Edited sentence: ) in what is now Albania, compared to their equivalents in the Albanian language.Another problem is the ancient Illyrian and Roman toponyms (including hydronyms, etc.Another problem is the lack of clear archaeological evidence for a continuous settlement of an Albanian-speaking population since Illyrian times.As the Jireček Line shows, if Albanians were continuously settled throughout Albania since Illyrian times, they would have been, in the south, in more or less constant contact with the Greeks, and the scarcity of definite loans from ancient Greek is hard to explain within the context of Albanian continuity.For example, while several scholars maintain that the Komani-Kruja burial sites support the Illyrian-Albanian continuity theory, other scholars reject this and consider that the remains indicate a population of Romanized Illyrians who spoke a Romanic language.Greek loans into Illyrian are known ), so their absence in Albanian as an alleged descendant of Illyrian as it was spoken in Albania is difficult to explain.Many problems for the theory of Albanian continuity in Albania are recognized, and are addressed in various ways as the case may be.The Illyrians are referred to for the last time as an ethnic group in Miracula Sancti Demetri (7th century AD).The modern Albanians were not mentioned in Byzantine chronicles until 1043, although Illyria was part of the Byzantine Empire.The scarcity of loans from ancient Greek into Albanian is the first issue.The scholars who oppose the Illyrian theory maintain that many of them appear to have entered through one or more intermediary languages, which strongly indicates that the ancestors of Albanians were not in Albania.The written historical records pose another problem