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Die Illyrischen Söldner sind damit gemeint sonst niemand.

Ja, stimmt auch, Alexander hatte viele Illyrer in seiner Armee.

 

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I assure you they are Bismarcks — veritable Bismarcks. Some day they will demand, and Europe will have to give them what they ask !
Ich versichere ihnen das sind Bismarcks? echte Bismarcks? Eines Tages werden sie das fordern was ihnen zusteht, und Europa wird ihnen das geben, was sie verlangen.

Christian Ottoman speaking to Edith Durham.

 

[Ilir O]

The true history of mankind will be written only when Albanians participate in it's writing.
-Maximilian Lambertz

 

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The Albanians are a warlike, lawless people, but neverless they have their own, and a very striet code of honor and they are faithfull even unto death.

H. Charles Woods

 

[Ilir O]

Warst wohl schneller

 

[tsakonas]

Ja, stimmt auch, Alexander hatte viele Illyrer in seiner Armee.

7,000 Illyrische Söldner um genau zu sein.

 

[Ilir O]

The arnaouts or Albanese, struck me forcibly by their resemblance to the Highlanders of Scotland, their very mountains, the kilt thought white, the spare active form, their dialect Celtic in sound, and their hardy habits, all carried me back….”so would their fierce interfamily blood feuds, and their goatskin and pigskin bagpipes softened with warm water and oil, whose gay, flutelike melody was accompanied by a low drone quite like that of the Scotish highland bagpipe music
-Byron 1.2.58

 

[RedOx]

Delaisi, französischer Journalist,1913:

'I don't know of any other country which is so closed to civilisation; even the Sahara is better known to us, even Tibet I cannot say is more mysterious.'

Aus: Les aspirations autonomistes en Europe, Paris: Alcan 1913, p.23

 

[Ilir O]

"If the Emperors of Byzantium would have been Skanderbegs, the Roman Empire would have survived."
-Voltaire, 1762, Works, Vol 3

 

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The Arnauts, or Albanese, struck me forcibly by their resemblance to the Highlanders of Scotland, in dress, figure and manner of living. The kilt, though white; the spare, active form; their dialect, Celtic in sound, and their habits, all carried me back to Motven. No nation are so detested and dreaded by their neigbours as the Albanese; the Greeks hardly regard them as Chrystians, or the Turkd as moslems; and in fact they are a mixture of both, and sometimes neither. Their habits are predatory; all are armed; and the red-shawled Arnauts, the Montenegrins, Chimariots and Gedges are treacherous; the others differ somewhat in garb, and essentially in character.

Lord Byron.