A lot of people went from Albania to Italy in the Middle Ages.
It was typical to find Balkan people in the ranks of the condotierri. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratioti
Armenian is an Indo-European language, the only one in its group, but its closest relative is supposed to be Greek. It's also related to the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European, and of course more distantly to the other branches. It absorbed loan words from many other languages over time including some from the indigenous non-Indo-European languages of the Caucasus region.