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December 11, 2024

Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century

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Free Download Alexis Heraclides, "Greek-Albanian Entanglements since the Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 1032123753 | 2023 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is a comprehensive study of more than 200 years of the shared and interconnected histories of Greek-Albanian relations, a field of inquiry that has not attracted the international scholarly attention it deserves.

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January 19, 2024

Albanian Etymological Dictionary

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Free Download Albanian Etymological Dictionary By Vladimir Orel
1998 | 670 Pages | ISBN: 9004110240 | PDF | 105 MB
This volume is a new compendium of Albanian etymology tracing thousands of modern Albanian words back to their origins. It contains detailed information on the Indo-European vocabulary preserved in Albanian as well as on numerous loanwords coming from ancient Greek, Latin, early Romance and Slavic.The ancient elements of the Albanian vocabulary are used for the reconstruction of their Proto-Albanian origin and then compared with their Indo-European parallels. The history of Indo-European words and of early loanwords in Albanian shows the history and culture of the Albanian people reflected in the etymology of the Albanian language.The book also includes a short sketch of Albanian historical phonetics and a vast bibliography. Every entry is extensively documented and contains earlier etymological explanations and interpretations.

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September 28, 2023

The Albanian Question Reshaping the Balkans

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Free Download Miranda Vickers, "The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans"
English | 2007 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1860649742, 1848850956 | PDF | 5,2 mb
In 1997 the previously little-known and isolated Balkan country of Albania exploded as the first armed uprising in mainland Europe since the 1920s brought the country to the brink of civil war. As the violence spread first to neighbouring Kosovo, then to south-east Serbia and finally to former Yugoslav Macedonia, the Albanian question increasingly took center stage in world affairs. This book examines Albania’s place in the Balkans, a region which had been forced simultaneously to come to terms with the realities of a post-Communist world and the threat of Slobodan Milosevic’s ""Greater Serbia"" project.

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