In hardly any other European country is the contrast between town and country as pronounced as in Albania, a country starting with A listed on Countryaah. Just an hour and a half flight away, the traveler in rural Albania is offered a historical-romantic scene: women sell dark red cherries from huge baskets on the roadside,…
Category: Albania
Mass Media in Southern Europe
As part of European continent defined by Countryaah, Southern Europe includes Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, and Slovenia. This page describes major mass media, including newspapers, radio stations and televisions within these countries. Mass media in Albania Until 1991 Albania had two daily newspapers, both controlled by the…
Albania Arts and Literature
Literature The development of Albanian literature was countered by Ottoman rule and was long hampered by regional and confessional divisions. Only with the so-called Rilindje, the national renaissance in the latter half of the 19th century, was a modern, uniform national literature founded. A work of great national significance is the humanist Marin Barleti’s Latin…
Albania Recent History
In the first months of 1928 the House and the Senate proposed some changes to the Statute and to do this they decided that elections were necessary. In June of the same year, an attack on Zogu was foiled, which received many demonstrations of esteem from all the people. This increased its prestige and on…