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Are Albanians Pelasgian
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PELASGIAN: • • 'A member of a people living in the region of the Aegean Sea before the coming of the Greeks.' • • http://dictionary.reference.com/brows... • • ILLYRIAN: • • 'An extinct Indo-European language spoken in Illyria and known only from scattered personal and geographical names preserved in Greek and Roman sources.' • • http://dictionary.reference.com/brows... • • ALBANIAN: • • 'A native or inhabitant of Albania. • The Indo-European language of the Albanians.' • • http://dictionary.reference.com/brows... • • *** • NEOLITHIC BALKAN CULTURES: • • 'the relations between the Greek Early Neolithic and that of the Adriatic coast, on the other hand, and of Bulgaria on the other, are in fact very problematic.' • • (Catherine Perles, Gerald Monthel, The Early Neolithic in Greece, p1) • • 'Thus early farmers would have faced a dense forest with good potential for natural rejuvenation mainly in the north and west of Greece (). It is probably no coincidence that here Early Neolithic sites are extremely rare. In lowland Thessaly, where the densest settlement is observed, the forest would have been naturally more open and less prone to rapid spontaneous rejuvenation.' • • (Catherine Perles, Gerald Monthel, The Early Neolithic in Greece, p15) • • 'the south-eastern Balkanic Neolithic indeed shares many common features with the Greek one, and this has been taken as an indication that it originated in Greece. ()Many of the shared features, such as the permanent settlements, may derive from common origins and similar environmental potentialities, rather than a direct filiation. To the contrary, the radical contrasts not only in the decoration of the pottery but, above all, in the very conception and role of pottery, persuasively argue, in my opinion, against a direct filiation.' • • (Catherine Perles, Gerald Monthel, The Early Neolithic in Greece, p303) • • *** • PELASGIANS: • 'All says Strabo are pretty well agreed that the Pelasgians were an ancient race, which prevailed throughout all Greece, and especially by the side of the Aeolians in Thessaly.' • • (Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece, p 43) • • 'There can, therefore, be no doubt that the Greeks regarded the Pelasgians as only one, though the most powerful, among the races anciently settled in Greece' • • (Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece, p 43) • • *** • NON-PELASGIAN: • • 'it has not even been proved that all the races, which are now described as Pelasgians, really stood in such close relationship to one another as to deserve a common name, which makes use of the name all the more hazardous, especially as we shall see that even the pretended Pelasgic standard of civilization, the last refuge of those who desire to attach importance to the name of Pelasgians, rests only upon unproved and improbable hypothesis.' • • (Adolf Holm, The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independance, p59) • • 't looks therefore as if Pelasgian were used connotatively, to mean either formerly occupied by Pelasgian or simply of immemorial age.' • • (The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature p 65) • • 'Other prehellenic races, whose connection with each other falls within the province of historical inquiry, were the Leleges, the Carians, the Curetes, and the Caucones.' • • (Heinrich Hase, The Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks p 35-36) • • 'In Lemnos, there are no Pelasgians, but a Minyan dynasty.' • • (Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature p 65) • • 'Although the Pelasgians do not deserve the prominent position which writers wish to assign to them, there are other races which are often mentioned in the earliest Greek history, in part purely Greek, in part semi-Oriental. Among the latter the Carians come first. • • (Adolf Holm, The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independance, p63)
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