Thanks for this great video!! Just a little input; We Christians and Muslims are not united just since the time of comunism. We were always united because we see each other just as albanians and that's the most important thing for us, Religion is a private matter. We had to deal against Invaders who were Muslims and Christians too, so for us this part plays a subordinate role.
All of us, I mean the masses of the world should be the same, united. Regardless of faith. Muslims & Christians have more in common than we have differences. We all want to live in PEACE. Again I mean the masses, because clearly many political leaders don't want to live in PEACE.
P. S. Great video Al Jazeera, you made many Albanians living in emigration crying 😅😢🎉 Just one footnote. Religions in the Albanians lands have always lived in peace and harmony, many families are mixed: my father family is from bektashi community, my mum family Christian orthodox, while many from youngest generation embraced chattolicism. I always remember the words of my grandfather. A cat nevertheless is black, orange, white, etc.is always a cat. It should be applied the same to humankind. That teached me life and how to be a good human being much more than 17 years of school.
Wonderful video really a great job. Just want to correct something about city of Berat that it was not founded by greeks but by Illyrian. Please do not just use wikipedia infromation. Same is for Butrinti in the south Albania. Wikipedia is not an official source for albanian history. Thank you.
Hi - great videos and the background soundtrack music is also great, pity you don't describe the origins of the music... Ah, I just discovered the name Reid Willis - so I'll check him up. Keep up the good work!
The role of Islam in Albanian society is slightly overstated in this documentary. Muslims today are something closer to 70% while few of these Muslims are actually practicing, many of them drink alchohol and eat pork for example. There are also sizeable Catholic and Orthodox Christian minorities. However this is still a very good documentary!
Albania is one of the oldest places on earth.albanians come from illyrian tribe .Albania was invaded by turkey for 500 years . They brought the muslim religion. Before turkey, albania was Christian, and it was very very developed. It was the only place in europe who did a massive protest on the slavery issue , in a time when in europe slavery wasn’t even known as a concept. After turkey , germany and italy invaded albania. But then it gained freedom . And it was under a dictatorship which turned albania an atheist country. The dictator took down almost all the churches and mosques. Also albania was the only place in europe who took jews when the genocide was happening , and we were also under german invasion.we took about 2000 jews in our homes , changed their names to albanian names and never delivered them to hitler. Now , we are a democratic place . And due to our history, we don’t classify as a muslim or christian place, we have all the religions here living in peace and harmony . We have mosques and churches right next to each other . We also have diff religions such as Buddhists ect ect . We also have a lot of spiritual people too, doing yoga meditating and stuff like that . Thank you for your visit to our country. I loved it ❤️
Sunshine Hurricane you have forget Bizant invaded Albania , they bought the kristian religion , befor Bizant Illyria was Pagans , you need to say this also and you need to say that Bizant have give church to Greec to Serbs Batt not to Albania , and Albania in this time are Asimilatet by Greek church and serb church and Albania was invaded by stefan dushan and Kosovo by car llazar ther are coming Ottoman
This documentary must have been in English it would have been widely understood Their are sub titles in English but it would be better if you do voice over or dub it in English
Albania the best country in the world , they sofered so much from all they neighbours but they become more stronger , and kosova is kosova 100000% Albanian , kosova not kosovo
@@heidisharpe6589 What is the problem with Arvanitas? As far as Camerija took the part of Nazi and killed greek people. We didn't throw them away with no reason.
wrong we gained independence in 1912 from the ottoman do better research and in 1944 from germany wich they stayed 3 years, and roman empire it didnt invade at that time 2000 years ago we created all of te building it was our ancester the Ilirian. (ilyria). but i like the video even if it has some problems about te history you tell. beautiful catching of places
of course the Roman Empire invaded Albania/ Illyria it was under the Roman Empire for 1000 yrs if you include the Byzantine empire also. It was also ruled by the Bulgarian kingdom and finally the Ottoman Empire.
@@London-LM i didn't never sayed that albania was never invadet by the bizantine empire or the roman i said that the construction the architecture wasn't made by the invaders because it was more older than that, it was created by the empire of Ilyria that was her extension from macedonia and greece today in the north till slovenia with some villagers in polonia in the south so what they invadet was created by the ilyrians and stayed that way till today.
@@London-LM first of all the ilyrian exist more than a 1000 years ,second the romans with the ilyrians have always lived close in territory so they have done commerce with each other and other things , in the time of queen teuta of Ilyria when she destroyed their ships and killed their messenger, they found the oportunity to put her into the corner with the traitor the general bardhyl that allied with the romans with the pretense to put him on the throne which he later died les than a year after the queen abdicated from the throne with the pretects that she entered their waters and thats how the romans invadet ilyria but they never changet the structure of the ilyrians and the byzantine trayed to create some other architecture but very little , and last the bullgarians they didnt stay for long for them to destroy the structures and to built new ones, so no, the civisilation of the ilyrians have fight to much to protect their land even under the ocupation from other empires. actually are the others that have taken from the civilisation, that the romans, byzantines, otamans etc have take from other empires they have invadet. Go look for yourself how old they are
M Scott not fully correct because the thing is that what do people think when they hear Byzantine Empire? They think of greeks maybe, right? The truth is Illyria couldn't be invaded by something what they were themself because Illyrians were part of that Empire in creating and ruling it , like the major part to be honest. The Imperator Constantine the Great eg was Illyrian or more exact he was Dardanian. So we were not invaded because you cant invade yourself.
O zotni ka ba dhe ka ba shum biles, me mijra,,, nuk esht e veshtir ti gjesh,,, respekt per Al Jaziren qe esht e perhap ne gjith boten sidomos ne europ dhe ka teper kualitet
6rban100 Albanian is one of the oldest languages with the most history out there. Our Language is the same as the Illyrian and it comes from the Pelasgian Language (our ancestors). It got a little turkishized while the Ottomans ruled over Albania, but not that much. 🇦🇱🦅 rroftë Shqipëria🦅🇦🇱
Albanian . And Albanians call it Shqip the language Shqiptar the Albanian Shqiperia the country. Shqip/e mean 🦅 Eagle , Shqiperia means eagle land Shqipetar/people means son of the eagles.
You are ignoring Albanian Christians in this video. 99% of our history is Christian. The first Albanian muslims appeared as late as 1800s. And today Albania is not “vastly Muslim” it’s actually less then half Muslim and more then half Christian. Many are converting back to their true religion. So this video is really just Islamic propaganda. You didn’t show a single church here. There are about 500 mosques in Albania and more then 2000 churches. And that’s a fact. So this documentary is one sided. Also I love how you go into skanderbegs castle, Skanderbeg is one of the most anti Islamic figures in the worlds history.
O ti orthodoxo shife mir dokumentarin. Ka apo ska kishe. Po si nk i vlerësuat iher tj per ate qe bejn po shifni gjithmone te zezen te gjerat. Prandaj sbejm para si komb ne nga parazite si puna juaj qe vtm prishim adn e Shqipërisë. Kjo vlen dhe per kta injorantet e tj muslimane qe duhet te zgjidhin se ca jan me sh shqiptaret te krishterë apo muslimane. Tgjith nji mut jeni. Thank u al jazeera
You are envied before you came it was paganism even now USA ,cannada , Australia was give back to natives Before blaming Islam look at you You started conversion wasrs unnamed of religion
and as for you orthodoxalbanian, why would you even preach a faith that is shared with the greeks and the slavs? youre a hypocrite like the muslims "patriota"
How is crime, poverty, drug addiction, gangs, corruption ect in Albania? New Zealand is OK with all the above. Oh, I forgot, racism here is alive and well too. You're most welcome!
Albanians are always United they never fight over religion you have Shia Bektashi, Sunni , Orthodox, and Catholic but we’re all still Albanians
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
Γιατί όμως δέχεστε να σας χτίζει μουσουλμανικά τζαμιά η Τουρκία?
respect from indonesia albania wonderful and beautiful country🇮🇩❤🇦🇱😍💯🔝
Thank you so much!
Thank you you are welcome to albania asalam aleikum
Thenks
Thanks for this great video!!
Just a little input; We Christians and Muslims are not united just since the time of comunism. We were always united because we see each other just as albanians and that's the most important thing for us, Religion is a private matter. We had to deal against Invaders who were Muslims and Christians too, so for us this part plays a subordinate role.
Thanks for watching and the explanation. Yes we even found ancient paintings with imams and priests side by side. good example for the world :)
All of us, I mean the masses of the world should be the same, united. Regardless of faith. Muslims & Christians have more in common than we have differences. We all want to live in PEACE. Again I mean the masses, because clearly many political leaders don't want to live in PEACE.
I am albanian from makedonija shkupi i am proud of my people
Dhe na për ty sic të kemi
Habibi thank you for sharing your experience .. I love my country ❤
That's a well presented documentary about the land of the Eagles well done to you for the great show thank you.
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
Respect from Algeria ...great documentary =) 😍
Awesome! Thank you!
What a lovely programme . I have watched it already 3 times ... What a great country.
Thank you for your comment! That is very stimulating!
P. S. Great video Al Jazeera, you made many Albanians living in emigration crying 😅😢🎉
Just one footnote. Religions in the Albanians lands have always lived in peace and harmony, many families are mixed: my father family is from bektashi community, my mum family Christian orthodox, while many from youngest generation embraced chattolicism. I always remember the words of my grandfather. A cat nevertheless is black, orange, white, etc.is always a cat. It should be applied the same to humankind. That teached me life and how to be a good human being much more than 17 years of school.
Wonderful video really a great job. Just want to correct something about city of Berat that it was not founded by greeks but by Illyrian. Please do not just use wikipedia infromation. Same is for Butrinti in the south Albania. Wikipedia is not an official source for albanian history.
Thank you.
I Love Albania! #HitchToAlbania
Another masterpiece. The most beautiful videos I have ever seen. Thank you. #.ALBANIA
Thank you Anita, that's a big compliment!
Thanks for this job brother
Respect from Albania
Our pleasure. We love Albania.
Hi - great videos and the background soundtrack music is also great, pity you don't describe the origins of the music... Ah, I just discovered the name Reid Willis - so I'll check him up. Keep up the good work!
Thanks you. The music was especially composed for these series by Reid Willis
These videos desserve millions of views. Beautiful place and great quality production
Thank you so much!
das ist ein grossartiger reisebeitrag.thank you mr. travelor
Danke fruendlich!
Respect from Albania 🇦🇱
Thank you. Ah yes you did se the other episodes :)
Great video great exploration great explanation
Faleminderit
Greetings from Kosova and Albania
Glad you enjoyed it! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
@@STORYTRAVELERS Yes, of course
Thank you for sharing once again
Thank you so much, loved every second
Glad you enjoyed it! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
14:51 Was relaxing, especially when the dragonflies flap their wings to the beat.
Great documentary =)
Thank you appreciated :)
Great job don’t forget come back again people need to know more about Albanian people
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
STORYTRAVELERS no I haven’t seen them
Saimir Haliti think you’d appreciated these too! Thanks for watching :)
STORYTRAVELERS definitely I’ll watch both of them 👍
Thank you for this amazing video about the beauties of Albania
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
Amazing documentary Great job well done 👍
Thank you!
This is just beautiful. Thank you!
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
👏👏🇦🇱 .I'm Albanian. This is a great series. Well done.
Thank you for your kind words!
@@STORYTRAVELERS your welcome!
Thank you for this épisode brakalahfik selem
you know how to make documentaries man!
Faleminderit!
STORYTRAVELERS documentar perfect 🇦🇱❤️
STORYTRAVELERS who wrote the quote at the beginning of the video?
@@STORYTRAVELERS Love you
good documentry brother from pakistan
Super Albania bravo 🇦🇱
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
Fantastic Video ! Best decision ever was to Visit Albania
The role of Islam in Albanian society is slightly overstated in this documentary. Muslims today are something closer to 70% while few of these Muslims are actually practicing, many of them drink alchohol and eat pork for example. There are also sizeable Catholic and Orthodox Christian minorities. However this is still a very good documentary!
Thank You 💙
Professional documentary, keep up with the good work!
El Fenomeno thanks a lot!
Allah bless you for the documentary
Shukran!
Thank you .👏👏❤️🇦🇱🇦🇱😱😱
It was a pleasure to make!
Albania is one of the oldest places on earth.albanians come from illyrian tribe .Albania was invaded by turkey for 500 years . They brought the muslim religion. Before turkey, albania was Christian, and it was very very developed. It was the only place in europe who did a massive protest on the slavery issue , in a time when in europe slavery wasn’t even known as a concept. After turkey , germany and italy invaded albania. But then it gained freedom . And it was under a dictatorship which turned albania an atheist country. The dictator took down almost all the churches and mosques. Also albania was the only place in europe who took jews when the genocide was happening , and we were also under german invasion.we took about 2000 jews in our homes , changed their names to albanian names and never delivered them to hitler. Now , we are a democratic place . And due to our history, we don’t classify as a muslim or christian place, we have all the religions here living in peace and harmony . We have mosques and churches right next to each other . We also have diff religions such as Buddhists ect ect . We also have a lot of spiritual people too, doing yoga meditating and stuff like that .
Thank you for your visit to our country. I loved it ❤️
Thanks for your contribution! Much appreciated!
Sunshine Hurricane you have forget Bizant invaded Albania , they bought the kristian religion , befor Bizant Illyria was Pagans , you need to say this also and you need to say that Bizant have give church to Greec to Serbs Batt not to Albania , and Albania in this time are Asimilatet by Greek church and serb church and Albania was invaded by stefan dushan and Kosovo by car llazar ther are coming Ottoman
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Great well done documentary ,thank u.
Thanks for watching and commenting
thank you Aljazeera
You're welcome: have you seen the other episodes?
I loved Albania and would love to visit it but I don't know anyone there😢😢
Great video 🇦🇱. Not sure why you guys don't visit Apolonia !! It's 45min drive from Berat city...
Thanks Lediaon, we hope next time!
Albanian mentality is Nationality first then religion
I like ur docimentary but y have searched a litle mor about our history by the way greet job and thank u for coming t our country !!!
Great! Thank you for watching!
E kjeni haruar ulqinin 🇦🇱👍
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
Missing this place
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
Very good your video
Thanks a lot!
I LOVE ALBANIA IS THE BEST
Ilir Gashic nga te kemi me origjin!! Mbiemri jot origjinal esht Gashi mjaft i perhapur ne veri
Great thank you! have you seen the 2 other episodes?
Super video quality, the story you tell or was told to you, is far way from the truth specially for the ottomans.
Hi Eduard.. thanks for responding. What should the story be second to you?
STORYTRAVELERS Selam Alejkum from Albania Brother
Thank you brother
Selam alejkum is not albanian.. but I guess you are speaking to the al Jazeera reporter which speaks Arabic.
Nuk i kemi vllezer arabet, nuk kemi as gjo in common with them. Por nuk i urrej. Vlla Ke vetem Shqiptaret.
Kosova asht Shqipni Albanian 👌🏻👍🏼🤚🏼
Eddie Melaj muslimanet that are albanian use it
Great video!
Thank you Ardit!
This documentary must have been in English it would have been widely understood
Their are sub titles in English but it would be better if you do voice over or dub it in English
Next time ;)
Lindoo😍
Gracias!
Just wow
Thank you so much.. that keeps us going!
Albania the best country in the world , they sofered so much from all they neighbours but they become more stronger , and kosova is kosova 100000% Albanian , kosova not kosovo
That's very true
Do you also mean that suffered from Greece?
@@stathisd.7877 yes that's what I ment for grees as well , do u remember CAMERIJA , ARVANITAS...
@@heidisharpe6589 What is the problem with Arvanitas? As far as Camerija took the part of Nazi and killed greek people. We didn't throw them away with no reason.
@@stathisd.7877 so the kids and old took part with nazis u better look your history and see who was with germans
Any albanian here?
IM ALBANIAN BABY :3
Po mor sa dush ti
Thank you.. Thank you..
متابع جيد جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً جداً
wrong we gained independence in 1912 from the ottoman do better research and in 1944 from germany wich they stayed 3 years, and roman empire it didnt invade at that time 2000 years ago we created all of te building it was our ancester the Ilirian. (ilyria). but i like the video even if it has some problems about te history you tell. beautiful catching of places
of course the Roman Empire invaded Albania/ Illyria it was under the Roman Empire for 1000 yrs if you include the Byzantine empire also. It was also ruled by the Bulgarian kingdom and finally the Ottoman Empire.
@@London-LM i didn't never sayed that albania was never invadet by the bizantine empire or the roman i said that the construction the architecture wasn't made by the invaders because it was more older than that, it was created by the empire of Ilyria that was her extension from macedonia and greece today in the north till slovenia with some villagers in polonia in the south so what they invadet was created by the ilyrians and stayed that way till today.
@@London-LM first of all the ilyrian exist more than a 1000 years ,second the romans with the ilyrians have always lived close in territory so they have done commerce with each other and other things , in the time of queen teuta of Ilyria when she destroyed their ships and killed their messenger, they found the oportunity to put her into the corner with the traitor the general bardhyl that allied with the romans with the pretense to put him on the throne which he later died les than a year after the queen abdicated from the throne with the pretects that she entered their waters and thats how the romans invadet ilyria but they never changet the structure of the ilyrians and the byzantine trayed to create some other architecture but very little , and last the bullgarians they didnt stay for long for them to destroy the structures and to built new ones, so no, the civisilation of the ilyrians have fight to much to protect their land even under the ocupation from other empires. actually are the others that have taken from the civilisation, that the romans, byzantines, otamans etc have take from other empires they have invadet. Go look for yourself how old they are
M Scott not fully correct because the thing is that what do people think when they hear Byzantine Empire? They think of greeks maybe, right?
The truth is Illyria couldn't be invaded by something what they were themself because Illyrians were part of that Empire in creating and ruling it , like the major part to be honest. The Imperator Constantine the Great eg was Illyrian or more exact he was Dardanian. So we were not invaded because you cant invade yourself.
Changed it into 1912, thanks for the info
the berat castle is build by Illyrians 2500 years ago
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Europa nuk e ben nje dokomentar te till vec e ben per kec nuk e ben me cilsi te mir kapin vec gjera kqia
Jo mor jo se e kan bere edhe europianet
@@lvprioni2310 jo mor ma shum per kec
O zotni ka ba dhe ka ba shum biles, me mijra,,, nuk esht e veshtir ti gjesh,,, respekt per Al Jaziren qe esht e perhap ne gjith boten sidomos ne europ dhe ka teper kualitet
What is the language of Albania? Do they talk Albanian?
Yes it's albanian :0 Thanks for watching!
6rban100 Albanian is one of the oldest languages with the most history out there. Our Language is the same as the Illyrian and it comes from the Pelasgian Language (our ancestors). It got a little turkishized while the Ottomans ruled over Albania, but not that much.
🇦🇱🦅 rroftë Shqipëria🦅🇦🇱
Albanian . And Albanians call it Shqip the language Shqiptar the Albanian Shqiperia the country. Shqip/e mean 🦅 Eagle , Shqiperia means eagle land Shqipetar/people means son of the eagles.
Its the root for all Indo European languages ,and it is an isolated language !
🇦🇱🇽🇰📍❤
What is the camera that he uses
Serious Gal a Leica
O ku ka si Shqipëria jonë.
Pietro Marubi was Arberesh alb italian
Heaven
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Ah yes you did :)
How can I contact with you?
please go to our website storytravelers.com
The vast majority of albanians is NOT muslim its actually 50/50 but the majority of the people are atheist
Albania have 70% muslims
@@intrigantial3448 in your dreams bitch. i live in albania, now fuck off. you dont know shit about albania.
@@LeeTheRogue feja e shqiptarit eshte shqiptaria
@@babajot1158 egzaktesisht. keta islamiket e mutit po e kthejne shqiperine ne afganistan
@@babajot1158 Zoti dhe zeusi jane nje, ne nje fare menyre feja e shqiptarit eshte feja pagane e ilireve dhe asgje tjeter
This guy goes swimming with all his clothes still on ...
12:10 you mean 1912?
What does it pertain to?
@@STORYTRAVELERS If you turn on the subtitles, it says 1944, but really Albanian independence was achieved in 1912
@@nostalgia.pilled1446 I changed it! thanks!
@@STORYTRAVELERS Your welcome : )
You are ignoring Albanian Christians in this video. 99% of our history is Christian. The first Albanian muslims appeared as late as 1800s. And today Albania is not “vastly Muslim” it’s actually less then half Muslim and more then half Christian. Many are converting back to their true religion. So this video is really just Islamic propaganda. You didn’t show a single church here. There are about 500 mosques in Albania and more then 2000 churches. And that’s a fact. So this documentary is one sided. Also I love how you go into skanderbegs castle, Skanderbeg is one of the most anti Islamic figures in the worlds history.
OrthodoxAlbanian your confused mate. Over 80% are Muslim. Islam exists in albania and more people becoming more religious elhamdullilah ☪️🇦🇱❤️
O ti orthodoxo shife mir dokumentarin. Ka apo ska kishe. Po si nk i vlerësuat iher tj per ate qe bejn po shifni gjithmone te zezen te gjerat. Prandaj sbejm para si komb ne nga parazite si puna juaj qe vtm prishim adn e Shqipërisë. Kjo vlen dhe per kta injorantet e tj muslimane qe duhet te zgjidhin se ca jan me sh shqiptaret te krishterë apo muslimane. Tgjith nji mut jeni. Thank u al jazeera
You are envied before you came it was paganism even now USA ,cannada , Australia was give back to natives
Before blaming Islam look at you
You started conversion wasrs unnamed of religion
@@s.r.d714 site your source before you make such a dumb remark. There is no 80% muslims
and as for you orthodoxalbanian, why would you even preach a faith that is shared with the greeks and the slavs? youre a hypocrite like the muslims "patriota"
How is crime, poverty, drug addiction, gangs, corruption ect in Albania? New Zealand is OK with all the above. Oh, I forgot, racism here is alive and well too. You're most welcome!
We are patriotic bitch not racist
Do you mean racism is alive and well in Albania or New Zealand?