by Δημόπουλος Μάριος
Dear friends of this hospitable Facebook group, I would like to inform you that a well-known Facebook group which supposedly deals with the defense of Greek history – while the only thing it actually does is post anti-Albanian publications – when I wrote to them, presenting evidence from Greek and international bibliography that what they write against Albanians, namely that they are not a Paleo-Balkan people, is incorrect, and when I also cited opinions of Greek scholars who considered Albanians a kindred people (blood brothers) to the Greeks, they blocked me about 3 weeks ago because they could not refute me.
Their claim was that I had violated the group’s rules by presenting unproven theories unsupported by bibliographic evidence. The real reason, of course, was that my posts were disrupting their anti-Albanian narrative.
So, in order to prove that they are not interested in historical truth but in anti-Albanian propaganda, I asked a female friend of mine on Facebook, who is a member of that group, to make a post on that group with a text that I had written for her, which – through logical acrobatics and without evidence from bibliography – supported the well-known anti-scientific theory that has gone viral on the internet, namely that Albanians are supposedly a newly arrived people who came from the Caucasus after the 11th century AD, and we also included the well-known map of Caucasian Albania. I provide you with the relevant post in a photo (screen) that I saved.
The administrators of that particular Facebook group approved this publication, despite it being fake and pseudo-history unsupported by any modern historian, archaeologist, linguist, or anthropologist. Thus, they were exposed because it has been proven that the reason they blocked me was not the one they claimed, but rather that they wanted to write articles against Albanians and Albanian history without opposition or rebuttal.
I did not stop there, however. Today I again asked my friend on Facebook to publish a text on that Facebook group that I sent her from artificial intelligence, supplemented with some comments of my own, regarding the demographic data of Kosovo, which text claimed that 95% of the population were Serbs and only 0.5% were Albanians, and of course, the administrators of the group approved it immediately.
However, I did not present the entire text of the artificial intelligence, because, further below, it states that the majority of the population of the Serbs concerned only the District of Branković and not the whole of present-day Kosovo, and does not prove a “Serbian overwhelming majority in the whole of Kosovo.”
The defter is a tax/feudal tool (timariots, dependent peasants, etc.), therefore it does not record everyone, and it is not a “national census.” Also, in the city of Prizren (16th–17th century), travelers and clergy noted that the majority of the population were Albanian-speaking (mostly Muslims), with a much smaller number of Serbs.
Of course, if we had presented all the data of the artificial intelligence with objectivity regarding the population composition of Kosovo from the 14th century until today, the said group in all probability would not have approved the publication! It is noteworthy that, in this publication, I deliberately included the false historical claim that the Turks sent Muslim Albanians in the 15th century to alter the region’s Christian element, without presenting historical sources for this claim, but this did not prevent the administrators of that group from approving this unproven post. I provide you with the relevant post in a photo (screen) that I saved.
In my next publication in your hospitable Facebook group, I will present all the data on the population situation in Kosovo over the centuries which proves that Kosovo was an Albanian historical land since antiquity.
