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Albania proper, didn't even exist as a country until 1912, and less than a hundred years later with such high reproductive rates & no jobs to actually contribute to civilization, Albanians began overunning all the surrounding countries.

We know what Serbia has contributed as you ratchet genocide ruling after ruling, so I'll address your "Albanians began to overrun the neighbors": If what you said is true, why did the Albanians make at least 75% in Kosovo in 1912? Why was NIS 100% Albanian in 1878 before Russia gave it to you? Oooo, what you said is an obvious Serbian lie. Thanks to Russia you got to keep Kosovo in 1918, but now it's solved.

If Serbs are so smart, why are you so dirt poor? You can't say that Tito didn't industrialize you. Without Vojvodina (hardly Serbian) you would be poorer than Albania that had 50 years of true Stalinism.

"If Serbs are so smart, why are you so dirt poor?"

That shows what crock you are peddling!

Albania is the fourth POOREST country in Europe! Right behind Bosnia Hercegovina (which is only financially still afloat BECAUSE of Republika Srpska) In Financial Rankings of Countries based on GDP, Serbia hovers around #70 of 190 (three lists). Albania is as low as #115, and Kosovo (only it as "a country") is #153.

Always looking for excuses for not being able to support yourselves, and why someone else should support you. We in the US have enough of those liberal welfare beggars, we don't need yours, too!

You make me laugh with all your hatred of Slavs as "invaders" to your "pure Illyrian land". You do know that it is a joke, right? Because Albanians have more than a little Slav & Greek blood in them, too, plus some Middle Eastern Phoenician if you listen to geneticists. And they are no means the only ones who can claim to be "the sole descendants of Illyrians".

Indigenous Peoples in Albania

Illyrian 30 %

Slav 20 %

Thracians 18 %

Phoenician 16 %

Hellenic People 14 %

Vikings 2 %

Indigenous Peoples in Serbia & Montenegro

Slav 30 %

Illyrian 21 %

Teuton 18 %

Celtic 14 %

Phoenician 9 %

Hellenic People 6 %

Vikings 2 %

The difference is that with Serbs, the "Illyrian connection" warrants a big "SO WHAT?" because the moved on to actually have a real European civilization that far transcended that. With Albanians, that "Illyrian connection" is all that you've got, because Albanians have never had much of a real European civilization.

The first known document written by hand in the Albanian language wasn't even written until 1462 (AFTER Montenegro had acquired its first printing press), which was almost 300 years later than the first accounts in the Serbian language.