Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again the Balkans rumble and war is talked of as thousands of Albanian tribesmen are rushed to the frontier. And behind the ever thickened screen of mystery which envelopes the small mountainous country of Albania sits Fan Stylian Noli '12. Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, Premier of Albania and liberal, this flery patrial keeps his adversary. Ashmet Zogu president of Albania pale and nervous by his constant infrignes. Well enough does Zogu recollect the day in 1924 and 1925 when he himself was a refugee hiding in the fastness of the Albanian mountains waiting his chance to strike...
...last that the outside world has seen of him was immediately after his evaenation of Albania with a colene of ministers and as the dispach said "a lot of money" He soon took up quarters in Vienna in an artic where he continued his work of translating classics into Albanian Anyone acquainted with the difficulty involved in such a work will appreciate the task he has undertaken. He had already translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect and working on others English classics...
...shot in the dusk is scarcely news at Tirana-that little, vile, ill-favored capital. But last week the bullet was Italian, the blood Albanian. That was news. The shadowy man who fired the shot made good his escape-perhaps he was not Italian after all-but soon Albanians and Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear...
...Erickson is the principal of the Albanian American School of Agriculture at Kavaja, Albania, and in addition to being a prominent educator has also played an important role in the political life of Albania since...
...represented Albania at the Paris Peace Conference and later was sent as a special commissioner to Washington by the Albanian government to work for American recognition...