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Albanian nationalism is a general grouping of
nationalist ideas and concepts among ethnic Albanians that were first formed in the beginning of 19th century in what was called the
Albanian National Awakening. The term is also associated with similar concepts, such as
Albanianism[1][2][3][4][5] and
Pan-Albanianism,
[6][7][
page needed] and ideas what would lead to the formation of a
Greater Albania.
Parts of these ideologies were adopted during the
People's Republic of Albania (1945–1991), which was more focused on the Illyrian-Albanian continuity issue
[8] and appropriating
Ancient Greek history as Albanian.
[8] During the Hoxha era, scholars, and particularly archeologists, were impelled to establish a connection between the ancient Illyrians and Albanians.
[8] However the core values of Albanian National Awakening remain rooted even today, while the ideology developed during Hoxha's regime is still partly present (though there seems to be some willingness for change
[9]) in
Albania and also
Kosovo.
[8][10]
Albanian nationalism attaches great importance to the possibility of
Illyrian contribution to
Albanian ethnogenesis. The 19th century idea that Albanians are descendants of
Pelasgians[11][12] and that the
Etruscans,
[13] Illyrians,
ancient Macedonians, and
Epirotes had a Pelasgian origin are still common in certain Albanian circles. These ideas comprise a
national myth that establishes precedence over neighboring peoples (Slavs and Greeks) and allow movements for independence and self-determination, as well as
irredentist claims against neighboring countries.
Albanian nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Among controversial claims
Aristotle,
[23] Pyrrhus of Epirus,
[24] Alexander the Great,
[25] and
Phillip II of Macedon (along with all the ancient
Macedonians) were Pelasgian-Illyrian-Albanian
[26] and that ancient Greek culture (and thus the result of the
Hellenistic civilisation) had been spread by Albanians.
[27] Macedonians are considered forefathers (among several others) of the Albanians. Ancient Greek gods are seen as "Albanian" as well.
[8]
Through the Pelasgian claim, most if not all European cultures are claimed to be derivatory, even those of the
Romans and
Celts.
[28]
Robert D'Angély is one of the authors that tries to re-actualize 19th century claims that Albanians descend from the most ancient peoples, the Pelasgians, and that the European "
white race" descends from these people. According to Angély, Greek people or Greek nation does not exist (he writes that Greeks mixed with Semites) and that the ancient Greeks were
Pelasgian Albanians.
[29]
Edwin Everett Jacques, an American 19th century missionary
[30] in Albania in his book
"The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present" supported and recreated these notions by considering all the
Ancient Greeks Albanians.
[31]
Ismail Kadare, an Albanian novelist, winner of the
Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and of the
Prince of Asturias Award in 2009 claims that Albanians are more Greek than the Greeks themselves,
[32] and attempts to construct a Greek-Illyrian continuity.
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Post-communist era developments
[edit] Modern Education
Albanian
schoolbooks assert that the
Illyrians are the heirs of the
Pelasgians.
[42] Characteristically, in Albanian schools, pupils are taught that
Alexander the Great and
Aristotle were Albanians by ethnicity
