In the Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium (1581), two figures are juxtaposed: the Albanian, explicitly inscribed Epirote, and the Greek, identified only as Greek. The contrast is significant, for it demonstrates that sixteenth-century Europe clearly recognized the Albanian as the bearer of the legacy of Epirus, long before modern falsifications attempted to obscure this historical reality.

On the left we can see “Epirota” and below “Albanais”. On the right, we can read “Greek”.