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The national ethnonym Albanian has derived from Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy with their centre at the city of Albanopolis, located in modern-day central Albania, near the city of Krujë.
That’s just the name they called themselves from at least 11 century to the 17th one. It generally accepted it comes from a city that in Greek was known as Albanopolis where a people called Albani lived, recorded in the 2nd century AD. Post-17th century, Albanians began to call themselves Shqiptarë, the language shqip, and the country ...
The origin of the Albanians has been the subject of historical, linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi occurred in the 2nd century AD by Ptolemy describing an Illyrian tribe who lived around present-day central Albania.
European Medieval Albanians were known as 'Arbëresh/Arbnesh' (depending on the dialect), reconstructed *albanensis, and the land where they lived 'Arbëria/Arbania), itself referring to a city in Central Albania recorded by Ptolemy as 'Albanopolis' and the people 'Albanoi'.
After 1945, in pursuit of a policy of national equality, the Communist Party designated the Albanian community as 'Šiptari' (Shqiptare, in Albanian), the term used by Albanians themselves to mark the ethnic identity of any member of the Albanian nation, whether living in Albania or elsewhere.….
The national ethnonym Albanian has derived from Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy with their centre at the city of Albanopolis, located in modern-day central Albania, near the city of Krujë.
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Attested from 14th century onward, the placename Shqipëria and the ethnic demonym Shqiptarë gradually replaced Arbëria and Arbëreshë amongst Albanian speakers between the late 17th and early 18th centuries. That era brought about religious and other sociopolitical changes.
