Talk:Gjakova

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So what you are saying is that people with Albanians names are not Albanian ? but people with Slavic, Christian names are not Albanian either ? It seems more plausible that an Albanian also bore a Christian name and even possibly a Slavic name considering they came under such influence, of course the opposite could also happen but the occupation was Slavic (Serbs, Bulgars) and not Albanian. For example the Shipshani in North-East Albania, just next to Gjakova, which we know were Albanian and part of the Gashi tribe had in fact majority Slavic names in 1485 and only one Albanian name. Also the Morina tribe are next to Gjakova and were in fact mentioned with Albanian names . So it seems plausible the villages around Gjakova were Albanians too as they had a lot of Albanian and Christian names, Slavic names are present but mixed with Albanian. Some villages in other defters had Slavic names majority but with Albanian names present while some others had majority Albanian names etc etc.

I mean that the area of Gjakova has had an Albanian majority is certainly supported by later historians and defters such as for the Has region between Gjakova and Prizren which did in fact have majority Albanian names according to the 16th century defter Pjeter Mazreku who specifically mentioned it as Albanian . or for example various sources that mention Prizren and Peja within Albania or the Turkish traveller Evliya Celebi later. But at least we agree names are always open to doubt. But it seems to me that people here want Kosove and Dardania to still be connected to Serbs despite Albanians are obviously connected to the territories history but there it is almost not allowed to write anything about Albanians here , in other languages in wikipedia anything about Albanians in this territory gets immediately removed, it's a big no no, while Serbian nationalism is promoted by sources which do not have any kind of historical validation. What's even more insulting is how they use the Serbian names despite these areas haven't had Serbs it seems for a long time. What supports further that the area of Gjakova was majority Albanian for a long time is the name 'Dukagjin' or Dukagjini Plataeu which i nfact is an Albanian name , the Serbs changed it later to Metohija. I'm sure if the Serbs made the majority here for that long they would have their own name for Western Kosovo and not use some made up 19th-20th century name , as for the name Kosovo, that is only some small field in the eastern part, names of towns such as Nish, Scupi/Shkupi, Shtip, Lipjan etc etc are by various linguists considered to be non-Slavic for example. TheCreatorOne (talk) 19:34, 30 January 2024 (UTC)