Posted on 07/28/2008 1:07:57 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
This brief history, based on authoritative published sources, is intended to provide readers with an objective and reasonably concise history of the hundreds of years of struggle between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo. Interested readers are strongly encouraged to consult the sources cited for a much fuller treatment of the subject. At the end of the historical summary implications of what is happening in Kosovo for the global jihad and the eventual Islamization of Europe are considered.
History Prior to 19th Century
The earliest known inhabitants of Kosovo were called Illyrians by both Greeks and Romans. Albanians today claim to be direct descendants of the Illyrians. Serbian scholars claim that Albanians appeared on the scene in the early Middle Ages as a result of intermarriage between nomadic shepherds and unromanized remnants of Illyrians and Dardanians from Thrace. Tracing such descents is difficult but the people living in the region before the arrival of the Serbs from the North are likely to have some genetic relationships to Albanians, but DNA data would be needed to definitively settle the claim, which in any case is hardly germane to the current conflict. The region was conquered by Alexander the Great 300 years before Christ and became part of the Roman province of Dardania in the 4th century A. D.
Slavs crossed the Danube and moved into the Balkans by the 6th century. These migrations weakened the Byzantium Empire sufficiently that Illyrian speaking people, known to their neighbors as Albanians moved eastward from the Adriatic into the Kosovo region of the Balkans. Their language became known as Albanian and their culture became allied with Byzantium after the breakup of the Catholic Church into Eastern and western branches in 1054.
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kronos hasn't been on much lately. His back went out and the doctor told him not to sit at the computer all the time
You are the definition of dumb American.
Incorrect, that's more propaganda and wishful thinking. There is no archaeological evidence to even prove this hypothesis.
I am sorry to hear it. My best wishes to him.
At least be like the others and post something to back up your argument.
You might want to send some of your links to montyspython so he actually has a counterpoint to post when he responds to me.
I acknowledge that you like to argue based on some logic and evidence, and I respect that. But when you try to present a case that is effectively, "Bears DON'T poop in the woods", it really doesn't take much more than an, "Are you nuts?" from Monty (or anyone) to refute it -- no scientific or historical links necessary.
I will say this, Skenderbej, if the "sides" in this issue were "Serbs and Albanian Christians (especially Orthodox Albanians)", instead of Albanian Muslims, I don't think that there would have ever been "sides" or a conflict that escalated -- not just based on the outlook from the Serbs' side, but also the outlook from the Albanian side.
From my point of view, the Albanian Muslims have written their own agenda in the Balkans and unfortunately the Albanian Christians have (mostly silently) gone along with "the program", whether out of fear and intimidation -- or Albanian solidarity --or whatever.
Too bad, because I think that Serbs and Albanian Christians would likely have figured something out on their own. But because Kosovo became the real dividing line between Islam and Christian Europe and Serbs have always seen themselves as the Guardians of the (Christian) Gate, that neighborhood has traditionally been a bloody mess.
You brought up the point, not me, why don’t you provide the archaeological evidence.
By handing Kosovo over to the Jihadists, the US has supported the “Reconquista” of “Aztlan”.
Even a publik skool graduate should be able to figure that out.
Actually, our “dumb” Americans are much smarter than Chicago boy.
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