简明说明
This section is about how people in Albania live, speak, eat and celebrate.
饮食
饮食
Tavë Kosi
Lamb baked under a set custard of yoghurt, egg and a little flour — the dish most often named as Albania's national one.
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Fërgesë
Peppers and tomato cooked down with white cheese, sometimes with liver — a Tirana staple.
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Flija
Concentric crepe layers built up one at a time under a hot metal lid — a northern highland dish that takes hours.
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Tarator
Chilled yoghurt with cucumber, garlic, walnut and dill — the standard Albanian summer starter.
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Albanian Olive Oil
Oil from Kalinjot, Kokërrmadh and other local varieties, chiefly from Vlorë, Fier and Berat.
葡萄酒与饮品
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Albanian Wine
A wine culture running back to Illyrian times, rebuilt after 1990 around native grapes.
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Shesh i Bardhë and Shesh i Zi
Albania's signature white and red grapes, grown mainly around Tirana and Durrës.
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Albanian Coffee Culture
Albania has among the highest densities of coffee bars in Europe; the meeting is the point, not the drink.
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The Albanian Language
An independent branch of the Indo-European family with no close living relative, written in a 36-letter Latin alphabet.
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Besa
The customary obligation of keeping one's word — the principle behind Albania's wartime sheltering of Jewish refugees.
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Religion in Albania
Four historic communities — Sunni, Bektashi, Orthodox and Catholic — and a state that banned all of them from 1967 to 1990.
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The Bektashi Order
A Sufi order whose world headquarters has been in Tirana since 1925, with a major shrine on Mount Tomorr.
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The Albanian Orthodox Church
An autocephalous church since 1937, rebuilt almost from nothing after 1991.
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The Albanian Flag and the Double-Headed Eagle
A black double-headed eagle on red — Skanderbeg's standard, and one of the oldest continuously used national symbols in Europe.
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The Albanian Alphabet
Thirty-six letters agreed at the Congress of Monastir in 1908, replacing competing Arabic, Greek and Latin scripts.
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The Arbëresh
Albanian-speaking communities in southern Italy, settled from the 15th century and still speaking an archaic Tosk.
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The Albanian Diaspora
More Albanians may live outside the country than in it — chiefly in Italy, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the US.
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Albanian Cuisine
Mediterranean at the coast, Balkan and Ottoman inland, dairy-heavy in the mountains.
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Basic Albanian Phrases
The forty or so words and phrases that cover most day-to-day exchanges for a visitor.
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Albanian Culture
A culture shaped by mountain isolation, five centuries of Ottoman rule, and fifty years of enforced separation.
主题 · Vlorë
Sazan Island
Albania's largest island: a former Italian and then Soviet-era military base at the mouth of the Bay of Vlorë.
主题 · Durrës
Cape of Rodon
A low cape north of Durrës holding Skanderbeg's sea castle and the church of St Anthony.
主题 · Vlorë
The Albanian Riviera
The 120 km of Ionian coast between the Llogara pass and Sarandë, where the Ceraunian mountains fall straight into the sea.
主题 · Vlorë
Zvërnec Island
A cypress-covered island in the Narta lagoon holding a 13th–14th-century Orthodox monastery.
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The History of Albania
Illyrian kingdoms, Roman roads, five Ottoman centuries, twenty-eight years of independence, forty-six years of the strictest…
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The Sigurimi
The Directorate of State Security: the secret police of communist Albania, and the institution the House of Leaves museum was…
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The Albanian Economy
An upper-middle-income economy of roughly $30 billion, led by services and tourism, with remittances and construction close…
主题 · Vlorë
Karaburun Peninsula
Albania's largest uninhabited peninsula, closed to the public for most of the 20th century and now a marine park.
