Oggetto
Albanian Culture
A culture shaped by mountain isolation, five centuries of Ottoman rule, and fifty years of enforced separation.
In parole semplici
Besa means keeping a promise, and it is one of the strongest ideas in traditional Albanian culture. It includes a duty to protect a guest. During the Second World War, Albanian families used besa as the reason for hiding Jewish refugees, and almost all of them survived.
Spiegazione semplice
Besa means keeping a promise, and it is one of the strongest ideas in traditional Albanian culture. It includes a duty to protect a guest. During the Second World War, Albanian families used besa as the reason for hiding Jewish refugees, and almost all of them survived.
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Periodo storico
Albania in the Second World War
Occupation, a three-way resistance, and the sheltering of Jewish refugees under besa.
Cibo
Gliko
Whole fruit or peel boiled slowly in syrup and served by the spoonful to guests.
Approfondimento
Religion in Albania, Explained
Four communities, centuries of coexistence, twenty-three years of total prohibition, and a census question nobody…
Approfondimento
Understanding the Kanun
A body of customary law that governed the northern highlands for centuries — and the part of it that everyone has…
Bevanda
Raki
Home-distilled grape or plum spirit, offered to guests and made in most rural households.
Oggetto
The Kanun
A body of customary law, best known in the Lekë Dukagjini recension, that governed the northern highlands for…
Fonti
- Wikipedia —
Besa (Albanian culture) — English Wikipedia
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Wikidata item Q1291026
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Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year. - Wikimedia Commons —
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