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Texts and Documents
of Albanian History

1000 — 1499

1500 — 1799

1800 — 1849

1850 — 1899

1900 — 1919

1920 — 1944

1945 — 1989

1990 —


2013.2.13

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Texts and Documents of Albanian History
1920 — 1944

English

1920
Ismail Kemal bey Vlora:
Memoirs

The final chapter of the memoirs of the father of Albanian independence, in which he describes the event for which he is best remembered.

 

English

1921
Rexhep Mitrovica & Bedri Pejani:
A Kosovar Protest

A letter to the Great Powers from two Kosovar intellectuals to appeal for assistance against the Serbian annexation of Kosovo.

 

English

1921
Mufid Bey Libohova:
My Policies in Albania, 1916-1920

Memoirs of the wealthy southern Albanian political figure, Mufid bey Libohova, concerning turbulent years in Albanian history.

 

English

1921
Hasan Bey Prishtina:
Brief Memoir on the Albanian Uprising of 1912

Kosovo Albanian political leader Hasan bey Prishtina describes his efforts to organise an uprising against Ottoman rule in 1912.

 

English

1922
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf:
Austro-Hungarian Relations with Albania in 1914

The Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces in the First World War gives an account here of what motivated Austro-Hungarian policies towards Albania during the chaotic events that took place there in 1914.

 

deutsch

1929
Franz Baron Nopcsa:
Reisen in den Balkan

Präsentation der Memoiren des österreichisch-ungarischen Albanien­forschers, Baron Nopcsa.

 

English

1930
Gjon Bisaku, Shtjefën Kurti & Luigj Gashi:
Albanian Minority in Yugoslavia

Three Catholic priests in Kosovo present a memorandum to the League of Nations on the desperate plight of their people under Serbian rule.

 

English

1931
The Balkans in the Operngasse

A newspaper account of an attempt to assassinate Albanian King Zog as he left the opera house in Vienna on 20 February 1931.

 

English

1933
Ahmed Zogu:
King Zog Tells his Story

A short autobiography of Albanian King Zog, taken down by the United States Ambassador in Tirana, Herman Bernstein.

 

English

1934
Herman Bernstein:
Little Albania is the Pawn in a Great Diplomatic Game

Article published in ‘The New York Times’ by Herman Bernstein, the United States Ambassador to Albania in 1930-1933, that throws light on Albania’s predicament in juggling her relations between Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece.

 

English

1936
Georg Stadtmüller:
Research in Early Albanian History

Stadtmüller's theory that the original homeland of the Albanians was in the northern Albanian district of Mat.

 

English

1937
Reimer Schulz:
Burial and the Cult of the Dead
among the Northern Albanian Highlanders

A German anthropologist travels to Theth in Dukagjin in 1937 and attends a funeral, with rites and customs that have long disappeared.

 

English

1937
Reimer Schulz:
Leichenbegängnis und Totenkult bei den Malisoren

Ein deutscher Anthropologe reist im Jahre 1937 nach Theth in Dukagjin und nimmt an einem zeremoniellen Begräbnis teil.

 

English

1937
Vaso Cubrilovic:
The Expulsion of the Albanians

The text of a memorandum drafted by Bosnian Serb scholar and political figure Vaso Cubrilovic calling for nothing less than the expulsion of the whole Albanian population of Kosovo.

 

français

1937
Vaso Cubrilovic:
L'expulsion des Albanais

Académicien serbe Vaso Cubrilovic réclame l’expulsion de toute la population albanaise du Kosovo.

 

English

1938
Convention
Regulating the Emigration of the Turkish Population ...

An international treaty between the governments of Yugoslavia and Turkey for formalise the start of the expulsion of the Albanians and Turks from Kosovo, Macedonia and southern Serbia.

 

English

1939
Ivo Andric:
Draft on Albania

Bosnian Serb writer and Nobel Prize recipient calls for the partition of Albania between Yugoslavia and Italy.

 

English

1939
Faik Bey Konitza:
Albania's Position

Faik Bey Konitza, head of the Albanian legation to the United States, reacts to the Italian invasion of his country at Easter 1939.

 

English

1940
Chatin Sarachi:
King Zog of the Albanians: the Inside Story

An Albanian diplomat and former friend of King Zog attacks the Albanian monarch and exposes his corruption.

 

English

1941
Vandeleur Robinson:
Corruptio ad Absurdum

British writer exposes corruption in the public service under King Zog, an article with possible parallels to modern-day Albania.

 

English

1941
Edith Durham:
Albania

An overview of Albanian history and a plea for justice following the Italian invasion of Albania.

 

English

1942
Balli Kombëtar:
The Ten-Point Programme

Balli Kombëtar, the non-communist resistance movement in the Second World War, presented this political platform after its creation in November 1942.

 

English

1944
Bedri Pejani:
Letter to Heinrich Himmler

In a last-ditch appeal, Bedri Pejani writes to Heinrich Himmler seeking support for an "Albanian army" to oppose the communists advancing in Kosovo.

 

English

1944
Prisoners of the Nazis in Kosovo

Lists of the people arrested by the Nazis in Kosovo in 1944 and detained for transportation to the Reich, with names, professions and grounds for their arrest.

 

English

1944
Eyewitness Account
of the Expulsion of the Chams from Greece

An account of the massacre in Filat (Filiates) and the expulsion of the Albanian Chams from Greece in September 1944.

 

English

1944
Fred Brandt:
With the Partisans in Albania

Memoirs of a Nazi agent and ‘master spy’ in the mountains of northern Albania during the Second World War.

 

English

1944
Fred Brandt:
Bei den Partisanen in Albanien

Bericht aus den Bergen Nordalbaniens im Zweiten Weltkrieg von einem deutschen ‘Meisterspion’, Mitglied der militärischen Abwehr der Wehrmacht.

 

English

1944
Lazër Radi:
The Autumn of 1944

Lazër Radi describes the moment of his arrest in Tirana that would lead to forty-six years of imprisonment and internment in communist Albania.

 

English

1944
Zef Pllumi:
The Church in the Garden of Gethsemane

Chapter from the memoirs of a Catholic priest who survived in communist Albania.

 

English

1944
Vaso Cubrilovic:
The Minority Problem in the New Yugoslavia

A second memorandum by the Bosnian Serb scholar and political figure Vaso Cubrilovic, proposing a radical solution to the “minority question” in Yugoslavia.

 

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