Onderwerp
Albanian Culture
A culture shaped by mountain isolation, five centuries of Ottoman rule, and fifty years of enforced separation.
In gewone taal
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.
Eenvoudige uitleg
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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Historische periode
Albania in the Second World War
Occupation, a three-way resistance, and the sheltering of Jewish refugees under besa.
Eten
Gliko
Whole fruit or peel boiled slowly in syrup and served by the spoonful to guests.
Toelichting
Religion in Albania, Explained
Four communities, centuries of coexistence, twenty-three years of total prohibition, and a census question nobody…
Toelichting
Understanding the Kanun
A body of customary law that governed the northern highlands for centuries — and the part of it that everyone has…
Drinken
Raki
Home-distilled grape or plum spirit, offered to guests and made in most rural households.
Onderwerp
The Kanun
A body of customary law, best known in the Lekë Dukagjini recension, that governed the northern highlands for…
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Besa (Albanian culture) — English Wikipedia
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