Ah! I thought I did my research well during Clinton's ethnic cleansing campaign. I thought the Illyrians were Albanians.
According to Albanians even Alexander the Great was an Albanian :-)
All this childish attempts would be silly if not the engine of ruthless land grab, destruction of cultural heritage and take no prisoners approach to the rightful owners.
The brazenless of Albanian "historiography" can be best seen in the case of Georg Castriota later known as Iskander Bey or SKenderbeg.
Skenderbeg was a Serb, born of Serb father (Ivan) and Serb mother (Voisava). Yet, Albanian "historiography" calls Skenderbeg Albanian, and George's father, a Serb "Albanian nobleman" although at that time there was no Albania nor they were Shqip.
It must be horrible existence to learn that for 1000 years the only Shqip contribution to the Balkans was destruction.
When one has no heroues of his own, he has to steal them from others.
>>>I thought the Illyrians were Albanians.
The Albanians are descendants of the ancient inhabitants of this part of the Balkans, the Illyrians. In a genetic sense, this is largely true of Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins and Bosnians. But in a cultural, linguistic sense it is thought by a large majority of respected historians, that Albanians largely preserved Illyrian customs and language. In fact it is thought that the term pertains to one Illyrian tribe, the Albanoi who is thought to have resisted Romanization due to the rugged nature of the terrain where they lived, somewhere around modern Dibar or Mirdita.
Coincidentally, this is the area given by linguists as the area where the nucleus of the modern Albanian language was located.