Shkruan Shqipe Hoxha. Arktanët (Άρκτᾶνες), një fis Epirot i përmendur nga Stephanus nga Bizantium.
Ky është një nën fis Molossian mund të lidhet me fjalën shqipe për ari, (ari) 25 nga PIE * ṛtkos ariu ’26.
Arktanes (Άρκτᾶνες). An Epirote tribe mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium.
It is a Molossian subtribe may be related with the Albanian word for bear, ari (< *ark )25 from the PIE * ṛtkos ‘bear’. 24 Stephani Bizantinii Op. cit.: “Άρκτᾶνες, ὡς Αἰνιᾶνες, ἔϑνος Ἠπειρωτικόν”. 25 Çabej, E. (1976). SE II, , pp.76-77. 26 Pokorny, J. (1959). Op. cit. An Excessively Rare and Exceptional Greek Silver Stater of Alexander I ‘the Molossian’, King of Epeiros, a Magnificent Depiction of Zeus Dodonaios Very Rare Coin Issued By Alexander the Great’s UncleThis excessively rare Greek silver stater was struck circa BC at Tarentum (map) under Alexander I the Molossian, King of Epiros Shqipe Hoxha