While the books can be read in any
of the alternative sites, Scribd is recommended because of its additional
features; it provides full-screen reading and an optional embed link for blogs
and websites. The books on Google Books and Internet Archive also have a few
extra empty pages, which have been removed prior to uploading them on Scribd.
The two journals included here (Noli’s “The Adriatic Review” and Konitza’s
“Albania”) had some of the same pages being repeated throughout (scanning errors
it seems), which have also been sorted out on the Scribd version. The books and
articles are available for download as well, in pdf format, for which Adobe Reader (free program) is needed. In the
author field of each book alternative spellings of names or aliases are
provided, when applicable. By clicking on the image of the book a full-screen
picture of its cover can be seen. The Albanian version of this reference can be
accessed here
Most of the materials included here
are in English, but there are also a few in French, German, Italian, and
Albanian, and they’re listed below in that order. At the end of the reference
(after the non-English books) there are some journal articles (in English) from
National Geographic, Scribner Magazine, etc. A lot of these books are also
available in public and university libraries, in the United States and other
countries. Worldcat (World Catalog) is a very helpful
online database for that purpose. By searching via the book title, it provides a
list of the libraries nearby that have that particular book.
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Title:
Albania past
and present
Author:
Constantine Chekrezi [Kostandin
Çekrezi]
Year:
1919
Publisher:
Macmillan (New York)
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With introduction by Charles Downer Hazen,
professor of History at Harvard University, at that time of publication.
Title:
George
Castriot, Surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania
Author:
Clement Clarke
Moore
Year:
1850
Publisher: D.
Appleton & Co. (New York)
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Scanderbeg (actual name
Gjergj Kastrioti) is a legendary European warrior and leader of the
15th century, and the national hero of Albanians. With a small army
under his command he successfully fended off several major Ottoman crusades
against his homeland for about 25 years. His military accomplishments are
credited as being one of the main components that prevented Western Europe from
falling under Ottoman occupation. For that, Scanderbeg was recognized by Pope
Pius II and Pope Nicholas V with the title Athleta Christi
(Champion of Christ). Scanderbeg is considered to be one of the most able
military leaders of all times. Diplomatically, Scanderbeg is the first Albanian
to have forged nationwide allegiances of the kind and scale he did. He also
formed alliances with leaders of other European nations.
Since then,
numerous historical and biographical books have been published about him, in
several langauges. The first to circulate in Western Europe was the work of
Marin Barleti (Marinus Barletius) during early 16th century. Several novels,
plays, poems and other works have been published about Scandereg as well, by
authors from different countries and time periods.
Title:
A journey
through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia,
to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and
1810
Author:
John Cam Hobhouse
Broughton
Year
:
1817
Publisher:
M. Carey & Son (Philadelphia)
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Title:
High Albania
and its customs in 1908
Author: Mary Edith
Durham
Year:
1910
Publisher:
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
(London)
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Title:
The Adriatic
Review
Author:
Fan
Stylian Noli [Fan Noli]
Year:
September 1918 - October
1919
Publisher:
Pan-Albanian Vatra Federation of America (Boston)
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"The Adriatic Review" was a monthly journal
published and edited by the famous Albanian writer and patriot Fan Noli and the Vatra
organization in Boston. All of its published issues are included in this record.
Most of the articles in each issue are in English, followed by a few articles in
Albanian.
Title:
The memoirs of Ismail
Kemal Bey
Author:
Ismail Kemal Bey, Sommerville
Story
Year:
1920
Publisher:
Constable and company (London)
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Ismail Kemal (Ismail
Qemali) is the founder of the modern Albanian state. He proclaimed the
independence of Albania from the Ottoman Empire on November 28, 1912. His
memoirs in this book by Sommerville are mostly about his time in the Ottoman
administration. The last chapter is about the independence of
Albania.
Title: The Captain of the Janizaries: A
Story of the Times of Scanderbeg and the Fall of
Constantinople
Author: James Meeker
Ludlow
Year: 1890 (First publication:
1886)
Publisher: Harper
(New York)
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This is a novel about Scanderbeg.
Title:
Antiquarian Researches
in Illyricum, I-IV
Author:
Sir
Arthur John Evans
Year:
1883
Publisher: Westminster:
Nichols & sons
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The links on Scribd and Internet Archive contain
an additional publication titled "On the Roman town of
Doclea". 
Title:
Travels in Sicily,
Greece and Albania
Author:
Thomas Smart
Hughes
Year:
1820
Publisher:
J. Mawman (London)
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Other editions of this book have slight variations, as does the second volume included here: "Travels in Greece and Albania".
Title: Journals of a Landscape Painter in
Albania, &c.
Author: Edward
Lear
Year:
1851
Publisher: Richard
Bentley (London)
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Other title versions from different editions:
"Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, Illyria, &c." and "Journals of
a landscape painter in Greece and Albania".
Title:
Albania, the
foundling state of Europe
Author:
Wadham
Peacock
Year:
1914
Publisher:
D. Appleton & company (New York)
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Title:
Travels in the Ionian
Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c., during the years 1812 and
1813
Author:
Henry
Holland
Year:
1815
Publisher:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (London)
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About Albania see page 99 and on.
Title:
The Burden of the
Balkans
Author:
Mary Edith
Durham
Year:
1905
Publisher:
Edward Arnold (London)
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Title:
The Albanian
Question
Author:
Mehmet Konitza [Mehmet
Konica]
Year:
1818
Publisher:
Williams, Lea, Co. (London)
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Archive
Title:
Researches in
Greece
Author:
William Martin
Leake
Year:
1814
Publisher:
John Booth (London)
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About the Albanian language see page 237 and on.
The book also contains a 2000 words Greek-Albanian–English dictionary, which
begins on page 293.
Title:
Travels in
Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 & 1810
Author: John Cam Hobhouse
Broughton
Year:
1858
Publisher:
John Murray (London)
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Title:
Communist Takeover and
Occupation of Albania
Author:
Charles J. Kersten; U.S.
Congress
Year:
1954
Publisher: U.S.
Government Printing Office (Washington D. C.)
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Full title: Communist Takeover and Occupation of
Albania. Special Report No. 13 of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression.
House of Representatives.
![Skenderbeu [Scanderbeg] by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fan Stylian Noli (1916)](http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6767/skenderbeuscanderbeghenrh6.jpg "Skenderbeu [Scanderbeg] by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fan Stylian Noli (1916)")
Title:
Skenderbeu
[Scanderbeg]
Author:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Fan
Stylian Noli)
Year:
1916
(1863)
Publisher: E.
Diellit (Boston)
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This is a poem by the Longfellow adapted in
Albanian and published by Fan Noli. It contains both the English and the
Albanian versions. The year 1863 refers to the original publication by
Longfellow.
Title:
Illyrian
Letters
Author:
Arthur John
Evans
Year:
1878
Publisher:
Longmans, Green, and Co. (London)
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Full title: Illyrian Letters: a revised selection
of correspondence from the Illyrian provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina,
Montenegro, Albania, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia, addressed to the
Manchester guardian during the year 1877.
Title:
Albania: a narrative
of recent travel
Author:
Edward Frederick
Knight
Year:
1880
Publisher: S. Low,
Marston, Searle, & Rivington (London)
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Title:
Scanderbeg: Or, Love
and Liberty
Author:
Thomas
Whincop
Year:
1747
Publisher: W.
Reeve
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This is the first play (tragedy) that is known to
have been written about Scanderbeg.
Title:
High
Albania
Author:
Edith
Durham
Year:
1909
Publisher: Edward
Arnold (London)
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This is not the same as the above listed "High
Albania and its customs in 1908" publication of Durham. Also,
unlike all other books included in here which are mere scans of the print
version of the books, this is an electronic edition provided by University of
Pennsylvania, so the page numbers of this version do not correspond with the
page numbers of the printed book. The content however, including all the
illustrations, is identical.
Title: Travels through the Morea, to
Constantinople, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire in the
years 1798, 1799, 1800 and 1801
Author:
François Charles Hugues Laurent
Pouqueville
Year:
1806
Publisher: Richard
Phillips by Barnard & Sultzer (London)
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Title: The economic and financial situation
of Albania
Author: Albert Calmes; League of
Nations
Year: 1922
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Title: Histoire de Georges Castriot,
Surnommé Scanderbeg, Roy d'Albanie
Author:
Jacques De Lavardin, Seigneur du
Plessis Bourrot (Marin
Barleti)
Year:
1604 (First
publication:
1576)
Publisher: Iean
Arnavld
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Full title: Histoire de Georges Castriot, Surnommé Scanderbeg, Roy d'Albanie: Contenant ses illustres faicts d'armes, & memorables victoires à l'encontre des Turcs, pour la joy de Iesus-Christ.
This book is based on the aforementioned Marlin
Barleti’s work on Scanderbeg. The English version of Barleti’s book was adapted
from this French version of Lavardin and Bourrot. The English version is
available in various libraries, though unfortunately not on any free digital
library. It can be accessed however on EEBO (Early English Books Online) with
a personal (paid) account, or for free via university (library) accounts that do
provide access on EEBO. ![Albania - Faik Konitza [Trhank Spirobeg] (Jun 1898 - Nov 1899)](http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/1196/albaniafaikkonitzatrhanws2.jpg "Albania - Faik Konitza [Trhank Spirobeg] (Jun 1898 - Nov 1899)")
Title:
Albania
Author:
Faik Konitza [Faik Konica, Trhank
Spirobeg]
Year:
June 1898 - November
1899
Publisher: Bureaux
de la Revue albanaise (Bruxelles)
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"Albania" was a biweekly journal published and edited by the renowned Albanian writer and patriot Faik Konitza (Faik Konica) in Brussels, and later on in London. What’s included here is not a full record of the journal; it contains issues from Volume B, Nr 6 through Volume D, Nr 11. Each issue has articles in French and Albanian, followed by a few pages in Turkish. Trhank (Thrank) Spiroberg was an alias of Konitza.
Title: Albanesische Studien,
I-III
Author:
Johann Georg von
Hahn
Year:
1854
Publisher: Verlag von Friedrich Mauke
(Jena)
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Title: Albanien
und die Albanesen: eine historisch-kritische Studie
Author:
Wassa Effendi [Pashko Vasa, Vaso
Pasha]
Year:
1879
Publisher: Julius
Springer (Berlin)
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Title:
Griechische Und
Albanesische Märchen
Author:
Johann Georg von
Hahn
Year:
1864
Publisher:
Wilhelm Engelmann (Leipzig)
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Title:
Poesie
Albanesi
Author:
Girolamo de Rada [Jeronim De
Rada]
Year:
1847
Publisher:
Stamperia del Fibreno (Napoli)
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De Rada is another
renowned 19th century Albanian writer and patriot. The poems in this
book are both in the original Albanian version and the adapted Italian version.
It also contains "Kenget e Milosaos" (Canti di Milosao), which is another title
of other editions of some of the same poems.
Title:
L'Albania:
Notizie Geografiche, Ethnografiche e Storiche
Author:
Arturo
Galanti
Year:
1901
Publisher:
Societa editrice Dante Alighieri (Roma)
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Title:
Albania
Author:
Eugenio
Barbarich
Year:
1905
Publisher:
Enrico Voghera (Roma)
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Full title: Albania (Monografia
antropogeografica) Con 10 illustrazioni e 13 tavole fuori
testo.
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Title:
Rapsodie d'un Poema
Albanese
Author:
Girolamo da Rada [Jeronim De Rada],
Niccolo Jeno de' Coronei
Year:
1866
Publisher:
Federigo Bencini (Firenze)
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Full title: Rapsodie d'un poema albanese raccolte
nelle colonie del napoletano tradotte da Girolamo de Rada e per cura di lui e di
N.J. de Coronei ordinate e messe in luce.
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Title:
Dhiata e
re
Author:
Konstandin Kristoforidhi
[Konstantinit Kristoforidit, Constantine
Christoforides]
Year:
1872
Publisher: A. H.
Boyagianit (Konstantinopol)
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Full title: D?iata
e Re¯
e zotit ed?e
s?e?l´bu?esit
t'u?ne?
Iesu-Kris?tit
.
Title:
Kalendari i Vatres i
motit 1918
Author:
Fan
Noli; Vatra
Year:
1918
Publisher: Shtypur
ne Shtypeshkronjen e Gazetes Dielli (Boston)
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This book (in Albanian) has among other things
many photographs, and a long list of the names of the people who contributed to
the Albanian-American organization for that particular time period, along with
the sum of each contribution.
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Title:
Kater
Ungjillat
Author:
Konstandin Kristoforidhi
[Konstantinit Kristoforidit, Constantine
Christoforides]
Year:
1872
Publisher:
A. H. Boyagianit (Konstantinopol)
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Full title: Kater
ung´ilat' e zotit ed?e
s?e?l´bu?esit
tou?ne?
Iesu-Kris?tit, ed?e
Pune?t'
e Apo?stuyvet.
Title:
Ceshtja shqiptare ne
analet diplomatike amerikane (1918 - 1945)
Author:
Masar Kodra, Majlinda
Kodra
Year:
1997
Publisher: Logos-A
(Shkup)
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The full version of this book (in Albanian) can
be read on the link provided, though it doesn’t offer an option to download it.
Journal articles and
other brief publications
Title:
Albania and its
people
Author:
William Henry
Green
Year
:
Oct 1857
Journal: The Princeton
Review; Volume 29, Issue 4, pp 699-719
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Title:
Scanderbeg
Year:
May
1876
Journal:
The Catholic
World; Volume 23, Issue 134, pp 234-243
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Title:
In Albania with the
Ghegs
Author:
Athol
Mayhew
Year:
Jan
1881
Journal:
Scribner's
Monthly; Volume 21, Issue 3, pp 377-392
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Title:
The Encyclopædia of
Missions, Vol 1: Albania; pp 35-39
Author:
Edwin Munsell Bliss
Year
:
1891
Publisher:
Funk & Wagnalls (New York, London, Toronto)
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Full title of the book: The
Encyclopædia of missions. Descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical.
With a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, and lists of Bible
versions; Vol I.
Title:
Albania, A new nation
in an old world
Author:
Viola I. Paradise, Helen
Campbell
Year:
July - December
1922
Journal: Scribner's Magazine;
Volume 72, pp 566-580
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Title:
Recent Observations in
Albania
Author:
George P. Scriven (Brig. Gen., U.S.
Army)
Year:
August
1918
Journal: The National Geographic
Magazine; Volume 34, Number 2, pp 90-114
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