Why is it that every

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Why is it that every Albanian I've ever met

Looks like they would kill you for sport

You know it is man

We're we're a people that have been in perpetual conflict man You know the it is, man, we're people that have been in perpetual conflict, man. You know,

the Albanian territories sit in the crossroads of the empires. So if you look at where we're

positioned, because, you know, I know Americans are amazing with geography. You know, we're at the

crossroads, man. We're north of Greece. We're south of Serbia. We're

really technically in the heart of the world, but we're in the heart of the empires, right?

That's where the Roman Empire had provinces. That's where, you know, the Ottoman Empire spent a good

five, six hundred years. World War I started there, right, in Bosnia.

So when you look at the region that we come from, unfortunately, it's been a very hostile place for a very long time.

And unfortunately, it looks like it's going to continue to be that.

So the Albanian people, the world calls us Albanian,

and it's very similar to how we have the word Jew. The largest tribe, if I'm not mistaken,

of Israelites was the Judeans. So that's what people call them. They had more contact with that

tribe. It's where the word Jew comes from, right? The largest tribe of the ancient Illyrians was the Albanoi tribe,

because the Albanians are also a tribal people. So the world had more contact with that.

So we got the word Albanian from that. We don't call ourselves Albanian. The word that we use in

our own language is called Shiptar. Shiptar so like ship tar and when another albanian sees another

albanian you say what's up sheepa so listen it's a it's unfortunately still one of the poorest regions in the

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