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Ali Pasha’s capital: government, trade, culture and imperial relations ELTON VARFI · FRANCESCA DI MATTEO First instalment of the miniseries: The Lion of Ioannina At the end of the eighteenth century, anyone arriving in Janina found an Ottoman city in which the sul…
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ALBANIAN LANDS BEYOND THE BORDERS (1878–1913) · EPISODE THREE From the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the international fleet of 1880: the resistance of the League of Prizren and the cession of Dulcigno to Montenegro. ELTON VARFI A Town on the Adriatic, a European Q…
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The Serbian and Montenegrin occupation of Kosovo in 1912, the agreement among the Great Powers, the negotiations over Shkodra and the cities of Kosovo: how a border emerged that did not follow the geography of Albanian-speaking communities. ELTON VARFI Historical a…
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From the Albanian Chronicles Series
Albanian history, cultural memory and decisive figures.
A complete monograph of George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, reconstructing the life, campaigns and political world of Albania’s national hero.
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A chronicle of the decisive events that shaped twentieth-century Albania, from independence through dictatorship and the difficult return to democracy.
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Mystery, investigation and the uncanny.
The first Ernest Devon mystery: an investigation in which a portrait, a vanished truth and the gaze of Margaret Houg draw the investigator into a disturbing past.
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A dark investigative novel in which competing explanations, hidden motives and a brutal truth force every certainty to be tested against Occam’s razor.
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Nine stories, nine doors opening onto the unknown: mystery, the uncanny and the bizarre meet in a collection of unsettling possibilities.
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