Texts and Documents of Albanian History. As a geographical and cultural entity, and as a nation, Albania has often been enigmatic and somewhat misunderstood.

This web site contains the largest selection of Albanian literature ever to have appeared in English translation. It comprises a wide range of Albanian authors from past and present, including writers from Albania, Kosovo and the Albanian diaspora. These translations are the fruits of over twenty years of research in the field of Albanian studies. Some were published, but most of them appear here for the first time.

Albania, and its culture and history, are to be discovered and appreciated not only through texts, but also through photography. For this reason we have chosen here to offer a few rare glimpses into the past of the Albanian people in collections of early photographs. The First Photographers in Albania and the Southwest Balkans. The history of native photography in this region of southeastern Europe, i. the work of photographers stemming from the region itself, is i.

Here you will find not only information about. Book reviews and interviews from 1975 to the present day. Many of these books and of most of the articles, book reviews and interviews. Can be downloaded as a PDF file. The focal point of the scholarly interests of Robert Elsie over the last thirty.

The Photo Collection of Franz Nopcsa. Die Fotosammlung des Franz Nopcsa. Koleksioni i Fotografive të Franc Nopçës.