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Illyria
Joined November 2023
Some Illyrian names: Teuta (f.) Teutana (f.) Teutea (f.) Teuticus (m.) Teutios (m.) Temiteuta (f.) Triteúta (f.)
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Edi Rama let in 1000 of these people to roam the streets of Albania
🚨 Dressed in a black puffer coat with a revolver in hand, a picture has emerged showing the moment an Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal ambushed US National Guards on the streets of Washington DC. One soldier, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died from her injuries. Another
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Mussolini considered building a mosque in Rome after annexing Albania. Ciano writes that the Vatican was horror-struck at the proposal and remarks that Albanians were so irreligious they would value a raise in salary far more than a mosque.
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in his 1879 travels to Albania, E. F. Knight compared Albanians and Montenegrins and concluded that the Albanian was more industrious, more intellectual, and “in every way of a finer, nobler race, than his much belauded hereditary foe.” he argued that Montenegrins were proud
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Eternal love to you, our prophet and savior Skanderbeg! Without you, Gjergj Kastrioti, Albania would never have existed. All glory, all honor, and all reverence are yours for all time. 🇦🇱
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Family arms of Giovanni Castriota Scanderbeg; on the left the Kastrioti arms - on the right the arms of the family Fieramosca
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Edith Durham notes that in northern Albania the most serious oath was sworn on earth and stone, because those were seen as the only witnesses a man could not escape.
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«[…] Albania's independence was now recognized by us. Serbia is naturally the hotbed of conspiracy in the Balkans, yet it is relatively quiet. Greece is also somewhat quieter for the moment.» —Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler - Speech to SS officers in Posen, Poland.
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Should Albania establish this organization? Albanian Eugenics League 🇦🇱
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