Objet
Albanian Culture
A culture shaped by mountain isolation, five centuries of Ottoman rule, and fifty years of enforced separation.
En clair
The Kanun was a set of unwritten rules that people in the northern mountains lived by for hundreds of years, covering property, marriage, hospitality and disputes. It also contained rules about blood feuds, which is the part it is most often remembered for. It was written down in the 20th century.
Explication synthétique
The Kanun was a set of unwritten rules that people in the northern mountains lived by for hundreds of years, covering property, marriage, hospitality and disputes. It also contained rules about blood feuds, which is the part it is most often remembered for. It was written down in the 20th century.
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Massif montagneux
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
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Objet
Besa
The customary obligation of keeping one's word — the principle behind Albania's wartime sheltering of Jewish refugees.
Explicatif
Understanding the Kanun
A body of customary law that governed the northern highlands for centuries — and the part of it that everyone has…
Sources
- Wikipedia —
Kanun (Albania) — English Wikipedia
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Wikidata item Q924171
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Photographs
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