Info about the Illyrians

[Bes Molosi]

In a Letter "31.10.1809" sending a letter he writes (Yannina - Albania)

I first landed in Albania the ancient Epirus where we as far as Mount Tomarit
excellently by the chief AH Pacha and after journeying through Illyria Chaonia ... crossed the Gulf Actium
with a guard of fifty Albanians and passed the Achelous in our route through Acarnania...............

[Bes Molosi]

Albania comprises part of Macedonia lllyria Chaonia and Epirus Iskander is the Turkish word for Alexander and the celebrated Scanderbeg Lord Alexander is alluded to in the third and fourth lines of the thirty eighth stanza I do not know whether I am correct in making Scandcrbeg the countryman of Alexander who was horn at Pella in Macedón but Mr Gibbon terms him so and adds Pyrrhus to the list in speaking of his exploits Of Albania

[Bes Molosi]

22)Dr. Holland says when landing in Epirus

The Albanian peasant or soldier words which in this country seem to be almost
synonymous is here seen in the completeness of his national character and costume masculine in his features which slio

[Bes Molosi]

23) Karl Marx (The Eastern Question , p.18)
With Constantinople, she stands on the threshold of the Mediterranean; with
Durazzo and the Albanian coast from Antivari to Arta, she is in the very center ....

[Bes Molosi]

24) Henry Holland

I shall mention a few particulars as the gulf of Arta may be considered the outlet for the southern of Albania

[Bes Molosi]

25) The pro-Greek historian Spiro Muselimi,
in his book "Historical Sight Through Thesprotia", edited in Joannina on 1974,

"The bishop of Thesprotia in the year 1870 translated some parts of Bible into Albanian,
as the people of orthodox faith of the region did not understand any word in Greek".

[Bes Molosi]

26 The census held by the Turkish Administration in 1910

established that there were 83.000 orthodox and muslim Albanians in the region.

[Bes Molosi]

27) The demographic map of the British military mission sent to the British government
in London

indicates that on the eve of the second World War, %75 of Chameria's population was Albanian.

[Bes Molosi]

28) Catholic Encyclopedia of 1900

Albania

The ancient Epirus and Illyria, is the most western land occupied by the Turks in Europe.

Its extreme length is about 290 miles, and its breadth from forty to ninety miles.
On the west and southwest it is bounded by the Adriatic and the Ionian seas.
It is generally divided into three regions: Upper Albania, from the Montenegrin
frontier to the river Shkumbi; Lower Albania, or Epirus, from the Shkumbi to the Gulf of Arta;
and Eastern Albania, to the east of the Schar-Dagh chain....

After Scutari, Yanina is the largest and most interesting town of modern Albania.

Near it are the ruins of the temple of Dodona,
the cradle of pagan civilization in Greece.........

[Bes Molosi]

29) Sathos (Greek Historian)
"In Middle ages Thesprotia is referred as being inhabited by Albanian population"