Albani

Albani (Albanoi) su bili ilirsko pleme koje u antičko vrijeme naseljavalo područja centralnog dijela današnje sjeverne Albanije.^[1] Prvo spominjanje naziva Albani kao ilirskog plemena datira oko 130. godine p. n. e. u radovima Ptolomeja. Ptolomej pominje grad Albanopolis a također je i ucrtan na njegovoj mapi. Pronađen je i drevni porodični epitaf u blizini mjesta Scupi (kod Skoplja, glavni grad današnje Makedonije. Slična riječ Arbanon je vjerovatno naziv okruga a ne nekog određenog mjesta.

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^ Sir William Smith (1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus. Little, Brown and Co. str. 37. Pristupljeno 7. 3. 2013. Ptolemy is the earliest writer in whose works the name of these Albanians has been distinctly recognised. He mentions (iii. 3.13.23) the name ALBANI (Ἀλβανοί) and a town ALBANOPOLIS (Ἀλβανόπολις), in the region lying to the E. of the Ionian sea; and from the names of places with which Albanopolis is connected, it appears clearly to have been in the S. part of the Illyrian territory, and in modern Albania. There is no means of forming a conjecture on how the name of this obscure tribe came to be extended to so considerable a nation.

[Smith1857-1] Sir William Smith (1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus. Little, Brown and Co. str. 37. Pristupljeno 7. 3. 2013. Ptolemy is the earliest writer in whose works the name of these Albanians has been distinctly recognised. He mentions (iii. 3.13.23) the name ALBANI (Ἀλβανοί) and a town ALBANOPOLIS (Ἀλβανόπολις), in the region lying to the E. of the Ionian sea; and from the names of places with which Albanopolis is connected, it appears clearly to have been in the S. part of the Illyrian territory, and in modern Albania. There is no means of forming a conjecture on how the name of this obscure tribe came to be extended to so considerable a nation.

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