Chalkokondyles Albanians Are Not Illyrian- Kalkondili Pranon qe Shqiptaret nuk jane Ilire por erdhet nga Kaspiku
Laonicus Chalkokondyles was a Byzantine Greek Historian. He lived in the court of Constantinos Palaiologos and was taught by George Gemistos Plethon. He is one of the Byzantine historians who recorded the events of the Fall of Constantinople (1453). He contributed to the cultivation of the study of Byzantine and Ottoman history and of ancient Greek historiography in the Renaissance. In his book "Laoniku Kalkokondylu Athēnaiu Apodeixis Historiōn Deka" he writes about Albanians not being Illyrians> "Therefore it is established that the opinion of those who say that the Illyrians are the people we call Albanians is not based on truth . Nor do I accept the principle of those who try to argue that the Albanians are of Illyrian origin. "For although I know that the Albanians, coming from Epidamnus, migrated into the maritime region of Europe facing the East, and having subdued Aetolia, Acarnania, and also a large part of Macedonia, came to dwell there-I have been le...
