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The Three Final Wishes of Alexander the Great Alexander was a great Greek king. As a military commander, he was undefeated and the most successful throughout history. On his way home from conquering many countries, he came down with an illness. At that moment, his captured territories, powerful army, sharp swords, and wealth all had no meaning to him. He realized that death would soon arrive and he would be unable to return to his homeland. He told his officers: “I will soon leave this world. I have three final wishes. You need to carry out what I tell you.” His generals, in tears, agreed.
“My first wish is to have my physician bring my coffin home alone. After a gasping for air, Alexander continued: “My second wish is scatter the gold, silver, and gems from my treasure-house along the path to the tomb when you ship my coffin to the grave.” After wrapping in a woolen blanket and resting for a while, he said: “My final wish it to put my hands outside the coffin.” People surrounding him all were very curious, but no one dare to ask the reason. Alexander’s most favored general kissed his hand and asked: “My Majesty, We will follow your instruction. But can you tell us why you want us to do it this way?” After taking a deep breath, Alexander said: “I want everyone to understand the three lessons I have learned. To let my physician carry my coffin alone is to let people realize that a physician cannot really cure people’s illness. Especially when they face death, the physicians are powerless. I hope people will learn to treasure their lives. My second wish is to tell people not to be like me in pursuing wealth. I spent my whole life pursuing wealth, but I was wasting my time most of the time. My third wish to let people understand that I came to this world in empty hands and I will leave this world also in empty hands.” he closed his eyes after finished talking and stopped breathing.
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“On his death bed, his marshals asked him to whom he bequeathed his kingdom. Since Alexander had no obvious and legitimate heir (his son Alexander IV would be born after his death, and his other son was by a concubine, not a wife), it was a question of vital importance. There is some debate to what Alexander replied. Some believe that Alexander said, “Kratisto” (that is, “To the strongest!”) or “Krat’eroi” (to the stronger).” ( wikipedia)
So please don’t tell those fake stories to deceive children.
If you want to tell moral stories, you can use another name other than the real people.
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Hey peeps…. l like it too…… i think…..lmao!!!!
Lies! This story is all lies!
Even if it’s not real, I don’t know what kind of IDIOT cites wikipedia to contest anything.
Great post, though it’s probably a myth, that’s not the point of the story.
hey lik eit very much!!!yaY…
Read more history books!
It is absolutely a true story……..
whether it is true or not is not a question or whether it is good or bad. Ask whether it is useful to you or not. accept it or leave this should be the strategy. in my opinion, the great people who lived great life has great story or message to other
Absolute nonsense
You have to read more Historical romans and books.Alexander (Aleksandar) The Great is the King of MACEDONIA! Not from Greece.Therefore the Heading has to be:
The Final Three Wishes of Macedonian King – Alexander the Great
Dane why dont you run along you uneducated boxhead SLAV
HAIL HELLAS
ps Macedonia is a region in Northern Greece NOT north of Greece sadarse
Pricks , he was not Greek …
Alexander the Great was Macedonian. He may have wanted to be greek, but he was Macedonian. You Greeks need to face the facts. Just deal with it. It’s not a big deal, really. You have a much bigger history to protect and maintain other than Alexander the Great. Just give us Macedonians the one thing us Macedonians can be recognized by.
this is really a good one..
nice example to eradicate terrorism from the world..
pass it on to the wealthier people so that they can change
I’m an Aussie with no loyalty to Greeks or Macos but it is an undisputed fact Alex the Great was Macedonian not Greek, end of story. Why do Greeks get so cut and try and make out he was part Greek, is this because Alex Whipped their arses ? I don’t get it is this the reason ?
All of you have forgotten or either don’t realise but Alexandros’ mother was Greek! An Epirotisa to be exact from Epirus….meaning Greek….yamoti sas oli!!!
NOTE: Olympias (c.376- 316 B.C.) was the daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus, the 4th wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the mother of Alexander the Great.
Makedonia is Greece forever!!!!!
After all that Alexander the Great achieved in his short life, the entire globe is still the same way inspired till date as from his last day. Its useless to argue on the fact basing on his origins.. Glance from Europe, Asia or even the remotest corner of the globe – Children, Adults remain equally thrilled at his accomplishments even today.. Bring up some unknown facts about his life folks!!! do some research and show up…try making a lineage nature from Philip the great and things like that,.,.,
Alexandre of Macedonia was a Macedonion King,
at the time of Alexander, Macedon IS NOT a Great State,
But A Country of its own, and A true Monotomy in its own rights,
Alexanders Father Philip, was a decendent of Heracles himself, His mother olympia was a decendent of BOTH Hektor and King Priam, as Well as Pyrus (neoptlomes) and Achilles Himself,
Alexandre had no 3 last wishes, this is BULLSHIT,
Quote from somebody:
“On his death bed, his marshals asked him to whom he bequeathed his kingdom. Since Alexander had no obvious and legitimate heir (his son Alexander IV would be born after his death, and his other son was by a concubine, not a wife), it was a question of vital importance. There is some debate to what Alexander replied. Some believe that Alexander said, “Kratisto” (that is, “To the strongest!”) or “Krat’eroi” (to the stronger).” ( wikipedia)
So please don’t tell those fake stories to deceive children.
If you want to tell moral stories, you can use another name other than the real people.
This is correct, Although, there are some theorys that say Alexander the Great of Macedon and his Uncle Alexander of Epirus both made each other their heirs, as they both set of without an heir on conquests on opposite sides of the world,
Alexander the Great heads east to Persia, while his uncle heads west to what is Now Italy,
Not long before the Persian expedition Alexanders sister Cleopatra had been married to her Uncle Alexander of Epirus, It was at the Wedding, that Philip of Macedon is Assasinated,
SO please guys, Pick up a few books before you go Spouting shit on the internet, There are MANY sorces of Information on Alaxandre of Macedon,
The Greatest Alexander of them all.
And while your at it, Maybe read abit more about the underlying reasons and the history between the Greeks and the Persians, As alexander himself said, Those who do not know the Past Cannot Possibly understand the now.
^_^
the great American president George Washington was English born and an English general. He is enshrined in history as one of the great American figures . Factually and by choice. Even if there was a slavic race over two thousand years ago, and Alexander the Great, hypotheticly, came from that race of people, factually and by choice he always declared himself as ‘Ellinas’
I love the story of Alexander the Great. I have to do a presentation about this AMAZING man.
i am almost as great as Alexander the Great
LOL pathetic “greeks” stop stealing Macedonian history go check your ethiopian genes and leave ancient history alone
cause Alex wasnt a “gayreek” he was a 100% Macedonian.
and this thing about his last three wishes is bullcrap.
He was just a avanturistic spoil child that played with the power of his father – Philip The Macedonian was the first political manipulator and a Real King.
From where i am there is an old saying that he is killed by his greedy generals ( Macedonian syndrome ) and he is buried at unknown place with out any honors – that is the first theory, and the second is that after his death (probably from a malaria) his body was returned to macedonia request of his living mother and he was buried without any big ceremonies in macedonia at uknown place again because of the gready generals who wanted to grab the fortune from the empire and they left nothing for his sons.
“Macedonia was the first large territorial state with an effective centralized political, military and administrative structure to come into being on the continent of Europe”. Green
The ancient Macedonians were a distinct nation, separate from their neighbors, the ancient Greeks, Illyrians, and Thracians. The ancient Greek and Roman historians tell us that the Macedonians spoke a separate Macedonian language and had their own customs, culture, and traditions. Archeological discoveries confirm that the material culture of the Macedonians also defer greatly from all their neighbors, and it is by far more superior in artistry (gold, paintings, weapons, mosaics) then anything found in contemporary Greece, Illyria, and Thrace. The texts of the ancient writers distinguish the Macedonians from the ancient Greeks, just like they distinguish the Romans and the Carthaginians. Yet, like the other non-Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Illyrians, and Thracians, the Macedonian high society also used the Greek language along with Macedonian. Greek was spoken by the nobility of many different ancient nations, just like French was spoken in the 19th century (at the German and Russian courts for example).
There is no doubt nevertheless that the Illyrains, Thracians, and Macedonians were non-Greeks, or in the words of the ancient Greeks “barbarians” which literally means people who spoke other non-Greek languages.
Here are a few abstracts of ancient greek and roman writers and modern english and american writers:
The Greeks never stopped fighting the Macedonians. While Alexander was conquering Persia with his 25-30,000 Macedonians, more then 50,000 Greeks actually fought on the side of the Persians against the Macedonians (Curtius). The Macedonians slaughtered 18,000 of them in the first battle and sent 2,000 to forced labor in Macedonia (Arrian). After Alexander died the Macedonian general Pithon massacred 23,000 more in a single battle when the Greeks revolted in Bactria (Diodorus). In Greece, when the news of Alexander the Great’s death became known, the Greeks united once again and threw out the Macedonians out of their country in the Lamian War (Diodorus). But the Macedonian army returned with massive reinforcements, defeated the Greeks both on land and sea, and re-occupied Greece, putting a bloody end of the Lamian War (Diodorus).
The Greeks nevertheless continued raising rebellion after rebellion against the Macedonians to free Greece from the foreign occupation. All successors of Alexander the Great fought them, and the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas fought three Greek uprising who unified against the “barbarous Macedonians” (Diodorus, Plutarch, Justin). Finally in 197 BC, the Macedonian king Philip V was defeated by the joint force of Romans and Greeks, and Macedonia lost Greece after almost 150 years of occupation. When the Romans proclaimed that Greece is free, such an enormous burst of enthusiasm exploded among the Greeks that the Roman general who made the announcement was almost killed by the mass of people that flocked to shake his hand and congratulate him for diving the Macedonians out (Livy, Polybius).
Alexander a Greek?? WTF?? How can somebody be a Greek and kill the Greeks? Phillip was known as Phillhelene which means “friend of Helenes[Greeks]” and logically a NON Greek…otherwise he would have been friend of himself?? BULLSHIT!
Macedonians were known as barbarians. Barbarian comes from the Greek word “βάρβαρος” = non Greek, someone who does NOT speak the Greek language. And here are Demosthenes’ words to Phillip:
Demosthenes
Greek Orator Speaking against King Phillip II of ancient Macedonia.
“… not only no Greek, nor related to the Greeks, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honors, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave” – Demosthenes, Third Philippic, 31. The famous words that this Greek orator from Athens used to describe the Macedonian king Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, prior to Philip’s conquest of Greece.
Alexander was nothing else but Macedonian!
Greece stole Aegean Macedonia in 1913 with the Bucharest treatment, as the treatment should be reopen in 2013…the Greek government started a propaganda claiming Macedonia was a Greek region since forever, just in order to keep the occupied land.
PEOPLE…DO NOT LET THE GREEKS FOOL YOU!
GREEK PROPAGANDA MUST STOP!!!!!
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Notice one thing how the greek who posted this titles it ”
The Final Three Wishes of Greek King of Macedon” Greek king of Macedon wtf? you mean Illyrian King of Macedon in other words Albanian King of Thracia you homos are all the way near africa! Mother born in Epirus modern day Albania, father Phillip II who also was illyrian decent. Alexander conquered Greece. If he was greek why the hell would he conquer his own people?
And how was he Albanian in any way? Well, first of all Alexander was son of Philip II and Olympia. Olympia, was the princess of Epirus, a province in Northern Greece, considered to be modern day Albania, and an ancient territory of Albanian tribes. This relation of Alexander having Albanian blood is considered somewhat feasible and acceptable by the history books, but we want to stretch out the enigma of Alexander.
Initially there is the question of where and to what people Alexander belonged to. It is known that Alexander the Great, was really Alexander of Macedon, and the current flag of Macedonia is the ancient sun flag of Alexander’s army. This seems reasonable, but what really were the “Macedon” people. As stated in the Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia, “the Slavs, occupied much of the area [Balkans] by the 6th century AD”, so it cannot be possible for the now largely Slavic Macedonia to be a descendant from Alexander the Great. Slavic tribes did not come into the region of Northern Greece until well after Alexander’s death, which leaves only two people left, the Albanians and the Greeks. It is important tot note that the history books have not labeled Alexander Greek, and therefore he can only be Albanian. Albanian tribes are the earliest known to occupy northern Greece, and that allows Alexander only one nationality. Alexander did not have Albanian blood, he was an Albanian. To Albanians this fact seems very clear, for we have named our currency lek, after Leka I Madh.
The Barbaric war style of the Illyrians was deeply rooted in Alexander’s spirit, which is good reason for his expertise as a general and a conqueror.
More proof of Alexander’s Albanian ancestry would have to be the close relations he had with the King of the Illyrians, practically a man of his own kin. There is an ancient legend that the Illyrian king gave Alexander a large, beastly, dog to commemorate his achievements. The beast was so ferocious, Alexander decided to make it hunt bears. The dog showed no interest in this endeavor and lay lazily without moving. This angered Alexander and he had the dog killed. When the king of the Illyrians heard of this he sent him another dog, this time with a message of “not wasting the dog’s time with small things”. This time Alexander had the dog fight a lion, which the dog quickly broke the back of, and then an Elephant, who the dog forced off a cliff. The extensive diplomacy between Alexander and the Illyrians only suggests that Alexander was an Albanian himself.
Also, there is the conquered territory of Alexander. When looking at a map of his advances, oddly enough Illirium and Northern Greece is not touched by his armies. Yet, the Illyrian and Northern Greek tribes did not have armies capable of facing the Great Alexander. But Alexander considered them as one, they were all Albanian. Alexander could not possibly conquer his own land. That is why this area remained untouched.
Accepting Alexander’s Albanian ancestry opens a vast world of possibilities. There is of course the long Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt that followed after Alexander’s death, started by one of Alexander’s generals and childhood friend. Accepting Alexander as an Albanian, would mean accepting a big part of Egypt’s history to be determined by an Albanian dynasty, that of Ptolemy.
Alexander’s genius and accomplishments opened a great chapter in the history of Albania. A chapter that has never been forgotten.
The Albanians call themselves “Shqip-tari”. This name is not Indo-European in origin and contains in it the Ural-Altaic suffix “ar” or “tar”. Much like: “Khaz-AR”, “Av-AR”, “Magy-AR”, “Bulg-AR”, “Hung-AR”, “Ta-TAR” – “Ship-TAR”. Taken together with the Shqiptar-Albanian toponyms on the territory of the former Caucasian Albania, this theory on the etymology of “Shqipatr” becomes more plausable. LOOOL
“shqipe” alexander albanian? LOOOL
wtf are you talking about? Have you heard about wars between Macedonians and ilyrians? wars between Macedonians and tracians?
He’s mother was a ilyrian, yes. BUT HIS FATHER PHILIP WAS 100% MACEDONIAN, and he killed ilyrians and greeks for FUN.
Go read history before you talk shit and nonesense about my nation.
And what albanians do you think are ilyrians? kosovars? LOL
A little % of today modern albanians got ilyrian origin.
go check DNA results about balcan nation, and you will see that albania is more slavic than serbia LOL and Macedonia got little % slavic genes.
Before you insult my MACEDONIAN NATION and call us “slavs” you should see DNA reports from a qualified institutes that proofs that we today Modern Macedonians are the real descedants of the ancient.
and ofcourse read some history
The latest book “THE DESCENDANTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF MACEDON – The arguments and evidence that today’s Macedonians are descendants of the ancient Macedonians”, puts an end to the “Slav” claim.
if you are educaded enough go read the book, and than come with
The real descedants of ilyrians are Bosnians and Croatians.
you modern albanians are just lost thiefs of ancient history.
Here is the proof.
In his book, “The Illyrians”, John Wilkes states on pg: 219
The original URAL-ALTAIC speaking Caucasian Shqiptar-Albanians were part of the AVAR KHANATE which had one of its early capitals in Caucasian Albania (hence Albanian topnyms there, the possible Ural-Altaic etymology of the suffix in the word “Shqip-tar” and the similarities in national costume with Caucasian peoples – the non-Indo-European Georgians, in particular).
The original Shqiptar-Albanian group of AVARS settled in Northern Romania and subjugated the Latin speaking peoples of that area when the Avars entered Europe and conquered most of its Eastern part. Over time they assimilated most of the Latin language of the people they conquered, but imposed their name on their new subjects – just like the Bulg-AR tribe did in Thrace. This explains why modern Albanian has simmilarities to the Romance languages of Romania. This Ship-tar Av-ar tribe, I believe, moved south as far as Epirus from where the Avars are recorded as staging their failed attack on Constantinople.
So, by the time the Avar Khanate was defeated by the armies of Serbs and Croats and Charles the Great in the 7th century, the Avars had reached south as far as EPIRUS from where they based this failed attack on Constantinople!!! In Epirus, this Shqiptar-Avar tribe assimilated the Illyrians and Hellens of Epirus, as they had done to the Latin speakers of Northern Romania more than a century earlier.
While the Avars were driven out of Europe by Charles the Great and killed off by Serbs and Croats in the Balkans in the 7th century, the Serbs NEVER REACHED the south of the Shkumbi until the LATE DARK AGES. The Shqiptar-Avars in Epirus and south of the Shkumbi were left unharmed.
Shqiptars began to spread north of the Shkumbi River quickly through migrations and assimilation into the lands that Serbs had conquered north of the Shkumbi soon after their arrival in the Balkans and their own assimilation of Illyrians. In the early Dark Age this process of assimilation was sped up as the Shqiptars took advantage of the early Serb kingdom’s difficult war against the Bulgars. At this time, they took advantage of the distracted Serb state to move northward past the Shkumbi by assimilating the Serbianized Illyrians.
This process was continued until Stefan Dusan the Mighty, in whose time Latin priests at Bar begin to see, for the first time – expulsions of the Catholic Albanians, likely in retribution for their assimilation of Serbs north of the Shkumbi. Assimilation of Serbs and Albanian migrations further north of the Shkumbi continued after the death of Dusan and sped up drastically and by the time of the defeat of prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic on Kosovo Field in 1389, the Albanians had expanded by assimilating the Serb populace in most of what is now Northern Albania. Throughout the Ottoman Era Albanians expanded well into Kosovo, assimilating and driving out Serbs, mostly in the 17th century – when Arsenius Carnojevic led 36 000 ethnically cleansed Serbian families out of Kosovo. This process was a continuation of the ethnic cleansing Albanians had commited against Serbs since the EARLY DARK AGE expansions north of the Shkumbi.
stop wishing to be Macedonian
are you greece or macedonian you write your greece history dont mixs greece toughether macedonia is macedonia alexander the great is king fore macedonia not greece .greece is race 1913 greece open war to macedonia by helping of usa uk and australia take half lands of macedonia the greece gavarment make rule fore the macedonian peopple from the ocupat land to stop macedonian peopple to tolk macedonian change the name to oll the oll macedonian peopple giving oll greece names spy to the macedonian peopple who tolk own nativ macedonian language they arest and bash to dead who are you and you say the alexander the great is greece greece is worst than hitler grrece is race and terorist .1948 the peopple and ocupate by the greece .macedonian peopple oppen revolution to greece greece kill 2 milion macedonians they barryed them with buldiser stole the macedonia and own history and new you repressent macedonian history fore greece history shame of you self you are the bigs war criminal country macedonian ollways gonna be macedonia never cant be a greece 1 day macedonia gonna take back
Here are 27 books and which show that Alexander the Great is Albanian
http://alexanderthegreat.wordpress.com/
Fields of wheat, hills of blood by Dr Anastasia Karakasidou
Famous greek antro/ethnologist noted: Greeks has nothing to do with Ancient Macedonians, only Albanians can be descendant of Ancient Macedonians and Alexander the Great.
http://books.google.com/books?id=n2Sk7iefoRwC&pg=PA83&dq=Fields+of+wheat,+hills+of+blood+by+Dr+Anastasia+Karakasidou&%20sig=gtysNu46mUYF4eAwe8SINYbRIhM#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Caucasian Albanians must not to be confused with the Illyrian Albanians of modern-day Albania in the Balkans.
AVAR ETYMOLOGY
Avar
Any member of a people of undetermined origin who built an empire in eastern Europe between the Adriatic and Baltic seas and the Elbe and Dnieper rivers in the 6th–9th centuries.
Mounted nomads, possibly from Central Asia, they made the Hungarian plain the centre of their empire, from which they intervened in Germanic tribal wars, helped the Lombards overthrow allies of Byzantium, and nearly succeeded in occupying Constantinople in 626. They also fought the Merovingians and helped push the Serbs and Croats southward towards Illyrian territories. Avar decline began in the late 7th century and culminated in the destruction of their capital by Charlemagne in 796. In the early 9th century the Avars were fully incorporated in the Carolingian empire.
Caucasian Albanians must not to be confused with the Illyrian Albanians of modern-day Albania in the Balkans. The Caucasian Albanian name could be the remnant of the Macedonian expansion towards Asia. Alexander the Great had recruited Illyrian soldiers for his campaign against Persia and later India.
Alexander the Great:
http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/serb.html
Albania
By MaryLee Knowlton Juvenile Nonfiction – 2005
Page 19
The Human History of Albania begins in the Paleolithic period, roughly 100.000 to 10.000 B.C.
Tools retrieved from along the Ionian Sea show that an ancient civilization existed at the foot of Mount Dajti near Tirana.
More recently, around 5000 B.C, a settlement in the southern coastal area left the remains of the Huts, earthenware, and tools.
The civilization known as the Cakran Settlement also left vases decorated with painted motifs of human beings.
These people were the ancient Illyrians, a loosely formed group of Mediterranean
tribes who were ancestors to the peoples of classical Rome and Greece….
http://books.google.com/books?id=alNsb0fpX9IC&pg=PA19&dq=ancient+illyrians+were+ancestors+to+the+peoples+of+classical+Rome+and+Greece&lr#v=onepage&q=ancient%20illyrians%20were%20ancestors%20to%20the%20peoples%20of%20classical%20Rome%20and%20Greece&f=false
A Early History
Present-day Albanians probably descended from Illyrian people who lived in the southern Balkans long before Greeks, Romans, and Slavs migrated to the region.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561564_9/Albania.html#p69
The Albanian language
is the oldest Indo-European idiom
according to WEBSTER’S NEW TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY, Unabridged Second Edition, De Luxe Color, William Collins and World Publishing Co., Inc., 1975,
http://www.geocities.com/ga57/albania/tree.html
WHO WERE THE ILLYRIANS
SPECTACULAR DISPLAY OF POKORNY’S INDO EUROPEAN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/
http://www.thelosttruth.altervista.org/SitoEnglish/pelasgian_etruscan_english.html
the Albanians (Descendants of the Illyrians) are the modern descendants of the Pelasgians, one of most ancient civilizations that lived Europe.
http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/oldest.html
Ask-A-Linguist FAQ Oldest Language
The linguistic and archaeological evidence suggests that Albanians were a distinct people for even longer than that. So Albanian has probably existed for several millennia, but has only been written down for 500 years. With a twist of fate, Albanian might be considered very “old” and Greek pretty “new”
Archaeology and language, Volume 1; Volume 3
Page 232 and Page 233
By R. Blench, Matthew Spriggs – Social Science – 1999 – 301 pages
Albanian of the Caucasus: not the same as Albanian of the Balkans.
Illyrian may be ancestral to Albanian
http://books.google.com/books?id=4PLgi681mSoC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=albanian+illyrian+language&source=bl&ots=5THv5Upabx&sig=cffiD3vhZbW7V3U7ikHDJbCaPi4&hl=en&ei=RFqYSoGvK8Kd8Qa0ham8BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=albanian%20illyrian%20language&f=false
Bibliotheca classica: or, A dictionary of all the principal names and terms …
By John Lemprière
PAGE 18
ALBANOPOUS, the chief city of the Albani,.» small Illyrian tribe, from which have sprung the modern Albanians, who have extended themselves in such a manner as to cover the whole of Epirus . Cram. Or.—Ptol
ALBION, a name of Britain . The derivation of this name has been supposed from every language almost, in which analogous sounds were to be found.
ALBA, I. a city of the Marsi, in Italy , which received the distinctive name of Fucentia, or Fucensis, from its vicinity to the Fusine lake, nearthe northern shore of which itstood.
After it became a Roman colony it was chiefly selected as a residence for the captives of rank or consequence, on account of its strong and secluded situation
ALBIS, the Elbe, a river that divided ancient Germany in the middle, flowing between the Weser and the Oder, the Visurgis and Viadrus of antiquity.
http://books.google.com/books?id=K4wJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA18&dq=german+tribes+are+called+alban&lr=&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The history of Scotland … to the middle of the ninth century
By Alexander Low
Page 46
He Bays, that this region, which is now corruptly known by the name of Scotia, was anciently called Albany .
Quod illa regio, yure nunc corrupte vocatur Scotia, antiquitus appellabatur Albania .
http://books.google.com/books?id=mnsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA46&dq=who+is+called+albany&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Winston’s cumulative loose-leaf encyclopedia: a comprehensive …, Volume 1
Edited by Charles Morris, Thomas Edward Finegan 1921
Ancient Italy, the most celebrated of ‘which was Alba. <inga. a city of Lat-ium ;
according to tradition, built by As-canius, the son of ^Eneas, 300 years before the foundation of Rome ; at one time the most powerful city of Latiuni .
It ultimately fell under the dominion of Rome , when the town was destroyed, it ¡я
said. In later times its site became covered with villas of wealthy Romans.
Alba (anciently Alba 1'ompeia), a *' town of Northern Italy , about 30 miles 8. E. of Turin , is the see of a bishop, has a cathedral, bishop's palace, church with fresco paintings by Perugino. etc.
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PT121&dq=The%20Albanians%20are%20apparently%20the%20most%20ancient%20race%20in%20Balkan%20Peninsula&lr=&client=firefox-a&id=B0QOAAAAYAAJ&output=text
http://babaev.tripod.com/tree/balkan1.gif
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://babaev.tripod.com/tree/balkan1.gif&imgrefurl=http://babaev.tripod.com/tree/illyrian.html&h=293&w=234&sz=7&tbnid=HoBuV7B-B8PGaM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=92&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dillyria%2B%2B%2Bmap&hl=en&usg=__A6g6nmCA-dv_R3ftKVr5Qh1sHLE=&ei=ZwuCSr7CEeD7tgfp_NTJCg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
The only Illyrians who remained in South West Balkans were Albanians or Arbers, still living there and speaking a language descended from Illyrian
Map from “Former Yugoslavia: A Map Folio”, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 1992.
Map Eastern Europe 1878 (468K)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/eastern_europe1878.jpg
The Ancient Illyria (V-IV Century b.C.)
http://foreignaffairs.tripod.com/armillotta/mappa04.html
Albania Past and Present
By Constantine Anastasi Chekrezi, Charles Downer Hazen
Page 58
But, however that may be, it is generally recognized to-day that the Albanians are the most ancient race in southeastern Europe. All indications point to the fact that they are the descendants of the earliest Aryan immigrants who were represented in historical times by the kindred Illyrians, Macedonians, and Epirots.
According to the opinion of Dr. Hahn, the noted German ethnologist and linguist, who has made the most extensive research on the subject of the origin of the Albanians, the Macedonians and rote formed the core of the pre-Hellenic, Tyrr] Pelasgian population, which inhabited the soul portion of the Peninsula and extended its limi Thrace and Italy. The Illyrians were also P gians, but in a wider sense. Moreover, Hahn thinks that of these cognate races, which ar< scribed by the ancient Greek writers as "barbar and "non-Hellenic, ".the Illyrians were the pro tors of the Ghegs, or northern Albanians, anc Epirots the progenitors of the Tosks, or souther: banians.
1 This opinion of Dr. Hahn is borne 01 the statement of Strabo 2 that the Via Egnat:-¿Egitana, which he describes as forming the I dary between the Illyrians and the Epirots,] tically corresponds with the course of the Shkumbi, which now separates the Ghegs fron Tosks.
The same geographer states that the rots were also called Pelasgians.3 The Pelas Zeus, whose memory survives even to-day ii appellation of God as "Zot" by the modern Al ans, was worshiped at Dodona, where the mos mous oracle of ancient times was situated. neighborhood of the sanctuary was called Pelas On a cursory examination of the terms "G" and "Tosk," it would appear that the name "T is possibly identical with "Truscus, Etrusc while the form "Tyrrhenus" perhaps survives in Tirana, the principal city of Central Albania, for which no other current explanation exists.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xHxG6U_-LLwC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=is+albanian+oldest+language+books&source=bl&ots=fv0uhpEa7v&sig=NJ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The Encyclopaedia britannica
edited by Hugh Chisholm Encyclopedias and dictionaries – 1910
page 483
The Albanians are apparently the most ancient race in southeastern Europe. History and legend afford no record of their arrival in the Balkan Peninsula. They are probably the descendants of the earliest Aryan, immigrants, who were represented in historical times by the kindred Illyrians, Macedonians and Epirots; the Macedonians and Epirots are believed by Hahn to have formed the core of the pre-HeQenic Tyrrheno-Pelasgian population which inhabited the southern portion of the peninsula and extended its limits to Thrace and Italy. The Illyrians were also " Pelasgian," but in a wider sense. Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ckegt, or northern, and the Tusks, or southern, Albanians. The Via Egnatia, which Strabo (vii. fragment 3) describes as forming the boundary between the Illyrians and Epirots, practically corresponds with the course of the Shkumb, which now separates the Ghegs and the Tosks. The same geographer (v. 1.211) states that the Epirots were also called Pelasgians; the Pelasgian Zeus was worshipped at Dodona (Homer,//. xvi. 234), and the neighbourhood of the sanctuary was called Pclasgia (Herodotus ii. 56). The meaning of the term " Pelasgian " is, however, too obscure to furnish a basis for ethnographical speculation; in the time of Herodotus it may have already come to denote a period rather than a race. The name Task is possibly identical with Tuscut, Etruseus, while the form Tyrrhene, perhaps survives in Tirana
http://books.google.com/books?id=0PgtAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA483&dq=Is++Albanian+Pelasgians&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
By William Smith
Page 37
The ancient Illyrians are unquestionably the ancestors of the people generally known in Europe by the name Albanians, but who are called by the Turks " Arnants," and by themselves " Skrpetares," which means in their language " mountaineers," or " dwellers on rocks," and inhabit the greater part of ancient Illyricnm and Epirns. They have a peculiar language, and constitute a particular race, which is very distinct from the Slavonian inhabitants who border on them towards the N. The ancients, as has been observed, distinguished the Illyrians from the Epirots, and have given no intimations that they were in any way connected. But the Albanians, who inhabit both Illyricum and Epirns, are one people, whose language is only varied by slight modifications of dialect The Illyrians appear to have been pressed southwards by Slavonian hordes, who settled ill Dalmatia. Driven out from their old territories, they extended themselves towards the S., where they now inhabit xiany districts which never belonged to them in former times, and have swallowed up the Epirots, and extinguished their language.
http://books.google.com/books?id=GmoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37&dq=is+albanian+illyrian&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false
U.S. Department of state
Scholars believe the Albanian people are descended from a non-Slavic, non-Turkic group of tribes known as Illyrians, who arrived in the Balkans around 2000 BC
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3235.htm
THE HISTORY OF AUSTRIA
Illyrians, people of Indo-European stock who are considered ancestors of modern Albanians, settled on the northern and eastern coasts of the Adriatic Sea . Included among them were the Dalmatians and the Pannonians. Eventually, the ancient region of Illyria would include the western part of the Balkan Peninsula from the Danube River to Epirus
http://www.geocities.com/historyofaustria/history.html
albanians want to be macedonians LOL
Adele, lets say that albanians are descedants to the ilyrians.
Do your know what Philip – The Macedonian and his son Alexander The Macedonian did to ilyrians?
They wiped them out like ants. 3000 killed ilirians in a single battle with the Macedonians. They ( ilyrians ) killed Macedonian king Perdica III in battle who was trying to occupie ilyrian territory north of macedonia.
General Parmenion had defeated the combined Illyrian and Paeonian armies
Philip ordered Alexander to begin mustering an army for a campaign in Greece. Concerned by the possibility of other Greek states intervening, Alexander made it look as if he was preparing to attack Illyria instead. During this turmoil, the Illyrians took the opportunity to invade Macedonia, but Alexander repelled the invaders
News then reached Alexander that Cleitus, King of Illyria, and King Glaukias of the Taulanti were in open revolt against Macedonian authority. Marching west into Illyria, Alexander defeated each in turn, forcing Cleitus and Glaukias to flee with their armies, leaving Alexander’s northern frontier secure.
So tell me your freakin “falsificating history” logic how can macedonians be ilyrians?
Have you ever read the Holy Bible? Macedonians are mentioned 38 times, 2000 years ago St. Paul came into MACEDONIA
In The Acts, 15 of the Bible, is the story of the vision which appeared to Paul in the night…saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us. Translated to mean a plea for help, this “Macedonian cry”.
MACEDONIA IS THE FIRST CHRISTIAN COUNTRY IN EUROPE, the biggest proof of that are the OLDEST MONASTERIES AND CHURCHES IN MACEDONIA
and ofcourse the religion of the REAL MACEDONIANS
ORTODOX CHRISTIAN.
On the oposite side are the “albanians” that live in Macedonia,Kosovo and they are muslims, and they got no connection in sense of culture,customs and religion with the Macedonians
i understand that you wish to be Macedonian
We are Proud Nation with alot of enemies just like in ancient times…
According to National Geographic DNA Project we Macedonians have m173 haplogroup, that put us in the first inhabitants of European Soil around 35-000 years B.C
Another Proof of the origin
The research findings of the Swiss institute IGENEA has FRUSTRATED the
“Black Athenians”. The institute which deals with genetic research of the
European peoples and one of the leading institutions in the area of DNA
analysis, has confirmed that the contemporary Macedonians are direct
descendants of the ancient Macedonians.
To a question”: “What are the roots of the Slavomacedonians”, by a female
from “Black Athena”, its official forum answers: “Before else, they are
Macedonians and NOT Slavomacedonians, as you call them for political
reasons. The largest portion of the Macedonians are direct descendants of
the ancient Macedonians and much smaller part have slav origins. The
institute backs up its answers with its research evidence.
For the “Black Athenian” frustration to be even greater (if that is possible
), IGENEA “uncovers” that only 32% of them have “hellenic”, macedonian
and arabic origins. 31% have celtic origins, 12% germanic and slavic roots
and 11% illyrian roots.
In respect of the “Albanians”, double the percentage (40%) of “Bosnians”
have illyrian origins, according to the DNA research by IGENEA.
ALL ABOUT THE TRUTH OF MACEDONIANS
http://www.macedoniantruth.org/
Okayy it was good not true tho
i mean come on Alexander is 150% Macedonian
Greeks really needa forget it.
Macedonia wasw really big
greek stole Macedonia
soo kbyee
everywhere is the world at school they teach you that he is Macedonian but not in Greek well duhh !
ALEXANDER IS MACEDONIA NOT GREEK
Oh and they made us change our flag, and now the name cuz they signed to give a city back to macedonia in the b.c and now that time is comeing up
so if we change our name they cant give it backk
there not going to change itt
Bosnia
Regarding the roots of Bosnians, Dodan notes that Bosnia is historically a Croatian land, that Bosnia belonged to Croatia in the early mediaeval times, that the majority of Bosnian population used to be and are still Croats, and that mediaeval Bosnian kings were ethnic Croats. Even their surnames end in “-an”. Dodan quotes Draganovic’s and Mandic’s research according to which 95 % of Muslims and 30% of Serbs are actually Croats. He also elucidates the Iranian roots of the Croatian people (Dodan 1994).
Serbs
Now, we turn to the connection with the Serbs. Several historians maintain that the Serbian ruling caste shared the same origin as the Croats. Prof. Malcolm recently wrote a book “Bosnia” (Malcolm 1996), in which he clearly elucidates the Iranic origin of both Serbs and Croats. For instance, Prof. Salzman notes while reviewing Malcolm’s first chapter:
“The Croats and Serbs (who were either Slavic tribes with Iranian ruling castes or Iranian tribes with Slavic subjects) arrived in the Balkans in the 620s, a land already occupied by the Slavs.” (Salzman 1999)
The view of Prof. Malcolm is thus that the Croats and Serbs were originally Iranic speakers who adopted a Slavic language (Malcolm 1996).
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/common_origin_croats_serbs_jats.php
19. Toynbee 1934: “A Study of History,” by A. Toynbee, Vol. 2., Oxford University Press, London, 1939, 1st pubd in 1934; cited by Sunny Singh (pers. comm.)
20. Vernadsky 1952: “Der sarmatische Hintergrund der germanischen Voelkerwanderung,” (Sarmatian background of the Germanic Migrations), G. Vernadsky, Saeculum, II (1952), 340-347.
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/common_origin_croats_serbs_jats.php
Albania and the Albanians
by M. Edith Durham, Harry Hodgkinson, Bejtullah D. Destani – History 261 pages
Page 83
The Albanians are among the very oldest inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula. Classical authors give the names of very many tribes which dwelt in those lands when history dawns.
The Greeks classed them as “barbarians” and they spoke a non-Greek tongue.
They were united in groups under native kings, and of these groups some of the most important were the Macedonians, the Illyrians, and the Epirotes.
According to Strabo, all three spoke the same language. And it is from the Illyrians and the Epirotes that the Albanians of to-day descend modern Albania, in all probability, derives from the language of Alexander the great and king Pyrrus.
Illyria and Epirus in old days, extended from Trieste along the whole of the Adriatic coast, comprising at one time all Bosnia and the Herzegovina, a large part of modern Serbia and all Montenegro, as well as modern Albania.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8KCZhBWVkgMC&pg=PA83&dq=The+Greeks+classed+them+as+%22+barbarians,%22+and+they+spoke+a+non-Greek+tongue&lr=#v=onepage&q=The%20Greeks%20classed%20them%20as%20%22%20barbarians%2C%22%20and%20they%20spoke%20a%20non-Greek%20tongue&f=false
World history
By Hutton Webster
Page 530
No other part of Europe of equal extent contains so many different peoples as the Balkan Peninsula.
The original inhabitants are represented to-day by the Albanians
http://books.google.com/books?id=cboXAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA530&dq=the+albanians+are+the+oldest+inhabitants+of+the+balkan&lr=#v=onepage&q=the%20albanians%20are%20the%20oldest%20inhabitants%20of%20the%20balkan&f=false
The Adriatic review
By Fan Stylian Noli
Page 103 History – 1918
The Albanians, the most ancient race of Europe, have been there from time immemorial long before the Greeks and the Slavs had come into the Balkan Peninsula.
They are the direct descendants of the old Illyrians, Macedonians and Epirotes, and their language is the only living specimen of the tongues spoken by the aboriginal Aryan settlers of Southeastern Europe.
They are a distinct race with distinct national characteristics, customs and traditions.
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Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tirana
The Albanian Language
The Albanian Language A more concrete evidence of the Illyrian-Pelasgian origin of the Albanians is supplied by the study of the Albanian language.
Notwithstanding certain points of resemblance in structure and phonetics, the Albanian language is entirely distinct from the tongues spoken by the neighboring natonalities.
This language is particularly interesting as the only surviving representative of the so-called Thraco-Illyrian group of languages, which formed the primitive speech of the inha
A more concrete evidence of the Illyrian-Pelasgian origin of the Albanians is supplied by the study of the Albanian language. Notwithstanding certain points of resemblance in structure and phonetics, the Albanian language is entirely distinct from the tongues spoken by the neighboring natonalities.
This language is particularly interesting as the only surviving representative of the so-called Thraco-Illyrian group of languages, which formed the primitive speech of the inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula.
http://www.mzv.cz/tirana/en/about_albania/the_albanian_language.html
On the expedition of Alexander the Great, 333-323 BC
Olympia, mother of Alexander was Epirote so language of Alexander was Albanian language, his mother language. In the book Enigma, the author insists on what the word means epirot Albanian and not Hellenic. “Epirotica lingua” always meant “Albanian language” and never “Ellhnikh glvssa.
King Philip of Macedonia, father of Alexander, was born in Argos, but in fact located in Argosin that Orestie, on the borders of Epirus and Illyria, (Alexander the Great, p. 14. G. Rado, 1931). Alexander the Great, Albanian origin and Hellenic in education.
In Greek language lessons followed by Aristoti, an Albanian from the town Stagire. Through the mother tongue, Albanian or Epirote, Alexander gave courage and commanded his generals during his military expedition. With this language he was talking to friends and soldiers in his Extraordinary army, language that was understood by all. Most of the population was illiterate and Modern Greek was unknown, because it began to form about ten centuries later.
Enigma
Robert d’ Angely
Whereas in 1990, in a cocktail in Washington it was my honor to have a long conversation with the Pakistani’s ambassador in Washington and I asked him: “Tell me does it look like that the family Buta seems to be with European face that it is whiter from other Pakistanis”.
He told me that they are Greeks and remained there after Alexander, they even have the monument of Alexander the Great in their town and that they are called Pashtun-Pashto-Invader(Pushtues-Albanian).
http://www.xhakli.com/2004/11/10/sensational-discovery-of-iliro-albanians.php
This article is published in the magazine “The Bridge” page25.
Rej Jackly-Columbia University