Written by Gjon Keka
The 1882 Lexicon (Brockhaus Lexicon, 1882) precisely states that: “The Arbërorët (Albanians) are one of the oldest peoples in the sense (as has now been proven beyond doubt) that they are direct descendants of the ancient Pelasgians, whose language they have preserved, of course with the changes brought about by millennia.”
In this regard, it should be emphasized that the only period or era that acquaints us with the past and orients us with the future is the enlightened era of Gjergj Kastrioti (Skënderbeg) and his visionary leadership of the medieval European state of Arbër.
Our nation, having such an ancient and rich history, is surprising how today a part of the people imitates or with great fervor loves foreign religious ideologies, foreign languages and nations far from our continent, our culture, our tradition, which have nothing to do with them, but to love our own, our tradition, language, original culture and to cultivate and inherit from generation to generation not only what is within the historical and noble European spirit of our Dardano-Arbëror (Illyrian) nation and to give humane and civilizing fruits, of knowledge and science in its cradle and of the common continent of the European family.
