Category Archives: Albania & Albanians

A general category with articles about Albania and Albanians

Discover the Albanian Language and Dialects with Robert Elsie

If you are Albanian or someone working on learning the Albanian language then I would encourage you to delve a little deeper into understanding the roots and the development of this ancient language. To help you with this process, out … Continue reading

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Do you notice any similarities with Albanian TV channels?

As I do every morning, even today I was roaming around the net to some of my preferred sites when I stumbled upon this post by Seth Godin, who is well known marketer. Anyway, the topic of his blog post … Continue reading

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Earthquake shakes Tirana at 11:50 PM

The night of Sunday, September 06, 2009 at exactly 11:50 PM an earthquake shook the buildings in Tirana. It was not strong enough to destroy anything, but it could definitively be felt on the 4th floor of the apartment building … Continue reading

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Hoxha’s writing through an Englishman’s eyes

I cannot say that I have read much of anything that the former Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha has written, but it was almost refreshing to read about one of his some 70 books from the perspective of an Englishman writing … Continue reading

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Wanted Albanian Criminal Kills Five in Shootout

This past week I was so sad to see how one of Albania’s most wanted criminals, Dritan Dajti, killed five people in a shootout on Friday, including four police officers. The fact that he knew about the police going to … Continue reading

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EU free-visa travel postponed again for Albania! Is our mentality to be blamed?

If you have been following the news lately then you must have heard about the European Commission’s decision to grant visa-free travel to three Balkan countries – Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, while Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo where left … Continue reading

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Albania General Elections 2009: The Process has Improved but Violations Persist!

The final numbers for Albania’s general elections are not yet out, in my perspective the most important issue is the election process itself since the political options presented by both the right and left, do not present any improvements. At … Continue reading

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