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Forsaken Albania

Vlora, twenties of the last Century. Known with the name of AVLONA since ancient times, this port located at a strategic spot on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, witnessed many Rulers
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A trip through the Valbona Valley

During last Summer, more than one thousand foreign tourists set up camp in the valley of the Valbona River, in Tropoja, 225 kilometers North East of Tirana. Never before have the “Cursed
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USA Anniversary

Remarks on the U.S.A Independence Day Tonight we celebrate the 231 anniversary of the birth of the United States of America. We have a reason to be especially happy this year as
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Forsaken Albania

Tirana in the Seventies’. The most Shakespearean ritual of Albanian society in the Second Half of the 20th Century was the rise, the brilliance and, later on, the downward slide into the
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Fight prejudice, give youth a vision

As General Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Ambassador Walter Fust has visited the country four times, noticing each one of them the changes that have accompanied Albania’s
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Forsaken Albania

Tirana: The 20-ties and 30-ties. For Centuries they have been in our midst, but they never integrated and this is not only due to the “condescension” of the Albanians, but also because
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Forsaken Albania

Albania 1943-44. I began this in last week’s edition with rare images of German military presence in the country and I close this with the photographs of this edition, which show the
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Learning the trade of a new passion

Five years ago, a 19 year-old girl took a long sea-ride to cross the Otranto straight and join the thousands of Albanians studying in Italy. Disappointed with the five consecutive refusals of
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, Autumn of 1943. Everyone knows that they were here, but few saw them and even fewer fixed their image on celluloid. The Germans, the bearers of the most
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