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Pelasgians ancient forgotten people. Dardanus was son of Samotrakës (according Samon elctra and zeus of Thrace), a remain part according to mythology of dardanians which ,electra was daughter of stayed in Arkadia ,Dardanus atlas and atlas was son appointed king his son of japhet.According to Deimas.From Samothrakes the bible japeth was son then a part of od Noah which survive dardanians emigrated to with his brothers Sam Asia Minor where he and Ham and it is established new settlements supossed that from japhet because they knew very well was created europians. the wall-builder craft, Dardanus was founder of while Lasioni was hit by ancient dardanians. lightning in the island After the flod of Ohrid Samotrakës from Zeus lake Dardanus went to because he wanted to have Arcadia and appointed his relations with son name Idaeusit to role Dhemetrën.Dardani as leader in this region. Dionysius of his colony on the of Halicarnassus (I 61.62) Hellespont went Idea son says that the first found a desolate land in residence of Dardanians was Asia minor that later was Arkadia, which ruled called Frigia, and called together Dardanus and his Mount Ida (i-gave road). old brother Lasion ,who Some of these dardanians came after the Atlas son of continued their pilgrimage Noah because Atlas was to Asia, why is not casual first king of that Indian priests say Arcadia,According to Alexander the Great that Gyseppe Catapano which you are the third coming decifered egyptyan papirus from there because before ancient pelasgians was him, Dardanians with from atlantidaand then Carians had peregrinate they spread elong the to India this thing mediteran . Dardanus underscores the great married the daughter of Aristidh Kola, so up there Palashit (tribe of the flow we find traces of the of Palestinians today) Dardans.In Troy Dardan Chrysen and had two sons was expected by the Idaeusi , Mount Ida take Troyan king, Teucer who his name in Asia Minor and gave his daughter Batean Deimas.When occurred a ,because Palas daughter surge in Lake Ohrid and was died to Prespa ,most of Dardanians Dardan.Erikthion was born fled to the island of with Batea Kingdom ,so he was most happy men belongs to the people of because he inherit the Homer nor immemorial kingdom of both Dardan pellazgjëve.Prandaj and troyan king mentions some "Greeks" in Teucer.King Teucer thought the Iliad and Odisenë according to Athenian because they s'egzistonin. historian Fanodem was bashkëkohanikët called from Attica. Theukri was Homer as his "Oh" the blind glad, they had come because man who left fame in the the country was fertile history of European with few people .Trosi was civilization, Homer was not Erikthion son,the city of Greek but his tongue was Troya takes the name from the labi Today, even the Tros and the people of Troy heroes of "Iliadës" and was called by his name "Odisesë" were not Greek, Troyans ,and Son of Tros they had the blood of our Ilion was founder of ancestors Pelasgians, but legendary Troya..Në Frigia also established the Trojan he participated in war from ancient Darbar, competitions to Frigjët was not a war between the pellazge, but all Ilioni Trojan and Greek, but was defeated, and the king "ndërpellazgjike war" granted Frigjëve of 50 boys between pellazge tribes and 50 girls and gave a cow living in north and south. laramane, and dote on the Etnonimi "Greek" was not place where it will stop mentioned at all by the cow start Ilioni dardan ancient writers, it was the glamorous city of legendary invention of the Romans Troy. This is the glorious they mistakenly called history of ancient Hellenistic graicoi, Dardanians who founded Troy because in Epirus ruled and "Greek" today is a matriarkati or womens , historical fiction that are because there was no not mentioned at all by ancient Greek tribe or ancient historians, village where the people therefore, all mixed up lived, so "Graicoi" with errors historians Aristotle linked with Herodotus and Aristotle, Helens who made a mistake the first think that Helens because Homer mentions the are special people because "women-woman" because of it varies by race and the matriarchal system that language connects Aristotle to Illyrian-pellazgjet, mistakenly Graicoi Helena hence the major decision- with so today we have the making powers that are Greeks invented history being shaped by Aristotle which is a fiction, because founded heleno-Greek all the ancient glory ideology which lies at the core of the modern Greek this period wrote a large state, even though all the number of minds on the dignitaries who visited brightest of that time as Greece and the Greek Herodotus, Hesiodi, Strabo, revulucionit Peloponnese Tukididi, all these were (Morea), Attica, Eube, Homeri.Të when talking Beoti, Thesali, Chameria about Pelasgians but were speak Albanian, but major confused about their powers put on the agenda origin, especially Greeks, Aristotelian myth and Romans perzmadhuan still Greece established a 100% mistake that the Greeks Greek language so-called called Graecoi in order to artificial languages that pavetëdishme, greqishjta Koine became and during the conflict Ptolomeut commandment, that between Sparta and Athens politically the idea went some mythology to show Aristeas The superiority of Sparta to institucionalizoi Athinasve pellazge. Arvanitasit Elifter Have increased confusion Venizelos. parahelene still more scholars period was ignored because parahelene issue that have it works mendoheshte Homer not recognized the Albanian "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were language, which says that poetic fiction from the Stipcevici A. can not relevant academic circles, be good scholars of this while the German period that he knows well archaeologist discovered that the Albanian language, Hajnrih Shlimani Troy in and considering how Asia Minor based just on pellazgjishten "dead data to give Homer in language that left traces "Iliad" of Homer's works Skåne", researchers have should therefore be viewed gabuara.Herodoti in the framework of history conclusions of which was that were codified to known as the father of pellazgjëve residents of history, he spotted meditaranit immemorial "barbarians-pellazgj" by civilization that founded Helena, to "barbarians" the immemorial "Egjean. were those who flisinin Dodona was the religious pellazgjisht, therefore it capital more accurately is not coincidence that all pellazge "pellazgjite serious scholars know that Mecca, there was the the Albanian language and oracle, so Strabo said" deal with antiquity Thunderer of Dodones pellazgjishtja reach the pellazgjite ", this period conclusion that the old can in history known as deshifrohet only through parahelene dark period for the first language that emerges from the trunk of shqiptare.Pellazgjët lived the languages of the people across Greece today, they unreal "indoeuropian" were deployed in More, so Albanian language. One such Argosi from the Macedonian conclusion also issued a dynasty of ancient kings friend of a prominent had argeadëve derived from rilindasi Konstantin this settlement geography Kristoforidhit with which pellazge known that Strabo many traveled through called "Argosi pellazge" . Albanian areas Dr.Georg von Mikena had a civilization Han in his studies on the was famous from Agamemnon Albanians made a triangle- (He was thought) and his ilir-pellazgjë famous brother Monealu (Mind- shqiptarë.Edhe ilirologu, washed) was king of Sparta, Prof.. Stipçeviçi reaches while Arkadia thought to be the conclusion "that only the residence occupied by Albanians are those that the ancient pellazgjët, preserve language and even during revulucionit identity of this very "Greek "Random is not ancient pellazgjo- arkadia (that is (More) Illyrian", while Akeja, Attica, Hydra, pellazgjit, Hesoidi called species, Beotia says Finleu "Paleoktonos" or people were inhabited exclusively from dust, alleging that by Albanians who speak the our ancestors who were Albanian language. residents pellazgjet most Therefore Arkadia be ancient and native to thought of ancient southeastern Europe that settlement with inhabited the Balkan pellazgjeve, in this peninsula to the Adriatic, country thought to have the Danube River and Asia came out so many immigrant vogël.Samiu dardan Dionysius of "mendjendrituri" nickname Halicarnassus writes during for rilindasin honor of floods that have made Lake prominent Ottoman Albania, Ohrid and Prespa today. in his monumental work Homer does not mention "Albania which was, what of coming up very later in any place ", writes that this island is today known from pellazgjëve spilled: as the Peloponnese, as our Illyrians, Epirote, that Herodotus lived in Macedonians of Ancient Athens and is called Thrace, Dake, Etrur but all Pelasgians and later of it together a language historians invented a was barbaric language as it science fiction as "Dorian was called Herodotus the invasion" was not supported language in which pellazgje by archaeological data, nor flow of language that Homer akejtë of pëmend in Troy not cited as place (pellazgjia), it "Greek". Pellazgjit also takes understanding for the established an extremely predecessor of Alexander superb civilization on the the Great had passed that island of Crete and is way earlier than he, so he known as the Minoan followed the path of the civilization, which alleged first to tij.Prijami the shkatrruan Doric tribes (leader) was king of Troy that were pellazgjë who had dardan, also took the name come from the near east and Dardanelles straits to northern Africa Matthew testify on the origin of Aref says
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