Tuesday, January 15, 2013

An Albanian-book of national history
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Schmitt: Albanians - and Bosnians - in consequence, "the backbone of the Ottoman Empire."
Georg Kastriota alias Skanderbeg was also supported by Vlachs, Slavs and Greek

 The book The Albanians is released just in time for the centenary of the proclamation of the state in November 1912 last fall. Oliver Jens Schmitt rubs against the popular nationalist historiography. Although he emphasizes the resistance of the mountain dwellers, the 20th to the Century by the Ottomans were not completely subjected deconstructed, but the myth of the "permanent opposition" of the Albanians, the victim status and the fate of the "foreign ruled". Thus, while no one initially put the Ottomans against greater resistance than the "Balkan Christians", on the other hand were the Albanians - and Bosnians - in consequence, "the backbone of the Ottoman Empire."
The professor for Southeast European History at the University of Vienna suggests that with the resistance of efforts to combat duty or military service, but not at national ethnic ideas. Said Georg Kastriota alias Skanderbeg was also supported by Vlachs, Slavs and Greeks. One of Schmitt's thesis is especially provocative because it calls into question a popular narrative: The Albanians are not more, but not less religious than the other Balkan peoples have been, he writes.
In the Ottoman Empire particular religion, not language mapping and self-understanding. Schmitt mentioned about the family Kuçi / Kuci, was spoken in the Albanian as Serbian. He stressed that only in the 19th National Movement and 20th Century, the image of a religiously indifferent and tolerant society has emerged. Before 19 Century it was also because hardly any tensions between Albanians, Greeks and Slavs.
Schmitt criticized the idea of ​​"Illyrian-Albanian continuity", on the other hand is not the thesis of the late arrival of the Albanians in Kosovo durable. 


Oliver Jens Schmitt: ". Albanians A History of East and West". 14.95 / 182 pages, Publisher C.H.Beck, 
2012
http://derstandard.at/1356427725090/Ein-Albaner-Buch-gegen-nationale-Geschichtsschreibung
 
http://www.gazetatema.net/web/2013/01/15/schmitt-provokon-serish-shqiptaret-e-pranuan-perandorine-osmane-ishin-fetare-dhe-skane-lidhje-me-iliret/

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