101. F.Konizta Konitza strove for a more refined Western culture in Albania, but he also valued his country s traditions. He was, for instance, one of the first to http://letersi.homestead.com/konitza.html

@import url(http://www.homestead.com/~media/elements/Text/font_styles.css); Konitza's stay in France, a country of long-standing liberal democratic traditions, was to have a profound effect on him and he was able to acquire and adopt the patterns of Western thinking as no Albanian intellectual had ever done before him. The young Konitza was particularly marked by the uninhibited freedom which the French press enjoyed in the years of open and caustic debate sparked by the Dreyfus affair. It was during this period that he began to take an interest in his native language and his country's history and literature, and to write articles on Albania for a French newspaper. In September 1897 he moved to Brussels, where at the age of twenty-two he founded the periodical Albania, which was soon to become the most important organ of the Albanian press at the turn of the century. He moved to London in 1902 and continued to publish the journal there until 1909. The present publication, bringing together not only the first English translation of Guillaume Apollinaire's short essay on Konitza, but also much of the Albanian publicist's previously inaccessible correspondence with noted figures of his age, constitutes a further achievement and another step major forward in making this much neglected figure known to the Western reader. Robert Elsie Olzheim / Eifel, Germany

102. Albania Flag, Albania History, Culture Of Albania, Economy Of Albania, Flag Of A Albania Flag, Albania History, culture of Albania, Economy of Albania, Flag of Albania, People of Albania, Information on Albania, Albania History, http://www.mapsofworld.com/country-profile/albania1.html

Albania is situated in Southeastern Europe. To know more about Albania, Maps of World provides information on Albania, Flag of Albania, Economy Albania, People of Albania, Details of Albania Maps of World People of Albania Albania is made up of mainly the native people which form 95% of the population. The remaining 5% consists of 3% of Greek population and 2% of the Vlach, Gypsy, Serb, and the Bulgarian population. While 70% of the people are Muslim, 20% are Albanian Orthodox and the remaining 10% Roman Catholic. Culture of Albania Till many years, Albanian culture remained without any identity as the language itself was not taught in schools. But later Albania began to get influenced by China and Russia and today, the country can boast of its traditional dances, festivals, handicrafts and customs. Big museums, libraries and theatres also form part of Albania's educative entertainment section. Flag of Albania The flag of Albania is red in colour with a black two-headed eagle in the center. Gules, the double-headed eagle sable can be traced to George Castriota, an Albanian Christian who became a Turkish general in the 15th century under the name of Iskander Bey, or Skanderbeg. He later returned to the Christian faith and led the fight of the Albanians against the Turks in the 1440's. He used the Byzantine two-headed eagle on his seals, which now reflect on the modern flag. Please click here to view the Flag of Albania Economy Of Albania All efforts have been made to make this information as accurate as possible. However Compare Infobase Pvt. Ltd. and its directors do not own any responsibility for the correctness or authenticity of the same.

103. Police Study Diverse Cultures In albanian cultural tradition, historically there was a code that facilitated selfgovernance, said Frances Trix, associate professor of anthropology at http://www.freep.com/news/cfp/4/tpol10_20030410.htm

[an error occurred while processing this directive] (none) new COOLjsMenu("test",MENU_ITEMS); Auburn Hills Troy Rochester Rochester Hills ... How to reach us Detroit Free Press Oakland Bureau 26555 Evergreen Suite 1070 Southfield, MI 48076 Home page Site index View the front page Weather ... calendars Police study diverse cultures Knowledge of traditions can help investigators solve cases April 10, 2003 BY JEWEL GOPWANI FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER In the days after a March 30 murder at an Albanian church in Rochester Hills, police scrambled tolearn about Albanian culture Among other things, they learned criminal problems are often handled within the culture's community valuable context for the police as they sorted out what may have led to the shocking crime. Cultural diversity experts applaud attempts by local police departments to try to understand crime through a cultural prism, and say police can avoid a scramble when crime occurs by training officers about different cultures and traditions. "It's like putting money in the bank by going out and talking to all the members of the community," said Barnett Jones, acultural diversity instructor and Sterling Heights police chief. Last week Gjon Pepaj of Rochester Hills was arraigned on charges of shooting a Madison Heights man, Gjek Sufaj, during a service at St. Paul's Albanian Catholic Church in the culmination of a violent, longstanding feud between two former friends.

104. New Competitors For Hegemony: Western Evangelicals And The Rebuilding Of Albania Missionaries present Western culture in Albania. In Albania the argument for absolute cultural privilege, in contrast to the claims the Russian Orthodox http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001871480

105. Euromosaic - Albanian In Italy Other cultural activities for the promotion of albanian were the magazines There is no organized albanian cultural movement apart from the AIADI http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/albanes/an/i1/i1.html

Albanian in Italy xx-xx-xxxx http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/albanes/an/i1/i1.html Albanian in Italy Introduction The language in the country General information on the language community Geographical and language background ... Conclusion 1. Introduction There is no dat for this topic. Top of page 2. The language in the country 2.1. General information on the language community There is no dat for this topic. Top of page 2.2. Geographical and language background The Albanian dialect of Italy, a language that now bears little resemblance to the standard language of Albania, which is called Shqip , is spoken over a wide area comprising 49 towns and villages, a veritable archipelago of linguistic islands extending from the Abruzzi Appenines to the south of Italy and to Sicily and situated mainly in mountainous or semi-mountainous regions. These communities are dispersed among seven regions (Abruzzi, Molise, Puglia, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily) and nine provinces (Pescara, Campobasso, Avellino, Foggia, Taranto, Potenza, Cosenza, Catanzaro and Palermo). Various sources put the number of Albanian speakers in Italy at around 100,000, although it has not been possible to obtain reliable statistics since 1921, when Italy discontinued the practice of collecting census data on linguistic minorities. Moreover, the most reliable sources suggest that between 10 and 20% of the ethnic Albanians in Italy no longer speak the language, which would reduce this figure to between 80,000 and 90,000. In addition, there is a marked, if unquantifiable, decline in the use of Albanian for social interaction among young people, who prefer to use Italian or the Romance dialects of the various regions in which they live.

106. Culture Of Albania - Encyclopedia Article About Culture Of Albania. encyclopedia article about culture of Albania. Information about culture of Albania in Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What does culture of http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Culture of Albania

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Culture of Albania' Your help is needed: American Red Cross The Salvation Army join mailing list webmaster tools Word (phrase): Word Starts with Ends with Definition subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Computing dictionary Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Columbia encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia Culture of Albania 0.04 sec. Page tools Printer friendly Cite / link Email Feedback Albanian folklore Albanian language Albanian or Gjuha shqipe is a language spoken by more than six million inhabitants of the western Balkan peninsula (Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Greece) in south-eastern Europe (Albanians) and in numerous villages in Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, southern Italy and on the island of Sicily. Click the link for more information. Albanian literature Although Albanian is an ancient tongue, the oldest known document in the language is from November 8, 1462, a formula of baptism (Albanian: Formula e Pagëzimit ) by the bishop of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli. There is also a German-Albanian dictionary by Arnold Von Harf from 1497, and the oldest known Albanian printed book, Meshari or missal that was written by Gjon Buzuku, a Catholic cleric, in 1555.

107. Ernest KOLIQI Shêjzat was the leading albanianlanguage cultural periodical of its time. Not only did it keep abreast of contemporary literary trends in the http://www.albanianliterature.com/html/authors/bio/koliqi.html

Robert Elsie Albanian authors in translation Ernest KOLIQI BIOGRAPHY Of all the prose writers of the period, none was more imposing and influential than Ernest Koliqi (1903-1975). Koliqi was born in Shkodra on 20 May 1903 and was educated at the Jesuit college of Arice in the Lombardian town of Brescia, where he became acquainted with Italian literature and culture and first began writing verse, short stories and comedies in Italian. In Bergamo, he and some fellow pupils founded a weekly student newspaper called Noi, giovanni (We, the young) in which his first poems appeared. What Albania needed most after the ravages of the First World War was knowledge and to this end Koliqi resolved to set up a newspaper. Together with Anton Harapi (1888-1946) and Nush Topalli, he thus founded the opposition weekly Ora e maleve (The mountain fairy), the first issue of which appeared in Shkodra on 15 April 1923. Ora e maleve Kushtrimi i Skanderbeut , Tirana 1924 (Scanderbeg's war cry), a series of odes on the Albanian national hero and other great figures of the past, composed very much in the traditions of Rilindja literature.

108. Barbarism And The Erasure Of Culture Erasing Macedonia s culture. By forcing Serbs to leave their ancestral homeland, and then destroying all traces of Serbian culture, the Albanians would http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso2.html

Barbarism and the Erasure of Culture The destruction of Sveti Anastasi by Christopher Deliso August 24, 2001 W hen the revered fourteenth-century Monastery of Sveti Anastasi in Leshok was blown up earlier this week, Macedonian Government Spokesman Antonio Milososki summarized the event concisely: "This," he said, "is barbarism." Milososki's simple statement captured the essence of the matter: that the destruction of such a historical and cultural treasure as the Leshok Monastery was an act that could only be described as barbaric, a thoughtless, misanthropic destruction of a unique and irreplaceable piece of the common European heritage. Yet for all its ignorance, this act meant something more than a bunch of unemployed young terrorists playing with explosives (though such individuals no doubt executed the destruction). It was a deliberate attempt to erase any trace of Macedonia's historical continuity, to wipe the presence of the past clear off the map. As such, the destruction of the Leshok Monastery was a calculated attempt by Albanian terrorists to exert their territorial dominance, by obliterating a valuable part of Macedonian heritage, a treasure of art and religion that had been listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO.

109. Regional: Europe: Albania: Society And Culture - Open Site Regional Europe Albania Society and culture Open Site. http://open-site.org/Regional/Europe/Albania/Society_and_Culture/

Open Site The Open Encyclopedia Project home submit content become an editor the entire directory only in Albania/Society_and_Culture Top Regional Europe Albania : Society and Culture Demographics History Language and Linguistics Military Overview Ninety-five percent of Albania's people are ethnic Albanian, and Albanian is the official language. Religions include Muslim (Sunni and Bektashi), Albanian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic. Scholars believe the Albanian people are descended from a non-Slavic, non-Turkic group of tribes known as Illyrians, who arrived in the Balkans around 2000 BC. Modern Albanians still distinguish between Ghegs (northern tribes) and Tosks (southern tribes). This category needs an editor - apply here Open Site Code 0.5.3 robot company. Visit our sister sites dmoz.org mozilla.org chefmoz.org musicmoz.org ... edit

110. BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Albania's Gun Culture Proves Hard To Shift The illegal trade in guns remains a key part of Albania s black economy, fuelled by poverty and fear, writes the BBC s Paul Henley. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2660853.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: World: Europe News Front Page World ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help LANGUAGES EDITIONS Change to World Wednesday, 15 January, 2003, 12:35 GMT Albania's gun culture proves hard to shift Guns remain a key part of Albania's black economy By Paul Henley BBC Radio 5-Live Euronews reporter, Tirana I asked the anonymous man, a former champion wrestler, sitting in the chilly cafe he owns on the ramshackle outskirts of Tirana, if he personally owned a gun. There followed about five seconds of nervous laughter, followed by a simple yes. He would hardly be alone - in Albania - in keeping a firearm at home. The chances are he owns several, anything from a Russian sub-machine gun to a Chinese army-issue pistol, to an anti-aircraft weapon. Many Albanian guns found their way to the Kosovo war Hundreds of thousands of them were looted from army and police barracks in the chaotic days following the collapse of the Albanian Government in 1997. There were tales of civilians towing MIG fighter jets out of air force hangars, of farmers driving around in tanks.

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