by Lulzim Osmanaj. Translation Petrit Latifi.

”Dardanoi-Galabroi-Kalabroi-Kalabria

Concept (analytical summary):German scholar Wilhelm Obermüller:

The text deals with the established ethnic and linguistic connections between the Calabrians (ancestors of today’s Neapolitans) and the Illyrians, based on a historical and etymological reading of ancient sources.

The author claims that the name Galabrioi mentioned by Strabo is related to the Dardanian people in Albania, who are defined as part of the “Illyrian race”.

According to him, the root of the word (galabh, galach, gailbbeach) had “bravery, strength and pride”, suggesting a positive meaning of the term “Calabrian”.

The text further expands the argument by linking the Aeolians of Thessaly and the colonies of Asia Minor with the Pelasgians and with elements from southern Italy (Metapontion, Sybaris).

This line of reasoning extends the Pelasgian ethnic continuity from Illyria to Greece and Italy, including linguistic influences on Latin, which the author sees as closer to the dialects and Aeolian than to Attic-Ionian.In the fonds, the author mentions the influence of the Phoenicians (Fenians) in Athens through the Gefirians, interpreting this as a foreign layer on an older Pelasgian basis.

The text, therefore, seeks to reconstruct a common Illyrian-Pellagian conversation of the Mediterranean people and to argue for a pre-Hellenic cultural and United.

Reasonable references (sources cited or linked):

1. Strabo, Geographica, Book VII, 5 — mention of the Galabrioi.2. Herodotus, Historiae, cases books I and VIII — on the Pelasgians, Gefirians and Phoenician influence.3. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War — on early ethnic divisions in Greece.4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae — on the origins of the Sabines and Pelasgians in ancient Italy.5. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia — on the connections between the peoples of Italy and those of the Balkans.6. Modern (comparative) studies:N. G. L. Hammond, Epirus: The Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas (Oxford, 1967).A. Katiçiq, Gjuhët e lashta të Balkanit (The Hague, 1976).Eqrem Çabej, Etymological Studies in the Field of Albanian, vol. I–IV (Tirana, 1976–1995).