This quote, part of E. A. Washburns book from 1876, says that the Albanians filled the armies of Phyrrus and Alexander the Great, and are the “wildest nation of the white race”.

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“Further westward and southward, in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Albania, the character of the race changes again. Here the foundation of society, even to this day, is ancient Pelasgian, that [society] which peopled Greece in prehistoric times; which withdrew before the immigration of the heroic Ionians, and which, in later times, under the territorial designations Epirotes and Macedonians, formed the armies of Pyrrhus and Alexander the Great.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, this peculiar relic of prehistoric times was Slavized and Christianized since the days of the Turkish occupation. In appearance, this part is now entirely Slavic and Orthodox, while further south the ancient language survives, being the distinguishing mark of the most savage of the white peoples.

The part of the Pelasgian race which has preserved its primitive language is today called Albanian, and, with the exception of a Catholic section, the inhabitants of which are called Mirditori, it has become of the Muslim faith.”

Source

“The Herzegovinian question”, The International Review, January, vol. III, 1876.Author: Rev. E. A. Washburn D. D., New York. Publisher: A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1876