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Albania in UNESCO

Albania in UNESCO

Despite being a very small country, Albania is rich in cultural heritage. Away from Tirana’s nightlife, and beaches of the Albanian Riviera, there’s a wonderful traditional side to Albania that visitors rarely see. It is time for[...]
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Summer day

Summer day

Every 14 of March Albanians celebrate the Summer Day, the country’s largest pagan festival. Summer day was the first day year of an ancient calendar of Albanians, a day celebrated centuries before the birth of Christianity. People[...]
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Religious tolerance and co-existence

Religious tolerance and co-existence

Albania is famous for its religious tolerance, which is valued and broadly supported by Albanian citizens. True to the Albanian saying, Albanian’s religion is Albanianism. More than 90 percent of Albanians consider religious[...]
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Albanian hospitality and Besa (word of honour)

Albanian hospitality and Besa (word of honour)

An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest. How best to explain Albanian hospitality than through Ismail Kadare’s words ‘Of God and the guest, you see. So, before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s[...]
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POST COMMUNIST ALBANIA

POST COMMUNIST ALBANIA

The student protests of 1989-1990 in Tirana, Shkodra and Kavaja, marked the fall of Communism in Albania and the arrival of political pluralism with the creation of the Democratic Party of Albania in 1991. Albania's progress toward[...]
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