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in the ancient times, in the lands of the Illyrian (Albanian) tribe of Epirots, a great king named Pyrro came to power. Soon he conquered the lands nearby the land of the Epirots, and even took his army and fought in southern Italy. Pyrro was a military genius and he won a lot of battles with incredible speed. Once, after winning yet another battle, his soldiers complemented him thus: "O great Pyrro. You fight and win like an eagle". Pyrro answered: "Yes my friends. I do fight like an eagle, but you, my army, are my wings". From then on, the eagle has had such a great meaning to Albanians that the name that they call themselves by in their language means "sons of eagles"; their land is called Shqiperia, the land of the eagles; and the name of their language (Shqip) means plainly "eagle". The eagle of course is in the flag, where it has two heads, as it was used by the great Albanian hero, Skenderbeg. It symbolizes that no matter the differences between them (religious atc.), the Albanians are one, represented by the one body of the eagle.

In Albanian, the terminology of the church, both Catholic and Orthodox, is not Slavonic,
but overwhelmingly Latin with some Greek

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As reported by Constantine Porphyrogenitus (Emp. from 913-919), the Slavs Started to come
to the Balkans from the Ural and the Caspian Sea during the reign of Emperor Heraclius
(610-641). They were often led by nomadic Turks.46 The region, called at that time Illyria,
was inhabited by the aborigine population, the Illyrians, the ancestors of the Albanians

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The Slavs emerge as a strong population in the 10th century. But these Slavs are Bulgarians,
not Serbs. It is they who in the 11th century named Belgrade the city that at present is
Serbia's capital. The Slav toponyms that replaced the Illyrian and the Roman toponyms are
also in many areas Bulgarian and not Serb.

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J.G. von Hahn, who believed in the Illyro-Albanian continuity, had no doubts, when he visited
Kosova that the Albanians had been living there since ancient times. He regarded the region of
Sitnica as constituting a pure Albanian link between Dardania and Albania