Tell me about this place Who are these people? They aren't

fuck knows

They're turkic I guess

Albanians
A Mish mash of illyrians and Thracians
Language is a Mish mash of illyrian and Thracian+some roman words
We are b*lkaners
Here you have it

The origin of the Albanians has been for some time a matter of dispute among historians. Contemporary historians conclude that the Albanians are descendants of populations of the prehistoric Balkans, such as the Illyrians, Dacians or Thracians. Little is known about these people, and they blended into one another in Thraco-Illyrian and Daco-Thracian contact zones even in antiquity.

The Albanians first appear in the historical record in Byzantine sources of the 11th century. At this point, they were already fully Christianized. Very little evidence of pre-Christian Albanian culture survives, although Albanian mythology and folklore are of Paleo-Balkanic origin and almost all of their elements are pagan, in particular showing Greek influence.

The Albanian language forms a separate branch of Indo-European, first attested in the 15th century, and is considered to have evolved from one of the Paleo-Balkans languages of antiquity.

>>69866864
Modern day descendants of the first inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula

Their language is its own branch of Indo-European

Their country is poor and shitty because all Balkan countries are poor and shitty, it's no different from Serbia, Greece, or Bulgaria economically speaking

Most Albanians are Muslims, so that makes them a tad bit shittier than the surrounding countries

>>69866864
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_Albania

>>69866864
>Who are these people?
Not people

>They aren't Greek, Slavs, or Romans. Where do they come from?
The toilet

>Why is their language so unique?
Sewer speak

>What makes their country so shitty and poor?
It's part of their "culture"

>>69867209
>it's no different from Serbia, Greece, or Bulgaria economically speaking

delusional

>Most Albanians are Muslims, so that makes them a tad bit shittier than the surrounding countries

Albanians aren't that religious these days

>Modern day descendants of the first inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula

not at all. genetically, they are like northern-shifted Greeks. no one in Europe is exactly like Paleolithic or Neolithic Europeans (except the Sardinians for the latter)

>>69867367
Wow.Really rude

>>69866864
mountain goblins

>>69867405
we kinda are

>>69867608
you are what?

>>69867661
oh yeah sorry forgot to quote

>Modern day descendants of the first inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula

>>69867791
You're slavs, and no amount of historical revisionism will change that fact.

>>69867791
everyone is and no one is. at best a few European populations are 50% like Paleolithic Europeans (and notice the 'like', it doesn't mean that all the Paleolithic-like ancestry is native Paleolithic European) and everyone else is less so

>>69867791
You forgot your language and culture,so it doesn't count,sorry
>>69867840
DNA you cunt

>>69867840
we are now
>Hence, most modern day Croats are partly descended from the original European population of the region who have lived in the territory by other names, such as Illyrians, and their forebears. These original inhabitants also served an important role in re-populating Europe after the last ice age.[76]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croats#Genetics
>>69867878
agree
>>69867906
ayy lmao

>>69867840
They literally have their own unique Y-DNA haplogroup tho

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>>69867906
>>69867938
>>69868109
looks pretty slavic to me

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>>69868562
>South """"""slavs""""""
>Slavs
M80

albania was whito
yugoslavia was red