Опет Исидор Кијевски 15. век отац византијске историјографије.
Ne znam zbog čega tražiš nešto starije? Ne znam kakvo je stanje sa tim izvorima...ali sasvim sigurno identifikacija Albanaca sa Ilirima nije počela u XV stoleću, kao što nije ni počela tek tada identifikacija Srba sa Tribalima ili Bugara sa Mišanima...
Evo ti rasprave Bojana Miljkovića sa 23. vizantijskog kongresa održanog u Beogradu, u kojoj je prikazao dva najstarija sačuvana natpisa iz manastira Hilandara:
The second inscription is in the arcosolium that was subsequently added at the level of parapet panels on the inner side of the bifora on the northern wall of the old narthex. It is written in whiteletters on the green background, in three rows, behind Christ-child at the bosom of Virgin Mary.
Престави се раб божии, Репош, дукс илирскии, 6939
God’s servant Repoš, doux of Illyria, reposed in 6939
Judging by the sequence in which John Castriot’s sons are mentioned – in his charter of 1425/6 whereby he bestowed upon the Hilandar monastery the villages of Radostuše and Trebište northeast to Debar, Repoš was the second-born son of this Albanian nobleman, who ruled the area in the basin of the Mat river, north and east to Krujë, including the neighbouring Debar and the environs. Awaiting a conflict with the Turks, over the following two years John Castriot aimed to ensure a saferefuge for himself and his family. Before 17 August 1428, with the agreement of the hegoumenos and hieromonachos Athanasios and the entire Hilandar brethren, he bought four adelphata in St George’s pyrgos above the monastery for sixty florins, ensuring the right to lifelong stay for himself and his three sons – Repoš, Konstantin and Djuradj. However, John Castriot retained a part of his old territories as a Christian sipahi of the sultan in 1431. Under such circumstances, probably at the beginning of the same year, Repoš went to Mount Athos, where he soon after died.
The Hilandar brethren buried him as the son of the reputable monastery benefactor in the inner narthex and adorned his tomb with frescoes. Although, like his father, he did not have any title during his life, in both Hilandar documents, John and his sons are simply called gospodinь, Repoš was in the inscription posthumously called duke (Greek: δούξ). The ordering person left an incidental testimony to his erudition in the following word which denotes the ethnicity of the deceased. The Albanians were Illyrians (Ἰλλυριοί) for George Pachymeres at the beginning of the 14th century, and for the most of the later Byzantine scholars, historians, philologists and writers, such as Thomas Magistros, Nikephoros Gregoras or Joseph Kalothetos, including contemporary chroniclers and men of letters, such as the autokrator Manuel II Palaiologos or Kritoboulos of Imbros.
https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/bitstream/handle/123456789/11501/bitstream_45339.pdf
Miljković, inače danas jedan od najistaknutijih proučavala istorije manastira Svete gore, u prikazu u kojem analizira jedan od najstarijih hilendarskih natpisa (analizirajući zbog čega piše za Repoša Kastriotu u natpisu da je bio
duks ilirski) kaže da su Grci Albance nazivali Ilirima još od početka XIV stoleća i da je to bila praksa za većinu (uz nekoliko izuzetaka) vizantijskih istoriografa. Što i jeste, sve do Halkokondilovog vremena, kada se ilirsko ime prebacuje sa Albanaca na Slovene, tj. specifično pre svega na područje današnje Hrvatske i Bosne (na zapadni Ilirik).
Od ovih vizantijskih izvora koje Miljković nabraja, koliko se sećam, postavljali smo Tomu Magistra.
