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The history between Albania and Spain since antiquity, Skenderbeu and Donika's friendship with the Spanish king! Needless to say, no one knew
2024-06-25 09:38:52 / JETË
Professor Përparim Kabo, invited to "Top Arena", has shown the history between Albania and Spain that starts from antiquity and up to the relationship that Skënderbeu and Donika had with the Spanish king.
Ed Manushi: We also need a little anthropology. In our history, we have faced Spain many times, so historically, how have we been with Spain?
Cabo Progress: It looks like we're far, but we're not that far. For 3-4 minutes I am making a 2000-year-old story. In antiquity, a continent of Antlantida is submerged and the connections of that population that lived there near the Iberian peninsula are lost, but there are theses from serious researchers, a Serbona researcher who compares old Albanian words with Basque words. He even says that the word Basque comes from Albanian, which is together. You can see another word Gibraltar that consists of two Albanian words bay and altar or Lisbon, lis, bone.
However, this remains for linguists. Let's come to the Middle Ages, at the time of the crusades in 1204, the crusades pass both by water and by land, but according to a serious researcher, the founder of albanology in his book of Albanian studies, says that in 1204 the Spanish forces fought in the area of Tepelena and they landed in Mallakastër and there an Albanian prince named Karl Fratali was killed. Several toponyms are created, Regji Guzmar. Even a tale opens among the Albanians at that time, "The Black Catalan came from the sea", they are the real Catalans. Then we come later in the Middle Ages, we have the connection of Skanderbeg with Pope Chalcis who was a Spanish Pope born in Valencia, who proposed Skanderbeg to be the head of the organization of Christian countries. Under his and a succeeding Pope's influence, he was proclaimed a Knight of Christianity. The Pope who succeeded him even named him from Prince of Epirus to King of Epirus.
At this time we have an event. After the death of Skanderbeg, his wife went to live in Naples because Alphonse of Naples and Skanderbeg had a vassalage agreement but not what is related to the term vassality today, a relationship of partnership between two parties and she went and lived there Donika, took a very noble, she did not marry and other princes were looking for her and there she created a friendship with the Spanish king and queen because Naples was under the influence of the Aragonese and she goes then ends her life in Valencia and is buried there in a church there called the Church of Trinity and as far as I know, Ylli Pepo, a prominent director, is developing a documentary about Donika Kastrioti.
Later we have an event, in 1492 the united kingdom of Merenges and Basques was created, at that time over 200 Jewish families because Spain was cleared of Arabs and Jews, who were trading populations and over 200 Jewish families settled on the coast of Vlora until riviera. In the 20th century we have the participation of Albanian anti-fascists in the civil war in Spain and four names should be mentioned, Thispina Shkurti who was a nurse, a friend of Mother Teresa and meets Skënder Luarasi and tells Thispina, there is also a need for nurses and she goes there. Strangely no nursing school, no street and no square bears the name of Thispie.
Petro Markon of Hasta la Vista, Hemingway's friend Skënder Luarasi and Albania's longest serving prime minister Mehmet Shehu were there. After 1990, where we have a climax, the king of Spain gives the high title "Prince of Asturias" to our great writer Ismail Kadara. And in order not to lose ties with football, one of our best football players of all time, Petri Dibra, lives in Spain and is an obstetrician who is appreciated by all of Spain.
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