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in his missal), North Albanians (Ghegs) referred to themselves as Arbën, and South Albanians (Tosks) Arbër. Hence, the self-ethnonym Arbëreshë of the present-day Italo-Albanians (numbering about 100,000) in southern Italy and Sicily, whose ancestors, in the wake of the Ottoman wars, emigrated from their homeland in the 14th century. These self-ethnonyms perhaps influenced the Byzantine Greek Arvanites for ‘Albanians,’ which was followed by similar ones in Bulgarian and Serbian (Arbanasi), Ottoman (Arnaut), Romanian (Arbănas), and Aromanian (Arbineş). Shqiptarë could be derived from Albanian shqipoi (from Latin excipere) for ‘to speak clearly, to understand.’ The Albanian public favors the belief that their self-ethnonym stems from shqipe (‘eagle’) found on the Albanian national flag."
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and the Albanians call themselves shqiptarë. Until the fifteenth century the language was known as Arbërisht or Arbnisht, which is still the name used for the language in Italy and Greece. The Greeks refer to all the varieties of Albanian spoken in Greece as Arvanitika. In the second century AD, Ptolemy, the Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and geographer, used the name Albanoi to refer to an Illyrian tribe that used to live in what is now central Albania. During the Middle Ages the population of that area was referred to as Arbanori or Albanon. It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language."
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and the Albanians call themselves shqiptarë. Until the fifteenth century the language was known as Arbërisht or Arbnisht, which is still the name used for the language in Italy and Greece. The Greeks refer to all the varieties of Albanian spoken in Greece as Arvanitika. In the second century AD, Ptolemy, the Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and geographer, used the name Albanoi to refer to an Illyrian tribe that used to live in what is now central Albania. During the Middle Ages the population of that area was referred to as Arbanori or Albanon. It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language."
649:(Ancient Greek: Ἀλβίων) is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island. The name for Scotland in the Celtic languages is related to Albion: Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh, Cornish and Breton. These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland. New Albion and Albionoria ("Albion of the North") were briefly suggested as possible names of Canada during the period of the Canadian Confederation. 1011:
Albanians (English), Alvanos (Greek), and Arbanasi (old Serbian), the country Albania, Albanie, Albanien, Alvania, and Albanija, and the language Albanese, Albanisch, Albanian, Alvaniki, and Arbanashki respectively. All these words are derived from the name Albanoi of an Illyrian tribe and their center Albanopolis, noted by the astronomer of Alexandria, Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD. Alban could he a plural of alb- arb-, denoting the inhabitants of the plains.
788:(Greek), and Arbanasi (old Serbian), the country Albania, Albanie, Albanien, Alvania, and Albanija, and the language Albanese, Albanisch, Albanian, Alvaniki, and Arbanashki respectively. All these words are derived from the name Albanoi of an Illyrian tribe and their center Albanopolis, noted by the astronomer of Alexandria, Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD. Alban could he a plural of alb- arb-, denoting the inhabitants of the plains. 1362:
Elsie 2005, pp. 3–4. "Their traditional designation, based on a root *alban- and its rhotacized variants *arban-, *albar-, and *arbar-, appears from the eleventh century onwards in Byzantine chronicles (Albanoi, Arbanitai, Arbanites), and from the fourteenth century onwards in Latin and other Western
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Malcolm, Noel. "Kosovo, a short history". London: Macmillan, 1998, p.22-40 "...and located their town,'Albanopolis', somewhere to the east of Durres. Some such place-name must have survived there, continuously if somewhat hazily, ever since; there was an area called 'Arbanon' in north-central Albania
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Lloshi 1999, p. 277. "The Albanians of today call themselves shqiptarë, their country Shqipëri, and their language shqipe. These terms came into use between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Foreigners call them albanesi (Italian), Albaner (German), Albanians (English), Alvanos
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Demiraj, Bardhyl (2010), pp. 534. "The ethnic name shqiptar has always been discussed together with the ethnic complex: (tosk) arbëresh, arbëror, arbër — (gheg) arbënesh, arbënu(e)r, arbën; i.e. . p.536. Among the neighbouring peoples and elsewhere the denomination of the Albanians is based upon the
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Mëniku & Campos 2012, p. 2. "Albanian is an Indo-European language, but like modern Greek and Armenian, it does not have any other closely related living language. Within the Indo-European family, it forms a group of its own. In Albanian, the language is called shqip. Albania is called Shqipëri,
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Mëniku & Campos 2012, p. 2. "Albanian is an Indo-European language, but like modern Greek and Armenian, it does not have any other closely related living language. Within the Indo-European family, it forms a group of its own. In Albanian, the language is called shqip. Albania is called Shqipëri,
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Theißen, Ulrich (2007), p. 90. "Der ursprüngliche Name Άλβανίτης (abgeleitet von Άλβάνος) wurde im Neugriechischen zu Άρβανίτης… In türkischer Vermittlung erfuhr die Silbe -van- eine Metathese zu -nav-, so dass die türkische Form des Namens für die Albaner arnavut bzw. arnaut Lautet. In dieser Form
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Kamusella, Tomasz (2009). The politics of language and nationalism in modern Central Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 241. "Prior to the emergence of the modern self-ethnonym Shqiptarë in the mid-16th century (for the first time it was recorded in 1555 by the Catholic Gheg, Gjon Buzuku,
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Matica 2007, p. 12. "у наведеном цитату привлачи пажњу чињеница, да је Стефан Немања запосео ,,од Рабна оба Пилота’’. Назив ,,Рабна’’ или ,,Рабан’’, као што је већ у исторнографији истакнуто, изведен је метатезом од именнце ,,Арбаном’’ или ,,Арбанум’’, за које знају грчки и латински извори ис XI и
1232:Ćirković, Sima (2007).Der Jugoslawien-Krieg: Handbuch zu Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Konsequenzen. p.19, "Die Albaner hatten im Verlauf des Mittelalters keinen eigenen Staat, doch besaßen sie ein kompaktes, mit einem Ethnonym versehenes Mutterland (Arbanon, Arbanum, Raban, Regnum Albaniae, Albania). 849:
Malcolm, Noel. "Kosovo, a short history". London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 22–40 "The name used in all these references is, allowing for linguistic variations, the same: 'Albanenses' or 'Arbanenses' in Latin, 'Albanoi' or 'Arbanitai' in Byzantine Greek. (The last of these, with an internal switching of
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Mëniku & Campos 2012, p. 2. "In the second century AD, Ptolemy, the Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and geographer, used the name Albanoi to refer to an Illyrian tribe that used to live in what is now central Albania. During the Middle Ages the population of that area was referred to as
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Naučna knjiga 1940, p. 729. "За време стварања српске државе Стефаном, сином Немањам, око 1215 год, област Arbanum (спр. Рабан), у којој је био и овај арбанашки Београд "; p.744. "Наши облици Рабан и рабански постали су без сумње од лат. Arbanum на исти начин као што је Rab постало од лат. Arba…
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Malcolm, Noel. "Kosovo, a short history". London: Macmillan, 1998, p.22-40 "...and located their town, 'Albanopolis', somewhere to the east of Durres. Some such place-name must have survived there, continuously if somewhat hazily, ever since; there was an area called 'Arbanon' in north-central
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Lloshi, Xhevat (1999). "Albanian" p. 277. "The Albanians of today call themselves shqiptarë, their country Shqipëri, and their language shqipe. These terms came into use between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Foreigners call them albanesi (Italian), Albaner (German),
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Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, 75 (2 ed.) "Their traditional designation, based on a root *alban- and its rhotacized variants *arban-, *albar-, and *arbar-, appears from the eleventh century onwards in Byzantine chronicles (Albanoi,
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Elsie, Robert (2005). Albanian literature: A short history. London: I.B. Tauris. pp. 3–4. "Their traditional designation, based on a root *alban- and its rhotacized variants *arban-, *albar-, and *arbar-, appears from the eleventh century onwards in Byzantine chronicles (Albanoi, Arbanitai,
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root arb/alb, cp. Greek ’Αλβανός, ’Αρβανός "Albanian", ‘Αρβανίτης "Arbëresh of Greece", Serbian Albanac, Arbanas, Bulg., Mac. албанец, Arom. arbinés (Papahagi 1963 135), Turk. arnaut, Ital. albanese, German Albaner etc. This basis is in use among the Arbëreshs of Italy and Greece as well.
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in the 6th century AD, in his important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Εθνικά), cites Polybius, saying it was a city in Illyria and gives a topical name for its inhabitants, calling them Arbonios (Greek: Αρβώνιος) and Arbonites (Greek: Αρβωνίτης).
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Liotta, Peter H. (2001), p. 198. "Among Greeks, the term "Alvanitis"—or "Arvanitis"—means a Christian of Albanian ancestry, one who speaks both Greek and Albanian, but possesses Greek "consciousness." Numerous "Arvanites" live in Greece
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Studies in late Byzantine history and prosopography Volume 242 of Collected studies Variorum reprints; CS242 Volume 242 of Variorum reprint Author Donald MacGillivray Nicol Edition illustrated Publisher Variorum Reprints, 1986
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Malcolm 1998, p. 29. "Nor is there any mystery about the origin of this name. In the second century Ptolemy referred to a tribe called the 'Albanoi', and located their town, 'Albanopolis', somewhere to the east of
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Polybius, Histories, 2.11, "Of the Illyrian troops engaged in blockading Issa, those that belonged to Pharos were left unharmed, as a favour to Demetrius; while all the rest scattered and fled to Arbo"
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Strabo, Geography H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A., Ed,"The Libyrnides are the islands of Arbo, Pago, Isola Longa, Coronata, &c., which border the coasts of ancient Liburnia, now Murlaka."
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Indeed, Eire might well have become the Gaelic name of Scotland as it is that of Ireland. But it was Alba that finally won as the vernacular name while Scotia survived as entirely a literary term
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Malcolm 1998, p. 29. "Linguists believe that the ‘Alb-’ element comes from the Indo-European word for a type of mountainous terrain, from which the word ‘Alps’ is also derived."
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Zbornik za Istocnjacku Istorisku i Knjizevnu Gradu 1940, p. 745. "Арбанас, арбанаски, арбански и арбанашки и све остале од исте основе изведене речи постала су од Arbanus. "
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Clements 1992, p. 31 "By 1190, Byzantium's power had so receded that the archon Progon succeeded in establishing the first Albanian state of the Middle Ages, a principality"
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Albania in the eleventh century, and in the early twentieth century 'Arben' was the local name for a region near Kruja...The continuity of this name is a striking fact;"
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Arbanori or Albanon. It is clear that the words Arbëresh, Arvanitika, and even Albanian and Albania are all related to the older name of the language."
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Ethnica, Epitome, page 111, line 14, : Αρβών πόλις Ιλλυριας.Πολύβιος δευτέρα, το εθνικόν Αρβώνιος και Αρβωνίτης, ως Αντρώνιος και Ασκαλωνίτης.
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Naučna knjiga 1940, p.744. "Наши облици Рабан и рабански постали су без сумње од лат. Arbanum на исти начин као што је Rab постало од лат. Arba… "
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V. Minorsky. Caucasica IV. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 15, No. 3. (1953), pp. 504–529.
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and was rendered as Raban and Rabanski for the people. This is a typical metathesis in Slavic languages, for example the island of
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Arbanitai, Arbanites), and from the fourteenth century onwards in Latin and other Western documents (Albanenses, Arbanenses)."
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in the root word, is an Indo-European term for a type of mountainous topography, meaning "hill, mountain", also present in
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Arbanites), and from the fourteenth century onwards in Latin and other Western documents (Albanenses, Arbanenses)."
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in the eleventh century, and in the early twentieth century 'Arben' was the local name for a region near Kruja".
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However, unlike the names of the other two European countries, this name was an exonym given to them by the
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The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, p.51
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Robert Elsie Texts and Documents of Albanian History: 1081, Anna Comnena; The Norman Invasion of Albania
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Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Thessaloniki: Zitros Publications.
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By Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat Edition: illustrated Published by Taylor & Francis, 1998
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2017 Mate Kapović, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat; "The Indo-European Languages"; page 554-555
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consonants, gave rise to the Turkish form 'Arnavud', from which 'Arnaut' was later derived.)"
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Ancient Indo-European Dialects: Proceedings, Henrik Birnbaum, Jaan Puhvel - 1966 Page 98
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Meanwhile, the Albanians, during the Middle Ages, referred to their country as
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was first to refer to the Albanoi as having taken part in a revolt against
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during the High Medieval period, and later passed into Middle English as
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in 1664, they changed the name Beverwijck to Albany, in honor of the
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and the longest continuously chartered city in the United States.
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Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (
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History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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The title of duke of Albany was first bestowed in 1398....
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in the region of Arbanon, during the reign of her father
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Polybius, Histories, 2.11, "είς τόν Άρβωνα σκεδασθέντες"
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in 1043 and to the Arbanitai as subjects of the duke of
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The New Larned History for Ready Reference and Research
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of the Albanians has derived from this Illyrian tribe.
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may indicate several different geographical regions: a
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gelangte das Wort ins Bulgarische (BER I/1971: 15). "
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given since 1398, generally to the second son of the
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It appears in Bulgarian chronicles as 863:The general history of Polybius, Tome 1 14: 1971: 501:and its corresponding modern ethnonym 356:. In later Byzantine usage, the terms 340:(1081–1118). Before that, in the book 152:, the term appears as the ethnonym of 1590: 948: 750: 560: 1363:documents (Albanenses, Arbanenses)." 652: 541:(Ἀλβανος). Compare the rhotacism of 1149:N. Gregoras (ed. Bonn) V, 6; XI, 6. 915:Ptolemy. "III.13(12).23". Geography 264:, during 150 AD in his famous work 24: 717:Names of the Albanians and Albania 610: 315:and the upper valley of the river 89:Names of the Albanians and Albania 25: 2015: 960:Historical Dictionary of Albania 926:The wars of the Balkan peninsula 104:. The name has derived from the 1480: 1451: 1430: 1404: 1395: 1386: 1376: 1366: 1356: 1339: 1330: 1320: 1310: 1289:History of the Byzantine Empire 1282: 1273: 1264: 1254: 1244: 1235: 1226: 1213: 1203: 1193: 1183: 1174: 1161: 1152: 1143: 1134: 1125: 1116: 1090: 1070: 1042: 1021:History of the Byzantine Empire 1014: 1004: 994: 984: 975: 931: 918: 909: 900: 891: 882: 873: 513:, being derived from the stem 371:In the 12th to 13th centuries, 322:The Albanians are mentioned in 853: 843: 833: 824: 811: 801: 791: 781: 533:- and its rhotacized variant * 407:. Its capital was the city of 234: 13: 1: 1501: 1401:Gippert; Schulze. : 201. 485:, who call the Albanians in 96:is the name of a country in 7: 1568:, 1960 (3rd edition, 1998: 1219:Ramadan Marmullaku - 1975, 1077:The Indo-European languages 817:Ramadan Marmullaku - 1975, 710: 507:have the same etymology as 438:in Croatia now is known as 222:or another location within 168:, and in Medieval Latin as 10: 2020: 1538:"Albania (Caucasus)"  1087:, 9780415064491 (page 481) 319:, in the 11th century AD. 299: 86: 83:Albania (Southeast Europe) 57:being a Latinization of a 1918: 1880: 1622: 1514:"Albania (Balkans)"  1221:Albania and the Albanians 819:Albania and the Albanians 751:Price, Glanville (1992). 463:) and called themselves 381: 250:Roman province of Macedon 206: 193: 45:; an ancient land in the 1464:"Albany, Dukes of"  1438:The Historie of Scotland 1140:Mazaris 1975, pp. 76–79. 924:Madrugearu A, Gordon M. 737: 603:and their language, the 270:. It was located in the 179: 132:. 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Index

Albania (toponym)
toponym
country
Southeast Europe
Caucasus
Scotland
Gaelic
Alba
a city
U.S. state
New York
Names of the Albanians and Albania
Albania
Southeast Europe
Medieval Latin
Illyrian tribe
Albanoi
Albanopolis
Ptolemy
Alps
rhotacized
Albanians
Medieval Greek
Greek
Greek
Polybius
Liburnia
Illyria
Stephanus of Byzantium
Albanopolis

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