What happened? The Balkan history expert doesn't even know that there was an Illyrian tribe with the name Albania in central Albania?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Celts_in_Illyria_%26_Pannonia.png
copy the whole link it doesnt work here. Scroll at the bottom of the map.
NO I SHOW THE MAP AND DOES NOT FIT,
All APPIANUS AND HERODOTUS and PLINY and STRABO DID NOT MENTION THAT TRIBE
ONLY PTOLEMY MENTIONS THEM AS ALBANOPOLIS 5-6 CENTURIES AFTER HERODOTUS
SINCE YOU CLAIM WIKI
Albani or
Albanoi (
Greek: Ἀλβανοί)
are assumed to have been an Illyrian tribe whose first historical account appears in a work of
Ptolemy,.
[5] Ptolemy is the earliest (and only) writer in whose works the name of these ancient Albani (their identification and connection with the modern nation of the Albanians is highly disputed
[6]) has been distinctly mentioned, although Ptolemy himself makes no hint of their true ethnic identification, and he does not clarify whether the citizens of Albanopolis were Illyrians, Macedonians or Roman colonists from Italian Alba, outside Rome, all of which are distinct possibilities. He mentions (3.13.23) the name ALBANI (Ἀλβανοί) and a town ALBANOPOLIS (Ἀλβανόπολις), in the region lying to the E. of the Ionian sea; and from the names of places with which Albanopolis is connected, it appears clearly to have been in the S. part of the Illyrian territory, and in modern
Albania. If we were to speculate that they are related to the modern Albanians, which is not at all certain
[6] then there is no means of forming a conjecture on how the name of this obscure tribe came to be extended to so considerable a nation.</ref> places them in modern north-central Albania), in 150 AD in ancient
Roman Macedon specifically in
Epirus Nova. This places them almost 300 years after the Roman conquest of the region, in the Roman province of Macedon.
Albanopolis of the Albani is a place located on the map of Ptolemy and also named on an ancient family epitaph of
Romanized Thracians[7] at
Scupi (near modern
Skopje). While it been identified with the Zgardhesh hill-fort near
Kruja in northern Albania, the archaeological finds make such identification improbable, since the Zgardhesh hill-fort ruins belong to a settlement that was abandoned fully 350 years before the mention of Albanopolis by Ptolemy. The much later mentioned Arbanon is likely to be the name of a district – the plain of the Mat has been suggested – rather than a particular place. An indication of movement from higher altitudes in a much earlier period has been detected in the distribution of place names ending in
-esh, that appears to derive from the Latin
-ensis (
Vulgar Latin -ēsis), between the
Shkumbin and the
Mat rivers, with a concentration between
Elbasan and
Kruja.
It is not certain if the ancient city of Albanopolis corresponds with the Arbanon of the 11th cAD, mentioned ny the Byzantines nine centuries later.[8]
but we know that
Albocense (Albocensii) was a
Dacian tribe
[1] that inhabited the area of
Banat (
Serbia,
Romania) with the towns of
Kovin (
Contra Margum),
Trans Tierna,
Ad Medias II,
Kladovo (
Ad Pontes),
Apu,
Arcidava,
Centum Putea,
Ram (
Lederata) and
Praetorium I. They lived between the
Timiş River (
Tibiscus) and north of the
Saldenses, south of the
Biephi.
[2] It is believed that the tribe migrated to
Spain in Roman times.
Maximus of Moesia, the governor of
Moesia under Emperor
Valens, approached the lands of the Albocense prior to the
Gothic Wars
which fits with Romanised Thracians
and also fits with that
Thermidava was an ancient
Dacian[1] town in
Illyria mentioned by
Ptolemy[2] (90-168, C.E.) as an inland town of
Dalmatia. It could be located near modern
Scodra[3]
Roman Emperor Trajan marched with his troops for
Naissus and crossed Thermidava prior to the
Roman-Dacian Wars. In the town he was greeted by
Dacians.
[1] The next town he passed was
Ulpiana.
ILLYRIA WAS COLONISED BY DACIAN (Thracian) ALBOCENSII TRIBE,
IN THEIR PRIMARY LAND EXISTS MANY ALBAS AS ALBA LULLIA etc
and That is why Herodotus and Appianus STRABO PLINY NEVER mention them
PTOLEMY IS AFTER ALL OF THEM, MEANING THAT THE ONES YOU CALL AS ILLYRIAN TRIBE MAY SETTLE THERE AFTER PLINY STRABO HERODOTOS AND APPIANOS.
Romaanized Thracians and Not Celto-Illyrians
THAT IS WHY ALBANIAN LANGUAGE SEEMS TO BE MORE NORTH AND EAST (Germanic Slavic Baltic branch) THAN SOUTH WEST EUROPEAN (Latino-Celtic)
from the liitle we know about Dacian-Thracian language, it was more Satem than Centum. something that also fits with modern Albanian, instead of ancient Illyrian language
What happens the master of Linguistic methods does not understand the differences among Celtic Thracian and Albanian, or all the above where also Church languages?