A 17th-century traveling Turkish writer of Slavic origin, Miran Alen, says of Skopje: “The inhabitants of this city speak Albanian and are Mohammedan and Catholic.” In 1845, Jovan Bugaresky confirms that the White Field of Akova (Bjelopolje) is Albanian, and three years later, in 1848, the Serb N. Davidovic states that: “Kosovo and Metohija, i.e. the regions of Peja, are entirely inhabited by Albanians”

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“La Turquie d’Evrope” quoted by Iscirkov “Zapadnata Kraichta na BIgarskata Zemja” The Western Regions of Bulgaria”, Sofia, p. 60.