The Discovery of Albania

Johann George Von Hahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Balkan Studies
• Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a schol... Lees meer

Dictionary of Albanian Literature

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover | Engels
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Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer

Franz Nopcsa

• Paperback | Engels
• The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of S... Lees meer

The Tribes of Albania

Robert Elsie

• Paperback
• Comprehensive reference guide to tribes of Albania Lees meer

The Discovery of Albania

Johann George Von Hahn

• Paperback | Engels
• Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a schol... Lees meer

The Albanian Bektashi

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

Historical Dictionary of Kosova

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover | Historical Dictionaries of Europe
• Currently a UN protectorate, Kosova nevertheless has a "long and torturous" history forged over centuries, according to the author. Lees meer

Historical Dictionary of Kosovo

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Dictionaries of Europe | nr. 79
• This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Kosovo relates the history of Kosovo through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bib... Lees meer

Albanian Folktales and Legends

Robert Elsie

• Paperback | Engels | Albanian Studies | nr. 2
• Folktales are still very much alive in the mountains of Albania, a land of haunted history. They are recited in the evenings after a day's work or out... Lees meer

Blood of the Quill

Azem Shkreli

• Paperback | Engels | Green Integer
• With an introduction by Janice Mathie-Heck, this brilliant collection of bilingual poetry represents the major work of the most noted Kosovo's poets, ... Lees meer

The Condemned Apple

Visar Zhiti

• Paperback | Albanees, Engels
• In this bilingual edition, Green Integer presents, for the first time in English, the poetry of the greatest living Albanian poet. As Janice Mathie-He... Lees meer

The Battle of Kosovo 1389

Anna Di Lellio

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Battle of Kosovo of 1389 holds enormous significance in the formation of modern Balkan nation states, especially among South Slav and Serbian nati... Lees meer

Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood

• Hardcover | Engels | Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Although Albanian literature dates back to the 1500s, creative prose in that nation is very much a twentieth-century phenomenon; and much as the early... Lees meer

Country Where No One Ever Dies

Ornela Vorpsi

• Paperback | Engels
• The spare, unsentimental first novel by an extraordinary new voice in world literature. Lees meer

The Tribes of Albania

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Balkan Studies
• 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 provi... Lees meer

Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood

• Paperback | Engels | Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Although Albanian literature dates back to the 1500s, creative prose in that nation is very much a twentieth-century phenomenon; and much as the early... Lees meer

Albanian Literature

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover
• The tender plant of Albanian literature grew in a rocky soil. This book tells the story of the survival and growth of Albanian creative writing beginn... Lees meer

Lightning from the Depths

Andrew Baruch Wachtel

• Hardcover | Engels | Writings from an Unbound Europe
• If a people Have no poets And no poetry of their own For a National Anthology Then treachery and barking Will do the trick With these words, a challen... Lees meer

A Passion for Theth

Robert Elsie, Gerda Mulder

• Paperback | Engels
• Theth is a small settlement of the Shala Valley in the northern Albanian Alps. As the crow fl ies, it is not far from the coastal town of Shkodra, but... Lees meer

Lightning from the Depths

Andrew Baruch Wachtel

• Paperback | Engels | Writings from an Unbound Europe
• If a people Have no poets And no poetry of their own For a National Anthology Then treachery and barking Will do the trick With these words, a challen... Lees meer

Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture

Robert Elsie

• Hardcover
• Albanian folk culture and religion suffered dreadfully at the hands of the Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha. This dictionary seeks to rescue for poster... Lees meer