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Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg è l'eroe albanese che nel XV secolo combatté gli Ottomani per oltre 25 anni. Le sue vittorie schiaccianti, ottenute con un esercito di appena 10.000 uomini, contro eserciti che - in rapporto - ne vantavano almeno il quadruplo, sono ricordate e celebrate ancora oggi in tutta Albania (a
Around 10,000 people have lost their lives to blood feuds in Albania since the fall of Communism. These are not crimes related to gangs or drugs, but rather to a centuries-old tradition that has wreaked havoc through communities for over 500 years.Blood feuds are present in many cultures- southe...
Baba Tomor or Father Tomor is the personification of Mount Tomor, a mountain range which includes the highest peak in central Albania at an altitude of 2416 m. Mount Tomor is considered the home of the gods in central Albanian popular belief. The peasants of the region swear by Father Tomor, Alb...
Greeks were not the first perpetrators to design a device that could eventuate in stealing historical events and twist the accounts of other people. Among the most despicable acts of theft has been the masterminded plan to plagiarize the Iliad. What would be considered a translation in modern ti...
The Albanian language has been variously attached to Illyrian and Messapian, both of which were probably related. Only the latter, to a small extent, has left any evidence that may in any way liken it to Albanian. Consider the Messapic words bilia (Alb bijë “daughter”), brendon “deer” (Alb bri, ...
The ancient term “Pelasgian” is almost as mysterious now as ever, for scholars still have difficulty assigning precise meaning to it. For that reason some linguistic authorities prefer to substitute the term “pre-Hellenic” for the language of the people who antedated the Greeks in the Balkan Pen...
Researches into the History of the European Nations.Paragraph 3. – Of the Albanians or Skipetarians*.The people generally known in Europe by the name of Albanians, by the Turks called Arnauts, and by themselves Skipetares, which means in their language “mountaineers” or “dwellers on rocks,” inha...
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