certain late medieval Balkan inhabitants and territories in the 15th cen…

Shtypi shqiptar mbronte të drejtat e popullit të vet të mbetur padrejtësisht jashtë kufijve të Shqipërisë. Ai demaskoi hapur planet antishqiptare të shteteve shoviniste fqinje. Gazetat dhe shoqëritë mbajtën përgjithësisht qëndrim shumë të drejtë ndaj problemeve më shqetësuese të kohës, sikundër isht…

Pas Luftës së Dytë Botërore, në Kosovën e atëhershme, shqiptarët e shkolluar ishin të paktë. Rrjedhimisht edhe kuadri nga fusha e historisë mungonte. Njëri nga emrat e njohur të historiografisë shqiptare dhe nga të parët doktorë shkence nga shqiptarët e Kosovës pas Luftës së Dytë Botërore ishte edhe…