Download or read book Albania and the Albanians in the Annual Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society 1805 1955 written by David Hosaflook and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Albania and the Albanians in the Annual Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society 1805 1955 written by David Hosaflook and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British and Foreign Bible Society was established in 1804, at the onset of an era of unprecedented Protestant missionary expansion across the globe. Because the foundational pillar of Protestantism is "Sola Scriptura" (the Bible alone is the final authority for faith and practice), the first objective of Protestant missions was making the Bible available globally. The Bible Society had a limited focus (it would publish the text of the Scriptures alone, without any accompanying notes or comments) but an unlimited vision (it aimed to publish Bibles in every language possible). It was a massive, privately funded, nondenominational Christian organization that asked one essential question when contemplating whether or not to engage with a particular nation: "Do the people there have Bibles in their mother tongue that they can read for themselves?" In its first one hundred years, the British and Foreign Bible Society translated, printed, or distributed Scriptures in an astounding 412 of the world's languages-an average of four new languages per year. Remarkably, the Albanian language became a focus of the BFBS was early as 1816, just twelve years after the BFBS was established. Albanian was approximately the twentieth project the BFBS undertook. When the BFBS entered Albanian history, there was no Albanian Bible or New Testament available to the people. This is almost incredible when considering the many centuries of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian influence in Albanian territories. The publication of an Albanian New Testament in 1827 was a triumph for the Albanian people and became a standard text for foreign linguists studying Albanian, putting the language on the world's linguistic map. Between 1827 and 1908 alone, the British and Foreign Bible Society printed approximately 55,000 copies of the Albanian Scriptures, in both Gheg and Tosk, in twenty-seven unique editions. The society translated and published all the books of the New Testament and several books from the Old Testament. Perhaps more significantly, they took the initiative to distribute the books among the Albanian people, amidst extremely harsh circumstances and the opposition of religious and political leaders. Each year the BFBS printed a detailed annual report about its work all over the world. The information in the reports was intended to be a condensed summary of the Society's work, as reported by its workers. The Albanians were first mentioned in the 1817 report and were mentioned in nearly every successive report until 1955. This resource is a compilation of material, extracted from the annual reports, about Albania and the Albanians, but it also contains information about other nations insofar as such information assists readers to understand the context and progress of the Albanian work in the context of the Ottoman Balkans.Because the BFBS began its work for the Albanian Bible at the beginning of the nineteenth century and continued working intensely until the communist era, its reports are useful as a running historical commentary and chronology of Albanian conditions predating the Albanian National Awakening and extending well beyond Albania's emergence as an independent nation. As demonstrated by the lengthy index in the back of this book, the extracts herein contain information about a wide breadth of topics and will serve historians and linguists as a fascinating reference work. This book's primary value, however, is to readers who wish to understand the long and adventurous story of how the Albanians received and started reading the Bible in their own dialect, and how something so simple became so significant to Albania's national cause.
Download or read book Britain the Albanian National Question and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire 1876 1914 written by Daut Dauti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often Albania has been considered a relatively minor player in late-19th and early-20th century history. By contrast, this book highlights the significance of this nation and the Albanian question at this time through a detailed analysis of the relationship between Albania, Britain and the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1914. Making use of a wide range of archival source materials some of which are published here in English for the first time this book explores British foreign policy towards the development of the Albanian national movement and parallel demise of the Ottoman Empire. In doing so it illuminates the objectives of the British government, as well as shining a spotlight on the public opinion of both the British people towards Albanian nationalism and on the reaction of the Albanians towards the British diplomatic position. By looking through such a unique lens, here Daut Dauti is able to provide fresh insight into why the Albanians were not supported by the Great Powers in their national quest in the way that other Balkan countries were and draws significant new conclusions on British, Balkan and Ottoman relations. As such, this nuanced study is vital reading for all scholars interested in modern Albanian history, turn-of-the-century British international relations and the fall of the Ottoman Empire more broadly.
Download or read book Albania and the Albanians written by Henry Charles Woods and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Albanians written by Miranda Vickers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March 1997 uprising. Miranda Vickers traces the history of the Albanian people from the Ottoman period to the formation of the Albanian Communist Party. She considers the charismatic leadership of Enver Hoxha; Albania's relationship with Tito and the alliance with the Soviet Union and then China; and the long period of isolation. Newly revised for this paperback edition, The Albanians considers the gradual process of reform and the fragility of the Albanian experiment with democracy, and includes a dramatic account of the days leading up to Sali Berisha's resignation of the presidency. It has now been updated to cover the crisis in Kosovo that has led to the first 'Western' war in Europe since 1945.
Download or read book Area Handbook for Albania written by Eugene K. Keefe and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Albania - covers historical and geographical aspects, natural resources, population, social structure, education, mass media, political system, economic structure, agriculture, industry, defence and the administration of justice. Bibliography pp. 197 to 207, diagram, maps and statistical tables.
Download or read book The London Conference and the Albanian Question 1912 1914 written by Robert Elsie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was by no means evident in the early years of the twentieth century that Albania in southeastern Europe would become an independent country and would join the family of European nations. After five centuries as a part of the Ottoman Empire, the country was hardly noticed by the other peoples of Europe. This was to change at the time of the Balkans Wars (1912-1913) and the London Conference, at which Albania played a central role and where its fate was decided. The present volume brings together British Foreign Office documents focusing on Albania from 1912 to 1914. Among them are the dispatches and private correspondence of the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, who chaired the London Conference and endeavoured to keep peace in Europe at an age when the Great Powers were unwaveringly gravitating towards war and conflagration.
Download or read book Albania and the Albanians written by Ramadan Marmullaku and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Handbook for Albania written by William Giloane and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Area Handbook for Albania' seeks to present an overview of the various social, political, and economic aspects of the country as they appeared in 1970. The leaders of the Communist Party have gone to extremes to maintain an aura of secrecy about their nation and their efforts to govern it. Material on Albania is scanty and some that is available is not reliable but, using their own judgments on sources, the authors have striven for objectivity in this effort to depict Albanian society in 1970.
Download or read book Albania To Be or Not to Be written by Bejtullah Destani and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘‘We ourselves, at the outset of the war, received from a responsible Serbian source this frank announcement: “We will extirpate the Albanians.” Now that this system of annihilation is being persisted in without modification, despite all European protests, we deem it our duty to reveal the designs of the gentlemen of Belgrade without more ado... In this matter facts speak more loudly than any confessions could. Since Serbian troops crossed the borders last autumn and occupied districts there inhabited by Albanians, one blood-bath has followed another in sequence. In isolated cases the conqueror may have been forced in self-defence to proceed with all martial vigour against an Albanian village from which his troops were perhaps fired on from behind. But to raze hundreds of villages to the ground, to butcher tens of thousands of non-combatants, men, women, and children, these are deeds which no martial law, no precept of self-preservation enjoins...”
Download or read book High Albania written by Mary Edith Durham and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published 1909. Author was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of Albanian life in the early 20th Century.
Download or read book Rebels Believers Survivors written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albania and Kosovo have long, fascinating histories of connection with the wider European world. These essays explore this history from the 15th century to the 20th, through stories of Italian pilgrims, British diplomats, Albanian village girls converting to Islam, Muslims practising secret Christianity, and Ottoman men enslaving fellow citizens.
Download or read book An Englishman in Albania written by Dayrell Oakley-Hill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells of the hold that Albania and its people came to exercise over one Englishman. Colonel Dayrell Oakley-Hill's memoirs provide a vivid description of the landscape, people and customs of this beautiful country and the two very different leaders that he came to know well--King Zog and Enver Hoxha. Oakley-Hill returned to the UK in 1955, but never severed his connections with Albania. Right up to his death in 1985 he was tireless in his efforts to help Albanian refugees and for many years served as Secretary to the Anglo-Albanian Association. I.B.Tauris in association with the Centre for Albanian Studies
Download or read book Albania and the Albanians in the Annual Reports of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1820 1924 written by David Hosaflook and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greater Albania written by Jovan M. Čanak and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Albania and the Albanians written by Derek R. Hall and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9.2.2 Oil and gas
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History written by Robert Elsie and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Albania includes some memorable characters - from the legendary Albanian hero Scanderbeg to the glamorous Queen Geraldine. Robert Elsie's extensively researched Biographical Dictionary of Albania History provides fascinating and comprehensible information on over 700 Albanian and Albania-related historical figures, from the Ancient World via the centuries of Ottoman rule, the struggle for independence and the years of communism right up to the end of the twentieth century. Taking an encyclopaedic approach, this unique book considers the colourful cast of characters that influenced Albania's history and development - be they native Albanians or visitors from overseas. All notable historical and political figures - from the Kings of Illyria to Enver Hoxha - are included as well as leading figures of culture and the arts - from Marin Barleti to Faik Konitza. Visitors who had intimate ties with Albania - including Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Lear, Aubrey Herbert, Edith Durham and Rose Wilder Lane - are also studied. In addition to these well-known figures, the entries also comprise individuals as diverse as an eighteenth-century Montenegrin impostor, a German circus acrobat and the Austrian mistress of King Zog. As the most reliable and comprehensive source of information about Albanian history available in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of this pivotal Balkan state. Robert Elsie shows how this important group of individuals influenced Albanian history and helped to shape the country as it is today.
