A Russian archaeologist holds the will of Skenderbe

One scholar, between two obsessions, national interests and truth, two obsessions that clash with each other, who should I choose? That's the question that Mustafa Nano asked Professor Jevat Lloyd a long time ago, a question I've tried and often in mind, as he's been doing researching history in recent years. Researchers in the Balkans have shown that it is difficult to separate from nationalism.

“If a history scholar gets a document that is unique, the only one of its kind, and proves that Albanians have come late to the Balkans about the 10th or 11th century, what should an Albanian scholar do with this document, publish it, or in the name of national interest hide it or even worse? That is the question Mustafa Nano raised in a discussion with his latest book, organised at the Reja installation. Under the direction of Alda Bardhil, historians and publicists were involved in the debate.

“I have to say that I am a little critical of national historians in the Balkans, this is about the fact, that there is an attempt to establish a nation's greatness in evidence and I have the impression that it is a supposed greatness. And to highlight this greatness or adopt that the essence of the Albanians, and I'm specifying it to Albanians, and why it's not 100% proven I has often been sold the public as a proven”, Nano said.

According to him, a certain number of historians and scholars are occasionally subjected to a certain event that they describe in their own way, and yet often they try to pause and wonder how they can say, for example: Ilical visas are Albanian countries and become an automatic transition from the eastern parts to Albanian and can't become that automatic to me.

I am sure that those who know Albania's history know that these are not results found by documents. But the scholar in question stopped and said that Albania was violated by St. Paul, and supported by many authors, but that I think it is a paper that is not documented. Another thesis is that Shakespeare has violated with his mind in Ilir, in fact Shakespeare has written a drama that mentions the shores of Iliria, but that's all, and that's the fact that researchers present it as something great for the Albanian nation. And this kind of approach is sometimes similar to childhood, especially when it comes to a researcher who has read and studied thousands of pages and books and reach such conclusions so easily. But this is not just our disease, it is also of other Balkan countries, and especially of the Balkans. I have the impression that Serbs are more entitled to this disease, because they have manipulated their history for a long time, and have devised events and documents, and have interpreted historical events in a very nice way, and often even comical”, Nano said.

Professor and researcher Dzevat Looshi indicated that we should give up the position of “trucit” and get used to confronting the opinions of others. “Mustaf Nano in his last book has taken upon himself to do so. And today, we must learn to see them the way they are. And this book is a book that you learn a lot from, and whoever wants to learn something, it will find a publicist with a lot of values”, Lloyd said.

Historian Nevila Nica, stopping in the importance of a document, said that “I come from the document world and want to share with you something that I have read about a document a few years ago, the journal of a priest, and that it was unpublished, a journal and an extraordinary history book, but that has an impression of our neighbors but also for us and the diary has such a note. St. Vladimir Monastery priest during the visit of a Russian archeologist has given Gjergj Kastriot's will. I don't know how real it is”. / KultPlus. com