The monograph carried out a semantic analysis of the terms "Albania" and "Albanians" in ancient and medieval sources from the 4th century. BC e. Until the X century. AD e. The author shows that the term "Albanians," which never reflected the self-name of the formed ethnic unit, denoted the population of political and administrative entities with the name "Albania." Concretizing the content of the studied terms for each period, the author identifies the most important moments of Albanian history, historical geography, ethnonymy and chronology, analyzes the "History of Albania" by Movses Daskhuranzi.