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Philoveritas
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Anthropology | aDNA | History 🏛️🇬🇷 I make maps on topics that interest me - check the highlights
Nov 29, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The four great Albanian myths by Noel Malcolm exemplified with memes (don’t take this seriously)

A thread🧵 Image Myth 1: the myth of origins and priority claimed that the Albanians were the most ancient people of south-eastern Europe, having preceded even the ancient Greeks. Image
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Jul 16, 2024 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
A thread on the origin of the Arvanites.

Covering genetics (3-6), physical anthropology (7-9), how, when and why Greeks were assimilated (10-15) aswell as Albanian revisionism (16) Two Arvanite villagers. It's far-fetched to think anyone would mistake them for being Albanian. 1/ The Arvanites are Albanophone communities that migrated to southern Greece between the 13th and 15th centuries.

They arrived in waves from Epirus and nearby regions, some repopulating deserted areas by invitation and others serving as mercenaries for the Venetians. Image