Skanderbeg letter to Prince of Taranto, the Albanians are the descendants of the Epirotes and the Macedonians

Translated from original: "Moreover, you scorn our people, claiming the Albanians as nothing more than sheep, and according to your customs think of us with only insults. It would seem you know nothing of the origins of our race. Our elders were the Epirotes from whence Pyrrhus himself came forth, the might of whom the Romans could barely withstand. Those very Epirotes whom with their weapons set forth and conquered Taranto and much of Italy.

There exists no challenge to their might from the likes of the Tarentines, a species of wet men born only to catch fish.

And since you proclaim Albania a part of Macedonia, you grant also then, our elders as nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great, defeating all the people that came before them with great ease.

From those men descend these who you call sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"

31, October, 1460. Gjergj Kastrio Skanderbeg

Taken from Scanderbeg's letter to Prince Giovanni of Taranto; Book VI of Pope Pius the II's Comentaries.