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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.
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The words Shqipëri and Shqiptar are attested from 14th century onward, but it was only at the end of 17th and beginning of the early 18th centuries that the placename Shqipëria and the ethnic demonym Shqiptarë gradually replaced Arbëria and Arbëreshë amongst Albanian speakers.
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.
The words Shqipëri and Shqiptar are attested from 14th century onward, but it was only at the end of 17th and beginning of the early 18th centuries that the placename Shqipëria and the ethnic demonym Shqiptarë gradually replaced Arbëria and Arbëreshë amongst Albanian speakers in the Balkans.
Albanians gradually replaced their old endonym by the term Shqiptar, a change most likely trigged after the Ottoman conquests of the Balkans in the 15th century.
Ask Albanians. As we know, the Albanian self-designation is Shqiptarët. However, almost all non-Albanian terms derived from Shqiptar (the singular form) have become either obselete (like Skipetar in English and French) or offensive (like Šiptar in Serbo-Croatian), while the terms derived from older ethnonym Arbëreshë tend to be more ...
Historians generally agree that Albanians are descendants of the Illyrians. The Greeks were the first (2300 years ago) to write about a collection of tribes on Greece’s northwest frontier that spoke a non-Greek language, calling them Illyrioi. (Albanians call themselves Shqiptar). Illyrian tribes all spoke a similar language, but did not ...
I read somewhere else that the reason Albanians started calling each other "Shqiptar" is bc they understood each other's language because it was pronounced "clearly" to them. It started becoming widely used in the 17th century or so.
