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Books About Albania and The Albanian People
Books About Albania and The Albanian People
While the books can be read in any of the alternative sites, Scribd is recommended because of its additional
features; it provides full-screen reading and an optional embed link for blogs and websites. The books on
Google Books and Internet Archive also have a few extra empty pages, which have been removed prior to
uploading them on Scribd. The two journals included here (Noli’s “The Adriatic Review” and Konitza’s
“Albania”) had some of the same pages being repeated throughout (scanning errors it seems), which have
also been sorted out on the Scribd version. The books and articles are available for download as well, in pdf
format, for which Adobe Reader (free program) is needed. In the author field of each book alternative
spellings of names or aliases are provided, when applicable. By clicking on the image of the book a full-
screen picture of its cover can be seen. The Albanian version of this reference can be accessed here
Most of the materials included here are in English, but there are also a few in French, German, Italian, and
Albanian, and they’re listed below in that order. At the end of the reference (after the non-English books)
there are some journal articles (in English) from National Geographic, Scribner Magazine, etc. A lot of these
books are also available in public and university libraries, in the United States and other countries. Worldcat
(World Catalog) is a very helpful online database for that purpose. By searching via the book title, it
provides a list of the libraries nearby that have that particular book.
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all times. Diplomatically, Scanderbeg is the first Albanian to have forged nationwide allegiances of the kind
and scale he did. He also formed alliances with leaders of other European nations.
Since then, numerous historical and biographical books have been published about him, in several languages.
The first to circulate in Western Europe was the work of Marin Barleti (Marinus Barletius) during early 16th
century. Several novels, plays, poems and other works have been published about Scanderbeg as well, by
authors from different countries and time periods.
Title: A journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to
Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810
Author: John Cam Hobhouse Broughton
Year : 1817
Publisher: M. Carey & Son (Philadelphia)
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Title: The Captain of the Janizaries: A Story of the Times of Scanderbeg and the Fall of
Constantinople
Author: James Meeker Ludlow
Year: 1890 (First publication: 1886)
Publisher: Harper (New York)
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This is a novel about Scanderbeg.
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Title: Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum, I-IV
Author: Sir Arthur John Evans
Year: 1883
Publisher: Westminster: Nichols & sons
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The links on Scribd and Internet Archive contain an additional publication titled "On the
Roman town of Doclea".
Title: Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c., during the years
1812 and 1813
Author: Henry Holland
Year: 1815
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
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About Albania see page 99 and on.
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Title: The Albanian Question
Author: Mehmet Konitza [Mehmet Konica]
Year: 1818
Publisher: Williams, Lea, Co. (London)
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Title: Travels in Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 & 1810
Author: John Cam Hobhouse Broughton
Year: 1858
Publisher: John Murray (London)
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Title: Albania: a narrative of recent travel
Author: Edward Frederick Knight
Year: 1880
Publisher: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington (London)
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Title: Travels through the Morea, to Constantinople, Albania and several other parts of
the Ottoman Empire in the years 1798, 1799, 1800 and 1801
Author: François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville
Year: 1806
Publisher: Richard Phillips by Barnard & Sultzer (London)
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This book is based on the aforementioned Marlin Barleti’s work on Scanderbeg. The English version of
Barleti’s book was adapted from this French version of Lavardin and Bourrot. The English version is
available in various libraries, though unfortunately not on any free digital library. It can be accessed however
on EEBO (Early English Books Online) with a personal (paid) account, or for free via university (library)
accounts that do provide access on EEBO.
Title: Albania
Author: Faik Konitza [Faik Konica, Trhank Spirobeg]
Year: June 1898 - November 1899
Publisher: Bureaux de la Revue albanaise (Bruxelles)
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"Albania" was a biweekly journal published and edited by the renowned Albanian writer and
patriot Faik Konitza (Faik Konica) in Brussels, and later on in London. What’s included here is not a full
record of the journal; it contains issues from Volume B, Nr 6 through Volume D, Nr 11. Each issue has
articles in French and Albanian, followed by a few pages in Turkish. Trhank (Thrank) Spiroberg was an alias
of Konitza.
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Title: L'Albania: Notizie Geografiche, Ethnografiche e Storiche
Author: Arturo Galanti
Year: 1901
Publisher: Societa editrice Dante Alighieri (Roma)
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Title: Albania
Author: Eugenio Barbarich
Year: 1905
Publisher: Enrico Voghera (Roma)
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Full title: Albania (Monografia antropogeografica) Con 10 illustrazioni e 13 tavole fuori testo.
Title: Dhiata e re
Author: Konstandin Kristoforidhi [Konstantinit Kristoforidit, Constantine Christoforides]
Year: 1872
Publisher: A. H. Boyagianit (Konstantinopol)
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Full title: D e zotit ed e esit t'une - tit.
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Title: Ceshtja shqiptare ne analet diplomatike amerikane (1918 - 1945)
Author: Masar Kodra, Majlinda Kodra
Year: 1997
Publisher: Logos-A (Shkup)
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The full version of this book (in Albanian) can be read on the link provided, though it doesn’t
offer an option to download it.
Title: Scanderbeg
Year: May 1876
Journal: The Catholic World; Volume 23, Issue 134, pp 234-243
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Title: Recent Observations in Albania
Author: George P. Scriven (Brig. Gen., U.S. Army)
Year: August 1918
Journal: The National Geographic Magazine; Volume 34, Number 2, pp 90-114
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