"Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were Epirotes, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies. I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"
Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto ▬ Skanderbeg, October 31 1460
Kjo harte shum e vjeter tregon fare qarte "Albania alta"Shqiperia e siperme qe shkon ne kufi me Raguzen qe sot eshte Dubrovnik.
Po te shohim me kujdes gjiri apo Boca e Cotorit ishte e jona.
Vetem ne shqiperi akoma sot gjen shum familje me emrin Kotorri tipiko te vendit ku kan banuar shqiptaret.
Albania basa,Shqiperia poshtme cameria ...
Veshtrova te gjitha postimet e keto karta nuk jane.
Ne shekujt 16-17 ne territoret shqiptare ishin te pakten njembedhjete (11) porte detare dhe te pakten gjashte (6) prej tyre gjendeshin ne ate qe ne harte quhet "Deti Shqiptar".
Interesante gjithashtu eshte se shfaqet edhe toponimi Cameria.
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Albania of Gjergj Kastrioti (Shqipëria e Gjergj Kastriotit) 1403-1468
(Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History: Volume I: Albania and King Zog: Independence, Republic and Monarchy 1908-1939, Owen Pearson, London, p. XIV)