George Finlay, one of the first historians that wrote about Greece. He was an ardent philhellene, but he accepted theory of Fallmerayer that modern greeks are not descedants of ancient ones.
Alexander the Great must, according to these archaeologists, have spoken an ancient Albanian dialect at his riotous banquets with his Macedonian officers.
HISTORY OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION by GEORGE FINLAY PG.41

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