{"id":1754,"date":"2010-05-26T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/albania\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:45:06","slug":"albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/strong>lbania <\/strong>has not been excluded from the quest for links with Atlantis. Andi Zeneli<\/a> had a website that delved into the ancient history of Albania, which, from the 10th<\/sup> century BC, was part of Illyria. He makes great use of the controversial Oera Linda Book<\/em><\/a> and linguistics in order to produce a convoluted association between Albania and Atlantis.<\/p>\n

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Zeneli had a separate website,\u00a0also defunct, that dealt more specifically with the history of the ancient Illyrians.<\/p>\n

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There was also an ancient kingdom of Albania in the Caucasus between Iberia and and the Caspian Sea, approximately where Azerbaijan is now situated. It was once thought that the Adriatic Albanians had originated there but this was disproved on linguistic grounds in the 19th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

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\"ancient<\/a><\/span>A more recent claim is that satellite imagery<\/a> has revealed a network of lines near Durr\u00e9s, west of Tirana, which are the remnants of Plato\u2019s Atlantean canals,<\/a> with co-ordinates of 41.08-41.02 N and 19.23 E. A blogsite(c)<\/sup> is also home to a number of articles, adding further support to the Durr\u00e9s theory.<\/p>\n

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The Albanian hypothesis, however interesting has so far failed to answer many of the critical questions raised by Plato\u2019s dialogues. Where were the Pillars of Heracles? What evidence is there for Albanian (Illyrian) influence extending to Tyrrhenia<\/a> and<\/strong> Libya<\/a>? Why did Plato not simply say that Atlantis had been located next door in the western Balkans? Without an answer to these and other questions we are forced to consider that the Durres location is, at best, speculative.<\/p>\n

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However, in a desperate attempt to bolster this theory, it has been pointed out(e)<\/sup> that the Illyrian tribe in the region was called Taulanti and the region itself Taulantis, inferring that it was modified to ‘Atlantis’!<\/p>\n

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In 2013 Skender Hushi<\/a> announced that Albanian had been the language of Atlantis and Ireland<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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A YouTube clip(d) <\/sup>offers a more graphic presentation of the theory while another link(f)<\/sup> offers a number of satellite images of Durres.<\/p>\n

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(c) <\/sup>https:\/\/atlantisinalbania.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/name-and-location.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(<\/sup>d<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=396VfgRH8Uw\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(not available)<\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140109044414\/https:\/\/www.zeriyt.com\/the-link-between-albania-and-atlantis-the-lost-continent-t17095.0.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/atlantisinalbania.blogspot.ie\/2006\/07\/atlantis-is-in-albaniapt4eyes-dont.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Albania has not been excluded from the quest for links with Atlantis. Andi Zeneli had a website that delved into the ancient history of Albania, which, from the 10th century BC, was part of Illyria. He makes great use of the controversial Oera Linda Book and linguistics in order to produce a convoluted association between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,327,144,1137,141,328,294,52,2036,1138],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albania","tag-andi-zeneli","tag-andi-zineli","tag-canals","tag-durres","tag-illyrians","tag-ireland","tag-oera-linda-book","tag-skender-hushi","tag-taulantis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65278,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/65278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}