Free Download Jason Tomes, "King Zog of Albania: Europe’s Self-Made Muslim Monarch"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0814782833, 0750944390 | PDF | pages: 338 | 112.3 mb
Shortly before 5 p.m. on Saturday, September 1, 1928, Europe gained a new kingdom and its only Muslim king: 32-year-old Zog I of the Albanians. Few foreign journalists were present in the Parliament House in Tirana to hear him swear his oath on the Koran and the Bible, yet the birth of the Kingdom of Albania-a native monarchy, not an alien imposition-did not go unnoticed abroad.