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Vlora register discovered in Vatican archives

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TIRANA, July 18 – A 16th century register containing data about the southern Albanian coastal city of Vlora will be published in Albania this year when the country celebrates its 100th anniversary of independence. The register written in Ottoman is preserved in the Vatican library has been traced by researcher Ermal Nurja.
The register containing some 2,400 documents is a historical and social picture of Vlora in 1567-1568 when the coastal city and the whole of Albania was under ottoman rule.

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