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"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

Cambridge ancient History volume III ,part 1 , "The pehistory of the Balkans":

The name 'Illyrian' which the Greeks applied to their neighbours in the north-west area seems to have originated in a tribe of 'Illyrii' resident in classical times near the mouth of the Drin (Drilon) and described as Illyrii proprie dicti. At some time they were probably the southernmost outliers of the tribes which held the Zeta valley (borders between Albania and Montenegro) , and as such they may have been the immediate neighbours of Greek-speaking tribes in the Bronze Age. If so, they were leap-frogged by the Taulantii, to whom the Illyrian name was then extended. The movements of these tribes may be reflected in a genealogy which made Cyclops the father of Illyrius (Appian, Illyr. 2), an indignity indicating a Greek invention perhaps conceived at Epidamnus. The children of Illyrius included Taulas, ancestor of the Taulantii, Encheleus, ancestor of the Encheleae who lived north of Lake Ochrid and held the upper valley of the Drin, and Partho, ancestress of the Parthini who held the middle and upper valley of the Shkumbi. It is likely that all these tribes moved into these habitats in the late eleventh or early tenth century B.C. Their natural routes of entry from the north were via the Zeta valley to Scodra and via the White Drin region to Kukes. Hill-fortresses near Scodra and near Kukes have been associated with incoming Illyrian tribes

When the Phrygians left Macedonia, the country became open to invasion. The next period, c. 800—700 B.C., was marked by a great expansion of Illyrian tribes. In the west they took possession of the coastal plain of Malakaster, and Illyrian raiders penetrated into central Epirus. The lakeland fell under the control of Illyrians probably from Dardania; their graves were less rich than those of their predecessors. Upper and Lower Macedonia alike (with the exception of Pieria) were taken over by groups of Illyrians who came probably from central Yugoslavia and had their own forms of the Glasinac culture. The centres of their power in Lower Macedonia were at Vergina by the Haliacmon and on both sides of the Vardar by Gevgheli. Other Illyrians took control of the middle Strymon valley and the coastal plain, including the site of Amphipolis.

[...] The authors of the changes which we have noted in the lakeland, west Macedonia and now the strategic area of the lower Vardar were certainly Illyrians who came not from Illyris but from the great reservoir of Illyrian peoples in what is now central Yugoslavia. The most famous cemetery there is at Glasinac, with more than 20,000 tumuli, in use from the Early Bronze Age (above, p. 600). The expansion of the Illyrians was on a very large scale: not only through the lakeland and via Pelagonia into the Haliacmon valley and the whole of western Macedonia, but also into the middle Vardar valley, where bronze ornaments and pendants have been found at Kumanovo, Vucedol near Skopje, Radanja near Stip and Titov Veles. The traces of other Illyrian settlers have been found in western Bulgaria, in Romania, north of the Danube, in the middle Strymon valley, in the region of Lake Doiran and near the site of Amphipolis .

The Battle of Kadesh (also Qadesh) took place between the forces of the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River, in what is now the Syrian Arab Republic.[6]

The battle is generally dated to 1274 BC.[7] It was probably the largest chariot battle ever fought, involving perhaps 5,000–6,000 chariots.[

But the Illyrian tribes which are near the southern part of the mountainous country and those which are above the Ionian Gulf are intermingled with these peoples; for above Epidamnus and Apollonia as far as the Ceraunian Mountains dwell the Bylliones, the Taulantii, the Parthini, and the Brygi.

Cambridge ancient History volume III ,part 1 , "The pehistory of the Balkans":

The name 'Illyrian' which the Greeks applied to their neighbours in the north-west area seems to have originated in a tribe of 'Illyrii' resident in classical times near the mouth of the Drin (Drilon) and described as Illyrii proprie dicti. At some time they were probably the southernmost outliers of the tribes which held the Zeta valley (borders between Albania and Montenegro) , and as such they may have been the immediate neighbours of Greek-speaking tribes in the Bronze Age. If so, they were leap-frogged by the Taulantii, to whom the Illyrian name was then extended. The movements of these tribes may be reflected in a genealogy which made Cyclops the father of Illyrius (Appian, Illyr. 2), an indignity indicating a Greek invention perhaps conceived at Epidamnus. The children of Illyrius included Taulas, ancestor of the Taulantii, Encheleus, ancestor of the Encheleae who lived north of Lake Ochrid and held the upper valley of the Drin, and Partho, ancestress of the Parthini who held the middle and upper valley of the Shkumbi. It is likely that all these tribes moved into these habitats in the late eleventh or early tenth century B.C. Their natural routes of entry from the north were via the Zeta valley to Scodra and via the White Drin region to Kukes. Hill-fortresses near Scodra and near Kukes have been associated with incoming Illyrian tribes

When the Phrygians left Macedonia, the country became open to invasion. The next period, c. 800—700 B.C., was marked by a great expansion of Illyrian tribes. In the west they took possession of the coastal plain of Malakaster, and Illyrian raiders penetrated into central Epirus. The lakeland fell under the control of Illyrians probably from Dardania; their graves were less rich than those of their predecessors. Upper and Lower Macedonia alike (with the exception of Pieria) were taken over by groups of Illyrians who came probably from central Yugoslavia and had their own forms of the Glasinac culture. The centres of their power in Lower Macedonia were at Vergina by the Haliacmon and on both sides of the Vardar by Gevgheli. Other Illyrians took control of the middle Strymon valley and the coastal plain, including the site of Amphipolis.

[...] The authors of the changes which we have noted in the lakeland, west Macedonia and now the strategic area of the lower Vardar were certainly Illyrians who came not from Illyris but from the great reservoir of Illyrian peoples in what is now central Yugoslavia. The most famous cemetery there is at Glasinac, with more than 20,000 tumuli, in use from the Early Bronze Age (above, p. 600). The expansion of the Illyrians was on a very large scale: not only through the lakeland and via Pelagonia into the Haliacmon valley and the whole of western Macedonia, but also into the middle Vardar valley, where bronze ornaments and pendants have been found at Kumanovo, Vucedol near Skopje, Radanja near Stip and Titov Veles. The traces of other Illyrian settlers have been found in western Bulgaria, in Romania, north of the Danube, in the middle Strymon valley, in the region of Lake Doiran and near the site of Amphipolis .

Most historians date Phrygia at about 1,200 B.C. But; that is because they reference it to the collapse of the mythical Caucasian "Hittite" Empire – the problem is - there was NO Hittite Empire: it was in reality simply the Hatti Empire. Another part of the Phrygian mystery is the city of Troy (of Trojan Horse Fame). The question is; was Troy a Phrygian city? According to Homer's Iliad; the Phrygians sent forces to aid Troy during the Trojan War against Greece – but of course Homers Iliad is a poem, and cannot be taken literally; and it’s dating and relationship to actual events, is highly questionable. But in any event, the locations of Phrygia and Troy, and the dating of both, makes it highly likely that both of their people were ethnically members of the Hatti people.

The early Phrygians probably were not organized in one strong and centrally governed kingdom. Their origins and the affiliations of their language are still enshrouded in mystery. Greek tradition—still in many cases the best source available—usually dates their migration into Anatolia from Europe about the period of the Trojan War (early 12th century bc), and the Greeks were convinced that the Phrygians came from Macedonia and Thrace. Thus the Phrygian language once was believed to be related to Thracian or Illyrian. Most linguists, however, now view Phrygian as a separate Indo-European language that shares a number of isoglosses with ancient Greek.

When the Phrygians emerged as a political entity in the middle of the eighth
century B.C, they occupied the central part of Anatolia. They were often settled
on sites which were previously occupied by the Hitties. (...)Their arrival
has long been associated with the collapse of the Hittite empire (around
1200 BC).