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It just means Albanian in Albanian. Similar to the Germans calling themselves Deutsch 🤷♀️. 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.
By the way we did not just call Muslim Albanians "Tourkalvanoi", but Muslim Greeks as well. Crete after being occupied by the Ottomans in 1669, saw a mass-conversion of Cretans to Islam. They made a good chunk of the population, even 30% and the vast majority were ethnic Greeks that kept their language and culture.
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As në asnjë tjetër nuk ka shpëtim, sepse nuk ka asnjë emër tjetër nën qiell që u është dhënë njerëzve dhe me anë të të cilit duhet të shpëtohemi. Veprat e Ap...
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 ...
Shqiptar (Albanian definite form: Shqip(ë)tari; Gheg Albanian: Shqyptar/-i; plural: Shqiptarë/-t, Shqyptarë/-t) is an Albanian ethnonym , by which Albanians call themselves. They call their country Shqipëria (Gheg Albanian: Shqypnia, Shqipnia).
