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In the late 19th and early 20th century Romanian linguist Hasdeu speculated the origin of Albanians from the free Dacians (i.e., according to him, the Costoboci, the Carpi and the Bessi ), after their alleged migration southwards from outside the Danubian or Carpathian limes during Roman Imperial times.
Some historians believe that this started to change around the 14th century when the word "shqiptoj" (to speak) morphed into Shqip (Albanian as in the language) and eventually it lead to Albanians calling themselves Shqiptarë by the 16th century.
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These terms came into use between the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Foreigners call them albanesi (Italian), Albaner (German), Albanians (English), Alvanos (Greek), and Arbanasi (old Serbian), the country Albania, Albanie, Albanien, Alvania, and Albanija, and the language Albanese, Albanisch, Albanian, Alvaniki, and ...
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 ...
Because before the Ottomans "Arberia" was more of a distinct place and Albanians called it that and called themselves Arbereshe, ruled by Albanian feudal lords for the most part. After the Ottomans this stopped existing as the Ottomans took over and changed the political landscape.
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The Albanians and their country Albania (Shqipëria) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The native endonym is Shqiptar. The name "Albanians" Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. Linguists believe that the alb part in the root word originates from an Indo ...
During the Middle Ages, the Albanians called their country Arbëria (Gheg: Arbënia) and referred to themselves as Arbëresh (Gheg: Arbënesh) while known through derivative terms by neighbouring peoples as Arbanasi, Arbanenses / Albaneses, Arvanites ( Arbanites ), Arnaut, Arbineş and so on.
