Albanians Gave The Sicilians The Vendetta aka Blood Feud Culture History of Italy and Albania

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Very Interesting Facts That Will Blow Your Mind!
the mass migration of Albanians in the 1400's, after the Italian people awarded them land in Sicily and Calabria. These Albanians are known as the Arbresh. Albanian Culture, influenced the Sicilians enormously.
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians — something between kings and tigers." - Henry Noel Brailsford

"They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires–past Powers–only the Albanian "goes on for ever."- Edith Durham

"The story of the Albanians deserves a study in itself. Attracted by the 'sword, the gold trappings, and the honours, they left their mountains chiefly in order to become soldiers. In the sixteenth century they were to be found in Cyprus, in Venice, in Mantua, in Rome, in Naples, and Sicily, and as far abroad as Madrid, where they went to present their projects and their grievances, to ask for barrels of gunpowder or years of pension, arrogant, imperious, always ready for a fight."- Nicholas Pappas

"Albanians, this nation and this people can not be mocked ... This is the land of heroes of all time ... Homer found there Achilles, the Greeks the Alexander the Great, Turks found Skanderbeg, people these of the same race, the same blood" . - Lamartine

"The Albanians, these tigers of mountain wars ... have as their religion rebellion. Even their worst warrior is one of the strongest and bravest on the battle-field, just as if he was a knight on the legendary horse. But he has no horse, nor proper weapons for battle. Instead of the horse, he has a lance which strikes as lightning, he has spears who's points are full of posion as the sting of hornets, he has also a wooden bow with some arrows. Furthermore, he is stronger than iron ... "- Ibn Kemal, Historian of the Turkish court during Skanderbeg's war against the Turks.

"The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey." - Dursam Bey, during the second siege of Kruja.

"...isn't the Albanian, who, being a slave, did not allow enslavement, freedom-loving? This is a question that could hardly be understood by anyone who has not lived in Albania. The most liberty-loving people in the Balkans is the Albanian people. The Albanian, taken alone, as an individual, is an anarchist by nature. He would brook no bondage let alone on his people, he would not let anything, seen as possibly humiliating, befall his house. The Albanian house stands alone and apart from the rest..." - Description from a brilliant Bulgarian observer and connoisseur of Albania. (1924)

"Albanians are considered untouchable on the slave market because of their strong feelings for honour and the need for revenge
They may be only soldiers, but never let them get close to your plate, and don't make them kneel before you, if you don't intend to capitate them. - Pasha Sulejman the Lightened.

"The Gueghes are thickset and muscular, the Toskes slender and agile, both strong, vigorous, and perhaps the finest race in Europe."

"The characteristics common to both people are love of independence, love of war, a revengual spirit, mering into ferocity."

"They are wild, plundering, indefatigable soldiers, selling their services and their blood to those who pay them highest; but lively, gay, adventurous, sober, generous and heroic so soon as it concerns the defence of their country, their tribe, or their family."

"They are an iron race, as hard as the rocks they inhabit." - Lord Byron talking about Albanians.

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capital of Albania is a italian name
Tirana/Tirona, "të ranët/ronët = the fallen

"If you want a hundred Italians to be quiet, shoot one.
If you want a hundred Albanians to be quiet, you must shoot ninety-nine." - Italian proverb