Onderwerp
Albanian Culture
A culture shaped by mountain isolation, five centuries of Ottoman rule, and fifty years of enforced separation.
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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.
Eenvoudige uitleg
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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Bergketen
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Dorp
![Title: A chief of Thethi, Tribe of Shale [i.e. Shala], Albania Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.](/static/img/thumbs/theth-4.jpg)
Theth
A glacial valley village in the Albanian Alps: a lock-in tower, a waterfall, and one end of the country's best-known…
Onderwerp
Besa
The customary obligation of keeping one's word — the principle behind Albania's wartime sheltering of Jewish refugees.
Toelichting
Understanding the Kanun
A body of customary law that governed the northern highlands for centuries — and the part of it that everyone has…
Bronnen
- Wikipedia —
Kanun (Albania) — English Wikipedia
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