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   <news:title>Linguist Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak on Proto-Albanian lexical influence on Doric Greek from the 7th century</news:title>
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  <loc>https://balkanacademia.com/2026/05/01/authors-who-support-the-illyrian-theory-of-the-albanian-origin/</loc>
  <lastmod>2026-05-01T04:47:05Z</lastmod>
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   <news:title>Authors who support the Illyrian theory of the Albanian origin</news:title>
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   <news:title>George Akropolites in &amp;quot;The History&amp;quot;: Epirotes are a &amp;quot;western race&amp;quot; and distinguished from the Roman (Greek Byzantines)</news:title>
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   <news:title>Gerard Conforte in 1901: Markos Botzaris (Marko Boçari) was an Albanian</news:title>
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