This contribution addresses the notion of “Uses of Past” against two “modernist rural landscapes” examined in the framework of the MODSCAPES project.1 Both covering a rather short timeframe, the cases of Northern Greece (1920s) and of the Pontine Plain in central Italy (1930s) represent polar opposi…

Vëllimi “Horizonte etnokulturore” shënon të 20-tin të botimeve të prof. Ramazan H. Bogdani gjatë një periudhe 44-vjeçare, 1976-2020. I trajtuar me nocionet emërtuese horizonte dhe etnokulturorë, sigurisht që dëshmon për një gjithësi materiale dhe shpirtërore të traditave tona, në vështrimin etnograf…

Kjo temë që po shtrohet për trajtesë konsiston me përndjekjen e familjes së patriotit dhe njërit nga ideologët e shpalljes së pavarësisë së Shqipërisë, Mehmet Pashë Derrallës. Edhe sot, derisa po shkruajmë mbi këtë temë, mbeten enigma disa çështje që kanë të bëjnë me këtë derë të madhe të shqiptariz…

An overview of the Italian scenario has been developed considering the driving role SMEs play in the economic structure of the country and the pioneering function they have played in R&D and Innovation of Italy and of the whole Union in general. Through secondary data provided by various sources…

Në dhjetor të vitit 2004 zhvilloi punimet konferenca shkencore “Leksikografia shqipe – trashëgimi dhe perspektivë”. Ishte konferenca e parë me këtë tematikë. Në referatin e tij, akademik prof. dr. Jani Thomai tha: “Leksikografia shqipe, siç dihet, është fusha më e hershme dhe më e pasur në gjuhësinë…

Girolamo De Rada is universally credited with having given the greatest impetus to the development of the Albanian language in the 19th century. He is almost the promoter or creator of the Albanian Question, both political-national and linguistic-literary. It is true that long before him the bishop …

Constitutions and the International Charters of Rights are concerned to ensure the judicial verification of the unlawfulness of facts in compliance with the inalienable rights of the person and the presumption of innocence. Today, modern criminal procedural law, which has always been conditioned by …

In the Additional Fund of the British Library manuscripts in London, there are a considerable number of handwritten codices (nearly 451) of Epirote origin.1 At this point, four codices from the British Library have been identified2 that were written or used in the city of Berat: from the British Lib…

"Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg (1405-17.01.1468) is the most important national hero and the greatest strategist and statesman of Albanians who led the war for freedom against the Ottoman occupation for the political-national union of the Albanians.2The many frequent military victories glorified Scand…

It is of great interest to report a synthesized profile of the social status of Albanian women in the XIV – XV century, in the main civilization centers, such as Shkodra, Durrës, Ulqin, Tivar etc. In distinction from the data of the customary law, typical of the rural and mountainous areas of the Al…

George Kastriot Skanderbeg is well-known World figure. In the Middle Ages he was the undisputed leader in the struggle against Ottomans not only in the territories of present-day Albania and northwestern parts of Macedonia but throughout the Balkans and even wider at least in Italy and Vatican. With…

The relations of King Alfonso V of Aragon and I of Naples with the Albania of Skanderbeg during the last part of his reign, in the forties and fifties of the fifteenth century, cannot be understood regardless of what has been called in historiography for more than a century his "Eastern policy". Thi…