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I don't know about Islam but circumcision should be banned which is also a Jewish practice. Here people and the ones I met in the diaspora they talk about being Muslim but then drink or do whatever and then judge you for not believing in a religion... kind of weird if you ask me... They even...

That would be boring to be honest.

I saw one Albanian on another forum talking about rrenjet project being shady or something.

I am J-L283 and for some reason they never responded when I wanted to participate in the project, they never added my results. So I just deleted everything. Waste of money. Might as well claim they are anti J-L283..... FTDNA is not that good, better test with something cheaper if one is going to...

Albanian is considered related to Illyrian and Messapic. There were some scholars that held the Daco-Thracian origin before but Albanian is not considered as Thracian or Dacian these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Albanian_language

So basically both Prizren in Kosovo / Dukagjini region and Skopje/Shkupi in Macedonia had a Medieval Albanian population

Prizren was also known in later writings as the capital of Albania: http://albanianhistory.net/1689_Kosovo-Turkish-War/index.html

Some more about this topic from another historian that proves these claims are completely false: https://academic.oup.com/book/37426/chapter-abstract/331513844?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Ragusan documents attest to the presence of a significant number of Albanians living in Novo Brdo throughout the 14th and early 15th centuries, including members of the Catholic Albanian clergy with names such as Gjergjash and Gjinko, Gjini, son of Gjergji, the presbyter (1382); the reverend...

Ottoman records indicate that during the 16th century, the Hasi region, which was part of the Nahiya of Hasi, was inhabited almost entirely by Albanians. The anthroponomy of the region's inhabitants were mainly Albanian. Out of 2507 Christian households (according to Ottoman registers from 1571...

In 1487, Albanian toponyms such as Arbanas were mentioned in the Nahija of Llapi. Ottoman writer Evliya Celebi mentioned the Llapi river as having "its source in Albania" and joining other rivers before flowing into the Danube, during one of his travels to Kosovo in the 1660s...

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Byzantine control was punctuated by periods of Bulgarian and Serbian rule. Konstantin Asen ruled as Tsar of the Bulgarian Empire from 1257 to 1277. Later the region was overrun and taken by Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan. In a document dated between 1348 and 1353...

Other ancient toponyms that belong to the Albanian territories in the former Yugoslavia have evolved in accordance to the historical phonetic rules of the Albanian language. Such cases are Naissus-Nish, Scupi-Shkup, Astibos-Shtip, Scardus-Shar, Ulpiana-Lipjan and many more. The explanation of...

Ottoman cadastral records indicate that the Opoja region was inhabited by a dominant Albanian majority of mixed Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic faith during the 15th-16th centuries due to the anthroponomy present; additionally, most of the region was islamised by 1571. In the second half of the...

The 16th century Ottoman defters also show that Janjevo contained an Albanian population of Muslim and Christian faith and a Christian Albanian neighborhood in Janjevo called "Arbanas". The Muslim population had Islamised Albanian names and Muslim names while the Christian population of Arbanas...

Other historical documents help us to uncover the falsity of the argument that Albanians came to Kosova after the Austro-Ottoman War of the years 1683-1699, the time when the massive migration of Serbs from Kosova is supposed to have happened. One important source are the documents of the...

Let us consider now the problem of the presumed Albanian migrations from the mountainous Albanian hinterland to Kosova. This is asserted constantly by the Serb historiographers. In spite of all the facts at the contrary, the Serb historiographers continue to insist on the existence of this...

The name for Vokshi is claimed to stem from the Albanian word vogël, which means “small” or “little” Voksh is mentioned for the first time in the Dečani chrysobulls in 1330 as a village named Укша (lat. Ukša) The village of Voksh is mentioned under the name Vokshiq in the Ottoman defter of the...

Dushkaja's etymology derives from the Albanian word dushk (which in itself is derived from the Proto-Albanian language), meaning 'oak', as the region is covered with many oak forests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dushkaja

During the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans, Junik and the Municipality of Junik were part of the Nahiya of Altun-ili during the 15th century. In a 1485 defter of the region, Junik was mentioned with the name Lunik. In the 15th century, around half of Junik's population had typical Albanian...