The Albanians call their Shqipëria, and have their roots in ancient Illyrian tribes. They descended from the Illyrian language, so it’s a rare family of Rome and the Slavic immigration and Europe’s linguistic oddity is on par with the Basque. Illyrians occupied the western Balkans during the second millennium BC. They built a large fortified [...]
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