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The Tribes of Albania
Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly …
History of Albania
The History of Albania by Tajar Zavalani (1903-1966) is the first full-length history of Albania to have been written in English. It covers the period from ancient times to the …
Thirty Agas Were Conversing: Albanian Heroic Verse
The Hasluck Collection of Albanian Folktales
Albanian Alphabets: Borrowed and Invented
Behind Stone Walls: Changing household organisation among the Albanians of Kosovo
Albanian Folktales and Legends: Selected and Translated from the Albanian
The Blaze in the Balkans
Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate and well-informed commentator on the twists and turns of …
High Albania
The Albanian Bektashi
The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania. In this, his final book, Robert Elsie analyses the Albanian …
Enver Hoxha
Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953. However, in one country - Albania - …
The Balkan Wars
The Ottoman Empire - the great power which had ruled much of southeastern Europe and the Middle East for over five centuries - was manifestly in decline by 1912. Its decline had …