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The History of Byllis
Byllis is one of most important archeological sites of Albania for its monumental values. It was the
largest city in Southern Illyria and it has a dominant position over the hills of Mallakastra and over the valley of Vjosa. Its name came to attention relatively late from the annals of the time. The first mention of its name, in the form Bulis, appears in the event of the years 49-48 BC., when the city surrendered to Julius Caesar and became a base for supplying his army. The earliest source for Byllis is the Greek geographer Pseudo-Scylax, 380 BC.. He wrote that “ the people of Oricum live in the region of Amantia; the Amantini, who extend up to here; are Bylline Illyrians “, living it to be understood that the relationship between the Amantini and the Bylliones was that of political community, a koinon.
The community of Bylliones was a part of the large Illyrian region of Antintania, which included the whole lower and middle valley of Vjosa. The ancient city of Byllis was run in some stages from its found since its decline. Stephen of Byzantium writes that Byllis was founded by Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, because and its neiboring Amantini claimed their provenance from the Abantes of Euboea, who settled there after the Trojan War.
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Exhibition honors Muslims who saved Jews from Nazi persecution. JERUSALEM: Tears welling in his eyes, an elderly Holocaust survivor on Thursday embraced the son of the Albanian man who saved him from the Nazi death camps, highlighting an event recognizing the little-known role played by European Muslims in helping Jews during World War II.
The two met for the first time at a photography exhibition at Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, honoring Albanians who sheltered Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Albania, a tiny European country with a Muslim majority, sheltered about 1,000 Jews who, with the exception of one family, survived Nazi occupation, according to officials.
"This is a very unique story," said Yehudit Shendar, the exhibition's curator. Though Islam has an anti-Jewish image, these were "Muslims who endangered their own lives to save Jews," she said. Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Albanians sheltered between 600 and 1,800 Jewish refugees, risking death or imprisonment, officials said. At the end of the war, Albania was the only European country with a larger Jewish population than before the war.
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SARANDA, Albania (AP) — Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.
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Illyrian Empire
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By Llazar Selimi
Part of a sunken shipment of up to 60 ceramic vessels, the 26-inch storage jar, or amphora, was the top find from what organizers say is the first archaeological survey of this small Balkan nation's seabed, conducted by U.S. and Albanian experts.
"Touch it, touch it. It's luck," said mission leader George Robb of the Key West, Florida-based RPM Nautical Foundation. "You're touching something that was made before Plato was born."
Launched in July, the month-long survey was the first step in compiling an underwater cultural heritage map that could eventually plot the position of sunken fleets from ancient and mediaeval times believed to lie along Albania's 220-mile coastline.
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TIRANA, Aug 10 (IPS) - Bunkers? Underground catacombs? Submarine bases? Albania has been shaped by one of the most bizarre communist regimes ever and the potential to exploit it for tourism is inestimable.
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Communist Propaganda on millions of Slogans on every streets of Albania claiming "The Victory of Socialism over Capitalism"
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By Zoltán Dujisin
The possibilities for what has been termed as 'communist heritage tourism' are present, but as with other post-socialist countries in the region, the attempt at creating a communist-free national identity since the 1990s is in conflict with Western tourists' increasing interest in remnants of the communist past.
"If there are people interested just in these 50 years of history, why not offer it?" says Nevila Popa, business development specialist for USAID in Albania. While it remains a niche market, some, as Gent Mati from the tourism agency Outdoors Albania, confirm "there is interest for this paranoid, psychotic regime."
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TIRANA, Jul 4 (IPS) - People across the Balkans have much in common, forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the efforts of politicians to convince them how "different" or "distinctive" they are.
A mural in Tirana, Albania, commemorates
the revolutionary struggle
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By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
It takes only a couple of days for a Serb to figure in Tirana how children go to "skholla", just as Serbian children go to "skola". Their parents could work in "kancellari" (office) in Tirana, or "kancelarija" in Belgrade.
At home, they tuck into that fermented yellow cheese "kachkavali" in Tirana or "kackavalj" in Belgrade, while watching "reklame" (advertisements). Afterwards in either country they might have some "supa" (soup) or "pita" (pie).
And in either country you could go shopping for "bluze" (blouses) and "pantalone" (trousers). After hundreds of years both countries of today spent under the Ottoman Turkish rule, language and ways had to find commonness.
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PART III
Sami Repishti, Ph.D.
City University of New York
THE JEWS IN ALBANIA – A STORY OF SURVIVAL
Lecture
The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies- The City University of New York
New York City, February 21, 2007
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About the author:
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Prof. Dr. Sami Repishti
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Sami Repishti was born in Shkoder, Albania in 1925. As a student, he joined “the resis-tance movement”. His father fell victim to Italian fascist terror (1943) and his cousin was executed by the Nazis (1944). In 1946 he was arrested for opposition to the Communist Government of Albania, and sentenced to 15 years in jail, of which he spent ten(1946-56) Escaped to Yugoslavia, and jailed, (1959-1960), he was able to enter Italy, and in April, 1962 to emigrate to the United States. Here, he received a BA (1964), M.A.(1969), and Ph.D.(1977) in French. From 1966 to 1991, the year of his retirement, he taught French and Italian, in high school and as an adjunct faculty member at Adelphi University, N.Y. He is the author and co-author of 15 books, dealing primarily with Albanian studies, and human rights. “Tear Drops” (1997) and “In the Shadow of the Castle” (2004) describe his prison experience. Presently, he writes and remains an activist for human rights.
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PART II
Sami Repishti, Ph.D.
City University of New York
THE JEWS IN ALBANIA – A STORY OF SURVIVAL
Lecture
The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies- The City University of New York
New York City, February 21, 2007
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About the author:
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Prof. Dr. Sami Repishti
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Sami Repishti was born in Shkoder, Albania in 1925. As a student, he joined “the resis-tance movement”. His father fell victim to Italian fascist terror (1943) and his cousin was executed by the Nazis (1944). In 1946 he was arrested for opposition to the Communist Government of Albania, and sentenced to 15 years in jail, of which he spent ten(1946-56) Escaped to Yugoslavia, and jailed, (1959-1960), he was able to enter Italy, and in April, 1962 to emigrate to the United States. Here, he received a BA (1964), M.A.(1969), and Ph.D.(1977) in French. From 1966 to 1991, the year of his retirement, he taught French and Italian, in high school and as an adjunct faculty member at Adelphi University, N.Y. He is the author and co-author of 15 books, dealing primarily with Albanian studies, and human rights. “Tear Drops” (1997) and “In the Shadow of the Castle” (2004) describe his prison experience. Presently, he writes and remains an activist for human rights.
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