arbën

Etymology

 * The term represents the name of a south Illyrian tribe attested in Ancient Greek (🇨🇬), later on denoting a proper name for an ethnic Albanian until (around) the eighteenth century when it was replaced with 🇨🇬 (see ). It is attributed directly to a Latin rendering of the tribal name 🇨🇬 by Orel.
 * Observed since the 2nd century BC, the History of the World written by Polybius, mentions a location named Arbona 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 in which some Illyrian troops, under Queen Teuta, scattered and fled to in order to escape the Romans. Arbona was perhaps an island in Liburnia or another location within Illyria.
 * In the 6th century AD, Stephanus of Byzantium, in his important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Ἐθνικά), mentions a city in Illyria called Arbon 🇨🇬, and gives an ethnic name for its inhabitants, in two singular number forms, i.e. Arbonios 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 pl. 🇨🇬. He cites Polybius (as he does many other times Polybius' own attitude to Rome has been variously interpreted, pro-Roman, … frequently cited in reference works such as Stephanus' Ethnica and the Suda. in Ethnica).

Noun

 * 1) Albanian (of the Albanian nation)