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Hela påståendet vilar på att Alexanders mor EVENTUELLT bar på illyriskt påbrå p.g.a. att hennes far var Moloss från nuvarande Epirus
Att påvisa kulturella likheter mellan Albanien och norra Epirus IDAG räcker dock inte. För att dessa ska vara legitima skall de redan funnit under Alexanders tid, alltså att molosserna skulle vara uppblandade med illyrer.
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Epirus has been occupied since Neolithic times, when hunters and shepherds inhabited the region and constructed large tumuli to bury their leaders. The tumuli had many similar characteristics to those later used by the Myceneans, suggesting a possible ancestral link between Epirus and the Mycenean civilisation. Certainly, Mycenean remains have been found at two ancient religious sites in the region, the Necromanteion (Oracle of the Dead) on the Acheron river, and the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona.
The Dorians invaded Greece via Epirus and Macedonia at the end of the 2nd millennium BC (circa 1100 BC-1000 BC), though the reasons for their migration are obscure. The region's original inhabitants were driven southward into the Greek mainland by the invasion and by the early 1st millennium BC three principal clusters of Greek-speaking tribes had emerged in Epirus. These were the Chaones of northwestern Epirus, the Molossians in the centre and the Thesprotians in the middle.These were the Tribes of Epirus.
Unlike most other Greeks of the time, who lived in or around city-states such as Athens or Sparta, the Epirotes lived in small villages. Their region lay on the edge of the Greek world and was far from peaceful; for many centuries, it remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples of the Adriatic coast and interior.
Det finns alltså inga hållbara bevis för att epiroterna i allmänhet eller molosserna i synnerhet skulle vara uppblandade med illyrer under antiken.
du skrev ner en teori av dussin.
härhar du illyriska tribes. från likande källa wikpedia,

Lista över illyriska stammar
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Albanoi (Arberia)
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epiroter nämns som barbarer under antiken till och med romarna skilde på epiroter och hellas..
The Ionian sea is devided Between Chaones and Thesprotes. between them The Mollosians have opened an exit to the sea which is (40 stadia = 8Km).""After Mollosia it comes Ambracia an Hellenic Polis, which is (80 stadia) away from the sea"
Strabo:
He has written about the passengers traveling along Egnatia road(Via Egnatia):
"Starting from Epidamnus(Durres,Dyrrahio) and down to Apollonia, in the Right they have the tribes of Epirus....., in the Left they have the mountains of Illyria.....Then Sailing from Ambracian Golf and on, the places which is in the East and across Peloponnesous are Hellenic.
Also he writes:
"After the Epirots and Illyrians, from the Hellenes are Akarnanes,Etoles,Lokries and Ezoles
Appianus:---------(Historia Romana)-----------
In his book "Historia Romana" it is an article about the Illyrians:
"The Hellenes call Illyrians, those people wich live across Thrace and Macedonia from Chaones and Thesprotes till the river of Istria"
Ephores:
He writes : "the Head(start) of Hellas, is Akarnania from the West ,because it is the first that contacts with the Epirot tribes"
varken antika historiker var enade om sina teorier därför kan vi ej veta med säkerligen vad saningen igentligen är--