Facing Neo-Oomanism

(Delay response, “Medieval University of Durres and Biblical Japheth, which created Mythic Albanians”, published on the Telegraph portal, November 6, 2019)

One of the world's best-known German Albanologists writes in a book recently translated into Albanian that: “First, the effects stemming from Albania's [Turkish] conquest cannot be compared at all to those of Bulgaria and Serbia; there Turks extinguish medieval high cultures. This did not happen in Albania. In the Middle Ages there was no church organization, no state tradition, no art and no culture, so you could call it Albanian. The offices of the Albanian dynatists drafted the documents in Greek, Latin or Slavic, and no document in Albanian is known. ” (Bartl 2017, pp. 55).

So if the translation is accurate, and I believe that it should be, the famous historian is telling us that prior to the Turkish occupation, the Albanian people had no high culture whatsoever. That he did not have a cultivated language - written, and that he did not know how to make a country. Even, he couldn't even organize his own church. So in other words Peter Bart! It tells us that before the Turkish occupation, we Albanians were a bunch of wild shepherds, living in the mountains, and we knew only about fighting and grazing sheep.

No surprise here. After all, other famous French historian Alain Ducellier tells Albanians that during the Middle Ages they lived in a cultural “hic” (Subtitles. This Strongly Supported Attitude jar of Albanian intellectuals with neo-Muslim tendencies.

There's a very simple reason behind this. Only if Albanians were truly semi-living and a barbarous population, then Turkish rule can be viewed with positiveness. If in the meantime Albanians, the word comes, there were indeed universities, the ruling class up to noble European families, clerical organizations high enough to extract cardinals, archbishops, and popes, and they knew writing and singing, then Turkish rule, which left Albania in 1912 with 98 percent of the illiterate population, divided into four villas, poor as much as they could afford even the smallest tax.

And here the neo-Ottoman interests join those Slavics. After all, this vision of history legitimises the Serbian thesis articulating at Congress in London: “AlbanianWYou don't know.W iW Ruling”; that “AlbanianWYou are.W FarmersW PaemWr, tW 1W placeW No name, no history, no LettWAll right, all right.W Word, no tradition, no poetry, so noW All those pWSetationsW B manWnW man and tribe of bWnW tribe oneWHardly. This bandW yWrcarW nW fiveW10W Full dialectsWsisW I don't understand.Wyoung and killed among themselvesW Sck anarchyWThe whole... KWTaW inchWrbloodWs, kWbarkedWEuropean red, impatientW EndWm, pWrtW WhichWcub and bandit W%s: %sW synonymous pWr PasserWs, kWTo the beastW Wild FaceW Man DwellsW nW Caves as ManWzoit e Neandertal, they liveW nW Stone towers without doors, without windows, and without chimneys, drinkW HotbloodW iW Victims, kill womenW From Greed and Meaning of LoveW does not exist in them, and the word love is not found.W kneeWn” writes prominent Croatian writer Miroslav Krelezha when describing racist and foul Slavic opinions for Albanians. (c. From the book The Dispute, I. ; Kadare; Fq. 103)

Well, the situation is very clear. It is profiled as a confrontation between the two fronts; on the one hand, the front of Albanians who disgruntled any inferiority and the other composed of Albanians who quietly accept all Turkish-Slave definitions, for the sake of which compromise, only to legitimise and demify the Ottoman invasion.

A few months ago, I put a few lines on this subject in my Facebook notes. I did not know that those few lines would quickly be turned into a post distributed thousands of times. And the opposers also came with kindness. With dozens of hysterical articles to zealously deny that we Albanians had a university. That we Albanians have had an aristocratic class worthy of European nobility. Thousands of words to say that Durres was not like Marseille or Paris (the quote he received from Milan Shuflaj), but that it was actually a common, dirty, dirty, malaria. So, in short, we Albanians, as Serbs and Turks say, we've been behind a bunch of wild people that we've been roaming the caves.

I understand the controversy of some since the fear of falling into absurd clonings (as is common in social networks) deny any bright label of our people. But, I can never understand those Albanians who, knowing very well which type of mill does the mill bring water to, continue to press against the waves of history and against Albania.

Yes, Albania and Durres have had a university (which as any other university at the time was called Studio Generale and directed from the church). No, Albania has never had a cultural vacuum. Yes, “The Albanian took it, set it on fire!” and period. Yes, Albania has “behind KhanW MeadW And ranW; Men of soil called him nanW”. Who really has Albania? nanW I don't desecrate it up and down.

So hold your teeth, do what you do and forgive us mediocre scholars love our mother.