Why do some claim that Albanians came from the Caucasus?

It's based on a confusion of names. As I mentioned in another answer (What contact was (or is) between Georgia and Spain?), ancient geographers often tried to find global symmetries within the countries they were trying to describe. read more

We have to divide the reasons why Serbs and why Greeks claim same thing. Serbs claim that Albanians were brought from Ottomans, exactly from Albania region of Caucassus (Azarbaijan) after 13′th century. read more

The 23rd King of Caucasus Albania is called Arbun (most likely on behalf of this ruler, the Greeks and the Romans call his state Albania.) The name Aran comes from the legendary founder of Caucasus Albania - Arran. Second reason. Albanians come to the Balkans in the middle of the 11th century. read more

Not only Chechens,but Cherkez,Avars and others looks like close cousins of Albanians. After some research of Caucasus and Balkan Albanians,things became pretty clear to me. Not only this,but we know that Albanians came 1041 in Balkans with army of Georgios Maniakes as mercenaries and collonists into war-depopulated area of northern Epirus. 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