Quotes about Albanians

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A few days after our arrival in this village , Spiro Milio presented himself to Mavrocordato,with a corps of two hundred picked Chimariots,the most martial-looking men in the whole army.They are not to be distinguished from Albanians,their dress and language being perfectly similar;but though their religion is Greek,they do not understand one syllable of Greek.

J.Millingen (Memoirs of the affairs of Greece,London,1831,page.208-209)

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Area Handbook of Albania( Eugene K. Keefe. The American University, 1970, Page 55)

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They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires–past Powers–only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

- Edith Durham

"The men who marched to Babylon , Persia and India were the ancestors of the Albanians..."

- Wadham Peacock

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

-Maximilian Lambertz

"Gli Skipetarë sono un popolo che conserva intatte le tradizioni dei loro antenati, un popolo orgoglioso ed assettato di libertà"

- Pietro Tassini, ambasciatore della Repubblica di Venezia, nel 1455.
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TRANSLATION FROM ITALIAN

"The Skipetarë are intact people who conserve the traditions of their ancestors, proud and tidy people of freedom "

- Peter Tassini, ambassador of the Republic of Venice, in 1455

I assure you they are Bismarcks — veritable Bismarcks. Some day they will demand, and Europe will have to give them what they ask !

A Christian Ottoman official speaking to Edith Durham about Albanians

.... Anon from the castle walls

The crescent banner falls,

And the crowd beholds instead,

Like a portent in the sky,

Iskander's banner fly,

The Black Eagle with double head.

And shouts ascend on high

.....'' Long live Scanderbeg.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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