I go inactive for a few days just to come back and watch this deluded loser come back with even more deluded narratives , When it comss to being deluded and dumb
@grimballer never disappoints when it comes to being deluded!
Yeah , Sure. Some people are so delusional it doesn't make sense. The nation you belong to is an example of how deluded people can be.
They've lost 4 wars in less than a decade , Lost a territory which now is an independent country and they barely form 3% of the population there , Yet they still claim to have control over it despite not having any..... the irony of a serb calling someone deluded.
Your most venerated figure is a fictional figure for god sake.
There were multiple reasons why a large number of Albanians were made to abandon Christianity , A religion which they were among the first people in the Europe to accept . I don't want to get into this it too deep here.
Of course a big reason was the pressure from the Ottomans including local pashas , But there were other reasons as well.
It is known that the Ottoman Empire had pretty good relationships with the Patriarchate of Constantinopole and the Orthodox Church in general.
The same can't be said about their relations with the Catholic Church who the Ottomans saw as a foreign threat.
So the Serbs had to live in much better conditions than their neighbors in Catholic (Northern) Albanians.
There were cases when Catholic Albanians were put in the position to chose between Orthodoxy and Islam as they were stuck against the wall. The majority of those who where put in that position chosed Islam because they didn't want to be under Serbian influence whos pressure to assimilate is second to none.
This may not have been the most common case but it surely was a factor as well. As i've said i don't want to get deep into this topic here.
The massive islamization of Albania didn't occur until the 18th century actually. Although the majority of cities not only in Albania but in the whole Ottoman Empire were islamized. You still have traces of Islam in Beograd for example.
You have over 3 million servs(Actually less as some of them have Croatian or in the Sanjak case Albanian roots as well) who now identify as Bosniaks or "Muslims" but most of them descend from the serbs who converted to Islam during Ottoman Rule. It's just that Serbs put more value into something that was imported to them (Relatively late in comparision to Albanians to whom Christianity was first spread from Saint Paul) than their own traditions and customs.
The same can't be said about Albanians , No religion ever rang any bell to them when it came to their traditions , customs and their language. Their way of life was based on their thousands-of-years old customs and not Middle East rules.
If Serbs really saw the Ottomans as foreign invaders and nothing more then why did they take their side against the Albanians (As evidented in the earlier post) and other Balkan people as well?
It was the Albanians (Notably under Skanderbeg) who led the most significant resistance against the Turks out of any people in the Balkans , The same can't be said the Serbs who gladly took the side against the Albanians during that time as evidented by the earlier post.
So Kosova became Albanian majority because of Turks 100 years ago , At the same time when Turks left and after massive massacres and displacing of Albanjans from the region and colonization of the region with Serbs and Montenegrins by the serb regime.
The fact that you're coming at me with Jovan Deretic psuedo-history narratives just shows your lack of knowledge and how deluded and biased you are. This actually may be one of the most dumbest shit if not the dumbest i've heard.
By nation do you mean ethnic identity or a nation as a political formation(Nation-State)? If you mean the later one than Serbs weren't a nation either until the 19th century. The concept of Serb Nationalism was started from Vuk Karadzic.
Obviously this term is something that can be interpreted in a lot of ways , Personally i prefer the first example when refering to "nation".
Albanians have had a distinct ethnic identity for as long as they've existed , There is a reason why those tribes you're mentioning won't mix with the bordering montenegrin ones but only with other Albanian tribes. I've already schooled you in this issue in another thread i think.
Why don't you translate to us what does this title mean "Царь Србљем, Грком, Блгаром и Арбанасом"?
Tribal System was not apparent in all of Albania either , It was apparent only in the North as the South and Central Albania had abandoned it a long time ago
You really don't know much about Albanian tribal system but for some odd reason you like to open your mouth about it. Their tribal system wasn't something they considered as an ethnic identity , It was a group(or a clan) of people who shared common ancestors and history.
Those tribes have always have had an distinct identity from their neighbors notably from the ones we call Shkije and those tribes always have had an common identity which they were always fully aware and proud of.
Wrong , Serbs were the one easier to control and who also had to live in a much more easier envoirment than the Albanian tribes.
Albanian Tribes in the other hand never gave up their independence and had defeated the Turks(Pashas and their armies) in several occasions thus keeping their autonomy , Most of them who stayed in the highlands remained Catholic. Although some regions where the tribal system was apparent converted massively in Islam.
You sure that these tribes and their leader converted to Islam for "crumbs? You defenitely should tell this to someone from Mirdita and see how that goes......
Also what do you mean by "converting to their fate" , How can one convert so someones fate?
Or do you mean faith? How can one spent over 10 years in an english-speaking forum and yet make such a stupid mistake?
Your myth has been debunked a few times already , As of Austro-Hungarian "rule" they only ruled Albania during WWI.
You must have confused it with Russia wanted to strengthen its influence in Balkan so they helped the Slavic Orthodox countries get independence and expand their borders by gaining Albanian lands?
Just when you think you can't get any dumber......
"Somewhat similar regional language" "Regrouping all those tribal clans" "Majority of those clans already accepted turkish religion"
You do realize that Albanians are the only people in the Balkans to not have built their national identity by using any reliigion?
The same customs , traditions , language hold more weight than anything else to Albanians.
The Albanian flag is also based in the flag of Kastrioti's principality which was a black double headed eagle with a red background.
As of "somewhat similar regional language" do you even actually know how dumb you sound? Is it even worthy to even write something in order to debunk this?
Obviously South Slavs did put more value in middle-east religions than their own traditions , customs and language.
The same can't be said about the oldest nation in the Balkans though.
