Albanophilia

[2][3] Later on Gustav Meyer proved that Albanian language was part of the Indo-European family.

[4] In 2001 during the Insurgency in Macedonia the German foreign minister Joschka Fischer declared, that the Albanian question in the Balkans is not solved.

Around 1912 Germany and Austria supported an Independent Albania, including cities like Parga, Tetovo and Pristina.

According to the contemporary science of European races, [Dinaric] peoples are descended from the Illyrians.

Hence, not just the kinship, but the identity of certain cultural forms among the Dinaric peoples, all the way from Albanians to South Tyroleans, who are Germanized Illyrians.

Austrian Theodor Ippen in Shkodër with traditional costume (1900)