阿族人则坚持认为，公元前4-5世纪在科索沃居住的原始部落伊利里亚人是阿族人的祖先，因此，科索沃自古以来就是阿族的领土。
The Albanian people insisted that the Illyrian people of the primitive tribe located at Kosovo in the 4th-5th century were their ancestors. Therefore, Kosovo had been the Albanian people's territory since ancient times.