Illyria , Illirians, Albanians have 5000 years history in Kosovo in Albania. Kosovo is not Serbian land. Serbians emigrated from Russia in 6th century.
The area of Kosovo in the Neolithic lay within the areal of the Vinca-Turdas culture Western Balkanic black and grey pottery
The Bronze Age begins in ca. the 20th century BC, and the Iron Age begins in ca. the 13th century BC. Bronze and Iron Age tombs have been found only in Metohija, and not in Kosovo.
The area comes to lie within the eastern parts of the kingdom of Illyria in the 4th century BC, bordering on Thrace. At the time, it is inhabited by the Thraco-Illyrian tribes of the Dardani and the Thracian tribe of the Triballi.Illyria was conquered by Rome in the 160s BC, and made the Roman province of Illyricum in 59 BC.
The Kosovo region became part of Moesia Superior in AD 87 alternatively was divided between Dalmatia and Moesia, a view which is supported by archaeological evidence. Upper Moesia was reorganized further by Diocletian (after 284) into smaller provinces, being further divided into Dardania, Moesia Prima, Dacia Ripensis and Dacia Mediterranea.
The Dardania’s capital was Naissus. Roman province of Dardania included eastern parts of modern Kosovo, while its western part belong to newly formed Roman province Prevalitana with capital in Doclea.
Justinian I, who assumed the throne of the Byzantine Empire in 527, oversaw a period of Byzantine expansion into former Roman territories, and re-absorbed the area of Kosovo into the empire. He is often referred to by historians as the last “Roman” emperor because Latin was his native tongue and because he was the last emperor to make a serious attempt to reunite the Latin-speaking West with the East.The Slavic migrations reached the Balkans in the 6th to 7th century. The area was absorbed into the Byzantine empire in the 850s.
Kosovo is the land of Illiria, Albanian Land.
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Albanians are indeed the oldest people in Europe. this is fakt
Archaeologists seem to agree that the culture of the early Neolithic is relatively homogeneous, compared both to the late Mesolithic and the later Neolithic. The diffusion across Europe, from the Aegean probably Illiria to Britain, took about 2,500 years (6500 BC - 4000 BC). The Baltic region was penetrated a bit later, around 3500 BC, and there was also a delay in settling the Pannonian plain. In general, colonization shows a "saltatory" pattern, as the Neolithic advanced from one patch of fertile alluvial soil to another, bypassing mountainous areas. Analysis of radiocarbon dates show clearly that Mesolithic and Neolithic populations lived side by side for as much as a millennium in many parts of Europe, especially in the Iberian peninsula and along the Atlantic coast.
Albanians are Illirians
Over the last decade, an increasing number of scientists have suggested that human ancestors moved into Europe from 1 million to 2 million years ago, much earlier than previous estimates. But a reappraisal of the archaeological evidence on which they rely, described in the September ANTIQUITY, concludes that humans made Europe their home no more than about 500,000 years ago.
Members of the human evolutionary family, called hominids, left Africa and reached Asia perhaps 2 million years ago, assert Wil Roebroeks and Thijs van Kolfschoten, both of Leiden University in the Netherlands. Much later, in their view, a founding wave of hominids swiftly occupied much of Europe. Why hominids avoided Europe before that time remains unclear, the scientists note
Illirians are probably the first setelers
albanians are native Illirians, and serbians are immigrants from russia they dont below to ballkan they are not native people like albanians
Albanians are ancient Illyrians.
Albanians are ancient Illirians and we all know that, the Serbs immigrated from the Russian mountains to the Balkan. But then again the Serbs are full of myths and propaganda and brainwashed peopel, and they belive on fairytales.
That is the history
we are in history of balkan like a Illirians people...Serbians you have a reason to worry
Of course I care and I"m proud to be a albanian not a freeking serbian slave where history will remember them as killers of 21 century remember bosnia 300.000 killed innocent people,croation 20.000 + and albanians 15.000+ and hundred of thousand in ethnick cleanings so what is here to be proud of being slav probebly yes as a cold blod killer...
albania are the oldest people in europe, with a unique language that no other language is close to, it has its own branch. Albanians also got the oldest history in europe, the italians know it for sure. Serbs can go back to the carpethian mountains back to siberia sleep with polar bears, F******** dumb Fkss
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