Alexander The Great Was Albanian, Author Claims

I think soon scientific will prove that he really was Albanian. Not a Greek nor a Macedonian. and im for real!

IN FACT ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS FROM NIGERIA.....

All ancient Macedonian names like Philip, Alexander, Ptolemy, Ifaistion etc have a meaning in greek. Those who fought the ancient Macedonians say the fought the greeks and celebrate it in Channukah. What's next? Olivert Cromwell also "Macedonian" or Albanian or Martian?

...During the lifetime of Alexander the Great or before, Mr. Nijazi Muhamedi. Another joke like the "Homer Makedonski" fella who failed to notice that Homers' epics do not mention Macedonia or the Macedonians anywhere...

History is dead! Long live revisionism... How ironic that those who have attempted to steal Alexander from his Hellenic roots, now have another faction attempting to steal him from them as well. This absurdity must end. However, you know that Alexander is a popular name amongst the Scotts - he may have been a Scottish Highlander!

First Milos Obilic, now Alexander the Great. Who is next, Jesus?

You have got be be kidding,he was Greek all the way.

Ha, ha, ha! A first April Joke? When Alexader The Great lived, Albania and the Albanians diden´t even exist as a nation or people!, they came much later in the Balkans from Asia, everthing else is a just a Albanian dream!

MR Muhamedi is making a big mistake medling on the issue of Alexander the great. It is pathetic! Albanians are no longer interested on this far past. I dont know and do not want to know who Alexander's ethnicity was and how Alexander saw himslef/lived his life. It is irrelevant in the 21st century! I would urge most Albanian academics to work on the recent Albanian figures, let say from 1000AD onwards.Especially reseach is needed on Catholic and orthodox Albanian Figures of the midle ages.Also Albanians should be proud of their contribution during the Otoman empire. so many ottoman figures on many fields were Albanian.Albanian figures were atcive in the garibaldi enterprise during the Italian unification, that is recent and more important for people to know than almost mithological figure of Alexander. Second, the term "Shqiptari" can not be derogative from were i stand. That is what we call ourselves. Albanian is the international name and was in use in the midle ages. From 18,19 onward Shqiptar is what we call ourselves. It is like the Greeks. they are called Greeks by the world but they call themselves Helenes.Or the germans and so on. i dont see how being called "Shqiptar" is derogatory since that is our name. the reporter is either misinformed or just pseudo-informing the public through the Balkan Insight forum.

Mabye Macedonian Albanians make one quarter of the overall population today, but only if you count in the Turks, Bosnians, Albanians from Kosovo i Macedonia, and the Gypsies in the same quarter of the total Muslim population in Macedonia! Go back around a hundred year, when the Albanian population was close zero in west Macedonia!, at that time anybody could cross the border from Albania and settle down where ever they wanted!

Just a another lie! The Albanians are also grateful whid "their" Great "Albanian" Enver Hodza (whitch isn´t his real name) But "their" Enver hodza´s parents was true Macedonians (and of orthodox religion) who lived at the "Albanian" side of the border (as seen today), there is no doubt about that, so Enver hodza can only be seen as a tru Macedonian and nothing else!, ther is no Albanian Enver Hodza!, and it´s more comical thath the Albanian Population in Macedonia even made him a monument i Skopje, Thanks for a nice monument of a great Macedonian, but sadly whid a wrong history!

Thankyou Fyromians for introducing Albanian to your science fiction concerning historical Greeks.

they pretty well used as much science, archeology and history as Skopje did may making their claims-----none.

Why is there a fascination between FYROM and Albania to claim Hellenic figures, culture and history? Leave that to the historians and university scholars (the experts). It will be interesting to see what they have to say about this state funded book.

Nijazi Muhamedi actually stated that "the only ones who have a right to squabble over Alexander are the Greeks and the Albanians..." Happy New Year!

Once again another pseudo intellectual re-writes the history of Greece. What's new? We are surrounded by people with inferiority complexes about there own true history. The Skopjean's invent a new identity as they apparentlyhave nothing to brag about, the Turks have re-written history claiming they were the original displaced inhabitants of the Aegean with Socrates being a Turk, and of course now Alexander the Great was Albanian. The Balkans seem to be filled with fools who always look to steal instead of earn. Good luck with your thesis, at least the rest of the world knows the truth, keep living you fantasy land I'm sure the truth will hurt one day.

About time! It has become the biggest farce to hit our land that our current government under the ancient loving Gruevski has naively tried to rename every single public piece of infrastructure into Al.Veliki or his father Filip. Most modern Macedonians (except for our Diaspora compatriots)don't care one way or the other about Al.Veliki but Gruevski's antiquisationist drive has certainly hit many raw nerves in our region not least the Greeks and now Albanians. As far as the archaeological record can substantiate Al.VEliki's origins were Greek but according to primary texts his grandmother (Filip's mother) was Illyrian. So the authors claims are not that far off from what our current evidence reveals. Either way modern Macedonians especially the youth are proud of their Slavic heritage and their Bulgarian forefathers (e.g. Gotse Delchev, Nikola Karev, Yane Sandanski, etc.) so are not too concerned. I'm sure my diaspora compatriots would think otherwise but then again they left our country in search of dreams and this is certainly one of them. They had to go all the way to the otherside of the world to discover Al.Veliki. Happy New Year from the Macedonian Youth!

First Albanians claim that Milos Obilic is Albanian. Now Alexander the great. Who's next? Hercules, Zeus?

No,no he was actually Nigerian. Really now can anyone take anything seriously that comes out from the Balkans. The next thing we will hear is that Moses was from New Zealand.

Balkan Nonstop :)

To my diaspora compatriots, just as they have attempted to fabricate their Macedonian identity using ancient figures they also have equally eager Albanians who love the concept of antiquisation. The modern Macedonians don't need Al.Veliki they have their Bulgarian forefathers Gotse Delchev & co.

Sasha, You may be a "Modern Bulgarian," but you are certainly NOT Macedonian. Bulgarians are akin to Tatars(Huns, Mongolians, Turkic). You're absurd analogy Macedonian of Bulgarian forefathers..is the same propaganda Bulgaria uses.."Macedonia exists..but is populated with "Bulgarians." Same as the Greeks..just a different twist. A real and proud Macedonian knows what he or she is. If you want to be Greek, Bulgarian, Albanian..or any other ethnic family fine..but Please don't call yourself Macedonian.

I saw a docementary at History Channel where they basicly claims that he was albanian. The slavic people came to balkan short after his time, therefor he couldent be macedonian. Either greek or albaian. Then they gave some facts about him being albanian. How he loved his place (albania). Please find it and watch it, it was really good actually!!

Why do you my diaspora friend roam around with a Greek name (Pharos) are our Macedonian names not good enough for you. As you can see your version of Macedonianism of who you are is equally flawed for you have no other proof than a fabricated antiquisationist nartrative trying to equate yourself with the Greek Al.Veliki. Obviously you've never read anything from our Macedonian forefathers like Delchev because you failed to recognise that the modern Macedonians are part of the present and have never had anything to do with the ancient Greek Al.Veliki. In must feel good to have a fabricated identity in the diaspora but in Macedonia (Prilep) many of our people (especially our Youth) are proud Macedonians and are not ashamed of their Slavic ethnicity. Dream on in the diaspora while we in Macedonia live reality!

A wake up call to Macedoninas and the Greeks, fighting over a silly name, that does not belong to neither of em. Lol.. Albania has paid a heavy price for the past 100yrs or so, during the Communism, and this is the only reason why the Western countries have ignored their history & their rights until now, but the truth is?. you ask any real Historian, they,ll tell you that Albanians have ruled that part of Europe. Based on the Turkish people and their History books, it clearly states that, Illyrians known today as Albanians, were the only nation (Empire) that the Ottomans did not run over Italy, & how they lost millions of its own people on Albanian battlefields. Albania paid a price for it too, by loosing millions of its own, but the war finnished right there & then, Then later started in sea England sent houndreds of warships and soldiers in Turkey, the sad news was when non of them shpis returned back home back to England,, the truth will come around alot sooner than u think for all of you but you lot have been brained washed from the very 1st day you were born, and i do understand how you lot feel when the truth is been told,, Hold yourselfs up and stay strong... as for the Albanians your time will come when your bad times will go away ones and for all... c ya l8r...

The proto-bulgarians originated from the Pamir lowlands and indeed were of mixed Caucasian-Mongolic ancestry.After they established "Great Old Bulgaria" they became allies of the Eastern Roman Empire. Their Prince and last Great Khan Kubrat spent all his youth in Constantinople as a close friend of Emperor Heraclius and General Velissarios. That was why his son Asparuch with a few thousand of Bulgarians was allowed to settle south of the Danube.Soon the ruling Bulgarians started inter-marriages with the local population of the Eastern Roman Empire eventually forging an alliance with the southern Slavs (Slaviani). The southern Slavs were mostly Eastern Mediterranean in origin, having expanded northwards first and then forced again back to the south by invading warrior Avaric and other tribes and main stream Slavs.Through the centuries Bulgarians managed via selective intermarriage to isolate all "compatriots" with strong mongolic characteristics to the north east valley of the Danube. They in turn became Muslims and allies of the Ottoman Turks. By the 11th century AD The Eastern Roman thema of Bulgaria comprised of the lands from Ochrid to Skopje to Sofia.During the times of the Ottoman Empire most of the local population refused to become Muslim as many Albanians and Bosnians did. Currently the majority of Bulgarians are the same with Makedonki and most Greeks (Eastern Mediterranean-Dinaric) but very different from modern north Albanians(Dinaric),Serbians & Russians (mainly Slavic) or Turks (mainly Armenian). The problem with modern Makedonki is that they want to monopolize the terms Macedonia-Macedonian when in reality they are one of the many nationalities living in North Macedonia while the Bulgarians consider them as "lost brothers" and would like to assimilate them and through them expand again southwards down to the north Aegean coastline. In conclusion all Christian people of South Eastern Europe should burry their "differences",accept their muslim minorities without allowing them to become an instrument of Turkey and prosper within the European Union forming a powerfull regional block with Albania,Bulgaria,Greece,North Macedonia and Romania leading the way.

just wondering... were macedonia at that time slavic?

Are they serious... This sort of "stuff" can go and be edited, published and printed? Alexander the Great was Macedonian. He had a Macedonian father... In ancestry, you always follow the male line... This book must have been printed for a media uproar of some type. The Albanian people have come from Ilyarian roots, The study at I-genea proved strongly that he was in fact Macedonian, the same blood as the Aegean Macedonians. Albania's blood DNA is completely different. So this book proves false evidence and a biased account of what the author thought took place.

Ask any historian out there, they,ll tell you that he was an Albanian, not greek or macedonian,, he was an Albanian, and will always be....

Sasha my friend, you seem to be fixated on Gotse Delchev. You left out Pitu Guli, and Jane Sandanski. How about the Manaki brothers. I'm sure as you say..they were all of Bulgarian stock..NOT! Let us not stop there..how about Kiril i Metodi, Kliment, and Naum..all Bulgarian?? Scren Bozic.

If former Bulgarians can claim their Bulgarian dialect is now "Macedonian" why can't Albanians? Are the former Bulgarians trying to oppress the real ethnic Macedonians right to self-identification?

A member of BMARC can be any BULGARIAN, independent of gender (Gotse Delchev and your Bulgarian ancestors wrote those words) wapedia.mobi/en/Internal_Macedonian_Revolutionary_Organization Albanians are the real ethnic Macedonians not former ethnic Bulgarians who are ashamed of their Bulgarian heritage and Bulgarian language.

he is Nigerian!!!!!

Alexander the Great was Macedonian which tells us he was Greek. In the ancient times there was rules for competing in the Olympic Games like there is today. One of those rules were that you had to be Greek. You could not compete in the Olympic Games if you were not Greek.It is proven that Alexander the Great competed in the olympic games riding his chariot which proves to us that Macedonians were Greek. Spartans,Athenians.Arkadians,Macedonians,Ioanians they were all GREEK. Even the Trojans were Greek. They spoke the Greek Language and believed in the same Gods

I hope that only the persons who posted a note here are interested in such useless controversy. Anyone can now understand why the Balkans area is the poorest in Europe, with the lowest cultural level in Europe. Instead of doing business to improve their financial position, Balkanians love to fight wars around a topic (origin of Alexander) for which, most of them have no idea. Good luck idiots!

You have to take into account that Romans were accepted to participate to the Olympic Games, after the occupation of Greece by Rome. Were they Greeks? May-be yes, if we accept that their ancestors were the Trojans who were Greek according to you. However, there is no contradiction whatsoever, as all people worldwide are (somehow) Greeks in terms of culture, science, philosophy, democracy. This does not entitle the citizens of the modern Greek Republic to claim ownership of anything, or claim superiority compared to anyone else.

Since Alexander was blonde and with fair skin it is clear to see that he was Germanic. This would also explain why he was a homesexual.

Did the cultural group and or Albanian nation exist in 350BC?? No...so might as well say that Alexander the Great was Canadian or even Chinese....these claims are unfounded and are merely propaganda to create nationalistic pride in Albania... Irresponsible work such as this create a world of ignorance and impetuous reasoning...

He was HALF albanian. His mother Olympias was pure Albanian and she was Philip II fourth wife. He loved her the most of them and the greeks didn't wanna accept him as a king of greece when he had not a greek wife. So he married Eurydike who was greek and Olympias son was 18. She wanted as every mother would, that her son would become the king after Philips death. Philips was murdered when alexander was 19 and Alexander beacame the king. So I am not sure if Philip was macedonianalbanian or just greek. But Alexander is AT LEAST half Albanian.

There were no Albanians around at the time. Olympia is a greek name and Ipiros a greek Kingdom. So much for fairy tales

olimpia&all slavic people come from karpat maunteings how come u slavics dont know where u come from & when u come to balkan states in the 6th century &what u call today albanian was called illyrians 2000bc that is a tru history

Here are 27 books and which show that Alexander the Great is Albanian http://alexanderthegreat.wordpress.com/ Fields of wheat, hills of blood by Dr Anastasia Karakasidou Famous greek antro/ethnologist noted: Greeks has nothing to do with Ancient Macedonians, only Albanians can be descendant of Ancient Macedonians and Alexander the Great. http://books.google.com/books?id=n2Sk7iefoRwC&pg=PA83&dq=Fields+of+wheat#v=onepage&q=&f=false Sensational Discovery of Illyrian Albanians The author of this story Rexh Xhakli has assured articles from the library of Columbia University. Casually in one of the regions of Pakistan there is an discovery that can change fundamentally our national history. The discovery is about Illyrian – Albanian population hold over from time of “Lekes se Madh”(Great Leka). Whereas in 1990, in a cocktail in Washington it was my honor to have a long conversation with the Pakistani’s ambassador in Washington and I asked him: “Tell me does it look like that the family Buta seems to be with European face that it is whiter from other Pakistanis”. He told me that they are Greeks and remained there after Alexander, they even have the monument of Alexander the Great in their town and that they are called Pashtun-Pashto-Invader(Pushtue s-Albanian) http://www.xhakli.com/2004/11/10/sensational-discovery-of-iliro-albanians.php

On the expedition of Alexander the Great, 333-323 BC Olympia , mother of Alexander was Epirote so language of Alexander was Albanian language, his mother language. In the book Enigma, the author insists on what the word means epirot Albanian and not Hellenic. “Epirotica lingua” always meant “Albanian language” and never “Ellhnikh glvssa. King Philip of Macedonia, father of Alexander, was born in Argos, but in fact located in Argosin that Orestie, on the borders of Epirus and Illyria, (Alexander the Great, p. 14. G. Rado, 1931). Alexander the Great, Albanian origin and Hellenic in education. In Greek language lessons followed by Aristoti, an Albanian from the town Stagire. Through the mother tongue, Albanian or Epirote, Alexander gave courage and commanded his generals during his military expedition. With this language he was talking to friends and soldiers in his Extraordinary army, language that was understood by all. Most of the population was illiterate and Modern Greek was unknown, because it began to form about ten centuries later. Enigma Robert d’ Angely

Aleksander in Albanian means A LE SI ANDER = Born Like a Dream For all you haters and liers there is no other meaning in any other language for that name. NOt in Acient greek or what ever other language

Filip was indeed of Macedonian decent however Alexander's mother was of Illyrian, which therefore in today's term makes Alexander half of each. macedonian in the past sense not the slavic country today, so any claim that can be made to alexander is for hellas and shqiperija. however the history will not create the future instead we continue to fight over history. people of the Balkans should appreciate their cultural diversity and interesting history, but build a future which does not strive off the history. their histories cause the controversies of today and create animals who fire words against each other. if their politicians want a better balkans, then they will find it through working on their selves and supporting their neighbors. it is 2010, give up the dates of alexander, 1389, blah blah. the future lays within recognizing each other, the balkans are between the east and west geez focus on your economies and promoting good welfare within your countries. then you guys will one day realize that you don't need to look towards russia the usa or the eu. you are you, own it

i bet they was albainians 2!?!? oh and ceasar u can bet on it, and dont foget hercules he was albanian.... oh and aladin, he was albanian same with mozart and leonardo da vinci, not to forget wong fei hung, he also was albanian.......did i miss anyone???