Albanians in front of the science fiction of Serbian historiography

From: Fatos Kola

Instead of the parenthesis of this article, dear friends and well-wishers, let me convey to you some dark humor, mythomania, alla-Balkan mythology and folklore, in which we have fallen as long as our "Albanologists" sleep. , or work against Albania... While the rest of us try to clear up the intentional confusion in the problems of Albanology even when we are not experts in the field, which always eats up debate and requires analysis, judgments and attitudes. But, Fatos Kola, I am simply quoting the linguist Agron Dalipaj, who accuses the academician great-granddaughter of Enver Hoxha, "Ms. Anila Omarović (as Dalipaj calls her)", yes "works for Belgrade". So, it is fitting that these "academics" are paid by us poor Albanians to work for the verification of Serbian theses and to simultaneously verify their "autochtony". While the Serbs pay our "academics" with fat fees to work hard and feel their compatriots to define themselves as patricians in the Balkans, and that we "robbed the homeland and the Illyrian heritage of the Serbs", who have been indigenous to these lands for eight thousand years!

50 years ago, the communist historian Kristo Frashëri advised a scrupulous researcher of the province, whom he appreciated for his scientific level, in a low voice and with eyes torn by the fear of the Security: "My friend, don't deal with Linguistics and don't go against the official theses in Albanology, or you'll lose your head. Deal only with glorifications of LAN-Çl and other things like these".

Nearly 20 years ago, the "Kuçi" Association based in Tirana, which in the late 1980s had over three thousand members in the capital alone, gathered in a "scientific symposium" with extraordinary participation, under the direction of academician Makbule Çeço, then vice president of the Assembly and at the same time a professor of philosophy at the public (state) university of Tirana. Our followers gathered to mourn the tragic fate of the English Queen Anne Boleyn, who reigned only three years (1533-1536), and whose husband, King Henry VIII, executed her by beheading at the age of 35, with accusations of alla-Shakespearean court intrigues. However, with the contribution of Mrs. Çeço, the "Symposium" turned into a public funeral, where the participants mourned for the "unfortunate daughter of Bolena i Kuči", who "had punished her in the most cruel way because she had gone against the obscurantist clergy and the injustices of the courtiers" and you had asked for deep reforms...". And what were Teuta, Vojsava Tribalda, Mamica Kastrioti and Donika Arianiti-Kastrioti before this "daughter of a bitch"?

At that time, my friend, academician Ukë Zenel Buçpapa, assured me that very soon it would be proven that Homer's Troy is today's Tropoja, traversed by the rivers Drin and Valbona and with the white crowns of the Alps...

At that time, I laughed at the ease with which we Albanian intellectuals take things very seriously, falling into stale all-Balkan folklorizations with no scientific basis, always protected by the opinion that the experts should be the first to speak and write, and I always gave them the right Winston Churchill who said that the Balkans produce more mine history than they consume...

But, with "Troy" I had and still have a special connection, either because of intellectual curiosity and allure, or because of the fascination of Homer's genius as the first modern poet and the founder of a divine literature; and, above all, because of the very high-quality treatment of Homeric characters in the visual arts, especially in Greek vases, but also in sculpture and painting. So today I bring you some of my views, but mainly the views that have preceded and accompany the 150-year-old debate, which poses the questions: Are Homeric Troy and its War mythology or historical reality?; what is the influence of politics on archaeology, historiographical sciences and on the geographical determination of the location of Troy, if it ever existed?; what is the harm of the Serbian thesis of their "Illyrian autochthony and heritage" regarding Troy and beyond?; what should be the reaction of our scientific circles after the reactions of Slavic political and scientific circles to inaccurate anti-Albanian theses "in the sciences" where interpretation has decisive weight and where in the name of academic freedom, chauvinist and hostile theses can be thrown openly, through the transformation of for what causes of war and aggression have the historical enemies made us miserable?...

"Troy" according to the Serbs

This dilemma about the existence or not of Troy, dear friends, appeared to me again in this time of pandemic, as a few days ago I accidentally came across an almost 11-year-old material by the Serbian jurist Milutin Jaçimović, entitled "Troja - Serbian capital, Shkodra", a paper which this non-professional in historiography asked to be referred to at the Congress of Historians in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2009, a "scientific contribution" for which he was appointed (not elected) Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (NGO founded in 1991, which is called the Petrovska Academy in St. Petersburg, of which anyone can become a member - vj), for which he was cruelly announced as an outstanding scientist by the local organizers!!?

After that, with a "legitimate" sense of triumphalism, Jaçimović claimed that he promoted his thesis as early as 1991, in the body at that time "Communist spark", where he published the article entitled "Troy is Shkodra", in which he announced to the readers that he was bringing this undeniable truth written 25 centuries after the translation and editing from the Old-Slavic language (ancient Phrygian-Serbian) to ancient Greek , this is true written at the time by the first ancient translators and editors.

In the book he recently published, in which he "deepens the arguments of theses" referred to "Communist spark (Iskra)" in addition to those of the report held in Russia, Jačimović treats, according to him, "the truth unfortunately denied for centuries...", that supposedly for "political reasons and malicious anti-Serbian leaders", it continues to be "denied" for at least 150 years, since the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann announced in 1870 that he had discovered the ruins of ancient Troy in Hisarlik, Asia Minor. And, this "even hidden truth", according to Jačimović, proves to us that the famous Troy and the Trojan War are not myths and legends, but realities, and that Troy is located in the historical Serbian lands, as well as in "Shkodra was the seat of Serbian kingdoms and kings from ancient times until the middle of the 14th century, when Stefan Dushan's empire came to an end."

Jaçimovici claims that "Troy, or Ilion, was a great city that stood on a steep hill where a strong wind blew, and below its feet two rivers joined, between which lay great plains that were also wetted by the water of the sea. In these fields, great battles were fought where 50 thousand Achaeans and as many Trojans fought with infantry, cavalry and countless war chariots. These battles needed very large battlefields and at least 10 km. long, to move and fight over 100 thousand warriors".

In the following he emphasizes that "According to the Iliad, on the left side of the Achaean army (which attacked from the coast in more than 1000 small ships landing on a large sea beach), flows the river Skimandar, which is Buna, while on the right is the river Simonet, meaning Drini. Under the castle of Troy, the rivers join and create a shallow (va shallow), which according to the Iliad served the Trojan army to cross the river and enter the battlefield. According to Homer, the Holy Mountain of the Trojans is Ida, from whose heights the protector of Troy and the Trojans, the god Apulunus (Apollo), looks down on the battlefield with the Trojans on his back and the Achaeans in his face.

According to him "in Hisarlik, there is no mountain that stands behind the Homeric Troy..., because there are such mountains only in Shkodër, which are Bjeshke and Namuna, Mali Sharr and Korabi. Undoubtedly, Ida is the crown of the Namuna Mountains, this crown is the largest in the Balkans, 80 kilometers long and 2694 meters high, which took its name from its Christian people because of the many ancient shrines that are scattered in to. Even today, there are many Christian shrines and ancient cities. Shkodra Castle is the largest and most powerful hill-type fortification in the Mediterranean, the time of its creation is still unknown. It probably dates to the second or third millennium BC. The city is situated at a sufficient distance from the sea, so that the described battles between the two great armies could take place in the space between the two rivers. In this area are all the rivers described in the Iliad (Jaçimovici is talking about the Moraça river, with the Zeta, Ribnica and Cem branches, the Crnojevica Rijeka river and the small Crmnica – FK river). Near Shkodra lie the settlements of the allies of the Trojans, such as: the Lycians (from Zeta); The Dardanians, which lie along the banks of the Drin; The Peonas of the banks of the Vardar and the Thracians behind them; The famous Pelasgians of Larissa, as well as the Phrygians south of Ohrid. All of these are only a few days' walk from Shkodra and can travel to Troy by land, as described in the Iliad. Even Aeneas himself, who, according to the legend, went to Latium with a part of the Trojans after the war, could easily get out of this region straight to the sea, which would have been impossible from Asia Minor. There is no single city in the Mediterranean that, like Shkodra, fits the descriptions of the Iliad in so much detail. For political reasons, the Hellenes moved Troy to Asia Minor, to the area of ​​their colonies, which they established in that area as early as the XNUMXth century BC, when they named the Dardanelles strait as 'Hellespont'. The Iliad and Odyssey were redacted when they were translated into the Greek dialect in Athens during the tyranny of Pisistratus and his sons."

In the Iliad, according to Jačimović, it is said that "Troy is near a lake full of eels, and there is no lake near Schliemann's Troy. The Iliad says that the river Skimandar flows from that lake and flows into the two-armed sea (the Buna delta), while in Hisarlik in Turkey there is no river except a dried-up stream and the supposed ruins of 'Troy'. In the Iliad, it is said that the allies of the Trojans and the hero Achilles arrived in Troy on horseback or on foot, which means that if Troy were located in Asia Minor, i.e. in Hisarlik, they would have arrived in Troy except by boat , or in boats. But let's return to the thesis that 'Shkodra is Serbian Troy'. As we have seen, the Illyrians are Serbs and the Serbs are Slavs, which means that: the Trojans are our autochthonous fathers and bearers of the Serbian-Slavic civilization of ancient times; Former Troy is the ancient Serbian capital of Shkodra; The Iliad as an ancient civilizational notion refers to Serbian states, cities, kingdoms, kings and Serbian heroes of the time. So, we can finally affirm with scientific conviction that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are not dithyrambic poems dedicated to Greek states, Greek kings, Greek heroes, but are evidence for Serbian states, Serbian kings and Serbian heroes of antiquity...".

The discovery of Shliman and the opponents

In 1870, Schliemann announced to the world that starting from the descriptions of Homer in his works, through the excavations of the archaeological expedition he led, he discovered the ruins of Troy in Asia Minor, in the city of Hisarlik, 20 kilometers from the famous Çanakkale, near the peninsula of Gallipoli. He announced that he had discovered the famous treasure of King Priam, and alongside it the even more famous artifact of Homeric description, the gold mask of the Achaean commander-in-chief, King Agamemnon of Mycenae. Schliemann then drew up a detailed descriptive report on the archaeological findings, which he sent to official Berlin.

At the time, this "discovery" shocked the entire scientific and political world, so the German government of Otto von Bismarck granted Schliemann large funds to continue the excavations, which actually turned out to be successful, as they enabled the discovery of artefacts in an expanding territory. continuously.

Nowadays, Hisarlik has turned into a real tourist town, as it administers the territory and archaeological construction objects of 10 neighborhoods, nine of which were discovered from the dust of time as early as the end of 1971.

The "Discovery of Ancient Troy" gave a powerful financial and scientific impetus to the growth and structuring of the German-Austrian school of archeology of antiquity, Balkanology, Byzantology and other scientific disciplines, including Illyrianology and Albanology, for which in German and Austrian universities established chairs and funded research-scientific programs. But, above all, the reputation of the political Greece of the time, which was declared the heir and representative of a genius civilization over three thousand years old, was immediately qualified, alongside the Roman civilization, as the foundations and supporting columns of the genius edifice of Western civilization. .

Greece was now placed in the center of political attention, and the Germanic royal dynasties ruling in official Athens forged political alliances with Berlin and other major European chancelleries and beyond. But the announcement of "Schliemann's Troy" as the brightest and most ancient pearl of the ancient Greek civilization and as its highest culmination, awakened the "devils" of jealousy and claims of the Slavs about the ethnicity of the protagonists of the bloody conflict. which brought about the "Homeric destruction of Troy".

Troy and the "Illyrian Slavs"

Novak and Dragolub Andesilić were the first Serbian "researchers" who hypothesized that ancient Troy was located in the northern part of Lake Shkodra, near Podgorica. These two even claim that even Herodotus who wrote about Troy and its war, as well as other ancient authors, were also wrong when they determined the location of Troy in Asia Minor. According to them, the Latin author Eliani claims that: "The Iliad and the Odyssey were written in the Phrygian language of the Phrygians neighboring the Trojans, who were nothing but Slavo-Serbians"; that "their language, like that of the Trojan-Serbians, was the old ancient language of the Serbo-Slavs (Staro-Slavic)"; and that the Homeric works "they were not written at all in the ancient Greek language of the Ionian dialect, a statement supported by the author named Plato in Cratylus". These authors also point out that "the Phrygians lived in the mountainous area south of Ohrid, an area from which Homer, who had the Serbo-Slavic name, 'Omir', was undoubtedly from. Strabo writes that the Illyrians, Epirotes and Macedonians speak the same language, which is implied to be the Serbo-Slavic one... And that precisely for this reason, since the Phrygians lived in the border area bounded by Macedonia, Illyria and Epirus (Tremedia), it is logical that their language should be simultaneously Illyrian, Macedonian and Epirote, since the differences between them are at the level of the dialect of the same language". According to them, even "the Scottish researcher of the 19th century, John Francis Campbell (who in fact was not a historian at all - FK)", asked us to write that "In the west of Macedonia were the Dardanians and the Illyrians, two names that denote the same people - the Serbs".

Schliemann vs the Serbs

Immediately after the ruins of "Troy" in Hisarlik, the thesis about the "Serbo-Slavic" origin of the Trojans and their opponents came to light, a thesis which was put forward two years after the "discovery" of Schliemann, in 1872, by the Serbian historian Milosh S. Millojević, in his book "Parts of the history of Serbs and Serbo-Slavic territories in Turkey and Austria". Millojevic even announced the open and tendentious contradictions with the then existing theses of the German-Austrian school about the ancient Balkan civilizations, up to those of Schliemann, who had just announced with conviction that he had discovered the ruins of ancient Troy. "The Trojans were the Serbs of antiquity and Troy is not located in Asia Minor at all, as Herodotus first wrote, and Plutarch after him", concludes as a conclusion of his book Millojevici.

After that, in support of Milojević, the Serbian academic circles brought back as "scientific argument" pro-Slav theses that the Catholic priest Andrija Kacic-Mioshic wrote "for pre-German Serbia" as early as 1756, in the book with the title "Pleasant conversation for the Slavic people".

The Serbo-Slavic thesis about Troy and the warring parties has also been supported by the Mexican diplomat Roberto Salinas Price in his book in English with title "Homer's Blind Auditor", published in San Antonio, USA since 1984, and then in the book with the title "Atlas of Homeric Geography". "I can never accept that the Slavs, who are the largest family of European peoples, came to the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries from nowhere...", this diplomat shocks with his "scientific" statement, who simply calls a scientific thesis an arbitrary statement - a rhetorical question to which he himself answers when he declares that "the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer in the old Slavic-Serbian language and only after two centuries were they translated into ancient Greek". Then, this author, in his second book with the title "Atlas of Homeric Geography", located Troy at Gabela in Bosnia, between the towns of Caplina in Herzegovina and Metkovic in Croatia.

After the Mexican diplomat Salinas Price is the former ambassador of the federal Yugoslavia in Mexico, the Serbian diplomat Branko Vukushić, who in 2003 wrote the book with title "On the Trojan-Slavic mystery". In this book this author claims that Troy and its environs, so beautifully described by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey must be in the Balkans and that they "they are related to the civilization of the South Slavs, namely the Serbian one".

Serbian researcher Lubomir Domazetovic claims that "Macedonian linguist O. Belčevski found a large number of words in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which are similar, or the same as the words in today's Macedonian and Serbian...", but does not specify what these words are. Domazetovic notes on the same page that "The oldest written and preserved works of Hellenic-Illyrian literature are undoubtedly the Iliad and the Odyssey, written in the so-called hexameter, which makes them very similar to the writing of Serbian heroic epic poems. The language used is Ionic, which shows that Homer is Illyrian and that these languages ​​and writings are Illyrian". Also, this author emphasizes in the following that "... even the historian of antiquity Fanula Papazoglu thinks that Brigia (Phrygia) is a border area of ​​Illyria and that Sarda (Dardania) is also like that, since the Illyrians are Sardinians, or Sardanes (Dardane). So the Illyrians are the Trojans. From here it appears to me that ancient Serbia in the interior was called Dardania (Sardania), after the name of the ruler of Dardania, or Sardania, Sarbonus, since the fourteenth century BC, and that ancient Serbia along the Adriatic Sea was called Illyria".

Even the researcher Radivoje Pešić emphasizes that "the comparative linguistic analysis of Homer's work testifies to a strong Slavic component". In fact, Pešić also cites the research of Harvard professor Milman Parry, who "discovered" that "even today Serbian rhapsodists sing songs with heroic scenes described by Homer and deal with the themes of Homer's poetry". Likewise, Pešić emphasizes that "... even the Slavic authors Dankovski and Budimir emphasize the existence of a great Slavic lexical treasure in Homer's songs, as well as in the structure and rhythm of the Homeric verse".

The researcher Dragan from North Macedonia claims that Troy is located near the village of Krushevica in his country. He bases this theory "in many years of studies and in the correct interpretation of the errors observed in the Iliad regarding the descriptions of the Trojan War", as well as in the fact that many gold, silver and ceramic objects were found in an archaeological site near Krushevica, including the medallion of King Gorgon, who in the Iliad is said to be the protector of Agamemnon.

Jaçimoviqi and the like

In order to attack Schliemann and to declare his own theses as true, Jačimovič calls for help the Serbian pensioner from the Sorbonne, the comparative linguist Milan Ristanović, who in one of his studies emphasizes that "... the wandering of Odysseus to return to Ithaca after the Trojan war takes place across the Adriatic and Ionian, from Corfu to Split" and that "Poseidon is an Illyrian god, so Serbo-Slavic".

Ristanović emphasizes that "the many books that have been written about Troy and Homer, in most cases bring nothing new, as they all misrepresent the basic truth - the location of Troy". According to him, "even Herodotus and Plutarch say that during the campaign against Persia, Alexander of Macedonia and his chief general Pausanias, after crossing the 'Hellespont', mistakenly looked for Troy in Asia Minor".

Ristanovic even completely rejects Schliemann's alleged discovery of Troy in Asia Minor, as he harshly criticizes the German archaeologist for "lack of personality" and how "fraudster..."!

Jaçimoviqi, in support of his own basic thesis, also cites a study on Troy by the Serbian ethnographer Aristid Vucetić, who informs us that "The Serbian funeral rites in the Iliad after Hector's death are the same as those still practiced by the Serbs: After the death of a relative, or husband, women wore black. The first rite was mourning for the deceased, where a woman weeps loudly while others follow her. Today this custom is present among Serbs, mainly in Montenegro, Herzegovina and Bosnia. Even today, in these regions, women would cry for Hector as his mother Hecuba did more than three thousand years ago".

Gjorgje Jankovic asked us for it "found the similarity of the Trojan burial of Hector under thunder and torrents of rain with a case of a Serbian mortuary near the provinces of Grahovo and Knin". He even wrote a book about this burial rite, claiming that even the ancient graves discovered by archaeologists were simply Serbian graves dating back to the 4th and 5th centuries AD. But the official Serbian intellectuals did not like it and rejected it "scientific finding" removing Jankovic from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade with the motivation that "Serbs did not live in the Balkans in the 4th and 5th centuries" (However, they really removed from the university the delirious Jankovic who publicly and loudly discredited the Serbs in the pulpits, auditoriums and chairs with unscientific assertions about "autochthony", but they appointed him to the archaeological institutions and in charge of the expeditions, where he did " important "discoveries" and wrote books and studies that proved the theses of the "Illyrians-Slavs", which not only did not deny them, but on the contrary they financed them, thus giving the message that one should work carefully and inconspicuously, like a mouse, and not like the bear – F. K).

Jaçimović "distributes indulgences as if he were the Pope of science", in order to win the support of the public and attract the attention of serious academics, as he cruelly declares: "Homer's language is full of Serbian words, so Milutin Acimovic should be recognized for his contribution to the identification of Serbian words in the Greek language of the Iliad". and "Time has confirmed that Olga Lukovic-Pjanoviwho was right when in his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne he brought facts proving that many words in the Greek language were borrowed from the Serbian language".

Jaçimović also informs us that the Italian historian Giancarlo Tomacoli Tiziano, at the Congress of Historians in St. Petersburg in 2009, had read a report in which he dealt with the results of deciphering the linear letters A and B from Crete, using Slavic languages. "From this decoding", asserts Tiziano, "it is concluded that the Minoan state (founded in Crete 2000 years before Christ - FK) is Serbian, not Greek, so not as it is taught around the world at all levels of education. This truth used to be a surprise, but it isn't anymore. Even today, more and more scholars agree with the conclusion that the Serbian (Slavic) peoples in the Mediterranean and other parts of Europe are autochthonous." Tiziano had declared at that congress, for which, like Milutin Jaçimoviqi, he had also been appointed (and not elected) a corresponding member of that "Academy" of Russian Sciences in Saint Petersburg.

Jaçimović's carelessness

I am personally convinced that Jaçimoviqi does not hold back and does not use "scientific brakes" when he openly and cruelly claims that the heroes of the Iliad and Odyssey are ancient Serbo-Slavs and that the events described in them have no connection whatsoever with the Trojans, the Dardanians, the Peons, Thracians, Phrygians, Hittites, Scythians and their allies. According to him, they are not even related to the Achaeans, the Mycenaeans or the ancient Greeks, since all these "Participant in the Trojan War" we were Serbs and that the Iliad and the Odyssey were translated only in old Serbian and Old-Slavic languages ​​and dialects, always without mentioning what is the background of the Serbian lexicon that does such miracles.

Jačimović (but not only) disqualifies the anti-Trojan side as non-existent in this clash of titans with the argument that "The ancient Greeks appeared in the Balkans 4-5 centuries after the Trojan War...". Even, carried out by delirium and co-opted as a "scientist" in Russia, he will not even know that archaeologists and historians of antiquity claim that in the 12th century before Christ in the Balkan area, there were known as pre-Illyrian peoples and tribes but the Illyrians (together with their branches such as the Dardanians, the Dalmatians, the Liburnians, the Epirotes and the Mollos), the Mycenaeans, the Achaeans, the Thracians, the Paeonians, the Scythians, the Phrygians, the Hittites (who are included in the great grouping of the Pelasgians). Which means that if Troy really existed and its supposed war, described by Homer-rhapsode (and not a contemporary and eyewitness), took place, then the warring parties were the armies of the above peoples and tribes, all of them, or a part thereof. But, at that time, it could not even be a question of Serbs and Slavs in the Balkan territories, since serious historiography records their arrival in the Illyrian Peninsula only in the 6th and 7th centuries AD.

Serbian historiographers and their allies do not leave an "argument" without interjecting how "fact, artefact and scientific evidence", but they escape as soon as you remember that the medievalist father of Byzantology, Slavistics and modern Balkanology, the genius Konstantin Jirecek, has put the fence in their mouths for claims such as Parachians and autochthonous people in the Balkans as "Illyrian-Slavs", in the work in two volumes "History of the Serbs". In fact, the prominent Balkanologists Ludwig von Thalloczy, Mavro Orbini and Milan Sufflay have also held these attitudes towards scientific truths.

General considerations

The mythical Troy has been claimed to have been found several times in different places, but most serious researchers still think that Troy is a legend of ancient mythology, which means that it never existed, except as a product of human imagination, coupled with archaeological findings. and "historiographical and linguistic" interpretations, which do nothing but hide, ignore and misinterpret the facts, as well as intentionally confuse the eras and locations of real events.

Over five thousand books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles have been written about Troy and the Trojan War, thousands of documentaries have been filmed and hundreds of television, scientific and cinematographic reports and reports have been drawn up. But above all, dozens of feature films have been shot, even with the participation of the most prominent actors of world cinematography.

Myth or reality, the Homeric epic of Troy is the self-referential culmination of the self-glorification of Western (Greco-Roman) civilization, rightly frustrated in the face of the indisputable greatness and genius of pre- or contemporary civilizations such as the Egyptian, Minoan-Cretan, Mesopotamian, Assyrian -Babylonian, Chinese, Indian, Indochinese, Inca, Aztec, Mayan... Also, the supposed "Trojan civilization" and left in the ether and to its fate even by the fathers of science who refused to self-sacrifice their reputation by self-involvement in problems of scientific ambiguity, in any case, in the end it was used as an excellent instrumentarium in the geostrategic and geopolitical confrontations of the Anglo-Saxons and the European Latins with the huge grouping of the North and South Slavs of the continent... This grouping of nations and states which, based on the strength and strategies of clearly, they aimed at territorial expansion and vital space even if speculating with non-exact theoretical sciences - which I will write about below.

Remarks on Schliemann

The archaeological remains of the "Schliemannian Troy" in Hisarlik have been officially recognized by the world public as the most fascinating archaeological site of antiquity, as a direct reference and address to Western European civilization. But many researchers and amateur researchers, mainly Serbian and Russian, have emphasized that the excavations of one of several layers of old settlements in Hisarlik, where Schliemann placed ancient Troy, do not correspond at all to the claimed time of Priam's reign. Even, the irony of Schliemann's critics reaches its peak when they point out that in Hisarlik, as early as 1871, he brought to light nine settlements, out of 10 such that the entire archaeological site includes, but which date back to the Neolithic era (fourth millennium BC Christ) until the Roman period. As he found large quantities of gold jewelry in the second layer of excavations, Schliemann became convinced that this layer covered the ruins of Homer's Troy and that these treasures belonged to King Priam and the Trojan aristocracy.

Many of the subsequent archaeological discoveries in Hisarlik after Schliemann and the use of new scientific methods and techniques of dating the age of artifacts, evidenced and proved that the supposed treasure of Priam actually belonged to another ruler, who had lived and reigned in those three centuries before the Trojan War.

Schliemann did not invent Asia Minor, but in the plan-expedition and excavations he was oriented towards Hisarlikus because he was strongly based on ancient writers and geographers, mainly on Herodotus and Plutarch, but also on others who describe the doubts of Alexander and Pausanias about the location of Troy. But Schliemann's most zealous and severe critic, it must be admitted, is the Serbian Jačimović, according to whom "the faint traces of ancient times, for centuries, were not enough to definitively specify the exact location of Troy, so, like many other archaeologists before and after him, Schliemann tried to find the location of ancient Troy based only on in the information provided by the analysis of the text of the Iliad and the Odyssey", for which Jaçimovici is not correct as he unfairly denies Schliemann the multiple references I highlighted above.

However, Jaçimoviqi, in his book and countless pronouncements in two decades, does not even give us the sources from which he starts and crowns his venture that led him to "Serbian Shkodra", except for the analysis of the Homeric texts which he quotes accurately, but which he speculates as if they did not exist when he draws the conclusions he believes or suits him.

In fact, the above-mentioned ancient writers are the first and only historical sources after Homer that indirectly determine the location of Troy contrary to the interests of the Serbs and the phantasmagorical claims of Slavic authors. And, for this, they cannot be blamed for intentionality, or as agents of "Teutonic imperialism".

However, Jačimović cannot be given the crown of merit as the only scholar who casts doubt on "historical facts" dating back to the second and third millennium BC, including the Trojan War, which is claimed to have taken place around 3300 years ago. Other critics, mostly Slavs, basically unanimously claim that Schliemann's discovery was shrouded in mystery from the start, because the so-called Priam's Treasure, according to unconfirmed rumours, "it was found by Schliemann himself one evening, after he had previously dismissed the workers from the excavation site". Later, according to these critics, it turned out that Schliemann's Troy discovered in the city of Hisarlik was declared as such on the basis of excavations found in a layer that was 1200 years older than the time when the Trojan War is thought to have taken place. Moreover, critics claim that many of the excavated artifacts date from other time periods and that even the most famous artifact - "the gold mask of the Achaean commander-in-chief, King Agamemnon of Mycenae" - was found later, almost an identical copy , two more times in the territory of today's Macedonia, in locations where they were thought to carry and cover archaeological data from later periods.

Greeks, Slavs, Teutons and Albanians

The most surprising and shocking data of the historiography of ancient Troy is the statement of Herodotus that "The Trojan War took place in the 500th century BC, while the Greeks arrived in the Balkans in the XNUMXth century BC, i.e. XNUMX years later." Thus it is that, according to Herodotus, it turns out that the Greeks could not participate in the Trojan War because they did not exist at that time in those regions nor in the Balkans.

Jaçimoviqi himself denies the Greeks participation and protagonism in the Trojan war, blaming the Serbs. It even charges them the ethnicity of both warring parties. But he doesn't have it only with the Greeks, so it's no coincidence that he alludes to Schliemann for access, influence and strong political implication while openly accusing him of "tending, influenced and related to the program of the Vienna-Berlin School of History in the 19th century". School which, according to him, and according to the official Serbian and Russian historiography, was simply an institution politically conformed and adapted to the essence of the German imperial expansionist plans towards Slavic countries and Slavic peoples.

The "heretical" Schliemann had actually "sinned" because he had dared to write that "the Slavs, as non-indigenous tribes (so non-autochthonous, my note FK), could not have mastered literacy and other civilizational achievements until the 9th century AD, like the Greeks, Romans and Germans". Even, his "sin" had culminated in "blasphemy" when you wrote that "in the Balkan Peninsula and in Pannonia the South Slavs came from Russia, invading the land of other nations".

Exactly this statement "occupation of the land of other nations", Serbian and Russian historiography interpret it as a violent self-revolution by the German-Austrians of Tagr and the project to put in place the historical right of expelling the Slavs from the stolen land... This statement, according to them, means the entire political-diplomatic action- anti-Slavic military in the Balkans and beyond of "Teutonic Imperialism and their allies" in the last two centuries...

But Jaçimovic, after his ordination as a "scientist" in St. Petersburg, did not declare war only on Schliemann, who stood like a "Chinese wall" in front of his theory of "Serbian Troy-Shkodra". In the fire pit of "scientific" delirium, he went so far as to label the father of Slavic studies Konstantin Jirecek as "apprentice of Vienna and Berlin and miserable soldier of Teutonic imperialism", simply and only because he had dared to challenge with scientific scrupulousness the fabricated theses about Serbian autochthony in the Balkans and about their main center-capital - Shkodra.

Why does Jaçimoviqi declare Jirecek as an enemy of the Balkan Slavs (that is, the South Slavs), when this Constantine the Great of Science in the period 1779-1784 worked as Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Minister of Science and then as Director of the National Library of Sofia?!

Jirecek had very good relations, received funded projects and was paid as a consultant to governments and university and study institutions in all the Slavic countries of the continent, except Russia and Serbia, where he remained non grata until he passed away in 1918, at the age 64 years old, at the height of the brilliance of scientific genius.

Based on the vicious logic of labeling and qualifying researchers and scientists as "enemies" of this nation or people, it falls to the Albanians, more than anyone else, to declare Jaçimović and many others before him as the "greatest enemy" , as a trend, before he took out and announced Shkodra as "Serbian" even when he calls it "Troy", he worked for several years and published in 2007 the topic with the title "The methodological problem of exploring the origin of Albanians", referred to in Belgrade on June 21, 2007, as well as the topic "Serbs and Albanians in Serbian land".

Albanians are used to very high-ranking Serbian statesmen and officials, including scientists, who have drawn up genocidal platforms against them, such as Vladan Gjorgjevic, Vasa Čubrilovic and Ivo Andriqi and their friends, so they laugh at the "lawyer" Jaçimović, who shouts more than he does. science even when it is sponsored by all means and ways... even from St. Petersburg when it serves the root against the Albanians and brings out the Slavs as the only autochthonous inhabitants of the Balkans, the Aegean and Asia Minor in the last millennia.

We are concerned by the fact that in all this hubris that elevates itself to "scientific" chauvinism, Albanian Albanology is silent, which is said to be led by a person of Slavic minority origin, whose contribution to Albanology is a doctorate in France on the values ​​of Sartre in literature , and as a payer of subordinates who work for Belgrade with studies similar to those of Jaçimović - the main character of this article.

Geopolitics and Ancient Troy

I have always been convinced that geopolitics and geostrategy are primarily domains and projects of politics, which, due to the power and tax for the administration of finances, which are the blood and lymph of the sciences, can influence them, ignore them, subjugate or abuse them, especially in totalitarian states that also design war-inciting platforms. That is why I think that the genius band of ancient Athenian thinkers, philosophers and statesmen such as Pericles, Lycurgus, Solon, Lysistratus, etc., were the first to use geopolitics to give the shape of a Political Empire to their creation: the Hellenic Cultural Empire, This emperor radiated simply and only in culture and expanded the culturally influential borders, but not the political ones, which were closed until two centuries ago in the peninsulas of Attica, the Peloponnese and some islands of the Aegean.

These prominent thinkers-statesmen caught the genius finding of the translators and editors of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey about Troy, the "war" of which their "grandfathers" had done there! Therefore, they tried to appropriate and use politically and culturally the Homeric-Herodotian historical fable..., to appropriate and then territorially occupy the "Trojan" land in Asia Minor by means of wandering settlers who spread them throughout the Mediterranean... as they did after a few centuries (after the Roman conquest) also with Constantinople-the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (and not the capital of Greece)... that Constantinople in which all the nations that made up Byzantium were co-owners and which the Greeks declared "Greek" before the conquest from the Seljuk Turks, but also after the conquest by Mehmet Fatihu in 1453. Just as they adopted the superior Minoan-Cretan civilization together with Crete and then Cyprus and all the 3600 islands of the Aegean and Ionian Islands.

But, of course, Troy was the pearl of the crown for Greece directed by the geopoliticians of the continent, a gift that Homer, Herodotus, the brilliant translators and editors of the Iliad and the Odyssey put on a baking sheet for the Athenian leaders of antiquity.

The European Renaissance and Troy

The idea for the creation of a macro project that would later be called the European Renaissance was born after the "Dark Period (argumentum et silentium)", which lasted in the time segment of the IV-XI centuries AD. This period is less enlightened in the history of Western civilization and the data coming from it not only does not clarify, but adds to the mystery about the developments in Europe during those 7-8 centuries.

However, the European Renaissance, either as a conception or evaluated by its consequences, proved to be a major philosophical-educational, ethno-cultural and statist-developmental project. However, since the beginning of the Renaissance, the West realized that it was very late and rightly felt terribly inferior to the East and its cultural heritage, which continued to be enriched by the contributions of the epochal Eastern civilizations that were still developing rapidly, or alive, as that of the Arab states of the Caliphate, Chinese, Indian, Indochinese, Inca and Aztec.

The West was not mistaken when it realized that with Athens and Rome already in ruins, with Constantinople and Byzantium asphyxiated by the suffocating stranglehold of the Seljuks and Mongols, with the written heritage merely surviving on endangered parchments, it would find it difficult to be reborn and resurrected. without a construction and development project to start with "the foundations, to reach the supporting structures such as columns, architraves, walls..., up to the roof".

So meeting all the requirements of the design task with precision and scrupulousness, the renaissance project began and was moving rapidly. After several centuries, it could be completed with three foot-columns, which were: Ancient Athens; Ancient Rome and Europe of stone cities with churches, universities and printing houses, with kingdoms, states, principalities, duchies and counties, with fleets and metal and steam industries, as well as with developed agriculture. Only the fourth column was missing: Homeric Troy with its dizzying splendor, which together with other assets would fearlessly challenge rival civilizations, despite its remoteness as a reality (still in the form of myth).

And where could the other columns hold Western civilization without the main column, Troy... It was only waiting for Troy to rise from the ashes like the Phoenix, in order for the West to legitimize its claims to civilizational greatness and give its side to the dream of cultural splendor and development superior to rivals. And the occasion came with its "discovery by Schliemann". Perhaps this case was sought and necessarily narrowed down, and perhaps the Serbian Jačimović may be right when he says that Schliemann announced the discovery of Priam's treasure near dusk, having previously driven away the workers...

That is why Schliemann's Troy project was so politically invested, which was immediately re-gifted as a political and cultural mortgage to Greece, while ownership and territorial administration was left to Turkey... which two decades ago the West supported and took under its wing after defeats severe in the confrontation with Russia and after the bloody conflicts that gave their name to the Eastern Crisis in the middle of the IXX century.

Geopolitics and Schliemann's Troy

The protection of Turkey from the West in the 19th century was a genuine anti-Russian and anti-Slavic-Balkan political project, while Schliemann's Troy was the key and collateral-mortgage guarantee of this project.

This project was designed and conceived by Prussia as early as the beginning of the 19th century and would be strengthened with the independence of Greece, which transformed this state with the Prussian king into an important political actor and factor in the peninsula through the political-military and financial-human investment of Prussia, the German principalities, Britain, France and Austria, to use Greece and Turkey as dams to stop the expansion of the Russian outposts of the Balkan Slavs: Serbia and Bulgaria towards the heart of the Mediterranean, via the Aegean, Adriatic and Ionian seas.

But the main task of building Russia's dam was entrusted to Turkey, which for a century stood with the support of the Great Powers until the beginning of the 20th century when the Balkan wars broke out.

In 1830, Prussia began financing and leading the modernization of the Turkish army under the famous General Moltke, then being empowered by England, which thus sealed the Anglo-Saxon protectorate over anti-Slavic Turkey.

Bismarck's coming to power as early as 1871, his announcement of the program for the unification of Germany in the form of a confederation, the supply of Turkey with armaments and military technology, the declaration of the discovery of Troy as a major victory and its sensational financing alarmed right Russia to which the Bosphorus door was closed.

Saint Petersburg realized that the Eastern Crisis was not enough to defeat Turkey, which was already protected by Bismarck and soon by a united Germany. Slavic outposts had to be encouraged to attack Turkey. And, this is how it happened as initially, in 1876, Serbia arose and launched an attack on the Albanian territories under Turiqi in Nis, Vranje, Kurshumli, Prokuplje, Leskovc, etc. After a year, Bulgaria attacked Turkey in Thrace, and after that, Russia broke out the Russo-Turkish war in early 1878. The Turks suffered defeats on all three fronts, and Russia, allied with Serbia and Bulgaria, forced the High Porte to sign the shameful Treaty of St. Stephen.

Europe was shocked and Bismarck called for an emergency meeting of the Congress of Berlin under his presidency, where he rejected the decisions of St. Stephen that took Bulgaria to the Aegean. Meanwhile, in order to take advantage of Montenegro and force it to block Serbia's exit to the Adriatic, the Great Powers leased it with the famous Albanian provinces of Hoti, Gruda, Plava, Gucia, Rozhaja, Ulcinj and Tivar.

Henceforth, the West's final geopolitical project was conceived to block Russian, Serbian and Bulgarian outposts from entering the Mediterranean.

During the Second Balkan War, it was Greece, supported by Germany and England, that occupied the Mediterranean-wide Balkan metropolitan Thessaloniki in early 1913, cutting off the way out in the Aegean to its two Slavic allies against the Albanians: the Serbs and the Bulgarians. This invasion was legislated at the London Conference.

This period coincided with the scrapping and recasting of cards by the Great Powers for the redistribution of the world and was also accompanied by the realization of plans and fluid alliances, through which the Great Powers and other states aimed to expand territories, colonies and areas of influenza.

The schemes of the First Balkan War and then the decisions of Versailles after it did not change the anti-Slavic geopolitical project, despite the zealous alignments of Bulgarians and Serbs on the side of the warring parties.

In order to separate Serbia from the influence of Russia, the Great Powers created the royal Yugoslavia and after it the communist one of Tito, but the keys to the Adriatic remained with the Catholic Slovenes and Croats, the Montenegrins of Italy and the West, as well as the anti-Slavic Albanians.

It was the Great Powers after the First Balkan War that divided western Thrace between Turkey and Greece in 1923, closing Bulgaria and Serbia's access to the Aegean.

Before World War II, Serbs and Italians made the Ciano-Stojadinovic Pact for the partition of Albania, but the pact was simply an Italian trick as Italy attacked Albania, Yugoslavia, and Greece, occupying the first two. During the LDB, Bulgaria and Croatia joined Hitler and Duce to benefit through the expansion of the target territories, but without success. Then, although Stalin emerged as the absolute winner, he could not withdraw his outposts in the Mediterranean (Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean), because the keys remained in the same hands again.

Enver Hoxha also benefited from this centuries-old geopolitical scheme, who was able to secure power and borders after the breakup with the Soviet Union and after leaving the Warsaw Pact in 1968.

This Balkan geopolitical panorama would be enough to understand the interweaving of interests and contradictions even with "scientific" colors between the Balkans, with the undoubted help of the Great Powers.

Geopolitics and "Troy" of Jaçimović

On the eve of the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, when Albania was losing its footing and the pro-Serbs in Albanian politics began to destroy the army, inspired by the bravery of Slobodan Milosevic and Rozafa-Moraça's cubs in Albania, the Serb Jaçimović announced "Shkodra-Serbian Troy" one "Communist spark".

Russia's re-empowerment and Putin's expansion into eastern Ukraine, Crimea and the Balkans pushed Jacimović to Russia, where he received accolades for the Serbian Shkodër-Troja Thesis and was co-opted as a "scientist" in Putin's Russia in 2009.

That Homeric Troy was transformed into a Greek geopolitical aspiration and project in antiquity for expansion, among other things, in Asia Minor, there is no longer any doubt.

That Schliemann's Troy became the epicenter of the anti-Slavic geopolitical project of Bismarck and the entire West, Jaçimović himself has ascertained, and I have undoubtedly accepted it as a correct thesis since this is how it turns out to me from the geopolitical analysis.

Well, why not continue with this logic for the analysis of "discovery of Shkodër-Serbian Troy", which undoubtedly leads us towards the Russian-Serbian geopolitical project in the Balkans, which is now also manifested in the forms of "Serbian Mitrovica-Troja" and "Serbian Zajednica-Troja" in Kosovo?!

The geopolitics of the Slavic-anti-Albanian states remains the same: millennial and century-old. Even the anti-Albanian, Russophile and Serbophile lobbies can be added to it as power vectors, along with the clans of traitors within us.

That's why I was worried about Serbian Jacimović, who belongs to a state armed to the teeth, with Russia behind, in front of us poorly armed Albanians, who expect them to give us weapons and help us if the Serbs attack us, while in the last 20 years we have donated: strategic quotas and two thousand hectares of Albanian land to the Macedonian-Bulgarians; strategic quotas and eight thousand hectares of Albanian land to the Montenegrins with Western deceptions and promises; whereas now they are looking for Trepca despite Mitrovica and the three municipalities, as they previously threatened us with Shkodër-Troja as a Russian-Serbian geopolitical scheme.

Can you find a country on the planet that for minorities five percent of the population demand 16 percent of the representation in the Parliament and first the self-governing autonomy and then the donation of 25 percent of the territory?

And then the patriotic traitors talk to us about strategic allies, but they never mention that from those Russophile and Serbophile lobbyists who have no obligation to the Albanians and owe them nothing, we are asked to forgive the homeland with our hands.

No, territories are surrendered to historical enemies only by war and never by agreement. What we barely won back with rivers of blood, we cannot give to the table.

We have the anti-Albanian "Jaçimovics" inside us. They don't just write books, but develop concrete projects. /Telegraph/