What is the origin of the name of Albania?

Eqrem Çabej an Albanian historian, linguist and etymologist, although having studied on the subject for decades, he didn't give himself the right for the last word on this question. read more

Another argument in favor of a northern origin for the Albanian language is the relatively small number of words of Greek origin, mostly from Doric dialect, even though Southern Illyria neighbored the Classical Greek civilization and there was a number of Greek colonies along the Illyrian coastline. read more

Albania is the name of a country in the Balkans, attested in Medieval Latin. The name has derived from the Illyrian tribe of the Albanoi and their center Albanopolis, noted by the astronomer of Alexandria, Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD. read more

The ending -ia, like in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, even Turkia, Persia etc is a common ending for countries from the Greek language, but the accuracy of this explanation depends on whether the words Albania (of Latin origin) and Epirus (of Greek origin) have a similar meaning, hence the land after the sea. read more

The scholars who support a Dacian origin of Albanians maintain that between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, Albanians moved southwards from the Moesian area, while those scholars who maintain a Thracian origin hypothesize that the proto-Albanians are to be located in Thracian territory in the area between Niš, Skopje, Sofia and Albania or from the Rhodope and Balkan Mountains, where they moved to Albania before the arrival of the Slavs. read more