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Ancient Greek phonology Albania (toponym)
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two requests about Thebans edit
As for the sources see Plutarch, 11, Diodorus, xvii. 8-17, Justin, xi. 1-4, Arrian, i. 7-9
I hope this is of some help for the first question, for now. Bye :-) Aldux 12:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
As for the second request, I must confess that the Persian Wars is not one of the pieces of Greek history I know best. I'll give you these links to the sources, hoping they help, especially the latter: Diodorus, xi. 5-11; Plutarch, Essays and Miscellanies, "On the malice of Herodotus" (this is the sixteenth essay in the e-book) Aldux 22:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albania&diff=28058435&oldid=27599000
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albania_%28toponym%29&diff=27816215&oldid=27564568
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Origin_of_Albanians&diff=28055187&oldid=28054414
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plb.+2.11.1
τῶν δὲ πολιορκούντων τὴν Ἴσσαν οἱ μὲν ἐν τῇ Φάρῳ διὰ τὸν Δημήτριον ἀβλαβεῖς ἔμειναν, οἱ δ' ἄλλοι πάντες ἔφυγον εἰς τὸν Ἄρβωνα σκεδασθέντες. (5.38)
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.
Earliest mentions of Albanians in Albania edit
from Origin of Albanians
- In the second century BC, in the History of the World written by Polybius, there is mention of a city named Arbon in present day central Albania. The people who lived there were called Arbanios and Arbanitai.
- In the first century AD, Pliny mentions an Illyrian tribe named Olbonenses.
- In the second century AD, Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer from Alexandria, drafted a map of remarkable significance for the history of Illyria. This map shows the city of Albanopolis (located south of Durrës). Ptolemy also mentions the Illyrian tribe named Albanoi, who lived around this city.
- After centuries of silence, there is mention of the ancestors of the modern Albanians in the form of Arbanitai of Arbanon in Anna Comnenas account of the troubles in that region caused in the reign of her father Alexius I Comnenus (1081- 1118) by the Normans. (The Alexiad, 4)
- In History written in 1079-1080, Byzantine historian Michael Attaliates was refer to the "Albanoi" as having taken part in a revolt against Constantinople in 1043 and to the Arbanitai as subjects of the duke of Dyrrachium.
- 1285 in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) where a sizeable Albanian community had existed for some time. In the investigation of a robbery in the house of Petro del Volcio of Belena (now Prati), a certain Matthew, son of Mark of Mançe, who appears to have been witness to the crime, states: "Audivi unam vocem clamantem in monte in lingua albanesca" (I heard a voice crying in the mountains in the Albanian language).