# Albania

> A chronological documentary of 906 moments spanning -3700–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/albania · Loreline (loreline.live)

A country archive from the Illyrians to the present, Skanderbeg's twenty-five-year defiance, four Ottoman centuries, the declaration at Vlorë in 1912, the most isolated state in Europe and its bunkers, the crossing of the 1990s, and the mountains, coast and old law that outlasted all of it.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22._

## Eras

- **Before Albania**, The Illyrians held this coast and its mountains long before there was a country called Albania, trading and fighting with Greek colonies planted at Epidamnos, later Durrës, and at Apollonia, and with the Roman republic that eventually absorbed them. Queen Teuta's wars with Rome, the Via Egnatia driven across the Balkans, and the layered ruins of Butrint, inhabited from prehistory through Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Venetian hands, are what survives of the millennia before the Albanian state.
- **Skanderbeg**, Gjergj Kastrioti, taken as a hostage to the Ottoman court and returned as its enemy, seized Krujë in 1443 and held off two empires for twenty-five years. The League of Lezhë bound the Albanian lords together in 1444; after his death in 1468 the resistance collapsed within a decade. His birth year is usually given as about 1405 and is genuinely unknowable, no birth records survive for him or his siblings. This facet is both the man and his long afterlife as the national symbol, which is a separate story with its own dates.
- **Diaspora**, More Albanians live outside the country than in it. The Arbëreshë have been in southern Italy since the fifteenth century, when Skanderbeg's defeat sent them across the Adriatic, and still speak a form of Albanian. Later waves left under the Ottomans, under Zog, and in the 1990s. The best-known Albanian of the twentieth century, Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, born in Skopje, known as Mother Teresa, never lived in Albania at all.
- **Ottoman Rule**, Albanian lords became Ottoman vassals after the Battle of Savra in 1385, and after Skanderbeg the land was ruled from Istanbul for four centuries. It was a period of conversion, of Albanians rising high in the imperial service, and of near-autonomous local rulers, Ali Pasha of Ioannina above all. It also built the towns: Berat and Gjirokastër, both later inscribed by UNESCO, are Ottoman-era architecture still standing and still lived in.
- **Becoming a Country**, The Rilindja, the national awakening, ran from the League of Prizren in 1878 through the Congress of Manastir in 1908, which settled the Albanian alphabet, to the declaration of independence at Vlorë on 28 November 1912. The flag was raised there on 4 December; the two dates are often conflated. What followed was borders drawn by others at Florence in 1913, a Dutch military mission sent to build a gendarmerie, Prince Wied's six-month principality, the Congress of Lushnjë, and Ahmet Zogu as president and then king.
- **Written With Light**, Pjetër Marubi, a political exile from Italy, made what is usually called the first photograph taken in Albania in 1858, a portrait of Hamza bey Kazazi. His studio in Shkodër, Dritëshkronja, "written with the light", passed to Kel and then Gegë Marubi and ran for over a century, leaving an archive of somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000 negatives depending on what is being counted. Around it: Kolë Idromeno, painter, photographer and the first Albanian to screen films; Kinostudio "Shqipëria e Re", which made the country's cinema from 1952 to 1992; and Gjon Mili of Korçë, who became one of LIFE's great photographers.
- **Besa and the Old Law**, The Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini codified northern Albanian life for centuries, hospitality, honour, property, and the blood feud, and at its centre stood besa, a word of honour treated as absolute. The same code produced the burrnesha, women who swore to live as men. This facet also holds what UNESCO calls Albanian folk iso-polyphony, proclaimed a Masterpiece in 2005 and inscribed on the Representative List in 2008: two solo voices over a choral drone, whose name comes from the ison of Byzantine chant, and whose Lab and Tosk forms differ in how that drone is sung.
- **Mountains and Coast**, The Accursed Mountains in the north, the Riviera in the south, and the Vjosa running between them, in 2023 declared Europe's first wild-river national park, undammed along its whole length. Theth and Valbona, long separate parks, were merged in 2022. This facet is the land itself: the coast, the lakes, the high valleys that kept the north beyond the reach of every empire that claimed it.
- **War**, For thirty years the new country was mostly fought over rather than governed. The Balkan Wars and the long siege of Shkodër ran straight into the First World War, when Austro-Hungarian, Italian, French and Serbian armies all held parts of Albania and the Austro-Hungarian war press office photographed its occupation in remarkable detail. Italy invaded on 7 April 1939, Greece and Italy fought across the southern mountains in 1940–41, German forces took over in 1943, and the partisan war ended with the liberation of Tirana on 17 November 1944. Much of the surviving photography of Albania from these decades was made by the armies occupying it.
- **Hoxha**, For forty-five years Enver Hoxha governed Albania as the most isolated state in Europe, breaking with Yugoslavia in 1948, the Soviet Union in 1961 and finally China in 1978, until the country stood alone on principle. In 1967 religion was abolished outright and Albania declared itself the world's first atheist state. From 1967 to 1986 the country was bunkered: the famous figure of 750,000 was Hoxha's target, not a count, and the best-evidenced number is 173,371 completed by 1983. The exact total is unknown.
- **Emigration**, Communism fell between 1990 and 1991, and what followed was not a smooth transition but a decade of leaving and collapse. On 8 August 1991 the freighter Vlora reached Bari carrying some twenty thousand people. In 1997 the pyramid schemes that had swallowed much of the country's savings collapsed, the state lost control of its own armouries, and Albania came close to civil war. In 1999 it took in refugees from Kosovo in numbers that would have strained a far larger country.
- **Icons and Monuments**, Onufri painted in the sixteenth century in a red whose composition is still argued over, and the icon workshops of Berat and Voskopojë kept working long after the empire around them changed religion. Four hundred years later the state commissioned a different kind of image entirely: Mother Albania standing over the martyrs' cemetery in Tirana, finished in 1971 and dedicated the year after, and the forty-metre mosaic put across the front of the National History Museum in 1981. This facet is the work itself, panels, frescoes, canvases, bronze, and the painted facades that went up when the grey came off.
- **What They Wore**, The xhubleta is a bell-shaped dress of felted wool that hangs from the shoulders, is made without a waist seam, and was still being woven in the northern highlands when UNESCO placed it on the urgent-safeguarding list in 2022. Against it stand the fustanella of the south, the white felt qeleshe that survived every regime, and bridal silver heavy enough to be counted as a dowry. Much of what survives was photographed by people passing through, travellers, an Austro-Hungarian war press office, Edith Durham in the northern mountains, which is why the clothes are often better recorded than the people wearing them.
- **Literature**, The first book printed in Albanian is the Meshari of Gjon Buzuku, finished on 12 August 1555, and a single copy survives, in the Vatican Library, missing its first sixteen leaves. The language spent the next three and a half centuries being written in whichever alphabet was to hand until the Congress of Manastir adopted a Latin one in November 1908, a choice a second congress had to cement in 1910. Then came a literature: Naim Frashëri and the Rilindja poets, Fishta's highland epic, Migjeni dead at twenty-six, Musine Kokalari sentenced to thirty years for helping found a party and serving sixteen, and Ismail Kadare, who wrote inside the system and against it for fifty years and was read everywhere else.
- **Faith and Feast**, Albania is the world headquarters of the Bektashi, a Sufi order whose leader was installed in Tirana on 20 March 1930, and it is also Sunni, Orthodox and Catholic, in a mixture usually described from outside as remarkable and from inside as ordinary. In 1967 the state abolished all of it, closed or destroyed the buildings and became the only country to write the ban into its constitution. On 18 January 1991 some ten thousand people walked into the Et'hem Bey mosque without permission and nobody stopped them. The feasts outlasted the ban, Summer Day on 14 March, Nevruz, the climb up Mount Tomorr in the last week of August, and so did the coffee.
- **Music**, Two solo voices over a choral drone is the sound Albania is best known for, and it is only part of it. The lahuta, a single-stringed bowed fiddle, carried the epic songs of the northern highlands for centuries, and the two-stringed çifteli carried everything else. Under the state, song was organised: Radio Tirana broadcast it, the Gjirokastër folklore festival gathered it every few years, and Festivali i Këngës ran from 1962 as the country's song contest. Its eleventh edition, in December 1972, was condemned the following year as too Western, Todi Lubonja and Fadil Paçrami were purged in 1973, and Paçrami was arrested in 1975 and sentenced to twenty-five years. What came after all of it is a diaspora pop industry loud enough to be heard from anywhere.
- **Tirana**, A capital that repainted itself. The mayor who ordered the grey blocks covered in colour, the illegal buildings cleared from the river and the stadium, the station demolished and the boulevard driven over it, the pyramid rebuilt as a youth centre, and the tower they call the Rock going up on Skanderbeg Square.
- **Protests**, The street as the place where Albanian politics happens. Miners from Bulqizë outside the ministry, thousands on Skanderbeg Square over prices, the fight for public transport passes, the first Pride marches in Tirana, and the crowds that fill the Boulevard of the Martyrs of the Nation.

## Timeline

### -3700
- **-3700**, Copper Age figurines from Maliq. Small anthropomorphic cult figures excavated at Maliq near Korce, made between roughly 3700 and 3100 BC. The Maliq settlement is the key prehistoric site of the Albanian south-east. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2751b398-c16b-40a9-9493-2568dab2c48e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Età_del_rame,_idolini_cultuali_antropomorfi,_3700-3100_ac_circa,da_maliq_(korçë).JPG
### -575
- **-575**, Wine vessel from Apollonia, 575 BC. A ceramic wine vessel of about 575 BC from Apollonia, in the site museum. Apollonia was founded by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth around 600 BC and grew rich on trade with the Illyrian interior. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b74dfa7f-eecc-4f7c-b571-0edd8e81a08e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wine_vessel,_575_B._C.,_Apollonia_-_Ceramic,_24_cm._Museum_of_Apollonia.jpg
### -350
- **-350**, The Beauty of Durrës - Illyrian mosaic detail (4th c. BCE). The Beauty of Durrës, a celebrated Illyrian pebble mosaic of a woman's head, 4th century BCE, one of Albania's most famous ancient artworks, on display at the National Historical Museum, Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f6f7af15-f833-40be-b664-66d7f60e3f1d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_%27The_Beauty_of_Durres%27_Mosaic_(Illyrian_-_4th_Cent._BCE)_-_National_Historical_Museum_-_Tirana_-_Albania_(42748108492).jpg
### -300
- **-300**, Banquet relief from Apollonia. A third-century BC relief showing a banquet scene, excavated at Apollonia and now in the National History Museum in Tirana. Apollonia, founded by Corinthian and Corcyraean settlers around 600 BC, was one of the great cities of the Illyrian coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/905e93ab-cd21-4913-820a-565fa8fe23ea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_12.jpg
- **-300**, The river Vjosa personified, from Apollonia. A third-century BC personification of the Vjosa, carved at Apollonia and now in Tirana. The river that the Greeks called the Aoos was already worshipped as a deity when the city stood on its plain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e7e60f63-ae3d-437a-ad18-eb908e593ca7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_09.jpg
### -200
- **-200**, Tombstone with an Illyrian name, Apollonia. A second-century BC tombstone from Apollonia carrying an Illyrian name, still kept at the site. Apollonia was a Greek colony where Illyrian and Greek populations lived alongside one another. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d73eeb7e-99ea-4c91-95a2-3bb733b868a8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tombstone_with_an_Illyrian_name._Apollonia,_Albania.jpg
### -181
- **-181**, Bronze coin of King Gent. A coin of Gent, the Labeatan king who ruled from Shkodra and was defeated by Rome in 168 BC. His fall ended the independent Illyrian kingdom and brought the eastern Adriatic under Roman rule. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/293779bd-df7b-4714-b76d-9125aa7ef847) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Gentius_&_LabiaTan.jpg
### 450
- **0450**, Butrint mosaic, Baptistery (5th century). Byzantine mosaic pavement at the Baptistery of Butrint, an early Christian/Byzantine archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Albania, dated to the 5th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2f1fbf07-142c-43cd-8cb6-388a42c781c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Butrint_mosaic.jpg
### 500
- **0500**, The mosaic of Mesaplik. The floor mosaic lifted from Mesaplik, in the hills behind Vlorë, displayed in the National History Museum in Tirana. Mosaic pavements of this kind mark the Christian basilicas that spread across the province in late antiquity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/734c8876-18c9-48df-afc0-64d4625a9272) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_13.jpg
- **0500**, Byzantine capital from Durrës. A carved Byzantine capital taken from Durrës, now in the lapidarium of the National Museum of Medieval Art in Korçë. Dyrrachium was the chief Byzantine city on the Adriatic and the western end of the Via Egnatia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7d8dfb9a-5dbf-4336-8746-6dc4abd4a58b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korçë_NMMA_-_Durres_Byzantinisches_Kapitell.jpg
### 525
- **0525**, Butrint Baptistery mosaic pavement, early 6th century AD. The circular Paleochristian Baptistery of Butrint, its floor covered with a well-preserved Byzantine mosaic mixing Christian and aristocratic iconography, early 6th century AD. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/22391739-fbbc-40e3-a0d2-d47c7a18a5ea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Baptistery_with_its_well-preserved_mosaic_pavement_featuring_iconography_relating_both_to_Christianity_and_to_aristocratic_life,_early_6th_century_AD,_Butrint,_Albania_(39122878822).jpg
- **0525**, Butrint Baptistery mosaic, animal and bird motifs. Byzantine mosaic of animals and birds on the floor of the 6th-century Paleochristian Baptistery at Butrint, usually kept covered with protective sand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d63f2f28-5ea5-4ff8-8964-8ccd83a76477) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Butrint_Baptistery_(45727174661).jpg
### 600
- **0600**, Half-moon earring from Shtish-Tufina. A crescent earring of the seventh or eighth century found at Shtish-Tufina near Tirana, in the Archaeological Museum. Finds like it fill the long gap between the Roman province and the first Albanian written record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1396dd0a-0e11-4576-8288-b9a0f9ab7a46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halfmoon_earring,_7th_-_8th_century,_Shtish_Tufina_-_Museum_of_Archeology,_Tirana.jpg
- **0600**, Koman-culture torque, Archaeological Museum of Tirana. A neck ring of the seventh or eighth century from Koman, in the Drin valley. The Koman finds document the population that lived on in the Albanian hills between late antiquity and the medieval principalities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/052878d9-9740-4e94-baa8-d02d2a353311) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torque,_7th_-_8th_century,_Koman_-_Museum_of_Archeology,_Tirana.jpg
- **0600**, Glass bead necklace from Shurdhah. A glass necklace of the seventh or eighth century excavated at Shurdhah island near Shkodër, now in the Archaeological Museum of Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/759aa6f6-0101-48fb-a0f8-bf6b5bc5a754) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass_necklace,_7th_-_8th_century,_Shurdhah_-_Archeological_Museum_of_Tirana_(2).jpg
### 700
- **0700**, Drinking bowl from the Vrap treasure. A gold drinking bowl from the treasure found in 1902 in a field at Vrap, near Tirana, now in the Walters Art Museum. The hoard is usually linked to the Avars and speaks to the mixed world of the early medieval Balkans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/984cabc2-2125-466a-8b0b-80de1da7d1d7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avaric_-_Drinking_Bowl_-_Walters_57565_-_Profile.jpg
### 1200
- **1200**, Byzantine mosaic from Mesopotam, Korce. A thirteenth-century Byzantine mosaic of fighting cocks, taken from the church of St Nicholas at Mesopotam and now in the National Museum of Medieval Art at Korce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a1eed90a-9051-4b7f-834c-5d0423161d94) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korçë_NMMA_-_Mesopotam_Mosaik_Hahn.jpg
### 1250
- **1250**, Byzantine mosaic griffin, Mesopotam basilica (13th c.). 13th-century Byzantine floor mosaic of a griffin from the Saint Nicholas church at Mesopotam, on display at the National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/05cadb78-58c8-476c-bd9e-6a43a6d87fdf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB_NMMA_-_Mesopotam_Mosaik_Greif.jpg
- **1250**, Byzantine mosaic of cocks, Mesopotam basilica (13th c.). 13th-century Byzantine mosaic depicting cocks, from the Saint Nicholas church at Mesopotam, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4813988e-880a-4922-850e-3ffaa87f805e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB_NMMA_-_Mesopotam_Mosaik_Hahn.jpg
### 1350
- **1350**, Archangel Michael icon, 14th century. 14th-century icon of the Archangel Michael, one of the earliest works in the National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2d70737e-d3de-46a2-8574-b39e243cb057) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archangel_Michael_14th_C.jpg
### 1384
- **1384**, Andrea II Muzaka in the Kastoria church painting. A fourteenth-century wall painting showing Andrea II Muzaka in the church of St Athanasius of Mouzaki at Kastoria. The Muzaka were one of the great Albanian noble houses of the late Middle Ages, before the Ottoman advance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c034d239-a0be-4dd2-b2e7-78fd0dfea211) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_II_Muzaka.png
### 1400
- **1400**, Fresco of the prince Teodor Muzaka. A fifteenth-century fresco portrait of the Albanian prince Teodor Muzaka in the church of Saint Athanasius at Kastoria. The Muzaka were one of the great families who ruled parts of Albania before the Ottoman conquest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/10115718-21ee-4e45-a285-62629fe2a3e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TeodorIIIMuzaka.jpg
### 1450
- **1450**, Coin struck under Skanderbeg. A coin bearing the name of Gjergj Kastrioti, struck between about 1450 and 1468 and now in the Numismatic Museum in Athens. Minting his own coin was a claim to sovereignty as much as the war itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1b36f004-a193-4503-8ec6-625cafbd0e6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgius_Casrtiotus,_ca_1450-1468,_Numismatic_Museum_of_Athens.jpg
### 1460
- **1460**, The helmet and sword of Skanderbeg in Vienna. The goat-headed helmet and the sword long identified with Gjergj Kastrioti, kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The helmet became the emblem on the Albanian coat of arms and, in bronze, the centrepiece of Krujë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1d329981-f868-4fa7-8742-e7e0b57494e8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderberg's_helmet_and_sword_in_the_Kunsthistorisches_Museum_of_Vienna..jpg
### 1464
- **1464**, Miniature of Archbishop Pal Engjëlli. A painted miniature of Pal Engjëlli, archbishop of Durrës and chancellor to Skanderbeg, from the 1464 Statutes of Drisht. Engjëlli negotiated with Rome and Naples on Skanderbeg's behalf and issued the first surviving sentence written in Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/725ec071-91ca-4d48-a785-3cd922136a23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miniature_of_Pal_Engjëlli.png
### 1466
- **1466**, Portrait of Skanderbeg made in his lifetime. A likeness of Gjergj Kastrioti drawn in 1466, two years before his death and while the war against the Ottomans was still being fought. It is among the very few images made while he was alive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8ebe187b-d233-401b-838e-f89f4a2b8fad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Skanderbeg_(1466).png
### 1500
- **1500**, Holy Mary with Christ Child, Hodegetria icon (Onufri, c. 1500). Hodegetria-type icon of the Virgin and Child, attributed to Onufri, circa 1500, photographed in Berat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6e674d58-0ab2-407b-b2de-bcf72bf9e004) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Mary_holding_Baby_Jesus_in_her_right_arm,_c._1500.jpg
- **1500**, Teuta of Illyria engraved in Italy. A Renaissance Italian engraving of Teuta, the Illyrian queen whose fleets provoked Rome into the first Illyrian war in 229 BC. Her name re-entered Albanian usage in the national revival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fd87811e-f8de-43c2-997b-6cb01478f2fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Teuta_(Antonio_Salamanca).png
### 1501
- **1501**, 16th-century Albanian costumes. A costume-codex plate depicting Albanian men's dress in the 16th century, the earliest artwork-sourced costume document available, from the genre of European 'costume book' engravings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0347d9f4-525a-481e-88a0-7248863d2074) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16th_century_Albanian_costumes.jpg
### 1520
- **1520**, Skanderbeg portrait of 1520. A north Italian panel portrait painted in 1520, barely fifty years after Skanderbeg's death, and among the earliest surviving painted likenesses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a43f6c51-dcc5-4a4f-a01f-e5edaec23d5c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Skanderbeg_(1520).jpg
### 1532
- **1532**, Mehmed the Second before the walls of Shkodra. A relief of 1532 on the Albanian confraternity house in Venice shows the Ottoman sultan besieging Shkodra in vain. Albanian refugees in Venice commissioned the panels as a memorial to their lost city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/13fdbbc1-4f08-4613-928b-9964222b86a2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venezia_-_Ex_Scola_degli_albanesi_(sec._XV)_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall'Orto,_12-Aug-2007_-_11_-_Maometto_II_assedia_Scutari.jpg
### 1550
- **1550**, Mary and Jesus icon, iconostasis detail (Onufri Museum). Detail of a Virgin and Child icon on the iconostasis of the Church of the Dormition of St Mary, Berat citadel, the church that now houses the Onufri Museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b1558c36-ec0a-4610-adbc-6753b42e0fc7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Mary_%26_Jesus_Icon_-_Church_of_the_Dormition_of_St._Mary_(Onufri_Museum)_-_Citadel_-_Berat_-_Albania_(42447297422).jpg
- **1550**, Fresco of the Last Judgment, Church of the Dormition of St Mary (Onufri Museum). Last Judgment fresco on the wall of the Church of the Dormition of St Mary, Berat citadel, the church housing the Onufri Museum's icon collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8927c9d7-76cc-46ec-9e5c-feda38eba9b3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fresco_of_Last_Judgment_-_Church_of_the_Dormition_of_St._Mary_(Onufri_Museum)_-_Citadel_-_Berat_-_Albania_(28626278028).jpg
- **1550**, Onufri - St. Theodore Tironi and Stratelates icon. Icon of Saints Theodore Tiro and Theodore Stratelates, attributed to the 16th-century master painter Onufri. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2b8fd795-f8cf-48ce-9660-e937f1c2f39f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onufri_-_St._Theodore_Tironi_et_Stratelati.jpg
- **1550**, Onufri Christus - Christ Pantocrator icon. Icon of Christ Pantocrator (half-length) attributed to Onufri, 16th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/77cf82e4-570e-4c35-ae5c-44a36bb71985) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onufri_Christus.JPG
- **1550**, Mary and Child icon, Onufri (16th century). Hodegetria icon of the Virgin and Child by Onufri, 16th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ac88df72-88da-4447-a4be-e9fffe88c217) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_and_Child.jpg
- **1550**, Onufri Icon Berat - four-scene iconostasis panel. Four-scene icon panel by Onufri (John the Baptist, St Nicholas, Dormition of the Virgin, Dormition of St Nicholas), 16th century, exhibited at the Onufri Museum, Berat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4afb761c-cf9c-4d91-96c0-addd80a968c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onufri_Icon_Berat_Albania_2013.jpg
- **1550**, Onufri - descent into Hades icon. Icon depicting the Anastasis/Descent into Hades, attributed to Onufri, 16th century, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/758ac05e-123d-4fed-8007-86ba9391d204) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onuphri_-_descent_into_Hades.jpg
- **1550**, Onufri - detail from Baptism of Christ. Detail of a Baptism of Christ icon attributed to Onufri, 16th century, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/38a15a67-592a-410e-bf9e-647bb38d6d31) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onuphri_-_detail_from_baptism_of_Christ.jpg
### 1552
- **1552**, Sixteenth-century portrait of Skanderbeg. An Italian painted portrait of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg made roughly a century after his death, between 1552 and 1568. Italy kept his memory alive through the printing presses and painters of the Renaissance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3bf507f8-b6f2-44fc-87f8-0ca97777b634) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ritratto_di_Giorgio_Scanderbeg.jpg
### 1555
- **1555**, A page from the Meshari of Gjon Buzuku, 1555. A scanned page from Gjon Buzuku's Meshari (The Missal), the first printed book in the Albanian language. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6a827407-6229-4008-bcf1-8cd8ecf1d396) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buzuku_meshari.jpg
- **1555**, Excerpt from the Meshari of Gjon Buzuku. A second scanned excerpt from the 1555 Meshari, the founding text of printed Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/509f0281-ed7f-4d12-b44e-cddc9ead007d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meshari.jpg
### 1564
- **1564**, Skanderbeg turns away from the Ottomans. A woodcut of about 1564, from a Polish world chronicle, showing Gjergj Kastrioti breaking with the Ottoman army. The scene stands for the desertion at Niš that began the Albanian revolt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/42a7eb47-c7eb-460e-abec-e541932035cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_turning_away_from_the_Turcs_-_Kronika_tho_iesth_Historya_swiata.jpg
### 1575
- **1575**, Skanderbeg portrait of the 1570s. A late sixteenth-century painted portrait of Gjergj Kastrioti. European workshops kept producing his likeness for a century after his death, when he was still cited as the model of resistance to the Ottomans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/09c046da-e04f-4b2d-9bdb-0a7cb49908a2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Skanderbeg_(1575).jpg
- **1575**, Onufri - St. Peter icon (Onufri Museum, Berat). Icon of the Apostle Saint Peter painted by Nikolla Onufri (son of the master Onufri), second half of the 16th century. Held in the Onufri Museum, Berat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ff707898-1d24-4326-81c7-5d22ae19248a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apostel_Petrus_(Nikolla_Onufri).jpg
### 1577
- **1577**, Skanderbeg takes Petrela, from Barleti's history. A printed illustration from Marin Barleti's life of Skanderbeg showing the capture of Petrela castle from the Ottomans. Barleti's book carried the Skanderbeg story across Europe and shaped how it was told for centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1af97b71-e5ca-4c0d-a6c5-473cfc60b9fd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PetrelaCapture.png
### 1578
- **1578**, Skanderbeg returns to Krujë. A German engraving of 1578 imagines Gjergj Kastrioti riding back into Krujë. In November 1443 he deserted the Ottoman army at Niš, seized the castle with a forged firman and raised his own banner over it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a0e214be-5e76-4b78-b7fe-caff027fc50f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg's_return_to_Kruje_(81771610).jpg
- **1578**, The death of Skanderbeg. A German woodcut of 1578 shows the death of Gjergj Kastrioti. He died of fever at Lezhë in January 1468, and the resistance he had led for twenty-five years unravelled within a decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/44856a18-9dd0-430f-a5fd-bb4f1773545f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_death_of_Skanderbeg_(81764768).jpg
- **1578**, The battle of Ohrid. A woodcut of 1578 depicting the battle of Ohrid of 1464, one of the later victories of Skanderbeg's league over Ottoman field armies. The war ranged well beyond the Albanian lands proper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b586b5af-dc7b-4602-bc5a-d9d5beee6854) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Ohrid_(81765048).jpg
- **1578**, Skanderbeg trained in the Enderun school. A woodcut of 1578 shows Gjergj Kastrioti among the students of the Enderun, the palace school in Edirne. Taken as a hostage in boyhood, he served the sultan as a commander before turning against him in 1443. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2b7cc0e8-ba2d-46d7-9194-4645de2d133b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_and_other_students_in_Enderun_receiving_military_training_(81764557).jpg
- **1578**, Skanderbeg lands in Italy. A 1578 engraving of Skanderbeg disembarking with his troops in Apulia in 1461, sent to help Ferdinand of Naples hold his throne. The campaign tied Albania into Italian politics and prepared the way for later Arberesh settlement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5454a028-897e-4da0-91f6-1d8be7e0a383) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_disembarking_with_his_troops_in_Italy_(81767978).jpg
### 1587
- **1587**, The second siege of Krujë. A woodcut of 1587 depicting the siege of Krujë of 1466, when Mehmed the Second came in person and still failed to take the castle. The town held out again the following year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fffe01ff-04a2-46cd-ad78-c6bc9bbd34c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second_Siege_of_Krujë_1466.png
### 1596
- **1596**, Engraving of Donika Arianiti, 1596. A 1596 engraving of Andronika Arianiti, known as Donika, who married Skanderbeg in 1451 and left Albania for Italy after the Ottoman conquest. The plate is from Boissard's collection of portraits printed in Frankfurt, more than a century after her lifetime. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d66558a2-f684-4b55-b19e-3069181235c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andronika_Arianiti_(166345551).jpg
### 1600
- **1600**, Skanderbeg engraved by Dominicus Custos. The Flemish engraver Dominicus Custos cut this portrait of Skanderbeg around 1600 for a printed gallery of commanders. Print made the Albanian hero a familiar figure across Catholic Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4b058768-dfbf-40e9-9600-343e87bf7f37) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_by_Dominicus_Custos.jpg
### 1601
- **1601**, Skanderbeg on foot, engraved in 1601. A full-length engraved portrait of Gjergj Kastrioti published in 1601. Prints like this carried his image through Europe long after his death, in books that held him up as the shield of Christendom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c2cb234d-c5f2-40b8-a27d-c68b5cf68da3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Szkander_bég.jpg
### 1625
- **1625**, Rembrandt's sketch of Skanderbeg. Rembrandt drew this study of Skanderbeg in the second quarter of the seventeenth century, working from the engraved likenesses then circulating in the Netherlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/41d5d175-e452-4a09-83fe-e4ebee811aa4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_by_Rembrandt.jpg
### 1680
- **1680**, Christ Pantocrator, 1680. An icon of Christ Pantocrator dated 1680, in the National History Museum. It comes out of the Berat painting tradition that Onufri founded a century earlier, rather than from his own hand, he was working in the mid-sixteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4c3d9032-09ed-4940-849f-5775dc9a7422) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krishti_Pandokrator.png
### 1685
- **1685**, Frontispiece of Pjetër Bogdani's Cuneus Prophetarum, 1685. The frontispiece of Cuneus Prophetarum, printed in Padua in 1685, one of the earliest major works of Albanian prose literature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/344f331a-bbb4-45f9-91a3-8cb75872e315) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bogdani.jpg
### 1694
- **1694**, The siege of Kruje engraved in 1694. A 1694 engraving of the Ottoman siege of Kruje in 1477-1478, nine years after Skanderbeg's death, when the fortress finally fell. European printmakers were still working the Albanian wars two centuries later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c72d4216-32b2-43af-be78-65efb36576c6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siege_of_Krujë,_1477–1478_(J._A._Thelot).jpg
### 1700
- **1700**, Anonymous icon of Archangel Michael, Korçë collection. Anonymous icon of the Archangel Michael, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë, part of the museum's post-Byzantine icon holdings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4e2898ff-17f8-456f-b5c8-ba060a9b790d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonym_-_%C3%86rkeengelen_Michael_-_Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB.jpg
### 1701
- **1701**, Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath, Albanian, 18th century. An 18th-century Albanian dagger and sheath, steel, wood, gold, brass, coral and copper, the kind of edged weapon worn tucked into the brez (sash) as part of men's formal highland dress. Held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3ef4b971-eeb1-4040-bf4d-15fea871140b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/31575
### 1726
- **1726**, Voskopojë St Nicholas church frescoes, 1726. Interior fresco of the Church of St Nicholas, Voskopojë, dated 1726, part of the celebrated fresco cycles of the once-prosperous Aromanian/Albanian trading town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/961c5334-05e6-4f79-a384-0e3a3f9b87cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voskopoje-Mikolaj15.JPG
### 1739
- **1739**, Saint Jovan Vladimir vita icon by Kostandin Shpataraku, 1739. Vita icon of Saint Jovan Vladimir surrounded by scenes from his life, painted 1739 by Kostandin Shpataraku, originally from Ardenica Monastery, now in the National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b6697087-6e6d-44d8-b42e-10b51d3666eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh%C3%ABn_Gjon_Vladimiri_me_skena_nga_jeta_e_tij.jpg
### 1750
- **1750**, The Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, alternate page. Another page from the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, showing the Elbasan script devised for writing Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ede6e303-f04f-443e-af35-670028ad9f1e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papa_totasi_elbasan_mansuscript.jpg
- **1750**, Kostandin Shpataraku - St Demetrius on horseback, Onufri Museum. 18th-century icon of Saint Demetrius on horseback by Kostandin Shpataraku, held at the Onufri Museum, Berat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e3e6c23f-d3b5-4bc0-8e3f-47b788087fcb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kostandin_Shpataraku,_S._Demetrio_a_cavallo,_43x31_cm,_Berat,_Museo_Onufri,_XVIII_sec..jpg
- **1750**, Iconostasis, National Museum of Medieval Art - Hodegetria (18th c.). 18th-century Hodegetria icon on the iconostasis of the National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fc4f339e-6d88-4b7a-8339-94cef83e0ac0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB_NMMA_-_Ikonostase_2_Hodegetria.jpg
- **1750**, Christ Pantokrator icon by Athanas Zografi, 1750. Icon of Christ Pantokrator painted by Athanas Zografi in 1750, one of the Zografi brothers, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1d6d7124-557c-45a4-ba5a-17e15daf2a33) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB_NMMA_-_Ikonostase_3_Pantokrator.jpg
- **1750**, Saint George and the Dragon icon, National Museum of Medieval Art. Icon of Saint George and the Dragon, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë, post-Byzantine Albanian icon painting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5a2775ce-0169-4a52-88bb-93cd9548bece) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB_NMMA_-_St.Georg.jpg
### 1756
- **1756**, First Ecumenical Synod icon, Korçë, 1756. Icon of the First Ecumenical Synod (Council of Nicaea), painted 1756 by the Zografi brothers workshop of Korçë, National Museum of Medieval Art. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3175f411-616c-468f-b32b-343a5325d41f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Ecumenical_Synod_(council)_K%26A_from_Kor%C3%A7a_1756.jpg
### 1760
- **1760**, Karl Topia icon by Kostandin Shpataraku, Ardenica Monastery. Detail of an icon depicting the medieval Albanian ruler Karl Topia, painted by Kostandin Shpataraku at Ardenica Monastery in the 18th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3a5a468f-fc88-4297-8176-1fb01eeb3daf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Topia,_by_Kostandin_Shpataraku,_Ardenica_Monastery.png
### 1761
- **1761**, Pages of the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript. The Elbasan Gospel Manuscript records Orthodox scripture in Albanian using a unique alphabet devised in the eighteenth century. It is one of the earliest substantial texts written in the Albanian language. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/20d79555-f2cb-40c8-b781-dcade14df0b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elbasan_Gospel_Manuscript.jpg
### 1770
- **1770**, Circumcision of Christ icon, Korçë (1760-1780). Icon of the Circumcision of Christ, painted 1760-1780, National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/047792b2-9f11-4337-99a6-9e06a79cb7d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circumcision_of_Christ_(1760-1780,_Korce).jpg
### 1780
- **1780**, Zografi Brothers mural fresco, Ardenica Monastery, c. 1780. Mural fresco painted by the Zografi Brothers around 1780 at the Church of Saint Mary, Ardenica Monastery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5dab7cb0-1160-4b20-b335-f538e9c06787) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mural_painting_from_the_old_church_Ardenice_Fier_Albania.jpg
- **1780**, Voskopojë St Athanasius church exterior with frescoes. St Athanasius' Church, Voskopojë (Moscopole), one of the 18th-century Orthodox churches of the town famed for its fresco cycles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/43994232-19be-4f4f-b2d8-84762dd95791) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voskopoje_St_Athanasius.JPG
### 1800
- **1800**, Albanian yatagan in the Musee barrois. A nineteenth-century Albanian yatagan with damascened metal, ivory and semi-precious stones, held in the Musee barrois in France. Arms of this quality were made in the workshops of Prizren and Shkoder under Ottoman rule. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f8cc6dbb-ee19-4b87-813b-fc622791d3bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sabre_yatagan-Albanie-Musée_barrois_(détail).jpg
- **1800**, Festival costume from Albania, 19th-early 20th century. A festival costume in silk, cotton, gilt thread and velvet weave, Albania, 19th-early 20th century, held by the Honolulu Museum of Art (accession 3307.1), a full ceremonial ensemble rather than a single garment piece. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/42a5cc0c-ee43-4933-95b6-8a82e47f66a8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Festival_costume_from_Albania,_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art_3307.1.JPG
- **1800**, Albanian silver filigree jewellery, 19th-20th century. Albanian silver filigree jewellery from the 19th and 20th centuries, held at the Kosovo Museum in Prishtina, exactly the bridal-silver tradition (filigree, belt buckles, coin work) central to this facet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/91a8f998-f8b5-4544-b987-711b87d2e1d6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filigree.JPG
### 1819
- **1819**, Art of the Lithograph: Albanian, Plate XVIII. A lithograph plate from 1819 titled 'Albanian,' part of a German portfolio demonstrating the lithographic technique by subject genre. Included with an explicit caveat: the title suggests a costume/type study (a common genre of the period) but the object record does not confirm the plate's actual subject matter, so this should be spot-checked visually before publication. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ced6ce56-75a6-49b4-b4ab-112a6776da37) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.194.14
### 1820
- **1820**, Albanais au service d'Ali Pacha, by Louis Dupré. A lithograph by Louis Dupré of a young Albanian lord in the service of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, 1820, from Dupré's published album of his Ottoman travels, an early European artist's record praising the subject's 'costume et ses armes' (costume and weapons). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7760627d-586e-4f57-b937-aa62451c5594) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Dupr%C3%A9_%E2%80%93_Albanais_au_service_d%27Ali_Pacha.jpg
### 1840
- **1840**, Woman's sleeveless jacket, Albania, mid-19th century. A woman's sleeveless jelek-type jacket in silk with gold and silver embroidery, Albania, mid-19th century, held by the Royal Ontario Museum, a garment-first museum object, dated to its own production era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/935a1937-cbfa-4ce0-bd77-b673fa19c403) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman%27s_sleeveless_jacket,_Albania,_view_1,_mid_19th_century,_silk,_gold,_silver,_embroidery_-_Royal_Ontario_Museum_-_DSC04436.JPG
### 1845
- **1845**, Naum Veqilharxhi's Ëvetar, the first Albanian primer, 1845. Naum Veqilharxhi's 1845 Ëvetar, an Albanian-language primer written in his own invented Vithkuqi alphabet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c207f73b-9fea-48f5-92a0-a70570c954b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%8Bvetar_shqip.jpg
### 1850
- **1850**, Cleveland Museum of Art - Albanian embroidered headcloth, 19th century. Linen headcloth embroidered with silk, Albania, 19th century, open-access museum example of Albanian textile craft. Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3d957489-059e-4dbb-9766-9713178149dc) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.24
- **1850**, Iconostasis (altar screen), Onufri Museum church. The carved wooden iconostasis (altar screen) of the Church of the Dormition of St Mary, Berat, an example of Albanian ecclesiastical woodcarving. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e776aa9a-e2b9-453a-9d89-72846e79768d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iconostasis_(Altar_Screen)_-_Church_of_the_Dormition_of_St._Mary_(Onufri_Museum)_-_Citadel_-_Berat_-_Albania_(42499147661).jpg
- **1850**, Iconostasis of Rehova church, 19th century. Carved wooden iconostasis from the Church of St Nicholas in Rehova, Erseka, 19th century, now in the National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a5ec5bbf-a7e7-4ad6-8e42-cb7769b931c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iconostas_of_Rehova.jpg
### 1856
- **1856**, Woman in Vraka, Albania, by Marubi. A Marubi studio portrait of a woman in the regional dress of Vraka, northern Albania. Costume is the clear subject: full figure, formal pose, regional headwear and jewellery visible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/53268942-37af-43fa-9d98-069252b6bd8e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_in_Vraka,_Albania,_by_Marubi.jpg
- **1856**, Albanian man from Lurja, Marubi studio. Marubi studio portrait of a man from the Lurja region in his regional dress, one of the studio's regional 'type' portraits documenting highland costume by district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/04d64d24-4b91-47bc-bc31-66d32beb3e3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_Albanian_man_from_Lurja.jpg
- **1856**, Albanian man from Mati, Marubi studio. Marubi studio portrait of a man from the Mati region in regional highland dress, part of the studio's series of district 'type' photographs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c1c476a0-4c22-4510-8897-f8dc36ce014d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_Albanian_man_from_Mati.jpg
- **1856**, Albanian man with tirq, Marubi studio. Marubi studio portrait of a man from Kraja explicitly showing the tirq, the tight woollen leggings worn across the northern and borderland highlands. Costume detail (the legwear) is the subject. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2127db0c-4156-4a8e-bec4-f8e6d6521fde) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_Albanian_man_with_tirq.jpg
- **1856**, Man and woman from Elbasan, Marubi studio. A Marubi studio couple portrait from Elbasan, central Albania, showing the town's distinct Ottoman-influenced dress alongside the highland styles the studio more often recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/01b7931e-0b3b-4453-9766-8212261536c5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_man_and_woman_from_Elbasan.jpg
- **1856**, Man from Shala, Marubi studio. Marubi studio portrait of a man from Shala, one of the northern highland tribal districts, in regional dress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f7d2f251-a29c-4b33-8d9e-f8e3a44d3750) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_man_from_Shala.jpg
- **1856**, Mountaineer from Dukagjini, Marubi studio. Marubi studio portrait of a highlander from the Dukagjini region, the area governed by the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini, shown in full highland dress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f7ba1994-c011-41fb-8de6-58513c038e60) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_mountaineer_from_Dukagjini.jpg
- **1856**, Veiled Albanian woman from Shkodra, Marubi studio. A veiled woman of Shkodra photographed in the Marubi studio, documenting Ottoman-era urban dress conventions of the town's Muslim quarter, distinct from the highland costume the studio more often shows. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e61e90b9-40ba-477f-83fc-46a9284a4c95) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_veiled_Albanian_woman_from_Shkodra.jpg
- **1856**, Woman from Grudë, Marubi studio. A Marubi studio portrait of a woman from Grudë wearing the xhubleta, the bell-shaped highland dress UNESCO listed in 2022 as needing urgent safeguarding, a rare historic studio document of the garment itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2ad90010-f924-4b5a-a483-ed2198ec00a1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_woman_from_Grud%C3%AB.jpg
- **1856**, Group of Albanian women and children, Marubi studio. Marubi studio group portrait of women and children from Dajç, near the Buna river, showing generational costume together in one frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cd6af2b2-732b-499a-bc90-bf41dd813c09) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_photograph_group_of_Albanian_women_and_children.jpg
### 1858
- **1858**, The construction of Shkodër Cathedral. Workers raising Shkodër's Catholic cathedral around 1858, in the century before the building was closed under state atheism and reconsecrated after 1990, Pope John Paul II said Mass here in 1993. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/67bd02ac-4cd2-4444-b8cc-a13be1d75215) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkod%C3%ABr_Cathedral_construction.jpg
### 1860
- **1860**, Fustanella costumes, Marubi studio. A Marubi studio study of men in the fustanella, the pleated kilt, photographed in Shkodra in 1860, costume is the explicit subject of the frame, not incidental to a portrait. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e7d0bfc6-e281-415b-a07f-8dfabdee70bf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kostum_me_fustanelle_-_Pjeter_Marubi.JPG
### 1861
- **1861**, Butrint painted by Edward Lear. Edward Lear painted the marshes and ruins of Butrint in 1861, years after the Albanian journeys that produced his travel writing. His pictures were the first images of the site many Europeans ever saw. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4ed42441-1608-497c-b21c-1ede96351c02) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Lear_-_Butrinto,_Albania_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
### 1863
- **1863**, Venetian galleys defeat Robert Guiscard at Butrint. A nineteenth-century engraving of the Venetian victory over the Norman fleet of Robert Guiscard off Butrint in 1085. Control of the channel opposite Corfu decided who commanded the entrance to the Adriatic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/749cfb9b-1cae-4b2e-a3d3-eca633bea51b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:24._Vittoria_de'_Veneziani_a_Butrinto_contro_la_flotta_di_Roberto_Guiscardo,_anno_1085.jpg
### 1864
- **1864**, A morning call in Albania, 1864. An illustration from Mary Adelaide Walker's 1864 account of travelling through Macedonia to the Albanian lakes, showing a domestic visit. British travel writers were among the few outside observers of Albanian interiors in the Ottoman decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/920b8762-57f3-4018-9d01-b3cc095a2763) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_morning_call_in_Albania_-_Walker_Mary_Adelaide_-_1864.jpg
### 1873
- **1873**, Studio portrait of models in Skodra costume, Ottoman Empire. A staged studio portrait of models in the traditional dress of the Ottoman province of Shkodra (Işkodra), made for the 1873 international ethnographic-costume album, Ottoman-era urban dress documented for an imperial exhibition, not an incidental photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f477ecdb-7aaf-4018-b22d-342fee2beb05) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Studio_portrait_of_models_wearing_traditional_clothing_from_the_province_of_Skodra_(I%C5%9Fkodra),_Ottoman_Empire_LCCN2004666982.jpg
### 1877
- **1877**, Albanian highlanders above Shkoder. An 1877 book engraving of Albanian men in the mountains above Shkoder, made for a British travel account of Ottoman Europe. Images like this shaped how western readers first pictured the Albanian highlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/28a200ed-794c-4d36-a7a2-9b050245c986) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MACKENZIE(1877)_p2.183_ALBANIANS_IN_MOUNTAINS_ABOVE_SCODRA.jpg
### 1878
- **1878**, Members of the League of Prizren. A group of League of Prizren figures posed for the camera. Photographs of the 1878 movement are scarce, and most surviving portraits of its leaders come from studio sittings like this. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3a876713-f16a-412a-9a74-a8bce15e91ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ali_pasha_i_Prizrenska_liga_(1).jpg
- **1878**, The Shkodër delegation to the League of Prizren. Delegates from the sanjak of Shkodër photographed at the League of Prizren in 1878. Baca Kurti, a leader of the northern highlanders, stands second from the right. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1bccc1ad-0fcf-4f72-9f43-142bb79f4b39) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_delegation_of_Sanjak_of_Shkodra_in_the_League_of_Prizren.jpg
### 1879
- **1879**, Sami Frashëri's Albanian ABC book, 1879. An Albanian-language ABC primer from 1879, part of the Rilindja push to teach Albanian reading and writing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/03cad2b9-a53e-48f7-9f27-dad90ad76159) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfabetare_e_gjuh%C3%ABs_shqip.jpg
### 1880
- **1880**, Pjeter Marubi in his Shkoder studio. Pietro Marubi, known in Albania as Pjeter Marubi, fled Italy and opened a photographic studio in Shkoder in the 1850s. The dynasty he founded went on to record half a million Albanian faces over three generations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dba85ff3-0312-46e0-ba4e-6988b777bf78) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_(Pjetër)_Marubi,_ca.1880.jpg
### 1882
- **1882-03-31**, The Prizren assembly in an illustrated newspaper. An engraved view of Albanians meeting at Prizren, printed in a Serbian illustrated paper in 1882. The League drew attention across the Balkans and in the European press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/acd22b82-ab0d-481c-b834-22d6c96d6aa8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:League_of_Prizren,_Srpske_ilustrovane_novine.jpg
### 1883
- **1883**, Kolë Idromeno - Motra Tone ("The Albanian Mona Lisa"), 1883. Motra Tone, portrait by Kolë Idromeno, 1883, sometimes called "the Albanian Mona Lisa", in the National Art Gallery, Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/61998c85-03c3-4ddc-a828-dec977098741) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kole_Idromeno,_Motra_tone.jpg
### 1889
- **1889**, Skanderbeg painted by Anastas Ballamaci. An 1889 portrait of Skanderbeg by the Albanian painter Anastas Ballamaci, made a generation before independence. The hero's image circulated widely among Albanians in the late Ottoman decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1ec2e0d8-2666-42e2-bdad-d7e9988cf748) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_by_Anastas_Ballamaci.jpg
### 1890
- **1890**, Kristo Sulidhi with a child, Marubi studio. A studio sitting from the Marubi workshop in Shkodër in the 1890s. The archive the family built up is the largest photographic record of Albanian society in the late Ottoman period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4bffd57e-a5f7-49d2-94cf-bd238fd47051) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kristo_Sulidhi.jpg
- **1890**, Naim Frashëri, Rilindja poet. A period portrait of Naim Frashëri, the leading poet of the Albanian national revival (Rilindja), author of Bagëti e Bujqësia and Histori e Shqipërisë. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/644ba780-d1af-429d-91c3-4cc788025bcb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naim_Frasheri.jpg
- **1890**, Gold-thread embroidered garment for a woman, Scutari, late 19th century. A gold-thread embroidered women's garment in silk and velvet, catalogued as either Prizren or Scutari (Shkodër), late 19th century, Cleveland names Shkodër, this facet's central costume city, as one of two possible origins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3970dea4-4f1a-4b67-80fa-1f40df912ce5) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.381
- **1890**, Kolë Idromeno - portrait of Skanderbeg, 1890. Portrait painting of George Castriota Skanderbeg by Kolë Idromeno, 1890, one of the earliest Albanian painterly depictions of the national hero. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5d7276e5-2778-4842-a08f-5fff917fe0f6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_by_Kol%C3%AB_Idromeno_1890.jpg
### 1895
- **1895**, Jeronim de Rada, Arbëresh poet. Portrait of Jeronim de Rada (Girolamo de Rada), the Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) poet and pioneer of Albanian romantic literature in Calabria, an Arbëresh, not mainland-Albanian, literary strand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c62a4eaf-4ba0-4242-a277-18b8331e81e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeronim_de_Rada_(portret).jpg
### 1896
- **1896**, Sami Frashëri in his office, 1896. Sami Frashëri, encyclopedist and Rilindja writer, photographed in his office in 1896. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2bc830ca-8fc6-4627-ae6a-54bb5e5865fe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sami_Frash%C3%ABri_(1896).jpg
### 1900
- **1900**, Family cradle at Margegaj. A carved wooden cradle more than a century old, kept by the Mekshiqi family at Margegaj in Tropoja. Objects like this were handed down through generations in the highland houses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ddfbcfb9-ecdf-46c7-9582-53eb631fab2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Djep_mbi_100_vjeçar_i_Familjesh_Mekshiqi_-_Margegaj.JPG
- **1900**, Pupils of the girls' school at Korçë. The girls' school at Korçë, opened in 1891, was the first in the country to teach girls in Albanian. Its pupils and teachers were photographed around the turn of the century, when such schooling was still illegal under Ottoman law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d5bf32f7-a409-4189-af26-2390fbd2d3ed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkolla_e_vashave_Korçë.jpg
- **1900**, Theodor Ippen in northern Albanian costume. The Austro-Hungarian consul and Albanologist Theodor Ippen photographed by Marubi in 1900, dressed head to toe in northern Albanian highland costume, a European official adopting local dress for the portrait, useful for showing how the costume read to outside observers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6d6d8382-cea3-40cf-8792-4406dc5f2033) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theodor_Ippen-Albanian_costume.jpg
- **1900**, Mirditë rebels, postcard by Kel Marubi. A Kel Marubi postcard captioned 'Rebellion of Mirdits against the Ottomans,' showing armed men of Mirdita in highland dress, from the Mirdita uprisings of the 1900s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bdcddcb8-24fe-4441-a26e-e82b181105d0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirditen.jpg
### 1902
- **1902**, Photios, Metropolitan of Korce. Photios Kalpidis served as Orthodox metropolitan of Korce and was killed near the village of Bratvica in September 1906. His death marked the violent edge of the church and school rivalries in Ottoman southern Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/717b474a-c159-4040-99fb-fb609fa38bc7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Митрополит_Фотий_(Калпидис).jpg
### 1903
- **1903**, Men of Shkoder, 1903. A group of Shkoder men photographed by Franz Nopcsa in 1903, in the fez and sashed dress of the late Ottoman town. Shkoder was then the largest Albanian city and the centre of Catholic northern Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/87d8260a-af41-4764-8e0f-0b72e72a65c1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_234.jpg
- **1903**, New Year card sent to Asdreni. A postcard sent to the poet Aleksander Stavre Drenova, known as Asdreni, by a close friend around the turn of the century. Asdreni wrote the words of the Albanian anthem while living among the emigrant colonies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dd825fc1-45ec-4a34-a947-3eb79116f62d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postcard_of_Alexandre_Stavre_Drenova_around_1900-1910.jpg
### 1905
- **1905**, The Drin below the Vizier's Bridge, 1905. The Drin running through its gorge near Ura e Vezirit, photographed by Franz Nopcsa in 1905. The river and its crossings governed every journey into the northern Albanian interior. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/99d9c6ab-5ce3-4d7f-9c56-7314a28e4871) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_259.jpg
- **1905**, Albanian woman at Ellis Island. Lewis Hine photographed this woman in Albanian dress at Ellis Island in 1905, during the years he documented arriving migrants. Tens of thousands of Albanians, many of them from Korçë and the south, crossed to the United States before the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8f4198d0-09bc-4c4d-aae9-c2a0a1172d66) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_woman_at_Ellis_Island_1905.jpg
- **1905**, The men of Iballje in Puka, 1905. Armed men of Iballje in the district of Puka, photographed by Franz Nopcsa in 1905. In the northern highlands the rifle was ordinary dress and disputes were settled under the customary law of the Kanun. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/444ce9bf-f1b4-4310-ba97-f3765ef0ad63) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_254.jpg
- **1905**, The village of Zym below Mount Pashtrik. Franz Nopcsa photographed the Albanian village of Zym on the slopes of Pashtrik between Prizren and Gjakova in 1905. His expeditions produced the first systematic photographic record of Albanian-speaking country outside Albania proper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cbeb0d5d-05f7-41e0-b2d9-608e5661d37f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_262.jpg
- **1905**, The fortress of Prizren, 1905. Prizren's citadel above the town, photographed by Franz Nopcsa in 1905. Prizren was the seat of the 1878 League that first stated Albanian national demands, and remained a centre of Albanian life beyond the later border. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/79b71bbb-82f9-4c07-9fbd-6f51beddff4f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_263.jpg
- **1905**, Thanas Floqi in 1905. Thanas Floqi, later one of the signatories of the declaration of independence at Vlore, photographed in 1905 while the Albanian national movement was still an underground affair. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e315b8db-17f4-4139-9f40-3bd31d877c8d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thanas_Floqi_(1905).jpg
- **1905**, An Albanian man in national costume, photographed by Ferenc Nopcsa. A Ferenc Nopcsa plate whose own caption identifies the subject as national costume, the clearest costume-labelled frame found in the unused portion of his collection, but its date could not be independently confirmed in this pass. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7dd93afc-826d-45b3-9be8-cca498f4fa3d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_044.jpg
### 1906
- **1906**, Skreli tribesmen, photographed by William Le Queux. A group of men of the Skreli tribe, northern Albania, photographed on William Le Queux's 1906 travels, shown in full highland dress with weapons. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e15e2570-996c-4a5d-b54a-77b0a9b36e3f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skreli_Tribesmen_(W_Le_Queux).jpg
- **1906**, Chief of the Skreli tribe, photographed by William Le Queux. A named clan chief of the Skreli tribe, photographed near Shkodra in 1906, wearing the formal dress of a highland bajraktar (standard-bearer/chieftain). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/88ba4919-36fb-403e-a157-1469669862e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkodra_%E2%80%93_Chief_of_Skreli_tribe_(W_Le_Queux).jpg
- **1906**, Catholic woman of Shkodra, unveiled for the camera. A Catholic woman of Shkodra photographed in 1906, notable because the original caption records that she was unveiled specifically for this photograph, a documented moment of Ottoman-era dress convention being set aside. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4aca81b7-a114-414d-9df4-67be836dca04) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkodra_%E2%80%93_Catholic_Woman_(W_Le_Queux).jpg
### 1907
- **1907**, The Cukali mountains from the Gomina valley. The broken limestone country of Cukali in the district of Puka, recorded by Franz Nopcsa in 1907. Nopcsa mapped the geology of these ranges while also compiling notes on the tribes who lived in them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8912be1f-e11c-4ee8-9fcd-4a33c2c52d96) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_233.jpg
- **1907**, Maja e Jezerces, 1907. At 2,694 metres Jezerca is the highest summit of the Albanian Alps, photographed by Franz Nopcsa in 1907. His climbs in these mountains were the first properly documented survey of the range. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/724b4294-bc3b-4c13-93d7-c72f51970954) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_318.jpg
### 1908
- **1908-05**, Women of the Kastrati tribe, photographed by Edith Durham. Edith Durham photographed women of the Kastrati tribe in northern Albania in May 1908, in the region she documented most closely between 1900 and 1913, a costume-subject group portrait from the ethnographer's own fieldwork. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/016e3642-e8ac-4b8b-97b1-635ee34eac8e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durham_2538.jpg
- **1908**, The cast of Sami Frashëri's Besa in Korçë. Players of Sami Frashëri's drama Besa photographed in Korçë in 1908. Staging plays in Albanian was itself a political act in the last years of Ottoman rule, when the language had no official standing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/66499418-ba9c-40b5-ad96-3212d7b6a798) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Besa_1908.jpg
- **1908**, The first Albanian-language school in Kavajë. Pupils and teachers of the Albanian school at Kavajë, founded in the late 1880s and photographed in 1908. The Young Turk revolution of that year briefly allowed such schools to operate openly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/88b8fc42-bad6-4813-a623-3c7130a447e6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kavajë_School.jpg
- **1908**, The band of Qani Bey, 1908. An armed Albanian band photographed by the Manaki brothers in 1908. Groups like this operated across the Ottoman vilayets in the years when Albanian demands for schools, alphabet and autonomy were hardening into a national movement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/53427662-e3ee-4c11-a1b9-723318eb6ba4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chetata_na_Kjani_beg.jpg
- **1908**, The official Albanian alphabet decided at the Congress of Manastir, 1908. The handwritten decision fixing the Albanian Latin alphabet, adopted at the Congress of Manastir in November 1908, the document that standardised how Albanian is written. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cbb6072c-b7af-492a-831f-93f27177609c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_Alphabet_from_Manastir_Congress.jpg
- **1908**, The Alphabet Commission of the Congress of Manastir, 1908. The commission of writers and delegates tasked with fixing a single Albanian alphabet at the 1908 Congress of Manastir. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/50b226f1-e2a0-4447-b05d-29448b12e028) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komisioni_i_Alfabetit_Monastir_1908.jpg
- **1908**, Delegates of the Congress of Manastir, 1908. The full delegate assembly of the 1908 Congress of Manastir, the meeting that fixed a single Albanian alphabet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f038a95c-b13e-4883-9b55-9a2cbcbb2640) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delegat%C3%ABt_e_Kongresit_t%C3%AB_Manastirit.jpg
### 1909
- **1909**, The Band of Freedom in Korçë. The Banda e Lirisë, a wind band founded in Korçë in the years of the national awakening, photographed in 1909. Such societies carried the movement's message through concerts and public parades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5419d204-b2ff-425b-adc1-279d447a0698) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Band_of_Freedom_1909.jpg
### 1910
- **1910**, Sarandë harbour seen from the sea. The bay of Sarandë photographed from a ship around 1910, when the town was still an Ottoman coastal village facing Corfu. A century later the same shoreline carries the country's busiest summer resort. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0bc9135c-ac4b-4dd9-ba38-ea3c50870551) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kikötő_a_tenger_felől_nézve._Fortepan_4505.jpg
- **1910**, Durrës harbour and the royal palace. The waterfront at Durrës with the palace on the left, the residence used by Prince Wilhelm of Wied during his short reign in 1914. Durrës was Albania's capital in the first years of independence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e63ec2db-2fb7-4c03-b071-a6683169102e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durrës_Harbour_with_the_Royal_Palace.jpg
- **1910**, Mati Logoreci. The teacher and grammarian Mati Logoreci took part in the Congress of Manastir and spent his life arguing for schooling in Albanian. Photographed in the 1910s, in the decade when the language question became a national one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e106bf51-19ab-40e5-8950-b76fb5673a8a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mati_Logoreci.jpg
- **1910**, Xhelal Koprencka. 's declaration of independence at Vlore in November 1912. Portrait made in the 1910s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/135eb89b-681a-496a-8beb-4cc9fd45b4db) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xhelal_Koprëncka.jpg
- **1910**, Woman from the Albanian Alps, postcard by Kolë Idromeno. A postcard by Kolë Idromeno, the Shkodër painter, photographer and pioneer of Albanian cinema, titled 'Nuse prej Shalet' (bride from Shala), bridal costume of the Albanian Alps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d958bcb9-fea8-47ad-a769-edfa2bd49274) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idromeno_-_Nuse_prej_Shalet.jpg
- **1910**, Orthodox woman of Shkodra, postcard by Kolë Idromeno. A Kolë Idromeno postcard of an Orthodox woman of Shkodra, documenting the dress conventions of the city's Orthodox Christian community alongside its larger Catholic and Muslim populations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4c92db2c-b078-4a94-9c5f-8ef13ebbd2de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idromeno_-_Ortodokse_prej_Shkodres.jpg
### 1911
- **1911-09-10**, The Pro Albania demonstration at Piana degli Albanesi. Arbëresh villagers of Piana degli Albanesi in Sicily march for the Albanian cause on 10 September 1911, the poet Giuseppe Schirò at the centre. Communities settled in Italy since the fifteenth century campaigned hard in the years before independence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ccc7d43c-ce36-4e33-9058-07468f5fd9f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piana_degli_Albanesi_1911_«_Pro_Albania_»_demonstration.jpg
### 1912
- **1912**, On the road to Durrës, November 1912. An Albanian drives a small flock past a Serbian soldier on the road to Durrës in November 1912, the month Albania declared independence at Vlorë. Serbian and Montenegrin forces were then occupying much of the north. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9dec92dd-7ab9-49ad-ba8f-a8a16902c9dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sur_la_route_de_Duarzo_(i.e._Durazzo,_un_albanais_sur_un_âne_avec_un_petit_troupeau_de_moutons,_un_soldat_serbe_sur_le_bord_de_la_route)_-_btv1b531144444.jpg
- **1912**, Albanian refugees on the road to Turkey. Albanians driven from their homes during the Balkan Wars, travelling east towards Ottoman territory. The muhaxhirë displacements of 1912 and 1913 emptied whole districts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8c061db5-ca6c-478f-999f-b8b910fe372f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_refugees_of_the_Balkan_Wars_heading_to_Turkey.jpg
- **1912**, Albanian refugees at Salonica. Albanians who fled the advancing Serbian army, photographed at Salonica in 1912 on their way to Turkey. Many never came back. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ccc434b1-8d22-4e9a-94c7-0b66eb1429ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shqiptarë_e_ikur_nga_ushtria_serbe_në_Selanik.jpg
- **1912**, Ottoman positions on Tarabosh. Ottoman fortifications on the Tarabosh heights guarding Shkoder during the siege of 1912-1913. The garrison held out for months while the Balkan League carved up the empire's European provinces. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/baa0ad4e-aad0-42d5-9d02-f0bd9940b3d6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turkish_forces_in_Shkodër.jpg
- **1912**, Ismail Qemali's wardrobe, Vlorë. The wardrobe of Ismail Qemali, first head of the Albanian government, kept in the Independence Museum in Vlorë. Small domestic objects like this are most of what survives of the 1912 administration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/56877852-8268-4547-a19f-f8e510e7a7cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Independence_Museum,_Vlorë,_Albania_-_2016-07_03.jpg
- **1912-11-28**, The Albanian Declaration of Independence on display. The original declaration signed at Vlorë on 28 November 1912, shown in its case at the Independence Museum. The text announced Albania's separation from the Ottoman Empire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/93e10714-1508-4556-93e4-8be717b2d341) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Independence_Museum,_Vlorë,_Albania_-_2016-07_02.jpg
### 1913
- **1913**, The storming of Korçë, drawn in 1913. A Greek lithograph of 1913 shows the army entering Korçë in December 1912. The town stayed under Greek administration through the Balkan Wars and was contested again in the years that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5ce9f32b-8ad7-444a-88f3-ade09d9cd6fc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capture_of_Korytsa_1912_lithograph.jpg
- **1913**, Refugee women from Gjakova at Shkoder, 1913. Muslim Albanian women of the Krasniqi from the country around Gjakova, photographed as refugees in Shkoder in 1913. The Balkan Wars pushed tens of thousands of Albanians out of the newly partitioned northern districts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/92e30be6-669c-4f0c-803a-895ffc6d65d5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nopcsa_265.jpg
- **1913**, View of Filiates in Chameria, 1913. Filiates, in the district Albanians call Chameria, photographed in 1913 as the Balkan Wars redrew the region's borders. The area was assigned to Greece, leaving a large Albanian-speaking population outside the new state. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b8c36225-7400-40b3-994d-3e01f5386807) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fb010.jpg
- **1913**, The castle of Berat from below. The fortress quarter of Berat rising over the town, photographed by the Dutch officer Lodewijk Thomson in 1913 or 1914. Families have lived continuously inside these walls since the Ottoman centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0a4a67ce-80a0-41d6-9f18-526fc62e4d58) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc14.jpg
- **1913**, Montenegrin flag over the fortress of Shkoder. The Montenegrin flag flies over Rozafa after Shkoder surrendered in April 1913 at the end of a six-month siege. Great Power pressure forced Montenegro to hand the city to the new Albanian state weeks later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0f23d2fa-f607-4bd2-b329-669a4ce5d434) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skadar-crnogorska-zastava.jpg
- **1913**, Montenegrin troops leave Shkoder. Montenegrin forces withdraw from Shkoder in 1913 after the Great Powers refused to let them keep the city. Their departure secured Shkoder for Albania at the moment the state's borders were being fixed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ebdb34e8-5a71-460d-a29d-ecd8c2fa1916) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montenegrin_retreat.jpg
- **1913**, Major Thomson and General De Veer at Durrës. The two senior Dutch officers of the mission sent to build a gendarmerie for the new Albanian state. Thomson was killed at Durrës in June 1914 during the revolt against Prince Wied. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4db4598b-bf44-44f7-8a08-d050358d45b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1A1182101_283348VIII012_(15060385078).jpg
- **1913**, Dignitaries at Berat, 1913. Local notables and Dutch officers photographed at Berat during the Dutch Military Mission of 1913-1914, among them the prefect Fejzi Alizoti and Aziz Vrioni. The mission was sent to build a gendarmerie for the brand-new Albanian state. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4295de9c-68ea-4474-97fb-43b48220fc1d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc15.jpg
- **1913**, The military barracks at Vlore. The barracks at Vlore photographed by the Dutch officer Carel de Iongh during the mission of 1913-1914. Vlore had been the seat of Albania's provisional government since the declaration of independence in November 1912. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/837bce5a-a4bb-46ca-af6a-e028263533cf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc08.jpg
- **1913**, The port building at Vlore that became the Independence Museum. Thomson photographed this building in the port of Vlore in 1913 or 1914. It now houses the Museum of Independence, commemorating the declaration made in the town on 28 November 1912. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c0fc2bcb-7fcb-4dfc-bdfc-e9ff95ada8b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc06.jpg
- **1913**, The road from Vlore down to the port. General de Veer walks with Et'hem Vlora on the road running from the centre of Vlore to its harbour, with the ruined Bektashi tekke of Kuz Baba on the hill. Photographed during the Dutch mission of 1913-1914. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0d85b828-2ce9-4720-93a0-31cf4e8044b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc07.jpg
- **1913**, Colonel de Veer before leaving for Albania. The official portrait of Colonel Willem de Veer, taken in the summer of 1913 before he sailed to Albania. He commanded the Dutch mission sent to organise a gendarmerie for the new state and later acted as its effective governor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/aabf95b5-7a8d-4ce9-8961-627e6db13e7a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFA022823512.jpg
### 1914
- **1914-02-28**, Dutch officers leave Utrecht for Albania. Lieutenant Fabius, captains Kroon, Sluis and De Waal and lieutenant Doorman board the train at Utrecht on 28 February 1914, bound for Albania to organise the new state's gendarmerie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/09cd78ae-0c9f-4af8-8245-cbf74323cea4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_officieren,_reizen,_SFA022823601.jpg
- **1914-03-01**, Declaration of Northern Epirote autonomy at Gjirokaster. The provisional government of the self-declared Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus announces its autonomy at Gjirokaster on 1 March 1914, after the Great Powers assigned the district to Albania. The republic lasted a matter of months. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f7d40805-8e62-408f-849c-37c3f607df00) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AutonomyDeclaration1914.jpg
- **1914-03-07**, Prince Wilhelm and Princess Sophie arrive in Albania. Wilhelm of Wied and his wife Sophie of Schoenburg-Waldenburg step ashore at Durres on 7 March 1914 to take up the throne offered by the Great Powers. Their reign lasted barely six months. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/37728648-1555-4830-9da5-0ce344bb792e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Wilhelm_of_Albania.jpg
- **1914-05-23**, Prince Wilhelm of Wied boards a launch to leave Durrës. On 23 May 1914 Prince Wilhelm of Wied, assisted by Admiral Eugenio Trifari, takes a launch out to an Italian warship as the rebellion reached Durrës. He returned briefly, then left Albania for good that September. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4356b0a5-2f49-49b5-a109-6d77e7dcad37) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg061.jpg
- **1914**, Armed Epirote band at Korce, 1914. Irregulars of the so-called Sacred Band photographed at Korce during the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus. The southern districts were contested for months after Albania's borders were drawn in 1913. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b02f7917-ad18-44c1-95ff-7d17bd458a90) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Band_Korica.JPG
- **1914**, Albanian forces in the south. Irregular Albanian troops in southern Albania, photographed in the Dutch Military Mission material. The south was in open fighting through 1914 as Greek-backed forces contested the new border. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0ec792ed-d999-4d20-8aad-42c56e8f5a05) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_forces_in_south_1913.jpg
- **1914**, International Control Commission negotiating with Epirote delegates. Members of the International Control Commission meeting delegates from the Greek-speaking districts of southern Albania in 1914. The talks produced the Protocol of Corfu, which promised local autonomy inside Albania's new borders. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/549035bb-b4ba-4b41-9711-be29698b685c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_onderhandelingen,_SFA022823580.jpg
- **1914**, Girls dancing at Durres, 1914. Girls dancing at Durres around April 1914, from the photographic diary of the Marquis di San Giuliano. The town was the capital of Albania during the six months of Prince Wied's reign. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3e3b4a2b-baf5-4923-9cc3-e9ccdfd59074) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg003.jpg
- **1914**, Waiting for Prince Wied at Durres. Crowds gather at Durres in March 1914 to await Wilhelm of Wied, the German prince the Great Powers had chosen as Albania's sovereign. He landed on 7 March and left the country on 3 September. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ff33313d-5c2d-426a-9905-8b9f52230064) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg008.jpg
- **1914**, Military band at the Italian consulate, Durres. A military band plays in front of the Italian consulate at Durres in March 1914. Italy and Austria-Hungary competed for influence over the new principality from the day it was created. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f6af0cd2-728b-4487-b2fc-b910e2c8551a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg015.jpg
- **1914**, Essad Pasha Toptani and dignitaries at Durres. Essad Pasha Toptani in uniform with other dignitaries at Durres in March 1914. Within weeks he was arrested for plotting against Prince Wied; he later ran his own government at Durres during the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4dd9093a-33cc-45b1-a4a1-74611762cbe9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg018.jpg
- **1914**, Princess Sophie zu Wied and her children at Durres. Princess Sophie zu Wied with her children at Durres in the spring of 1914. The family arrived in March and sailed away in September as revolt spread and the war closed in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9dd1f720-336d-46bb-ae80-7e893a4a2676) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg021.jpg
- **1914**, Princess Sophie zu Wied among children in Durrës. Princess Sophie zu Wied, wife of Prince Wilhelm, greets children in Durrës in the spring of 1914. The Marquis di San Giuliano collection documents the six months when a German prince ruled Albania from the port town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fc9ba29a-9f15-4d88-9d1e-9d76ea35fdb5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg025.jpg
- **1914**, Mosque and Austro-Hungarian legation, Durrës. A mosque stands beside the konak in Durrës, with the Austro-Hungarian legation visible in the distance, spring 1914. The capital of Prince Wilhelm of Wied was still an Ottoman-built port town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7ea1ed4d-ff46-4cdf-9315-9c18acbb78ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg034.jpg
- **1914**, Italian sailors guarding the konak in Durrës. Italian sailors stand watch outside the konak, the Durrës residence of Prince Wilhelm of Wied, in the spring of 1914. Foreign landing parties held the town while the countryside slipped out of the prince's control. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f29fe8d5-334e-451f-9527-c6c37ec704e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg040.jpg
- **1914**, Hauling artillery through Durrës. Albanian soldiers and civilians drag a field gun through Durrës in May or June 1914, as fighting closed on the town during the revolt against Prince Wilhelm of Wied. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/da4b6846-7014-4bb9-b21b-66e4cebdd649) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg041.jpg
- **1914**, Muslim refugees boarding a boat at Durrës. Families board a boat in Durrës harbour in the summer of 1914. The collapse of the Wied principality and the fighting around the town pushed civilians out by sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9f71461c-5caf-49bf-bdbc-6097ce2c7a74) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg064.jpg
- **1914**, Northern Albanian fighters outside Durrës. Armed men from the northern highlands photographed near Durrës in May 1914. Clansmen from the north came south to defend the new principality against the insurgents of central Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e6342808-5905-4aed-a68a-6caef56b92b3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg068.jpg
- **1914**, Cadets at the military college in Shkodër. Students of a military college in Shkodër pose for the camera in the summer of 1914, while the town was still administered by an international force. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b290016b-5454-4c66-a6e5-cbf9c202efbe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg098.jpg
- **1914**, International troops in the streets of Shkodër. Soldiers of the international force move through Shkodër in July 1914. The Great Powers had taken the town from Montenegro in 1913 and governed it jointly until the First World War swept the arrangement away. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/79ea5ed4-48d4-4607-b015-7664c7f64ffa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg108.jpg
- **1914**, Princess Sophie zu Wied out walking in Durrës. Princess Sophie zu Wied walks in Durrës in the spring of 1914. Her family's stay in Albania lasted barely half a year before the couple withdrew to Venice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ca4f2ac9-f0ce-4cd4-b4ad-82b844d20b37) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg024.jpg
- **1914**, French troops parading through Shkodër. A French detachment of the international garrison parades through Shkodër in July 1914, weeks before the powers withdrew and the war reached the Balkans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d16a4504-7fac-40ff-8580-9643fb5c5974) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg104.jpg
- **1914**, Prince Wilhelm of Wied in Durrës. Prince Wilhelm of Wied, chosen by the Great Powers to rule Albania, photographed in Durrës in May 1914. His reign lasted from March to September of that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bb94068e-89b6-42b7-87e2-b101238c6b97) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durrës-_Prince_Wilhelm_zu_Wied,_May_1914.jpg
- **1914**, Northern Albanian troops march past the konak. Men from the north march past the prince's residence in Durrës in May 1914. The column was one of the few forces still loyal to the Wied government as the revolt spread. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/be7448ec-0ae3-49a6-9d8f-929b45010dc5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg027.jpg
- **1914**, A delegation of Italo-Albanians in Durrës. Arbëresh visitors from southern Italy pose in Durrës in March 1914. Italy's old Albanian-speaking communities followed the birth of the Albanian state closely and lobbied for it abroad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cc9652d7-f90c-4c89-a171-f82f349ccbee) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg013.jpg
- **1914**, The moment Major Thomson was shot at Durrës. A press drawing of the instant Dutch major Lodewijk Thomson leapt from the trench, sabre in hand, and was hit by the shot that killed him at Durrës in June 1914. He led the Dutch gendarmerie mission sent to build an Albanian police force. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4f06b134-c711-44e5-bc78-6130265c9413) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_officieren,_slachtoffers,_SFA022823606.jpg
- **1914**, Durrës seen from the artillery ridge. The town of Durrës photographed in 1914 from the height where the Dutch captain Fabius had sited his guns during the siege by insurgent forces. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/be8bedec-706b-45ca-a391-7bf382d70b72) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_marine,_SFA022823588.jpg
- **1914**, Funeral procession for Major Thomson leaves the city gate. The cortege carrying Lodewijk Thomson passes out of the Durrës gate towards the harbour square in June 1914. The Dutch officer had become, briefly, the most visible foreign figure in Albanian public life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b1f18a87-07cc-4d33-b157-b12328776315) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_officieren,_begrafenissen,_SFA022823520.jpg
- **1914**, Quick-firing guns moved to the legation wall. German volunteers, supervised by Dutch officers, manhandle quick-firing guns to the rear wall of the legation in Durrës in 1914 as insurgents pressed on the town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fab75ac0-e9b3-4404-95f8-58796e949050) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_wapens,_SFA022823583.jpg
- **1914**, Major Thomson promotes an Albanian gendarme. Lodewijk Thomson shakes hands with an Albanian gendarme he has just promoted to sergeant, 1914. Building a native gendarmerie was the Dutch mission's whole purpose. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/351a5a23-6901-4133-87b9-4cb1e282da4a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_promotie,_SFA022823573.jpg
- **1914**, Machine gun posted at the Italian legation, Durrës. International troops man a machine gun outside the Italian legation in Durrës in 1914. The diplomatic quarter was fortified while the countryside was in revolt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d0c2e2be-c57f-4015-854d-2b3bd0eeefa9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_bewaking,wapens,_SFA022823584.jpg
- **1914**, Major Thomson's coffin taken aboard the Noord-Brabant. The remains of Lodewijk Thomson are carried aboard the Dutch warship Noord-Brabant at Durrës in 1914 for repatriation. His death ended the Netherlands' brief role in Albanian state-building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e63f44af-8401-40d7-8065-2b1a46fe6781) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marine,_Nederland,_schepen,_oorlogen,_SFA022823501.jpg
- **1914**, Barracks of the international garrison in Shkodër. The barracks housing the international troops stationed in Shkodër, photographed in 1914 during the unrest between the Wied government and the insurgents. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ba75127c-91fa-484b-ad25-65fec9713826) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_kazernes,_SFA022823589.jpg
- **1914**, Soldiers cooking in the open behind the konak. Men of the government force boil a pot in the open ground behind the konak at Durrës in 1914. Supply for the improvised Albanian army was rudimentary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d2266a2d-42ef-4fcc-a426-b3f726536cbc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_SFA022823598.jpg
- **1914**, The main street of Shkodër in 1914 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/da97b5da-6d2e-4b21-91f2-5a7469d8cb2a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_stadsgezichten,_toeristen,_SFA022823594.jpg
- **1914**, Sailors from the foreign warships prepare to land. Crews from the warships anchored off the Albanian coast make ready for a possible action against the insurgents in 1914. Six navies patrolled the young state's shore that summer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/32f204ad-a51d-435e-84b8-3b58e5739cd9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_matrozen,_SFA022823575.jpg
- **1914**, Patrol covering the advance outside Durrës. A patrol with a machine gun works along a ridge outside Durrës in the spring of 1914, covering the advance of relief troops against the insurgents. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5188a13d-98b2-43f0-a559-07cfb95af7ff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_SFA022823600.jpg
- **1914**, The repaired house of Esad Pasha Toptani, Durrës. The Durrës house of war minister Esad Pasha Toptani, shelled during the crisis of 1914 and afterwards patched up. Esad was arrested in May 1914 for plotting against Prince Wilhelm of Wied. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/39889445-6040-4564-8f89-83e872eefb0d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_woningen,_SFA022823597.jpg
- **1914**, Trenches of the government troops. Government troops in their trenches in 1914. The fighting around Durrës that summer was a siege war fought with hastily dug lines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4bffe0c1-1388-4a69-b35a-ae147590cd77) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_loopgraven,_SFA022823590.jpg
- **1914**, The main gate of Durrës. 1914, guarded by soldiers of the international force. Beyond it lay the outpost line that Major Thomson crossed several times a day. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/33b59757-07ea-4cc1-bccf-b89dcd8606d8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,_poorten,_SFA022823582.jpg
- **1914**, Inspection at the bridge outside Durrës. The Albanian head of the gendarmerie inspects his men at the bridge that long separated Durrës from the insurgent lines, 1914. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a03c6140-83a2-497b-bd4f-a89f47eaaa87) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_opstanden,_SFA022823581.jpg
- **1914**, Malësor highlanders come in to submit. Highlanders of the Malësi hand over their rifles and set off for Durrës, then the provisional seat of Esad Pasha Toptani, in 1914. Bringing the northern clans under a central authority defeated every Albanian government of the period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/583a4102-480e-4dc2-b167-8ca02e1d7c08) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SoumissionMalissores1914.jpg
- **1914**, Pupils and teacher at a girls' school in Shkodër. A class of girls with their teacher in Shkodër in August 1914. The Catholic and civic schools of the city kept teaching through the war years, when most of the country had no schools at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e61acd7b-7a3e-46d4-b6f3-e58639412cc0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Msg092.jpg
- **1914**, The restaurant of the Hotel Clementi in Durrës. The dining room of the Hotel Clementi, also called the Europa, in Durrës around 1914. Run by an Austrian-born proprietor with the backing of the Austro-Hungarian trade mission, it was the meeting place of the foreign officers and diplomats in town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8783bec8-4438-4653-9a42-6c84673380ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmb05.jpg
- **1914**, A physician of the Dutch mission at the beach hotel in Vlorë. The doctor F. de Groot photographed at the beach hotel in Vlorë around 1914. Two years after the declaration of independence in the town, Vlorë already had a modest seafront trade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/355ac8c9-e04d-4ce6-a838-a16abbb54a23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc02.jpg
- **1914**, Major Thomson lying in state at Durrës. The body of Major Lodewijk Thomson before his coffin was closed at Durrës, with a simple wreath from his Dutch comrades. Thomson led the Dutch military mission sent to organise a gendarmerie for the new Albanian state and was killed in the fighting there in June 1914. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/942ddb4f-d01f-4dbd-a566-785e2186116f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_officieren,_SFA022823500.jpg
- **1914**, The Albanian flag during the events at Durrës. A press photograph from the disturbances at Durrës in 1914, when the government of Prince Wilhelm of Wied faced armed revolt within months of his arrival. The prince left the country that September. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/feb26724-960c-4738-9134-d17bc533337d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1A1182101_283348VIII008_(15246932635).jpg
- **1914**, Troops passing the Muradie mosque at Vlore. Gendarmerie troops march past the sixteenth-century Muradie mosque in Vlore around 1914. The Dutch officers were training Albania's first regular armed force as the country slid towards war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/80f81d42-bc8a-46d9-a8e8-8462902ace6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmc05.jpg
- **1914**, The Dajlan bridge at Durres. The Dajlan bridge outside Durres, pictured in 1914, the year Prince Wilhelm of Wied arrived in the town and the country's brief principality began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0528b12c-9abc-45e8-9325-7288963d443f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ura_e_Dajlanit_në_Durrës.jpg
- **1914**, Wilhelm of Wied accepts the Albanian crown. The Albanian delegation formally offers the crown to Prince Wilhelm of Wied in 1914. The Great Powers had chosen a German prince to rule the state carved out at the London conference. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/69433db4-69a6-402a-87c6-caadfe62b256) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annahme_der_albanischen_Herrscherwürde_durch_den_Prinzen_Wilhelm_zu_Wied,_1914.jpg
- **1914**, General de Veer with the gendarmerie at Vlore. De Veer stands with members of the gendarmerie at Vlore around 1914. The Dutch mission was meant to build a neutral force for a country that had almost no state apparatus of its own. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/477f6c32-e1e7-4f2d-9b97-72ce7786d3c1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmmb06.jpg
### 1915
- **1915**, Albanian irregulars under Italian command. A group of armed Albanian irregulars photographed during the First World War, when Italian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Serbian forces all operated on Albanian soil. Their own aim, the caption records, was freedom for Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8334c2a7-6787-4704-aac6-4174db156db3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eager_to_win_freedom_for_Albania._Types_of_Albanian_fighting_as_irregular_troops,_Bestanddeelnr_158-1766.jpg
- **1915**, Vlore, 1915. Vlore photographed in 1915 by the Italian navy's special office. Italy had landed at Vlore in 1914 and held the bay for much of the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d063770f-eed8-4f11-95b5-9202c34ac010) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valona_-_Vlora_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_AP62T103404.jpg
- **1915**, Narrow-gauge train on the Vlore line, 1915. A Decauville light railway train at Vlore in 1915, laid by the Italian army to move supplies inland. These military tracks were the first railways ever built on Albanian ground. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bcef086d-9596-419f-ad3e-d8baf2fb9bad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albania_-_treno_sulla_ferrovia_Decauville_di_Valona,_1915_(02).jpg
- **1915**, Italian warships in the bay of Vlore. Italian naval vessels lying in the bay of Vlore in 1915. Control of the bay and of Sazan island was the strategic prize that drew Italy into Albania in the first place. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d67b9f6e-aff9-4b86-8921-ee66f15a5997) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navires_italiens_en_rade_de_Valona_-_Vlora_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_AP62T103405.jpg
### 1916
- **1916-03-14**, Outside the Austro-Hungarian consulate at Shkoder. A man photographed outside the Austro-Hungarian consulate general at Shkoder on 14 March 1916. The Commons file notes his dress may in fact be Montenegrin rather than Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c0baf19b-1efa-4638-9cf0-ade9473c5713) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanese_beim_österr.ung._Generalkonsulat_in_Skutari._Aufgenommen_in_Skutari_am_14._März_1916._(BildID_15531681).jpg
- **1916-03-14**, Albanian youths marching with flags at Shkoder. Young Albanians march out with flags at Shkoder on 14 March 1916, photographed by the Austro-Hungarian war press office. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c488e499-60ee-45ca-8ecf-3f082e77ef8a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanische_Jugend_rückt_mit_Fahnen_aus._Aufgenommen_am_14._März_1916_in_Skutari._(BildID_15532752).jpg
- **1916-04-26**, Hauling cableway parts across the marsh near Lezhë. Austro-Hungarian railway troops carrying the heaviest parts of the Lezhë to Vorë cableway over a floating causeway of cut brushwood, in April 1916. The forty-four kilometre line crossed swamp that no road could take. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/63541225-80ad-4b5e-96b4-1cc87ad7cf1f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K._u._k._13._Eisenbahnkompagnie._Seilbahn_Alessio-Vorra_(44,0_km)._Feldbahnmarsch_auf_einem_aus_dem_bei_der_Ausrodung_gewonnenen_Reisig_hergestellten_schwimmenden_Steg_durch_den_nächsten_Teil_des_Sumpfes._26._u._27._April_1916_b.webp
- **1916-04-26**, Hauling cableway parts across the marshes, 1916. Austro-Hungarian railway troops carry cableway components over a floating brushwood causeway through marshland in April 1916. The 44-kilometre aerial ropeway from Lezhe to Vore was built to move supplies where no road could be kept open. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dc56f281-dcaa-434f-a95b-8e15d03a33fc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K._u._k._13._Eisenbahnkompagnie._Seilbahn_Alessio-Vorra_(44,0_km)._Feldbahnmarsch_auf_einem_aus_dem_bei_der_Ausrodung_gewonnenen_Reisig_hergestellten_schwimmenden_Steg_durch_den_nächsten_Teil_des_Sumpfes.._26._u._27._April_1916.webp
- **1916**, Tekke west of Elbasan. A dervish lodge in the countryside west of Elbasan. Bektashi tekkes were central to religious life in central and southern Albania, and the order later made Tirana its world headquarters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5110fb43-fb35-4b41-8152-0d4bc79d7f73) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Tekke_westl.Elbassan._(BildID_15531891).jpg
- **1916**, Italian troops in Gjirokaster. Italian forces in Gjirokaster during the First World War, published in the French illustrated paper Le Miroir in 1916. Southern Albania changed hands repeatedly between 1914 and 1918. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/307fda1b-28b2-4e32-a050-df7ea2118d9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:153_12_Argyrocastro_prit_par_les_italiens.jpg
- **1916**, Serbian troops waiting to embark on the Albanian coast. Serbian soldiers wait to board ship on the Albanian coast in 1916. The retreat of the Serbian army across the Albanian mountains to the Adriatic in the winter of 1915-16 cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides of the road. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7011aa26-d92e-4b20-ac3f-435e4b7fd38c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cekajuci_ukrcavanje.jpg
- **1916**, Durres in 1916. A panoramic view of Durres in 1916, when the port was fought over by Italian and Austro-Hungarian forces. It was Albania's main gateway to the Adriatic and briefly its capital in 1914. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/868d053e-0c15-438b-98d3-992684c36a01) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durazzo_1916.jpg
- **1916**, Artillery of Essad Pasha Toptani. Guns belonging to Essad Pasha Toptani, the landowner and politician who ran a rival government at Durres during the First World War. His shifting alliances made him one of the most contested figures of the period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/93343488-78c6-4994-a8a1-837880a76fd9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essad_pasha_artillery.jpg
- **1916**, Austro-Hungarian troops in Shkoder, 1916. Newly arrived Austro-Hungarian soldiers marching through a street in Shkoder in 1916. Austria-Hungary held northern and central Albania for the next two years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a9d2655f-d84a-4bcd-83cf-be8dd4f7ff20) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freshly_arrived_Austro-Hungarian_soldiers_marching_in_a_street_in_Skukari_(Shkodër),_1916.png
- **1916**, Austro-Hungarian troops enter Durres, 1916. A wartime illustration of the Austro-Hungarian battalion that entered Durres on 27 February 1916, driving out the last Italian troops. The port then served as an occupation base until 1918. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9a5cff8c-62d7-4abb-806d-f8af8c968a9f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austro-Hungarian_battalion,_which_entered_Durazzo_on_February_27,_1916,_drove_back_the_last_Italians.png
- **1916**, Austro-Hungarian squadron shells Shengjin. An Austro-Hungarian naval squadron destroying Italian transports in the harbour of Shengjin, then known as San Giovanni di Medua, in 1916. The port was the main supply point for the retreating Serbian army. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4dd4a2d9-50af-49e1-9526-4097b088b998) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombardment_and_destruction_of_Italian_transport_ships_in_the_port_of_San_Giovanni_di_Medua_on_the_Albanian_coast_by_an_Austro-Hungarian_naval_squadron.png
- **1916**, Changing of the guard in Tirana, 1916. The changing of the guard in Tirana in January 1916, Austro-Hungarian soldiers on one side and Albanians on the other. Tirana was still a market town of a few thousand people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5864d5e4-1370-4950-8367-8b90c73c1ebe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Changing_of_the_Guard_in_Tirana_(Österreich-Ungarn_in_Waffen,_1916).png
- **1916**, Austro-Hungarian soldiers with the Albanian Legion. Austro-Hungarian soldiers posing with troops of the Albanian Legion, some of the Albanians wearing Austrian decorations. The Legion was raised locally in 1916 and used as an auxiliary force in the occupied zone. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5907cc21-7d75-4212-8f39-ef817c2f3127) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austro-Hungarian_Soldiers_posing_alongside_troops_of_the_Albanian_Legion,_some_wearing_Austrian_medals.jpg
- **1916**, On the cableway west of Mamurras. A cable car crossing the marshes west of Mamurras on the Austro-Hungarian aerial ropeway. The line was one of the largest engineering works carried out in Albania during the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/aa97b3eb-a1ec-477f-90ae-fc197d064490) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auf_der_Drahtseilbahn_durch_die_Sümpfe_westl.Mamuras._(BildID_15531695).jpg
- **1916**, Austro-Hungarian troops enter the burning Durrës. An illustration of Austro-Hungarian troops entering Durrës at dawn on 27 February 1916. The capture completed the Central Powers' occupation of central Albania during the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/298ed580-feb2-4dfc-b8a9-35a4e3cb3249) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capture_of_Durazzo_-_Austro-Hungarian_troops_enter_the_burning_city_at_dawn_on_February_27,_1916.png
- **1916**, Albanian troops enter Kavajë, February 1916. Albanian forces under Austro-Hungarian officers occupy Kavajë on 17 February 1916. Vienna raised Albanian units during its occupation and, unlike its neighbours, encouraged Albanian schooling and orthography. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4c654e5f-b89c-403f-bd14-30087a8e55e2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_forces_led_by_Austro-Hungarian_officers_occupied_Kawaja_(near_the_coast_southeast_of_Durazzo)_on_February_17,_1916.png
- **1916**, Mountain road used by Allied columns in Albania. A gorge crossing on a supply route used by Italian, French and Albanian troops during the First World War. Albania was fought over by several armies while its own state barely existed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/aca0bc73-787b-4f98-a21a-7504b1fdd2df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1A1182101_283348VIII010_(15246932685).jpg
- **1916**, Albanian troops on the march to Gjirokastër. Albanian soldiers under Italian command moving up the road from Sarandë during the First World War. Local levies were recruited by every occupying power in turn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1c57dfb1-6f3e-4aab-a1aa-99aeaad78a90) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1A1182101_283348VIII013_(15060385198).jpg
- **1916**, Panorama of Korçë in 1916. Korçë seen across its rooftops in 1916, when the town was briefly an autonomous republic under French protection. The image comes from a damaged glass plate by the Manakis brothers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e840b2bb-f05e-4961-8546-f86b6527e22c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_na_Korca_od_1916.jpg
- **1916**, Gun emplacements on Bardanjolt. Artillery positions on the Bardanjolt heights above Shkodër, photographed by the Austro-Hungarian war press office. The hills changed hands between Montenegrin and Austro-Hungarian forces in 1915 and 1916. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b65229e9-ee45-46cb-a469-90e48abb67b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geschützstände_(Bardanjolt.)_(BildID_15534973).jpg
- **1916**, Rifle cover on the Bardanjolt heights. Camouflaged rifle positions cut into the ridge north-east of Shkodër. Austro-Hungarian engineers fortified these slopes after taking the town in January 1916. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bf8133e7-eb2b-41e2-bc94-636bca95bc0b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schützendeckungen_(Bardanjolt)_Silhouettierung._(BildID_15534987).jpg
- **1916**, Gun position with concrete bedding, Bardanjolt. A concrete-bedded artillery position on Bardanjolt above Shkodër. Permanent works like this show how long the front around the town was expected to hold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0ee0925f-3b9d-4001-90d3-9afc1dbea56d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geschützstand_mit_Betonbettung_(Bardanjolt.)_(BildID_15535008).jpg
- **1916**, Montenegrin battery on the Bardanjolt saddle. A captured Montenegrin gun position on the saddle of the Bardanjolt ridge above Shkodër. Montenegro held the town from 1915 until the Austro-Hungarian advance of January 1916. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/658aadb6-0a45-4c8a-8793-4e50ad618545) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montenegrinische_Batterie_am_Sattel_Gr.Bardanjolt._(BildID_15534952).jpg
- **1916**, The Bardanjolt heights seen from Shkodër castle. The contested ridge photographed from the walls of Rozafa castle at Shkodër. The castle commanded the confluence of the Drin and Bojana rivers and every army in the region used it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/27066295-f20b-471d-acf3-c56df3b0b791) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bardanjolt-Höhen_vom_Kastell_aus._(BildID_15534819).jpg
- **1916**, The Brdica sector towards the Drin. The approaches to the Brdica position north of Shkodër, looking towards the Drin. Austro-Hungarian photographers surveyed every sector of the front around the town in 1916. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e758107e-199e-4c43-aa52-392e8d16ed80) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brdica-Vorfeld_gegen_Drinasa-Drin._(BildID_15535057).jpg
- **1916**, Brdica seen from Bltoja. The Brdica heights photographed from the marshy plain at Bltoja, north of Shkodër. The low ground between the hills and the Bojana flooded every winter and shaped the fighting here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ab4b120a-8e8f-4344-92fa-f7a9d092d5fb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brdica_von_Bltoja_aus._(BildID_15535015).jpg
- **1916**, Lone field station south of Durrës. A single hut serving as a halt on the narrow-gauge line ten kilometres south of Durrës. Most of the wartime network ran through empty marsh and scrub. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ef7434a0-4aa6-41ff-9f11-6cd06e149ac0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Einsame_Feldstation_(bei_km_10)_südlich_Durazzo._(BildID_15531751).jpg
- **1916**, A Gheg family travelling near Mamurras. An Albanian family with their animals on the new Lezhë to Vorë road near Mamurras. Civilian life continued along roads built for the army. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8ee4308e-6170-4cc3-bda0-f4708a37bd8c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_neue_Strasse_Alessio-Vorra.(bei_Mamuras)_Chegenfamilie_auf_der_Reise,_(BildID_15531702).jpg
- **1916**, The Ohrid road at the gate of Elbasan. The road towards Ohrid where it passes the old town gate of Elbasan. The walled core of the town still followed its late Roman and Ottoman plan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fcfbf245-41e7-4f25-b181-aa2c4f571653) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elbassan,_Ochridastrasse_(nahe_Stadttor.)_(BildID_15531835).jpg
- **1916**, Positions on the Stoj plain. The flat ground of the Stoj plain outside Shkodër, looking towards the Bardanjolt ridge. Six near-identical survey frames of this sector survive in the same album. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/854dc7e7-6321-4ad6-b7ed-57f3b3ced638) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojebene_(Golemi-Vorfeld_gegen_Bardanjolt._(BildID_15533445).jpg
- **1916**, The north slope of Tarabos above the lake. The Tarabos massif dropping towards Lake Shkodër. The mountain dominates the town from the south-west and was fortified by every force that held Shkodër. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/905a382d-f462-4cf1-bf17-e7266bf7b8ff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarabos-Nordhang_gegen_den_See._(BildID_15534847).jpg
- **1916**, Tarabos seen from Rozafa castle. The Tarabos heights photographed from the castle above Shkodër. From this wall the garrison could watch both the lake and the Bojana crossing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2e9021e8-27c9-45ed-8bbb-f56fb44a98e8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarabos_vom_Kastell_aus._(BildID_15533375).jpg
- **1916**, Supply column crossing the Black Drin. An Austro-Hungarian war postcard of a supply squadron fording the Black Drin in Albania in 1916. The country's roadless interior swallowed armies on all sides during the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c18304c8-b320-49f4-ac7c-09354abd5237) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aleatet_Ne_Has.jpg
- **1916**, Italian soldiers in Vlore. Italian troops in the streets of Vlore during the occupation that began in 1914 and lasted until the Albanians drove them out in 1920. Vlore was the hinge of Italian ambitions on the Adriatic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bafc513e-a926-4b59-b9b9-5aa1df9cd985) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vlora_zur_Zeit_der_italienischen_Besatzung_1916-1920.jpg
- **1916**, Arrests in Vlore, 1916. Albanians accused of spying are led away in Vlore in 1916, under the Italian occupation. Civilians in the occupied zones were caught between armies that all claimed to be protecting them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6ab07532-2c24-4f87-9abb-326dc081e65e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aresting_of_albanian_spies_in_Valona.jpg
- **1916**, Italian sentry in a mosquito net. An Italian sentry on the Albanian coast wears a face net and gloves against mosquitoes. Malaria killed more Italian soldiers in Albania than fighting did, and the coastal marshes remained a health emergency into the 1950s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3ade55d6-0979-4349-8287-9746d401c50f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Italian_Army_in_Albania,_1916-1918_Q19109.jpg
- **1916**, The Italian road from Vlore to Saranda. The military road the Italians drove down the coast from Vlore to Santi Quaranta, today Saranda. It was the first hard road along the Albanian Riviera and remained the main southern route for decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1ef0a295-ad8a-4603-a5fd-391fd2b34631) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Italian_Army_in_Albania,_1916-1918_Q19124.jpg
- **1916**, Italian troops resting on the coast road. Soldiers rest by the roadside on the Vlore to Saranda road during the First World War. Building and holding the road tied down whole divisions in a country with almost no infrastructure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f9e9c8fb-8c28-4ea2-b614-c50954e68052) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Italian_Army_in_Albania,_1916-1918_Q19121.jpg
- **1916**, Italian coastguard and his dog on the Adriatic shore. A lone Italian coastguard patrols the Adriatic shore of Albania with his dog. The occupation stretched thin along a coastline that Italy wanted mainly to keep out of other hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8719e457-db1b-4f9a-9952-5257baf6819b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Italian_Army_in_Albania,_1916-1918_Q19117.jpg
- **1916**, Saranda before 1916. A hand-coloured postcard of Santi Quaranta, today Saranda, published by Stefanos Stournaras before 1916. The small southern port faced Corfu and changed hands repeatedly during the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d4b4f20e-1236-4e39-997c-967dfd1e0d83) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stefanos_Stournaras_Santiquaranta_No361_1916.jpg
- **1916-09-10**, French infantry landing at Vlore, 1916. Men of the French 85th infantry regiment come ashore at Vlore on 10 September 1916. Albania spent the First World War as a corridor for French, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, Serbian and Greek forces. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fab8e212-910f-4f9d-be93-7247dfd84544) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_146_15_85°_d'inf_débarque_à_Vallona.jpg
### 1917
- **1917**, Albertypen, Kriegspressequartier war-press album. An Austro-Hungarian war-press ethnographic 'types' photograph from occupied Albania, 1917, one of a genre of street portraits made to document local costume for the home audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/df711573-da8e-4dbf-a7fa-a2aca56edd2d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen._(BildID_15571512).jpg
- **1917**, Albanertypen, Kriegspressequartier war-press album. A further Austro-Hungarian war-press 'types' photograph documenting Albanian dress under wartime occupation, 1917. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3c6e77bb-3347-40c8-8eb8-53cbb7f71a3a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen._(BildID_15572853).jpg
- **1917**, Albanertypen in Rogosina, Kriegspressequartier. A war-press ethnographic 'types' photograph from Rogosina, 1917, part of the same Kriegspressequartier series already used elsewhere in this archive for military history but here selected for its costume content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/67d44058-4905-4324-9a84-3c9dff11fef0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Rogosina._(BildID_15572249).jpg
- **1917**, Albanertypen in Rogosina, Kriegspressequartier. Another frame from the same 1917 Rogosina 'types' series documenting local costume during the Austro-Hungarian occupation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6bc36112-ea69-4890-b38c-f194b8464790) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Rogosina._(BildID_15572292).jpg
- **1917**, Street with Albanian types, Kriegspressequartier. A 1917 street scene captioned 'street with Albanian types,' showing everyday costume worn in public rather than as a posed studio study. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/45431939-4d5d-4262-8d7b-8b5302139ae1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strasse_mit_Albanertypen._(BildID_15572930).jpg
- **1917**, Albanian hut on the Peqin road. A thatched Albanian dwelling on the road to Peqin, photographed around 1917 by the Austro-Hungarian war press office. Its photographers made one of the fullest records of central Albanian life during the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dc8468d0-280d-41f5-9014-a017209d837b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanerhütte_an_der_Strasse_nach_Pekinj._(BildID_15573414).jpg
- **1917**, Albanian men in Tirana, about 1917. Men photographed in Tirana around 1917 by the Austro-Hungarian war press office, in the years when Tirana was still a small town and not yet the capital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dbd9bde8-dc0c-4996-8709-9d70c326cc16) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Tirana._(BildID_15573428).jpg
- **1917**, On the main square of Durres. Albanians on the main square of Durres around 1917. The port had been the seat of Prince Wied's short-lived government three years earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e703ba45-175e-4a22-85a0-2cb73ef3fd8a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_am_Hauptplatze_von_Durazzo._(BildID_15573253).jpg
- **1917**, Albanian men at Lezhe. Men photographed at Lezhe around 1917. Lezhe is the town where Skanderbeg gathered the Albanian princes into a league in 1444 and where he is buried. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0cc0ac23-38ad-441b-b837-514c9bffb36d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Alessio._(BildID_15573204).jpg
- **1917**, Albanian deputation at Shkoder. An Albanian deputation at Shkoder around 1917. Austria-Hungary courted local notables with schools, an Albanian-language press and formal audiences of this kind. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/847904cd-0422-4d81-a0a2-1b87cde01ae3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanerdeputation_in_Skutari._(BildID_15572951).jpg
- **1917**, Men of Shkoder, about 1917. Men of Shkoder photographed around 1917. Shkoder was the largest town of the Catholic north and the centre of its printing and photography. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/711533fc-a2c4-44d2-b848-123a9fa0b19c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Skutari._(BildID_15572671).jpg
- **1917**, Villagers at Rrogozhine. 1917, in white felt caps and homespun woollens. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d456b00b-64f1-4821-a37c-af7cc74a8196) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Rogosina._(BildID_15572313).jpg
- **1917**, Albanian house at Rrogozhine. A village house at Rrogozhine around 1917, recorded by the Austro-Hungarian war press office alongside its portraits of local people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/702bd131-b097-41c7-bd1c-bac8196362c4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanerhaus_in_Rogosina._(BildID_15572285).jpg
- **1917**, Men of Peqin. Men photographed at Peqin around 1917, on the old road that runs from Durres inland towards Elbasan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b6f1bab4-8c7b-4496-a9b6-ee21887b506e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Pekinj._(BildID_15571568).jpg
- **1917**, Address to the Albanian deputation at Shkoder. An Austro-Hungarian officer addresses an Albanian deputation at Shkoder around 1917. Such ceremonies were part of the occupation's effort to win over the northern tribes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/085d5c51-d03d-4f18-afb4-d209ada91c0b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ansprache_der_Albanerdeputation_in_Skutari._(BildID_15572902).jpg
- **1917**, Speaking to the notables of Tirana. An address to the assembled notables of Tirana around 1917. Two years later the same class of men would choose Tirana as the capital of the new state. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/92ca920c-43d6-4bda-ad93-621e58cd7102) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ansprache_an_die_Notabeln_in_Tirana,_Albanien._(BildID_15571722).jpg
- **1917**, Men of Kruje. 1917, in the hill town that held out against Ottoman sieges under Skanderbeg four and a half centuries earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/76edc99d-debc-44c0-b35c-3674c40d6f49) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanertypen_in_Kruja._(BildID_15571806).jpg
- **1917**, An Albanian chieftain. A tribal chief photographed by the Austro-Hungarian war press office around 1917. In the north, the bajraktar system of clan leadership still carried real authority. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c57cbdff-5e30-405c-8235-7929a71c8e6c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albaner_Häuptling._(BildID_15572867).jpg
- **1917**, Guard of honour inspected at Kavajë. An Austro-Hungarian party reviewing a guard of honour in Kavajë. Occupying commands staged such ceremonies to court local notables in central Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/62ca302e-f7d0-440a-a436-c06c82b3d0df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ankunft_u._Abschreiten_der_Ehrenkompagnie_in_Kavaja._(BildID_15573421).jpg
- **1917**, A street in Kavajë. A street of low shopfronts in Kavajë during the Austro-Hungarian occupation. The town lay on the road linking Durrës to the interior. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/530ecff4-8d4a-4e0e-b65f-2932182d6c96) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strasse_in_Kavaja._(BildID_15573407).jpg
- **1917**, Gravel mill on the road to Vorë. A gravel crusher set up beside the new military road to Vorë. Austro-Hungarian engineers built much of central Albania's first hard-surfaced road network during the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0db31dcd-ad7f-4108-9629-da30cf51cc82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schottermühle_auf_der_Strasse_nach_Vora._(BildID_15573119).jpg
- **1917**, Field railway leaving Vorë. A narrow-gauge military train pulling out of Vorë. The Austro-Hungarian army laid hundreds of kilometres of light railway across the Albanian lowlands to move supplies the roads could not carry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1e56194b-e05d-4015-b97a-466e0758612d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abfahrt_von_Vora_mit_Feldbahn._(BildID_15573084).jpg
- **1917**, Address to the notables of Kavajë. An Austro-Hungarian officer speaking to assembled local notables in Kavajë. Winning over regional leaders was central to how the occupation governed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/75f4ab59-627a-4d5b-9a74-f2dd3dc8cbfd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ansprache_an_die_Notabeln_in_Kavaja._(BildID_15571484).jpg
- **1917**, Prince Wied's residence seen from the mole at Durrës. The house used by Prince Wilhelm of Wied during his six months as ruler of Albania in 1914, photographed from the harbour a few years later under Austro-Hungarian occupation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7ab6f5a1-f62d-4b26-bd83-961587a7544b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blick_vom_Molo_in_Durazzo_gegen_Schloss_d.Fürsten_WIED._(BildID_15571280).jpg
- **1917**, Wartime footage from the Albanian front. Unedited archive film catalogued as troops charging uphill in Albania during the First World War. From 1915 the country was fought across by Austro-Hungarian, Italian, French and Serbian forces while its own statehood was barely three years old. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/70920f5d-e23f-4cbb-84de-feaf484d8612) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLU63HsCSo8
- **1917**, Motor railway leaving Durrës for Peqin. A petrol-driven train setting out from Durrës towards Peqin. This line was the main inland artery of the wartime narrow-gauge network. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e0e1df31-98ba-4432-9257-c44e268dbdc5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abfahrt_der_Motorbahn_von_Durazzo_nach_Pekinj._(BildID_15571407).jpg
- **1917**, Sunken ships off the mole at Durrës. The mole at Durrës with wrecked vessels in the water behind it. The port was bombarded repeatedly during the Adriatic campaign and changed hands several times. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/541f1b0b-6474-4dda-941a-5d1a3a3cdfb2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Molo,_Durazzo_und_versenkte_Schiffe_im_Hintergrunde._(BildID_15571301).jpg
- **1917**, Sailing ships in the harbour of Shëngjin. Wooden sailing craft moored at Shëngjin, the small northern port the Austro-Hungarians knew as San Giovanni di Medua. It supplied the Shkodër front by sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0dafa7da-7f6c-448c-b7a3-1ab85c5269dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Segelschiffe_im_Hafen_v.San_Giovanni_di_Medua._(BildID_15571210).jpg
- **1917**, Road and field railway to Lezhë. The military road towards Lezhë with a narrow-gauge track laid alongside it. Rail and road were built as one system across the coastal plain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ccf0584a-73b1-422c-96f7-076649e60f4c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strasse_mit_Feldbahn_nach_Alessio._(BildID_15573211).jpg
- **1917**, The new road to Vorë. A freshly cut roadway heading towards Vorë. Before the war almost no wheeled road existed between Durrës and the interior. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b050cd18-6e0b-4b4d-850c-6b02bba55b9b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neu_angelegte_Strasse_nach_Vora,_Albanien._(BildID_15573169).jpg
- **1917**, Tent camp on the road to Vorë. Rows of army tents pitched along the Vorë road. Malaria in these lowland camps killed more Austro-Hungarian soldiers in Albania than combat did. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/df0343ac-3ea8-475b-aa86-856dcd157ce0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zeltstadt_an_der_Strasse_nach_Vora._(BildID_15573218).jpg
- **1917**, Burnt ruins beside the Vorë road. The shells of houses destroyed by fire along the road to Vorë. Villages in the coastal plain were repeatedly burnt as the front moved across them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/50d68262-9075-48a9-a0b8-37d2c2489bc9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brandruinen_an_der_Strasse_nach_Vora._(BildID_15573126).jpg
- **1917**, Mosque before the fortress command post. A mosque standing in front of a building taken over as a fortress command. Ottoman-era religious architecture was still the visual signature of every Albanian town in 1917. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5ea98e2f-1856-4829-8911-64af60336b41) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moschee_vor_dem_Festungskommando._(BildID_15572965).jpg
- **1917**, House with a well at Rrogozhinë. A single-storey house with its own well at Rrogozhinë. Photographs like this are among the earliest records of rural building in the Albanian lowlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9af8cf79-8295-41b1-b5c8-72e1420a76ca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haus_mit_Brunnen_in_Rogosina._(BildID_15572263).jpg
- **1917**, Cart road up to Krujë. A horse-drawn party on the climb to Krujë. The town's steep approach was the same one Ottoman armies had failed to force in the fifteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9c06a384-69c5-4bdb-b314-60ca030a8eed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wagenfahrt_nach_Kruja._(BildID_15571855).jpg
- **1917**, Triumphal arch at Milot. A wooden arch erected at Milot for the arrival of an Austro-Hungarian column. The occupation regularly dressed Albanian villages for official visits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/feb11f18-eb67-4780-8372-8e89ebf751ba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miloti_mit_Triumpfbogen._(BildID_15571175).jpg
- **1917**, War bridge over the Mat river. A timber military bridge thrown across the Mat. Bridging the northern rivers was what made year-round movement between Lezhë and Durrës possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/501f913e-e152-477f-ab8b-8f72edf1eac4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kriegsbrücke_über_den_Matifluss,_Albanien._(BildID_15573155).jpg
- **1917**, Austro-Hungarian generator train on the Albanian 700 mm network. Generator train 112 of the Austro-Hungarian army on the 700 millimetre gauge line in Albania. This network was the country's first mechanised transport of any scale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dcd7f4b9-8a77-4327-a924-9bfb903775a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Generatorzug_112_des_österreichisch-ungarischen_Heeres,_auf_dem_700-mm-Netz_in_Albanien_(Sammlung_Hektor_Dinaj).jpg
- **1917**, Port command building at Durrës. The building taken over as harbour command at Durrës. The port was the hinge of the whole Austro-Hungarian supply system in Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/26870e22-a319-4e70-b19f-55a695977328) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hafenkommandogebäude_in_Durazzo._(BildID_15573246).jpg
- **1917**, Tented station of a field railway in Albania. A canvas station on one of the Austro-Hungarian light railways in Albania, from a wartime picture series. Everything about these lines was improvised and meant to be moved. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/abb263f1-d4e2-4ed4-9465-2a68ddd09b73) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montenegro_und_Albanien;_Zeltstation_einer_Feldbahn.png
- **1917**, Lezhe in 1917. Lezhe photographed by the Austro-Hungarian war press office around 1917, when the northern half of Albania lay under Habsburg occupation. The war left the country divided between five foreign armies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/43a59e9b-2ea1-48c5-9d9c-4734f75a07e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alessio_(Lezha_-_Albanien)_(BildID_15573098).jpg
- **1917**, A street in Vlore, 1917. An ordinary street in Vlore photographed by the Italian army's photographic service in 1917. The town was the seat of the occupation administration and of Albania's first government five years earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dcca9e16-c27d-46a2-aaac-36c5959852df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valona,_une_rue_-_Valona_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_AP62T104649.jpg
- **1917**, Indochinese riflemen at Korce, 1917. Tirailleurs from French Indochina stationed at Korce in 1917, during the French administration of the town. The war brought soldiers from three continents into small Albanian market towns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/74cb116d-a98a-49c2-8aa8-7bfe33ead97b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koritza_1917_tirailleurs_indochinois_05346.jpg
### 1918
- **1918**, The great mosque of Korce. A French-issued card of the great mosque of Korce around 1918, when the town was under French administration as an autonomous province during the First World War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3abc8635-f414-45ed-8c96-93baa4c7d275) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koritza-CP-0022.jpg
- **1918**, Faik Konica, circa 1918. Faik Konica, essayist and founder of the journal Albania, the bridge publication between the 19th-century Rilindja and 20th-century Albanian letters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8ea7cdb1-bf47-447a-8f42-735e408d6fdb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faik_Konica_c_1918.jpg
- **1918**, Austro-Hungarian advance between Fier and Berat, 1918. A wartime illustration of Austro-Hungarian troops under Pflanzer-Baltin pushing Italian and French forces back between Fier and Berat in the summer of 1918, the last major operation of the Albanian front. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/42f31bdc-1663-40b5-ab6a-294ca3a0cb22) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expulsion_of_Italian-French_troops_by_Austro-Hungarian_troops_under_Colonel_General_Pflanzer-Baltin_in_the_Fieri-Berat_area_(Albania).jpg
- **1918**, Fighting near Berat, August 1918. An illustration of Pflanzer-Baltin's troops in action near Berat on 22 August 1918. Within months Austria-Hungary had collapsed and its army left Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7e65b4b8-8082-4489-8d9f-c7463acd6909) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troops_of_General_Pflanzer-Baltin_in_battle_near_Berat_on_August_22,_1918.png
### 1919
- **1919**, Vangjush Mio - Portrait of a Girl, 1919 (stamp reproduction). Portrait of a Girl, 1919, oil painting by Vangjush Mio, one of the founders of modern Albanian painting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/be637875-1307-4c63-bee4-7ae56e8fa08d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2004_-_Colnect_373742_-_Portrait_of_a_girl_1919_painting_by_Vangjush_Mio.jpeg
### 1920
- **1920**, Kole Idromeno, Courtyard of a Shkodra House. Kole Idromeno's Courtyard of a Shkodra House, painted around 1920. Idromeno was a painter, architect and photographer of Shkoder, and the first Albanian to run a cinema projection in the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c9fb3d38-85b9-49ef-b225-b9c8f1d42990) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kole_Idromeno,_Oborri_i_shpisë_shkodranë.jpg
- **1920**, Andon Beca. A portrait of Andon Beca from the 1920s, the decade in which the young Albanian state took shape around Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/baed5197-57a8-473d-ac4e-8d1d38cf98e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andon_Beça_(portret).jpg
- **1920**, Thank-you card for American support, 1920. Spiridon Ilo printed this card in 1920 to thank the United States for backing Albania's claim to continued statehood. Albania entered the League of Nations that December, ending the threat of partition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1232af06-0351-46e7-b75d-74357e44dc8e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kartolinë_e_mirënjohjes_nga_Sp._T._Ilo_(1920).jpg
- **1920**, Qemal Karaosmani. One of the signatories of the 1912 declaration of independence at Vlore, photographed in the 1920s. The signatories came from every region and both faiths, which was the point the assembly wanted to make. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/086b034e-0e23-4637-82d4-a5f8e69d08d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qemal_Karaosmani_(portrait).jpg
- **1920**, Boy who lost an arm in the Balkan War. A boy in Tirana who lost his arm at the age of five in the Balkan War of 1912, photographed around 1920 after the Junior Red Cross found him a home. The wars of 1912-13 and the First World War ran together in Albania with barely a pause. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1a503b41-a195-4f12-ab6b-f6b4a0b48dc3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Albanian_refugee_from_the_Balkan_Wars.jpg
- **1920-11-29**, Avni Rustemi on trial in Paris. Avni Rustemi stands trial in Paris on 29 November 1920 for shooting Esad Pasha Toptani, whom Albanian nationalists accused of selling the country. He was acquitted and returned home a hero, only to be assassinated in 1924. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5d957dd2-8612-4af6-a69f-39ae0d66a2bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avni_Rustemi_trial-02_V01-1.2_raw_BNF_(btv1b9037852s).jpg
### 1924
- **1924**, Kolë Idromeno - Dasma Shkodrane (Shkodran Wedding), 1924. Dasma Shkodrane (A Shkodran Wedding), oil painting by Kolë Idromeno, 1924, National Art Gallery Tirana collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dbfcf128-748e-48be-93d3-c3face325dd6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kole_Idromeno,_Dasma_Shkodrane.jpg
### 1925
- **1925**, Carved panelling in a Shkodër reception room. A drawing of the wooden panelling of a Shkodër state room, from Franz Nopcsa's 1925 survey of the buildings, dress and implements of northern Albania. The Hungarian geologist spent two decades recording highland life before it changed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/90606e81-108e-4fd6-95e8-3f87f6cd2d85) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanien._Bauten,_Trachten_und_Geräte_Nord_Albaniens_(1925)_03.jpg
- **1925**, Musine Kokalari, circa 1925-1929. Musine Kokalari, the first Albanian woman to publish a book, photographed as a young woman before her later imprisonment by the communist regime. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/34556008-edbe-48e0-b42f-245a64086960) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musine_Kokalari.jpg
### 1926
- **1926**, The bells of the Muradie mosque before the state atheism campaign. A 1926 illustration of the Varosh Mosque in Durrës, part of the Ottoman-era religious architecture that stood in every Albanian town before the twentieth century upheavals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a2104381-503c-41f3-ac4e-41984f39eba5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xhamia_Varosh,_1926.jpg
- **1926**, Catholic insurgents in arms, November 1926. Armed Catholic highlanders photographed in November 1926, during one of the northern risings against the Tirana government of Ahmet Zogu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/659e816d-c3b8-4adc-ba6c-04d4955da9f8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oorlogen,_burgeroorlogen,_landmacht,opstandelingen,_SFA022823498.jpg
- **1926**, Qazim Bodinaku. A studio portrait of the Albanian politician Qazim Bodinaku made in 1926, the year Ahmet Zogu consolidated his hold on the young republic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a4d66b0d-6407-4729-a6ab-91fe42ec09a7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qazim_Bodinaku.jpg
- **1926**, The royal villa at Durres. A postcard of the first royal villa at Durres, designed by Kristo Sotiri for Ahmet Zogu and destroyed by the earthquake of 1927. The seaside residence was part of the new state's attempt to look like a monarchy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dfe5ec1d-5c66-4c64-9dfe-ac7c40a2a7c2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Durres_Royal_Villa_king_Zog_-_first_version_by_Kristo_Sotiri.jpg
### 1930
- **1930**, Gegë Marubi. A studio portrait of Gegë Marubi, third and last of the Shkodër dynasty that photographed Albania from 1858 onwards. Trained in Lyon at the Lumière school, he ran the studio until it was nationalised in 1970. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3c350fcc-4dc3-40ed-8833-0d63f17f5520) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gegë_Marubi.jpg
- **1930**, Kel Marubi, self-portrait. Kel Marubi photographed himself in the Shkodër studio he inherited from Pjetër Marubi. Three generations of the family recorded northern Albania from the 1850s to the 1950s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/40893541-2cc4-41eb-a9d0-1964eb46027c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kel_Marubi_(self_portrait).jpg
- **1930**, Fan Noli, portrait. Fan Noli, Rilindja-era man of letters and the first translator of Shakespeare into Albanian, shown here in his literary rather than political capacity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5a85563d-5bae-41d9-8f19-af8c2cb21f7c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fan_Noli_-_Portrait_from_Gazmend_Freitag.jpg
- **1930**, Wedding dress, Kruja, 1930s. A 1930s bridal dress from Kruja, cotton batiste, velvet, silver thread, pearls and sequins, held by the Museum Europäischer Kulturen and photographed on display at Berlin's Ethnological Museum. The garment itself is the primary artifact here, not the exhibit photo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3b813356-75ce-4b7d-85d5-6d4258a79619) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wedding_dress,_Kruja,_Albania,_1930s,_view_2,_cotton_batiste,_velvet,_silver_threads,_pearls,_sequins,_from_the_Museum_Europaischer_Kulturen_-_Ethnological_Museum,_Berlin_-_DSC01138.JPG
- **1930**, Vangjush Mio - Street in Korçë, 1930 (stamp reproduction). Street in Korçë, 1930, oil painting by Vangjush Mio, reproduced on a 1967 Albanian postage stamp of Albanian paintings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3e48592b-238d-41c0-87f4-4ddeb08fcc06) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1967_-_Colnect_323940_-_Street_in_Kor%C3%A7%C3%AB_1930_by_Vangjush_Mio.jpeg
- **1930**, Dhimiter Beratti. 1912 and later served the young state as a diplomat and publicist. Portrait made in the 1930s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5ad96131-1239-4c99-aa25-a5b54a438f9d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dhimitër_Beratti.jpg
### 1931
- **1931**, Church festival at Polican, 1931. Villagers gather for the feast day at the church of Saint Nicholas in Polican in southern Albania. Rural religious festivals were a fixed point of the year across the south before the state campaign against religion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8e0a0fc7-5072-4649-93d2-d9df5352fac4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Politsani_Epirus_1931.jpg
- **1931**, Skanderbeg painted by Spiro Xega. Spiro Xega's 1931 canvas belongs to the wave of Albanian national painting that turned Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg into the central image of the young state. The armoured figure with the goat-horned helmet became the standard likeness. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ece55471-59b5-476f-ace2-4b3a466b5a7d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_by_Spiro_Xega.jpg
### 1932
- **1932**, Gjergj Fishta, author of Lahuta e Malcís. Franciscan friar and poet Gjergj Fishta, author of the national verse epic Lahuta e Malcís, photographed in 1932. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d7d70bbb-0f20-49be-ada9-0a6847a0f032) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjergj_Fishta_1932.JPG
- **1932**, Italian archaeologists at work in Butrint. Istituto Luce newsreel footage of the Italian mission at Butrint under Luigi Ugolini, which uncovered the theatre and the Roman and Byzantine city around it. The digs also served as a display of Italian influence in Albania in the years before 1939. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d2f9ec73-6218-4cd3-ac2d-5192084923f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxPkWLjyOc
- **1932**, Children of the Balkans. A silent educational film shot in the early 1930s, with close-up sequences of children in Albania alongside Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Footage of ordinary interwar life in the region is scarce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/99b4f4bf-0a41-421b-b009-3ba6c01b4f6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ9FQEB82KY
### 1934
- **1934**, The mosque and clock tower of Korce. An old postcard of the Iljaz Bey Mirahori mosque and the clock tower of Korce. Both were landmarks of the Ottoman town centre; the mosque survived the 1967 campaign against religion, the clock tower did not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bfa52d71-e515-4413-a406-eae7f57d3ba7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ora_dhe_Xhamia_e_Iljaz_Beut_(kartolinë).jpg
### 1935
- **1935**, Tefta Tashko-Koço, 1930s. Portrait of Tefta Tashko-Koço, pioneering Albanian soprano and one of the country's first classically trained female singers, from the 1930s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2dcb01ca-0908-4d37-bc80-1fcda3568cac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tefta_Tashko_Ko%C3%A7o.jpg
- **1935**, Jorgjia Filçe-Truja, Lola Gjoka and Tefta Tashko-Koço in the 1930s. Group photograph of three pioneering Albanian female classical vocalists of the interwar period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c0bf5186-03b7-4a38-9414-5555b19f6739) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jorgjia_Filce-Truja_Lola_Gjoka_Tefta_Tashko-Koco_in_the_30s.jpg
- **1935**, Lasgush Poradeci, portrait. Portrait of Lasgush Poradeci, one of the major lyric poets of 20th-century Albanian literature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/38ea444c-8b1e-490a-a25e-086809e90ebb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lasgush_Poradeci_(portrait).jpg
### 1936
- **1936**, Abdurrahim Buza - The Girl with Ribbon, 1936 (stamp reproduction). The Girl with Ribbon, 1936 oil painting by Abdurrahim Buza, one of the leading figures of 20th-century Albanian painting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/12c4f76e-68df-4284-aa7a-c77a2d7cc6c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2004_-_Colnect_373743_-_The_Girl_with_Ribbon_1936_oil_painting_by_Abdurrahim_Buza.jpeg
### 1937
- **1937**, Tefta Tashko-Koço - Zare trëndafile. One of the earliest surviving professional Albanian vocal recordings; Tashko-Koço was the pioneering lyric soprano of 1930s-40s Albanian art song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cb997e49-98a4-4ba6-be5c-5405b1cb9d64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y20bRzGxrw
- **1937**, Tefta Tashko-Koço - Dola në penxhere. One of the best-known Albanian urban folk standards ('I stepped out to the window'), preserved through Tashko-Koço's historic early recordings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/051a3811-3115-43ea-a6d0-aee8ff027234) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_whyFPHFM
- **1937**, 1937 Gjergj Fishta - Lahuta e Malcis, Canto 5, vv. 391-465 (The Highland Lute). A recitation/reading from Gjergj Fishta's 'Lahuta e Malcis' (The Highland Lute), the foundational 1937 Albanian epic poem modelled on the oral këngë kreshnike tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/019f2335-f76c-4329-b50b-a4a3efcd3c4d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMVQr-5x51s
- **1937**, Tefta Tashko-Koço - Kur më vjen burri nga stani. One of the most celebrated Albanian art songs, poem by Lasgush Poradeci, forever associated with Tefta Tashko-Koço's lyric soprano voice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3e27946f-ba5f-4821-8f8c-0e8bedccabe7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74iMGNVIz7E
- **1937**, 1937 field photograph of gjamë, the ritual lament. Men of a highland fis perform gjamë, the ritual lament for the dead, at a 1937 funeral in Theth in the northern Albanian Alps, one of the few photographic records of the custom from before it faded from most of the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/87df8de9-6a2e-40c3-9d3c-81e343a010d5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjama.jpg
- **1937**, Lahuta e Malcís, cover of the 1937 edition. The book cover of Gjergj Fishta's Lahuta e Malcís (The Highland Lute), the Albanian national verse epic, in its 1937 printing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/db3ba5ec-ad2d-4923-ac54-0c3b67e60ad3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lahuta_e_Malcis.jpg
- **1937**, The Romanian Institute at Saranda, 1937. The Romanian Institute at Saranda in 1937, one of several foreign cultural and archaeological missions operating in Zog's Albania in the years before the Italian invasion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a27ef4ab-4894-4cbd-803e-2b65519fa85c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Instituto_Rumano_de_Sarandë.webp
### 1938
- **1938-02-22**, Lasgush Poradeci, Ernest Koliqi, Gjergj Fishta and Asdreni together, 1938. Four leading Albanian writers together in February 1938: Lasgush Poradeci, Ernest Koliqi, Gjergj Fishta and Asdreni. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dffa200c-4f28-4406-88b4-5d2123489b13) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lasgush_Poradeci,_Ernest_Koliqi,_At_Gjergj_Fishta_and_Asdreni.jpg
- **1938-04-27**, King Zog marries Geraldine Apponyi. Motorcades, crowds and guests in uniform and traditional dress at the royal wedding in Tirana. Zog married the Hungarian-American countess in April 1938, less than a year before Italy drove him into exile. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dcf43fc0-939e-4781-9de4-eb6f3376da48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38__12rtu8
- **1938**, Kolë Idromeno - self-portrait in oil, 1938. Self-portrait in oil by Kolë Idromeno, 1938, painted the year before his death. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7cdd3225-069a-44f0-b9d0-1426b82f77ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kole_Idromeno_Self-portrait.jpg
- **1938**, Vangjush Mio - Landscape in Snow (stamp reproduction). Landscape in Snow, oil painting by Vangjush Mio, reproduced on a 1977 Albanian stamp marking 20 years since the painter's death. Original painting's exact date not documented. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/91549de1-6880-440d-a6e2-485428767b79) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1977_-_Colnect_357938_-_Landscape_in_Snow_by_Vangjush_Mio.jpeg
- **1938**, The diamond tiara of Queen Geraldine. The tiara worn by Geraldine Apponyi, made for her marriage to King Zog in Tirana in April 1938. The Albanian monarchy it belonged to lasted only until the Italian landing of April 1939. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fa00e909-ca59-4816-b2fa-ab0e88b51a89) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Queen_Geraldine_of_Albania_Diamond_Tiara.png
- **1938**, The Korçë ball of 1938. Guests at the annual ball in Korçë in 1938, among them the mayor and the prefect. Korçë had the country's densest civic life, built on trade with Greece and on money sent home from the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e2956cd9-aeef-4495-a08c-f1057daf3ae0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korce.Pamje_nga_balloja_e_vitit_1938._Pjesemarres_Kryetari_Bashkise,Prefekti.Ne_rradhen_siper_i_treti_majtas_Xhavid_Beli.jpg
### 1939
- **1939-04-13**, Westminster answers the invasion. British Paramount newsreel of 13 April 1939, filmed at the Houses of Parliament and in Downing Street as ministers arrived to settle Britain's response to Italy's seizure of Albania six days earlier. It was issued as 'Another Turn of the Axis'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5f9b2b91-8908-4e68-9287-66a079f4aa11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V597xpsPxdY
- **1939-04-13**, Newsreel bulletin on Albania's fall. A Movietone item issued on 13 April 1939: general views of Tirana, scenes from King Zog's wedding and Queen Geraldine taking a parade salute. Count Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister, is among the wedding guests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/715e5767-e40a-4724-8bb7-55a83371f8fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1QP3TjGS7A
- **1939-04-17**, Italian troops land at Durres. Newsreel from 17 April 1939: Italian troopships unloading at Durres, tanks and infantry parading through the streets of Tirana, and Count Ciano arriving to supervise the occupation. King Zog had left the country ten days earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/efc64833-6d59-4b7a-b33f-766d5947c493) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Zw0tjgzLk
- **1939**, Marie Kraja, wartime portrait. Portrait of Marie Kraja, the pioneering Albanian opera soprano and one of the first professionally trained Albanian classical singers, taken during World War II. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dfc39f0b-623c-4627-85bb-ef67f3646a29) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Kraja_(portrait).jpg
- **1939**, Kristaq Antoniu, 1939. Portrait of Kristaq Antoniu, celebrated early Albanian opera tenor, taken in 1939. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4d8dab04-c5cd-466d-a055-c5ca7bdc363f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kristaq_Antoniu.jpg
- **1939**, The clock tower of Kavaje on a postcard. The Ottoman clock tower of Kavaje as printed on a souvenir card around 1939, the year Italy invaded. Clock towers were the civic signature of Albanian market towns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/af2ec7ae-bfb9-4846-b5a1-38ff2261b64e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kujtim_nga_Kavaja_(1939).jpg
- **1939**, Odhise Paskali - bust of Skanderbeg, Palais des Nations, Geneva (1939). Bust of Skanderbeg by Odhise Paskali on display at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, part of the sculptor's long-running series standardising the national hero's image internationally. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e8265897-4bb3-43fc-8749-d18f7fe2941e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odhise_paskali_palais_des_nations_dec_2021.jpg
- **1939**, Odhise Paskali - Skanderbeg sculpture, 1939. Sculpture of Skanderbeg by Odhise Paskali, 1939, an early work in the sculptor's decades-long series of Skanderbeg monuments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/be927918-6191-456a-a2f8-437dccd61625) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_by_Odhise_Paskali.png
- **1939**, The Queen Mother Institute in Tirana. A postcard of the Nana Mbretneshe institute, the state boarding school for girls opened in Tirana under Zog. Secondary education for women was one of the monarchy's few lasting reforms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b2d71770-41b7-478a-bbcd-a4cb83a00134) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Instituti_femnuer_Nana_Mbretneshe.jpg
- **1939**, Fascist Italy seizes Albania. Newsreel footage, colourised, of the Italian invasion of April 1939 and the Balkan build-up around it. Within days King Zog had fled and the country was tied to Rome. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b8f79b4f-6a1d-45a3-9d3a-f327acccb39a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnSbzDuvD4
- **1939**, Carabinieri post in a Gjirokaster garden. A small carabinieri house built in a private garden in Gjirokaster during the Italian occupation, put there to guard the bank building when the town grew unsafe. The occupation began with the invasion of 7 April 1939. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/411c64ad-331f-447a-b585-3eddf97e8205) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agirocastro_-_La_casetta_dei_Carabinieri.jpg
### 1940
- **1940**, The Sadri Keçi family, photographed by Kel Marubi. A family group posed in the Marubi studio in Shkodër. Studio portraits were how ordinary Albanian households entered the photographic record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dd79486b-f623-4573-ac74-3ad5c82d5fef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sadri_Keçi_Family.jpg
- **1940**, Lapraka airfield, Tirana, 1940. An aerial view of the Lapraka airfield in Tirana published in 1940, the year Italy launched its invasion of Greece from Albanian airfields and ports. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/426ec226-e9ce-4c3e-9b4a-1176f9682829) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lapraka_Airfield_1940_AlbaniaII4.jpg
- **1940**, Jacomoni and Verlaci in the 1940 yearbook. Francesco Jacomoni, Italy's lieutenant-general in Albania, with Shefqet Verlaci, the prime minister installed after the invasion, in the official Yearbook of the Kingdom of Albania for 1940. The pairing is the whole architecture of the occupation on one page. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5c5bb48f-8d10-4458-968c-77f2145c88ed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vjetar_i_Mbretërisë_së_Shqipërisë_(1940)_10.jpg
- **1940**, Rangefinder crew on the Albanian front. Greek soldiers work a rangefinder on the Albanian front during the winter war of 1940 to 1941. The fighting after Italy's invasion from Albania ran through Korçë, Gjirokastër and the Vjosa valley. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cd6c7d20-b2f9-4c76-b9a0-5a4ac04c7bda) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Έλληνες_στρατιώτες_με_αποστασιόμετρο_στο_μέτωπο_της_Αλβανίας.jpg
- **1940**, Gun crew in action in Albania. A field gun crew at work during the campaign in Albania in 1940 or 1941. Southern Albania changed hands twice in six months before German intervention closed the front in April 1941. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a00619ec-7b8d-4979-9382-fe90cf124f5a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lot_11618-9_(24545900475).jpg
- **1940**, Evzones attacking on the Albanian front. Evzone infantry press an attack on the Albanian front in the winter of 1940 to 1941. The war was fought in mountain snow across Korçë and Gjirokastër, at a heavy cost to the local population. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/196adb8d-9333-408c-9a2d-069808da64e8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Έφοδος_Ευζώνων_στο_μέτωπο_της_Αλβανίας.jpg
- **1940**, Cavalry charge before Korçë. A wartime lithograph gives a heroic reading of the fighting at Korçë in 1940. The town, the largest in southeastern Albania, was taken in November of that year and held until the following spring. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5f83b76a-22c6-48d1-b982-5d697ee9b7ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frixos_Aristeus_-_Triumphant_Charge_of_the_Greek_Cavalry_Before_Korytsa.jpg
### 1941
- **1941-01-17**, The Albanian front at Bargullas, January 1941. An Italian position at Bargullas on 17 January 1941, during the Greco-Italian war fought across southern Albania. Italy's invasion of Greece from Albanian soil in October 1940 had stalled and then reversed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9fec426d-3250-4fb2-b1d4-549f9e0ef0fb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17_Gennaio_1941._Bargullas_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Wounded from the Albanian front. A British Pathe newsreel issued as 'War in Albania'. The camera is inside a military hospital in Athens, where nurses and women volunteers hand out flowers, cigarettes and fruit to Greek soldiers wounded in the fighting on Albanian soil. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/015926f0-17e7-42db-b896-1fbf821d7765) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgbVRCFJro
- **1941**, Albanian partisans in 1941. A group of Albanian partisans in 1941, the year the communist party was founded in Tirana and armed resistance to the Italian occupation began to organise. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a5c98ae6-945e-4a87-8623-c1e915213659) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miladin_Popović_u_Albaniji,_sa_grupom_albanskih_partizana.jpg
- **1941**, Victor Emmanuel III at Librazhd. Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy and, from 1939, self-declared King of Albania, at Librazhd during the war. Italy had invaded on 7 April 1939 and deposed King Zog. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7c998b3e-4f89-4082-99fe-70fc54913589) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_m._vittorio_Emanuele_III_a_Librazo_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Watering horses on the Vjosa. Italian troops water their animals on the Vjosa near the Perat bridge during the Albanian campaign. The Vjosa valley carried the supply road to the Greek front. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/087ace23-d0f6-4e93-b562-e064ad55f1a3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbeverata_sulla_Vojussa_vicino_a_ponte_Perati_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Pennants of the Pusteria alpine division. Unit pennants of the Alpini division Pusteria, which fought through the Albanian mountains in the Greek campaign of 1940-41. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/292bbe55-9b4d-49e2-ac25-51f80eee1065) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gagliardetti_della_Pusteria_-_panoramio_-_ildirettore_(2).jpg
- **1941**, Building a mule track at Bargullas, 1941. Italian soldiers cut a mule track at Bargullas in 1941. Albania's roads were too thin for a modern army, and much of the campaign was fought at the pace of pack animals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/51985958-49f7-4cda-a195-d704a8546dee) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costruzione_mulattiera_a_Bargullas_1941_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Field mass at Bargullas, 1941. An open-air mass for Italian troops at Bargullas in 1941, during the winter fighting on the Albanian front. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/64ba8858-31e5-4bd5-8b50-5f6ea346189e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S._Messa_a_Bargullas.1941_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Leaving Erseke, 1941. Italian troops move out of Erseke in 1941. The town in the Korce district sat near the front line during the Greek counter-offensive into southern Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dfb66adc-61d0-459b-8f50-0b83980089e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partenza_da_Erseke._1941_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Blackshirt legion on the Albanian front. The 80th blackshirt legion Alessandro Farnese in Albania in 1941, one of the Fascist militia formations sent to shore up the stalled Greek campaign. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2e6e7f85-8850-4078-8b60-c9523decbb7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:80_legione_Farnese_sul_fronte_albanese.jpg
- **1941**, Trench on Mount Tomorr, April 1941. A communication trench on Mount Tomorr in April 1941. The mountain, sacred to the Bektashi, was a strongpoint on the Albanian front. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/da3c6e1a-da6c-4ab9-a724-4ea19eec5f2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camminamento_sul_Tomori-_aprile_1941_-_panoramio.jpg
- **1941**, Troops entering Tepelenë, winter 1941. Soldiers move into Tepelenë in the winter of 1941, during the fighting in the Vjosa valley. The town on the river changed hands as the front swung back and forth through southern Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d6da2bd5-dbf3-439b-9bac-70ae50dac0b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capture_of_Telepene.jpg
### 1942
- **1942**, Albanian school at Filiates. The Albanian school at Filiates in Chameria, in Greek Epirus, during the years 1942 to 1944. Albanian-language schooling in the region was brief and ended with the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/998738a7-89df-43f4-89ed-ffbac16cda09) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filatishkolla.jpg
- **1942**, Internees from Kosovo at the Puke camp. Men interned at the camp at Puke in northern Albania in 1942. The camp held people deported from Kosovo during the Italian occupation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f9c3bc26-a65d-45b9-b6e9-590e544b94fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internirci_sa_Kosova_u_logoru_Puka_u_Albaniji.jpg
- **1942**, Yugoslav delegates with Albanian communist leaders. Miladin Popovic and Dusan Mugosa, delegates of the Yugoslav communist party, with Albanian leaders around 1942. Their mission helped weld scattered Albanian communist groups into a single party in November 1941. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/79ad7fb9-2fc5-4cba-8fa0-f07be3d4c0c5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miladin_Popović_i_Dušan_Mugoša_sa_albanskim_rukovodiocima.jpg
- **1942**, Partisans in Malesia, northern Albania. Fadil Hoxha with partisans in Malesia, the highland country of northern Albania, during the occupation. The mountains made the north the hardest region for occupying forces to hold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dc474a66-9943-44bc-b8ea-ed988552bdae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fadil_Hodža_sa_partizanima_u_Malesiji.jpg
- **1942**, Jewish families sheltered at Kavaje, 1942. Five Jewish families photographed at Kavaje in 1942 by Mosa Mandil, himself a refugee photographer. Albania was the one country in occupied Europe to end the war with more Jews than it had before it, hidden under the obligation of besa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3a922f0d-395a-40aa-8832-cc4a790f916b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewish_Families_Kavajë.png
- **1942-07-25**, Arbëresh wedding in Palermo, 1942. ARBËRESH (Italy, diaspora community, in scope but labelled). A precisely dated 1942 wedding photograph from Palermo's Italo-Albanian rite parish, showing Arbëresh bridal costume in an unusually well-documented civil/church record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9f347673-a0b4-4f89-9118-878c61131846) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arb%C3%ABresh_Albanian_wedding_in_Palermo.jpg
### 1943
- **1943**, German coastal guns on the Albanian Adriatic. A heavy 100 mm coastal battery on the Albanian Adriatic shore in November 1943, weeks after German forces replaced the Italians along the coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bcc20834-be94-487c-a344-6c8b47df064b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanowisko_niemieckiej_artylerii_na_wybrzeżu_Adriatyku_(2-578).jpg
- **1943**, Montenegrin and Albanian partisan commanders. Partisan leaders photographed together around 1943, among them Enver Hoxha, who would head the Albanian communist party and then the state for four decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/085f7c97-f75f-4989-84ce-ef170aee062f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crnogorski_i_albanski_partizanski_vođi.jpg
- **1943**, German soldiers with captured Italian tanks in Albania. German soldiers beside Italian tanks in Albania in September 1943. When Italy signed the armistice that month, German forces disarmed the Italian garrison and took over its equipment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3a291035-3a2a-4a2f-8dec-08ed23b91a35) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-203-1680-12A,_Albanien,_deutsche_Soldaten,_italienische_Panzer.jpg
- **1943**, German machine-gun position in Albania. A German machine-gun post dug in on Albanian ground in September 1943, at the start of the German occupation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cbfde17d-5443-4600-8f7b-3b264da2299f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-203-1686-25,_Albanien,_deutsche_MG-Stellung.jpg
- **1943**, Eqerem Qamili Shehu, commander in Mallakaster. Eqerem Qamili Shehu, a resistance commander in the Mallakaster district, photographed in 1943. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/26fd98c7-4033-4775-a65a-0ab780568b34) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eqerem_Qamili_Shehu_Komandant_Qarku_Mallakaster.jpg
- **1943**, Enver Hoxha and Vasil Shanto. Enver Hoxha with Vasil Shanto, co-leaders of the communist resistance. Shanto was killed in Tirana on 1 February 1944, so the photograph must predate that day. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e2a23260-97a0-4317-a2aa-c848c7557998) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enver_Hoxha_and_Vasil_Shanto.JPG
- **1943**, German tracked tractor in Tirana. A Raupenschlepper Ost hauls a trailer through Tirana around September 1943, in the first weeks of the German occupation that followed the Italian surrender. The partisan war intensified sharply from that autumn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/af37bf6a-ad09-409b-a715-443c2dd80dd9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-049-1605-30A,_Tirana,_Raupenschlepper_Ost_mit_Anhänger.jpg
### 1944
- **1944**, Shefqet Dajiu. 28 November 1912. This portrait was made late in his life, in 1944. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a7544c43-2f77-43f6-bdcd-153c733bce59) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shefqet_Dajiu_(portrait).jpg
- **1944**, Flags over the liberation, 1944. Unissued British Pathe material shot as Albania was freed from German occupation in 1944. Allied and Albanian flags fly from a public building, aircraft pass over the streets and children wave at a mass rally. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/410fe664-f35e-4be7-86b9-d3b732a74740) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRiDlABGXaw
- **1944**, British commandos land on the Albanian coast. Warships approach the coast, commandos prepare and troops come ashore before pushing inland over rough country. Allied units worked alongside Albanian partisans against the German occupation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0e298226-9b35-472f-8bbf-35ffde4e756d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgw0XHgR8nM
- **1944**, German mountain troops with a pack gun in the Albanian mountains. SS mountain troops and Albanian volunteers move a 75 mm pack gun by mule train through the Albanian mountains in September 1944. Germany had occupied Albania after Italy's surrender the previous year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a4c7ec5f-d2ab-42ec-98f8-25321592beab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strzelcy_górscy_SS_w_górach_Albanii_(2-559).jpg
- **1944**, Staffs of the First Macedonian and First Albanian brigades. The command staffs of the First Macedonian and First Albanian partisan brigades photographed together in 1944, when the resistance in Albania was coordinating across the Yugoslav border. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/535daf03-666f-4ff3-85dd-cb15c8106fa1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Štabovi_Prve_makedonske_i_Prve_albanske_brigade_1944.jpg
- **1944**, Forming the Fourth Kosovo brigade at Kruma. The Fourth Kosovo brigade is formed at Kruma in northeastern Albania in October 1944, in the last months of the occupation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ac42788c-f6e2-4808-ab21-452ce9139aaa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Formiranje_Četvrte_kosovske_brigade.jpg
- **1944-08-08**, Allied troops move inland from the shore. Silent Movietone footage from August 1944: signalling from a ship's bridge, coastline and countryside, troops searching German prisoners and playing with children. The reel's own title misleads, since this is the Allied campaign in occupied Albania, not the 1939 invasion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/97913340-3186-46db-916e-c455022bcab6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psrejIGHCF4
- **1944-11-17**, Partisans enter Tirana. Partisan units enter Tirana on 17 November 1944, at the end of a nineteen-day battle for the city. The communist-led National Liberation Movement took power within weeks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/02ff64d2-87fd-4dd0-b422-785c4e59c238) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partizanë_në_Tiranë.jpg
### 1945
- **1945**, Sejfulla Malëshova speaking as minister of culture. Sejfulla Malëshova addressing an audience in 1945, when he was minister of culture in the new communist government. He argued for a broader cultural policy, lost the argument in 1946 and spent the rest of his life in internal exile. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4b6202f3-c425-49ae-8eae-d7529330c155) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sejfulla_Malëshova.jpg
- **1945**, Musine Kokalari, side portrait, 1945. Musine Kokalari photographed in 1945, shortly before her arrest and imprisonment by Hoxha's new communist government for her writing and politics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/504b4fdc-14e5-45fe-bb44-4f6ab5e4b25f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musine_Kokalari_(side_portrait).jpg
### 1946
- **1946**, HMS Volage with her bow blown off. HMS Volage after striking a mine in the Corfu Channel in October 1946. Two British destroyers were mined and forty-four sailors killed; the case went to the new International Court of Justice and left Albania and Britain without relations for decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/443776f0-1e85-4715-a8fd-0fe55ff961b1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Volage_mined_1946_IWM_A_31208.jpg
- **1946**, Lori - Lule Bore (Polifonia 2023). 'Lule Bore' (Snowflower), composed in 1946, is a beloved Albanian standard; this is a 2023 'Polifonia' festival performance of the classic song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/07e5f89b-bcd8-4e4e-bcc6-b89c79264aba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qwPFKIMgQ
- **1946-07**, Musine Kokalari during her 1946 trial. Musine Kokalari on trial in July 1946, the proceeding that sent Albania's first published woman writer to prison for the next two decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/930f84f2-0b30-459e-9651-4054104a2d27) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musine_Kokalari_during_the_process.jpg
- **1946-12-12**, Mine swept from the Corfu Channel. British sailors drag ashore a mine swept from the Corfu Channel on 12 December 1946. The sweeping operation, carried out in waters Albania claimed, deepened the crisis it was meant to resolve. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/69cd8175-4015-4ac9-a9d5-ed86d64d0ac4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GY_mine_Corfu_Channel_1946_IWM_A_31242.jpg
### 1949
- **1949**, Shaban Hadëri - August 1949 sculpture (stamp reproduction). Sculpture referencing the Albanian People's Army, August 1949, by sculptor Shaban Hadëri, reproduced on a 1973 anniversary stamp. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/40c0dcb6-d3a8-4292-b029-885f1df9adff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1973_-_Colnect_354066_-_August_1949_Sculpture_by_Shaban_Had%C3%ABri.jpeg
### 1950
- **1950**, Jorgjia Truja - Muza e parë. Jorgjia Filçe-Truja was one of the pioneering figures of Albanian urban lyric song and a founder of the Academy of Arts of Albania; muse of poet Lasgush Poradeci. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/54e01a2e-9683-4fd4-af74-6e27a0d930fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcIWewyEZHg
### 1952
- **1952**, Qamili i Vogël - Për herë t'parë kur t'pash moj dije. Qamili i Vogël (Qamil Muhaxhiri) of Gjakova created a foundational genre of Kosovo urban folk song; regarded as the emblem/'nightingale' of Albanian urban popular music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ce6035dc-841a-4d22-862e-2836fdcec788) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbqxdj-x3Sw
### 1953
- **1953**, Georgi Sviridov & Çesk Zadeja - Skanderbeg Suite, film soundtrack. Skanderbeg Suite, orchestral film-score music co-composed by Çesk Zadeja for the 1953 Soviet-Albanian historical epic about Albania's national hero. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f67c15fa-3600-4549-a927-053924c2a9be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6k9v9Q1y70
- **1953**, The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (Skënderbeu), 1953 - Soviet-Albanian film, English subtitles. The 1953 Soviet-Albanian co-production Skënderbeu (The Great Warrior Skanderbeg), directed by Sergei Yutkevich, the founding feature of Albanian national cinema, made with Soviet backing before the Kinostudio existed as a standalone studio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/65f05109-8f80-40b2-8e3b-c8e1e0fc9697) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1na6ljb48P8
- **1953**, Skanderbeg on screen, restored. The epic on Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg, directed by Sergei Yutkevich and shot largely in Albania with Albanian crews. Its release turned the fifteenth-century resistance into the founding image of the modern state. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3683213d-387b-451a-953e-14b82f88a2a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbo2jSVLyHE
- **1953**, Skënderbeu 1953 - Film Shqiptar/Albanian Movie. An alternate upload of the 1953 Soviet-Albanian film Skënderbeu, in Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5508d399-639c-4d19-9803-6dfc75715769) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBb2h4S1c8I
- **1953-11-28**, Skanderbeg, the 1953 epic. The complete 1953 Soviet-Albanian feature directed by Sergei Yutkevich, released on 28 November 1953 and shown in competition at Cannes the following year. It fixed the visual image of Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu for generations of Albanians. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4ce7b866-2591-4b6e-a8d5-4e636c824c4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIhHcSUH3U
### 1954
- **1954**, Avni Mula, 1954. An archival 1954 recording of founding-generation Albanian vocalist Avni Mula, part of the earliest wave of professionally recorded Albanian song of the socialist era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b53173d7-4fbe-4ec7-a663-3a010e8c7095) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HQ8d94T0Zc
### 1957
- **1957**, Abdurrahim Buza - Refugees, 1957 (stamp reproduction). Refugees, 1957 painting by Abdurrahim Buza, from the socialist-era Tirana Art Gallery collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/895ef138-dd52-464b-9e0c-cdcbd58f8e94) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1968_-_Colnect_347628_-_Refugees_1957_by_Abdurrahim_Buza.jpeg
### 1958
- **1958-12-01**, Opera "Mrika" - Prenk Jakova. Mrika, the first Albanian opera, composed by Prenk Jakova, premiered 1 December 1958 at the Migjeni Theatre in Shkodër, later performed for Enver Hoxha at the Academy of Music and Arts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ff0c8157-122b-43d4-943a-16245177686b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpGtrwVeAYw
### 1961
- **1961**, Hoxha addresses the Fourth Party Congress. Enver Hoxha speaking to the Fourth Congress of the Party of Labour in 1961, the meeting held as relations with Khrushchev's Soviet Union collapsed. English subtitles carry the address. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/841ca117-0792-45b3-a5dd-f107b5f40a47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpShYQgNNgA
- **1961**, 1961 Albania stamp of Migjeni. A 1961 Albanian postage stamp honouring the poet Migjeni. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9400bf47-3745-4f04-ad15-0612e13a0149) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Migjeni_1961_Albania_stamp.jpg
### 1962
- **1962**, Man from Gjirokastër, 1962 postage stamp. A 1962 Albanian postage stamp depicting male regional costume from Gjirokastër, an earlier entry in the state's philatelic folk-costume series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/36caebfb-1d40-4e5e-801b-01a518c1737d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1962_-_Colnect_341600_-_Man_from_Gjirokast%C3%ABr.jpeg
- **1962-12-26**, Vaçe Zela - Fëmija i parë. The first winning song of Festivali i Këngës and the breakout hit of the defining voice of Albanian song, Vaçe Zela; about a mother's joy at her first child. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/65800ce1-9fc6-4da5-8b09-888650082e5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_2k7NaMhPI
### 1963
- **1963**, Vaçe Zela - Djaloshi dhe shiu (Festivali i 2-të i Këngës, RTSH 1963). Zela's follow-up festival performance the year after her historic debut win, cementing her as the festival's dominant early voice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ea247e43-5297-49ae-a00c-426473cb9ba9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQRrrmKIcf4
### 1964
- **1964**, 1964 Albania stamp of Jeronim de Rada. A 1964 Albanian stamp honouring Arbëresh writer Jeronim de Rada. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9a34123c-8b55-4882-abad-4f3085979947) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1964_-_Colnect_197188_-_Girolamo_de_Rada_1814-1903_Albanian_writer.jpeg
### 1966
- **1966**, Nexhmije Pagarusha - Baresha (origjinal, 1966). Essential Kosovo-Albanian standard; Pagarusha, called the Nightingale of Kosova, made this shepherdess song one of the most recognized Albanian melodies of the 20th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/47e53d6d-f7f7-42f9-9e30-c6691989c51c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49wr0Ke7ZYo
- **1966-12-28**, Vaçe Zela - Nënave shqiptare (Festivali i 5-të i Këngës, RTSH). A tribute song 'To Albanian Mothers,' one of Zela's several festival-era standards beyond her famous 1962 debut win. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c1d2aeba-60cc-4f10-93e2-8a5a2a8eb04e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yj8ZUjJZEs
### 1967
- **1967**, A destroyed church during the 1967 anti-religious campaign. The wreckage of a demolished Orthodox church, photographed around 1967 when the Hoxha government declared Albania the world's first officially atheist state and closed or destroyed religious buildings nationwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7c27dc31-b5ba-4c68-b97a-7b3ab0243268) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_destroyed_church_in_communist_Albania,_circa_1967.jpg
- **1967**, A destroyed church, 1967 campaign (second view). A second view of a church wrecked during the 1967 anti-religious campaign, part of a set documenting the roughly 2,169 religious buildings closed, repurposed, or destroyed under the atheist-state policy (figure as commonly cited by church and government records). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/38f13cc3-45b9-4eef-9cab-85724f220047) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_destroyed_church_in_communist_Albania,_circa_1967_(2).jpg
- **1967**, A destroyed church, 1967 campaign (third view). A third view from the same series of church demolitions during Albania's atheist-state campaign, which by 1990 had left the country with no legally functioning place of worship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ea8c0241-2f13-41cb-92b1-b2ef109f521f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_destroyed_church_in_communist_Albania,_circa_1967_(3).jpg
- **1967**, Stamp: dancer and drummer, Kukës (1967). Communist-era Albanian postage stamp depicting a traditional dancer and drummer from Kukës, issued 1967, illustrating folk-costume percussion performance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/76e7fb6a-d85c-44da-a9cb-e0ff91af0ae9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1967_-_Colnect_266343_-_Dancer_and_Drummer_Kuk%C3%ABs.jpeg
- **1967**, Justina Aliaj - Jehonë Kënga Rinore (Festivali i 6-të i Këngës, RTSH). Justina Aliaj's debut festival song, marking the start of a long career as a leading voice of the communist-era Festivali i Këngës. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ed43393c-c35c-41f5-bead-c5445a8cd2b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBjcti_p08A
- **1967**, Costumes of Labëria, 1967 postage stamp. A 1967 Albanian postage stamp depicting the regional costume of Labëria, part of a communist-era state series illustrating national folk dress by region. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c78fbdb3-06e2-42de-ab18-5898173a4b4a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1967_-_Colnect_325328_-_Costumes_of_Lab%C3%ABria.jpeg
- **1967**, Costumes of Malësia e Madhe, 1967 postage stamp. A 1967 Albanian postage stamp depicting the regional costume of Malësia e Madhe, part of the same communist-era regional-costume series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2aab924b-d438-413b-b560-feea3e2c4bce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1967_-_Colnect_325321_-_Costumes_of_Malesia_e_Madhe.jpeg
### 1968
- **1968**, Skanderbeg Monument, Tirana (Odhise Paskali, 1968). The Skanderbeg equestrian monument in Tirana's central square, sculpted by Odhise Paskali and unveiled in 1968, Albania's flagship work of national monumental sculpture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fbc33c43-01a7-495a-ad8b-fd7e9f44a3c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumento_a_Skanderbeg,_Tirana,_Albania,_2014-04-17,_DD_03.JPG
- **1968**, Odhise Paskali - bust of Skanderbeg, Piana degli Albanesi. Bust of Skanderbeg by Odhise Paskali, gifted by the Albanian government to the Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian) municipality of Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, in 1968. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1cbe7f0a-d839-49c9-aa9f-f45d39ca1f25) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odhise_Paskali_-_Scanderbeg,_Piana_degli_Albanesi.jpg
### 1970
- **1970**, Army exercises in communist Albania. Troops on exercise in the 1970s. After the split with China at the end of the decade Albania faced the prospect of defending itself with no ally at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/78b673a4-396a-4818-a923-fb3695069916) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_exercises_of_the_troops_of_communist_Albania,_circa_1970s.jpg
- **1970**, Surface-to-air missile crew in training. An Albanian missile crew training in the 1970s. Air defence mattered to a state that expected invasion from every direction at once. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/50aa9798-7110-4b80-8192-0752887f9d22) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_training_of_a_SAM_crew_from_communist_Albania,_circa_1970s.jpg
- **1970**, MiG fighters of the Albanian air force. Soviet-built MiG fighters of the Albanian air force in the 1970s, kept flying long after Moscow had cut off spare parts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/af42bec5-80b1-4b25-8816-83729887f729) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MIG_planes_of_communist_Albanian_Air_Force,_1970s.jpg
- **1970**, Vaçe Zela - Mesnatë (Festivali i 9-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1970). A festival co-winning song from 1970, one of several first-place finishes across Vaçe Zela's record-setting festival career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/002e674a-5f4f-4b6b-bcde-f42bdccfcfb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVssPEXm10
### 1971
- **1971**, 1971 Albania stamp: Halili and Hajria ballet. A 1971 Albanian postage stamp depicting the state ballet Halili and Hajria, performed at Tirana's Palace of Culture theatre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6eb03086-b6b0-4b32-82a9-9e76528d8405) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1971_-_Colnect_325929_-_Halili_and_Hajria_-_Ballet.jpeg
- **1971**, Mother Albania statue, Tirana Martyrs' Cemetery. Mother Albania (Nënë Shqipëria), the monumental 1971 socialist-realist statue overlooking Tirana from the National Martyrs' Cemetery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/97175896-11b6-4ab4-bca6-1f7ef588d5c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana_%E2%80%93_Mother_Albania_1.jpg
- **1971**, Mother Albania statue, alternate view. Mother Albania statue, National Martyrs' Cemetery, Tirana, 1971, full-length view showing the figure holding a star and laurel branch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0a304303-9f38-4a92-b226-57d686fca84a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana_%E2%80%93_Mother_Albania_2.jpg
- **1971**, Mother Albania statue under construction, 1971. Archival-style photograph showing the Mother Albania statue partially completed during its original construction period, c. 1971. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a9534df5-6089-404a-b9cc-dc98ebe86b48) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partially-completed_statue_(5057086596).jpg
### 1973
- **1973**, The beach at the Hotel Adriatiku, Durrës. Sand, sea and the Hotel Adriatiku on the Durrës shore in the 1970s. The state travel agency Albturist funnelled the few permitted foreign visitors into a handful of coastal hotels like this one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bd7f7961-a670-415b-ade4-55264cbde5d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Adriatiku_in_Durres_(Albania).jpg
### 1974
- **1974**, Këngët e Shekullit - Alida Hisku, 'Këngët e rinisë'. Alida Hisku was a leading female voice of 1970s Festivali i Këngës, later emigrating to Germany in 1990; this archival compilation preserves her youth-era repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/27bbd30b-82ba-4447-bb17-a42b1f655889) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNhi16he6Tg
### 1975
- **1975**, Luan Zhegu - A do vish. Luan Zhegu, born 1949, was a leading composer-performer of the Festivali i Këngës tradition beginning in the mid-1970s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d529e600-74c9-4a97-9e34-dc0bf6acb8c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLHZNg21_pw
### 1976
- **1976**, Përballimi, a Kinostudio feature of 1976. A full-length drama produced in 1976 by Kinostudio 'Shqipëria e Re', the single state film studio in Tirana. Domestic cinema of these years was made entirely inside that institution and under Party supervision. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d2c7e610-d274-4ed1-9609-49b0d1bedb62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1Ghi2iaXk
- **1976**, Thirrja, a Kinostudio drama of 1976. A 1976 feature directed by Fehmi Hoshafi for Kinostudio 'Shqipëria e Re'. Prints of these films survive largely because the state archive and private uploaders have kept them in circulation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dfbcfeed-afaf-4f5a-b574-badb4a38e3c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrD_i-adilA
- **1976**, Abdurrahim Buza - Azem Galica and Combatants, 1976 (stamp reproduction). Azem Galica and Combatants, 1976 painting by Abdurrahim Buza, Socialist Realist historical subject. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5835fe4f-d0b2-4b38-b0d1-3b241edc4f0f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1981_-_Colnect_361919_-_Azem_Galica_and_combatants_1976_by_Abdurrahim_Buza.jpeg
### 1977
- **1977-03-27**, An Albanian minister lands in Athens. Commerce minister Nadim Hoxha arrives in Athens in March 1977 for trade and scientific talks with Greek officials. Contact of this kind was unusual for a state that had shut itself off from most of Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6e355165-3cfd-4d8f-8500-17593272b60d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz3oJ1FZ4kI
- **1977**, Streha e re, a drama of 1977. A Kinostudio drama released in 1977, the year Albania's break with China was hardening into total isolation. Its subject, like most of the studio's work, is ordinary life read through the Party's frame. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/277f64c4-1df3-4d1e-ac78-c8693e28d733) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZPWlZ2t38
### 1978
- **1978**, A German group at the theatre of Butrint. West German visitors sit in the ancient theatre at Butrint in September 1978. Group tours under close escort were almost the only way outsiders saw Albania in the years of self-imposed isolation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6696d744-a732-4df5-8e4f-89516be43829) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanien_1978_28.jpg
- **1978**, "Broken April" by Ismail Kadare (Albania, 1982). A video discussing Ismail Kadare's novel Broken April; verify on watch whether this is a reading, review, or adaptation before publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1b905e16-9d36-48b2-8d48-b91550b082a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eohcNav4TQo
- **1978-12-26**, Gaqo Çako - Këputa një gjethe dafine (Festivali i 17-të i Këngës, RTSH). A beloved festival-winning ballad from the late 1970s, one of the most fondly remembered songs across all editions of Festivali i Këngës. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c2677cb9-53f1-422e-8386-8772a7be7872) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6EByyPlkrg
### 1980
- **1980**, Military parade of the People's Army. A parade of the Albanian People's Army in the 1980s. Enver Hoxha's Albania kept one of the most militarised societies in Europe, with universal service and a civil-defence system built around the bunkers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/46602e46-4e4a-4c1d-9eef-bfc69ea0e035) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_People's_Army_military_parade.jpg
- **1980**, Albanian women in uniform. Women in military uniform during the communist period. The regime made a doctrine of women's participation in the army and in production, while political life stayed firmly closed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3476b8b3-3a57-47ef-9fea-11e4bddeb075) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_women_in_the_military_uniform_walking,_communist_era.jpg
- **1980**, Vaçe Zela - Shoqet tona ilegale (Festivali i 19-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1980). A festival-winning song from 1980, from an edition notably marked by alleged government intervention in the jury's choice of winner over Alida Hisku's 'Njerëzit e agimeve'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2a6aa09b-7546-4d22-9135-1d454dffc135) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ykQlinpbM
- **1980**, Title page of Kadare's Broken April (Prilli i thyer), Rilindja edition, 1980. The title page of a 1980 Kosovo-Albanian (Rilindja, Pristina) edition of Ismail Kadare's novel Broken April, in the original Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/964bf080-2a42-4d6f-a2c1-c4d4bac2b423) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prilli_i_thyer_1980.jpg
- **1980**, Museum of Martyrs mosaic, Durrës - "Glory to the Martyrs". "Lavdi Dëshmorëve" (Glory to the Martyrs), a socialist-realist mosaic at the Museum of Martyrs of the Nation, Durrës. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2c688055-44f6-45f7-87c0-4531f6327990) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavdi_deshmoreve.jpg
- **1980-12**, "Rrjedh në këngë e ligjërime" - Feim Ibrahimi, Gjok Beci, Vaçe Zela. Vaçe Zela performing 'Rrjedh në këngë e ligjërime', composed by Feim Ibrahimi, her second-prize entry at the 19th Festivali i Këngës, December 1980, a signature piece of communist-era Albanian state song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/45d7238e-3680-4ed8-8076-4cb78e3558e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUkPqCg7k0
### 1981
- **1981**, Shoku ynë Tili, an adventure of 1981. A 1981 Kinostudio feature aimed at a young audience. The studio's output ran to about a dozen films a year, all of them passed by the state before release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/283d5b3f-159c-4826-b448-85ec004d967c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz1if_OgMF8
- **1981**, Socialist Mosaic on National Historical Museum facade, "The Albanians", 1981. The Albanians, the large socialist-realist mosaic covering the facade of the National Historical Museum in Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, completed 1981. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7fbb0dde-b8c0-4646-849a-40d98cff480e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Museum_of_History_mural_mosaic_The_Albanians.jpg
- **1981**, "The Albanians" mosaic, detail of communist-era iconography. Detail of the socialist-realist mosaic 'The Albanians' above the entrance of the National Historical Museum, Tirana, 1981. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/35b8c832-919b-4339-a387-754de59e2205) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Communist-Era_Mosaic_above_Entrance_-_National_Historical_Museum_-_Tirana_-_Albania_(27929167437).jpg
- **1981**, "The Albanians" mosaic - full facade view. Full facade view of 'The Albanians' mosaic on the National Historical Museum, Tirana, completed 1981, depicting Albanian history from Illyrian antiquity to socialism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3be6561d-d63b-4c97-b6bd-694f00890044) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaico_del_National_Historical_Museum_(Albania).jpg
- **1981**, Original preparatory design of the National Historical Museum mosaic. The original preparatory design (maquette) for the National Historical Museum's 'The Albanians' mosaic, exhibited inside the museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d06e4e25-be8c-43cb-a999-61a11e5914e6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Original_of_the_Mosaic_of_the_National_Historical_Museum_of_Albania.jpg
### 1982
- **1982**, The Death of Skanderbeg by Niko Progri. Niko Progri painted Skanderbeg's last hours in 1982 for the Skanderbeg Museum inside the citadel of Kruje. The canvas shows the socialist-era state still building its legitimacy on the fifteenth-century resistance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/34a40f63-fbd8-496b-8c1f-17cf39d0d1b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SkanderbegKrujaCastle.jpg
- **1982-06-23**, Mother Teresa speaking at Walsh University. Mother Teresa addressing an audience during a 1982 visit to Walsh University in Ohio. Her fame made the Albanian name familiar in places that knew nothing else of the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0018a361-e6fb-4f0d-a456-4c95c2545b80) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_Teresa_Speaks_to_Walsh_University.jpg
- **1982-10-03**, Norwegian television inside closed Albania. NRK's report 'Albania is still going its own way', shown on 3 October 1982. It is a rare outside look at daily life and official display in a country that admitted almost no Western press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/34821adf-168c-49d9-bd07-d95997da0867) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPmHOfrGK0c
### 1983
- **1983**, Stamp: folk music group with çifteli, flute, tambourine (1983). Communist-era Albanian postage stamp depicting a folk music ensemble with çifteli, flute and tambourine, issued 1983. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/33b23756-fa22-4dd4-8817-79961f30023e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1983_-_Colnect_361982_-_Folk_Music_Group_with_%C3%87ifteli_Flute_Tambourine.jpeg
- **1983**, Hoxha takes the May Day salute in Tirana. Enver Hoxha reviews the annual workers' parade in Tirana, filmed around 1983. May Day was one of the regime's fixed set pieces of mass display. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/eea523bc-8de7-45b9-9b19-9dc8e26e8909) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BdwyUzHQkg
- **1983**, Hoxha turns on the oil ministry. At a 1983 plenum Enver Hoxha confronts oil industry officials over missed production targets and money unaccounted for. The exchange shows economic shortfall being handled as political guilt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2e1a9052-1caa-49e4-ac9b-607300d33f03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct4vpvKRqSM
### 1984
- **1984**, Nxënësit e klasës sime, school drama of 1984. A 1984 Kinostudio feature built around a classroom and its pupils. Films aimed at the young were a standard vehicle for the values the state wanted taught. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/52a00205-ee81-492b-bcd0-4797fa69c5c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDqK7xh_NDs
- **1984**, Forty years of socialism, filmed by the state. A documentary made by Albanian television in 1984 for the fortieth anniversary of the socialist state, showing construction projects, the Party and Enver Hoxha's leadership entirely in the regime's own terms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a183e776-2cfe-4363-9292-9d8d1e788b38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBR8aJPkU4
- **1984**, Sabri Fejzullahu - Të fala nga Prishtina. 'Greetings from Prishtina' is one of Sabri Fejzullahu's best-known songs, a Kosovo popullore standard from the 1984 Akordet e Kosovës festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/297da3e3-8c9f-4e95-9656-d51519487d9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swFtXAlgRBk
- **1984**, Gjurmët - Hero i qytetit pa lum (lyric video). Gjurmët, formed in Prishtina in 1980 by Migjen Kelmendi, were the first Kosovo-Albanian new wave/post-punk band; this is one of their most enduring songs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0ef16a1d-15ec-4ae2-b010-417c02f7b720) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4cNCeP7B8
- **1984**, Gjurmët - Hero i qytetit pa lum. Second embeddable source for Gjurmët's signature 1984 new-wave song, in case one upload is later removed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0bd38632-a49a-4a1e-a598-fa2aedba2a8e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uOweA7-BY
### 1985
- **1985**, Radio Tirana pin badge, 1980s. An enamel pin badge given out by the state broadcaster Radio Tirana to foreign shortwave listeners in the 1980s, evidence of Albania's communist-era international radio propaganda broadcasts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6de54990-ead4-4607-b15e-069089454c8d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_Tirana_1980s_pin.jpg
- **1985**, Hije që mbeten pas, a drama of 1985. A Kinostudio drama from 1985, directed by Esat Musliu from a script co-written with Diana Çuli. It comes from the last years in which the studio was the country's only source of feature film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d801b33e-0acc-4aea-846f-f8ab2b1a9a81) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klmV1xrSXvE
- **1985**, State funeral of Enver Hoxha. The state funeral of Enver Hoxha in 1985. He had led Albania since 1944, breaking with Yugoslavia, then the Soviet Union, then China, and leaving the country almost entirely isolated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/47fd9f22-de7e-474e-b7f9-136348c3dec9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_funeral_of_Enver_Hoxha,_1985.jpg
- **1985**, The last winter of Enver Hoxha. Previously unseen footage from the winter and spring of 1985 showing Enver Hoxha in his final months, including New Year with his family. He died that April after four decades in power. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/46c84ba8-6d1b-4829-9b96-44760f56616a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-AbMOkbyF0
- **1985**, Parashqevi Simaku - E duam lumturinë. Simaku's six-million-view signature song 'We Want Happiness,' one of the most beloved Albanian-American diaspora hits of the 1980s Festivali era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/51d05338-869c-4ea1-a168-7fad8e258bf2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSgCqO6HLs
- **1985**, Parashqevi Simaku - Në moshën e rinisë (Festivali i 24-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1985). Simaku's other major festival-winning song from her breakout year, 'In the Age of Youth,' alongside her celebrated 'E duam lumturinë'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a2c1f31d-754e-4636-856e-d8d7d11e85b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPZ07feLAkQ
- **1985-06-20**, Mother Teresa with the Reagans before the Medal of Freedom ceremony. Mother Teresa in the Oval Office on 20 June 1985, shortly before she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize six years earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/18b83103-b6a0-49ce-8345-6a8291e3f08b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Ronald_Reagan_and_Nancy_Reagan_with_Mother_Teresa_in_The_Oval_Office_Before_The_Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_in_The_Rose_Garden_-_DPLA_-_b733121892851e6f961cd3611df46db1.jpg
### 1986
- **1986-02**, Feim Ibrahimi at Gjirokastër, 1986. Portrait of Feim Ibrahimi, one of Albania's leading communist-era classical composers, photographed at Gjirokastër in 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ed481c7b-0a64-4c6f-ab42-bb70f3cf03f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feim_Ibrahimi_-_Gjirokaster_1986.jpg
- **1986**, Kur Hapen Dyert e Jetes, a feature of 1986. A complete Albanian drama from 1986, made under the state studio system. It is one of the late Kinostudio features that have started circulating again after decades out of sight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/380cf17c-c5c3-40af-b3c2-7075870138f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCloCVL1C8
### 1988
- **1988**, 1988 postage stamp: wedding ceremony of Gjirokastër. A 1988 Albanian postage stamp depicting a traditional wedding ceremony from the Gjirokastër region, part of a state-issued series illustrating regional folk costume and custom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d136ab76-c994-40a9-a298-0816c5152bc8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_1988_-_Colnect_366196_-_Wedding_Ceremony_in_the_Gjirokast%C3%ABr.jpeg
- **1988**, Shkëlqim i përkohshëm, a drama of 1988. A Kinostudio drama of 1988, directed by Albert Xholi from a script by Vangjush Saro. It belongs to the studio's final years, two years before the system that funded it fell. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/65fb77e7-885a-46fc-8060-7815f774cb8b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yagFrHyzjJE
- **1988-10-01**, Folk singers at Gjirokastër, October 1988. Folk singers performing traditional dress in Gjirokastër in October 1988, part of the socialist-era National Folklore Festival that has been staged at the town's castle roughly every five years since 1968. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/85b628f2-46b5-436c-acce-5e4724d957be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjirokast%C3%ABr_folk_singers_1988.jpg
- **1988-10-01**, Gjirokastër folk singers 1988. Folk singers photographed at Gjirokastër, the town whose national folklore festival is the centre of Albanian iso-polyphony. Likely festival participants given the location and date. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c7be0492-9e19-4480-8c01-ea253faa78f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjirokast%C3%ABr_folk_singers_1988.jpg
### 1989
- **1989**, Pesha e Kohes, a feature of 1989. A complete Albanian drama made in 1989, in the last years of the state studio Kinostudio Shqiperia e Re. It survives as a record of how late socialist-era cinema was written, shot and acted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b579d7f7-9d54-4f8f-bf61-385d061f1326) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bQSyH2ViVQ
- **1989**, Frederik Ndoci, Manjola Nallbani & Juli Ndoci - Toka e diellit (Festivali i 28-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1989). 'Land of the Sun,' a festival-winning trio performance uniting Frederik Ndoci, Manjola Nallbani and Juli Ndoci, three major voices of the late-communist Festivali era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/450486ab-313e-4f76-87bc-7aa4048caa8a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZNqcUR5asc
- **1989**, 1989 Albania stamp of Pjetër Bogdani. A 1989 Albanian postage stamp commemorating Pjetër Bogdani, author of Cuneus Prophetarum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9deb5f46-8ed3-4033-b8f0-7993ebd27605) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pjet%C3%ABr_Bogdani_1989_Albania_stamp.jpg
### 1990
- **1990**, Eighty minutes in Albania, 1990. An eighty-three-minute amateur record of Albania in 1990, the last full year of communist rule. The uploader lists northern Gheg districts - Shkodra, Malesia, Dukagjini, Mirdita - but leaves the footage without commentary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/de6f212b-86b9-4fb0-9f0f-5c5db4bf0929) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25dJnShunI
- **1990**, A BBC crew reports from Albania. British television reporting from inside Albania in 1990, the year the last Stalinist state in Europe started to come apart. Foreign crews had been admitted only rarely in the four decades before. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6188b4e8-83aa-4f57-ae85-d7fee79fa6e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYBju5BeAQ4
- **1990**, Anita Bitri - First Love (Dashuria e Parë), Albania 1990. Anita Bitri's breakthrough hit that made her a household name in Albania before her 1996 emigration to the US; she died in 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7626d4e5-2b19-4cb5-bfe5-9b5124e16a08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWNIHUfgWHY
- **1990**, Digitally enhanced portrait of Ismail Kadare, circa 1990s. A portrait of Ismail Kadare from the 1990s, held by the Albanian State Archive, the decade he left for exile in Paris. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3ffee7d3-ed0d-4b70-9a1e-0ca8b370147a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ismail_Kadare_(portret).jpg
### 1991
- **1991**, Albanian soldier with an AK-47, 1991. An Albanian soldier holding an AK-47 around 1991, the year one-party rule ended. Within months army depots across the country would be looted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9ac987f0-c966-4055-bda2-83b955e60a83) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roskens_-_Trip_to_Albania_FY_91_170323-O-AA001-004.jpg
- **1991**, Amateur footage from Albania, 1991. Home-video material filmed in Albania in 1991, the year the one-party state gave way. The uploader supplies no detail beyond the place and the year, and the footage is filed on that basis alone. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/54b0cdc8-561e-4172-bc3a-b3bb8e769ee5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hYzwejzOzI
- **1991**, Mother Teresa at Dhaka airport. Mother Teresa greeted on arrival in Dhaka in April 1991. By then the order she founded in Calcutta in 1950 was working in more than a hundred countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f9c93b3c-ccc6-4e2e-af8c-5b678e6b43e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mohammad_Mosaddak_Ali_met_with_Mother_Teresa_at_Zia_International_Airport_in_Dhaka.jpg
- **1991**, Ardit Gjebrea - Jon (audio origjinale, 1991). One of the most beloved Albanian songs of the post-communist transition era, depicting scenes of Albanian emigration; a signature hit for Ardit Gjebrea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/32320382-f240-4082-b926-256ca39165cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Li1BP91QrQ
- **1991-08-08**, The Vlora docks at Bari. The cargo ship Vlora reaches the Italian port of Bari on 8 August 1991 with some twenty thousand Albanians aboard, having been boarded en masse at Durrës. It was the single largest arrival of the post-communist exodus. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6e4f78cb-3aa2-4890-a9b8-e5b4f3d516a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9gsfK0pgC8
- **1991-08-08**, The Vlora reaches Bari. On 8 August 1991 the freighter Vlora docked at Bari with roughly twenty thousand Albanians aboard, taken on at Durres. The pictures of the overloaded ship became the defining image of the Albanian exodus in Italy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ca299a75-925d-44b9-a272-57384c9f8e55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJp0CXsroCQ
### 1992
- **1992**, Manjola Nallbani, Aleksandër Gjoka & Viktor Tahiraj - Pesha e fatit (Festivali i 31-të i Këngës, RTSH). A festival-winning trio performance with an emigration/freedom theme reflecting Albania's post-communist transition; unites three major festival voices, Nallbani, Gjoka and Tahiraj. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/049a561e-95a2-4e8e-bcc5-4d703502d455) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRqMI-2bNU
### 1994
- **1994**, Lamerica (1994), original Italian trailer. The original trailer for Lamerica (1994), Gianni Amelio's Italian drama set in post-communist Albania, winner of the Golden Osella at Venice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/34e2472d-3dc9-49d0-8f71-da80066e43a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0yENcpc2Y
- **1994**, Lamerica (1994), film clip. A scene from Lamerica (1994), Gianni Amelio's Italian film set in Albania in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ddae4f25-f4f4-4ba5-93a4-7f988d78d8be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdytVm9QFwU
### 1995
- **1995**, Tirana railway station in 1995. The station in 1995, in the years when the trains were free-for-all and the rails themselves were being stripped for scrap. The collapse of the railway is one of the plainest measures of what the 1990s did to Albanian infrastructure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/080898da-58c9-4b41-8a04-08f5dec6aff5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana_station_1995.jpg
- **1995**, Luan Zhegu & Ledina Çelo - E doni dashurinë (Festivali i 34-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1995). One of the most legendary performances in Festivali i Këngës history, a duet between veteran Luan Zhegu and rising star Ledina Çelo, remembered for its record-length applause. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/55215794-ff09-4165-8c3f-9fced7a9aa06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWWs3BHhfeg
### 1996
- **1996**, Adelina Ismajli - Unë c'ti (dance pop, Kosovo 1996). Early Kosovo dance-pop single by Adelina Ismajli, one of Kosovo's most popular female pop stars since the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/61c25c0f-aa97-4858-a4c0-23438a9e000a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Wo4zz2fnM
- **1996**, Elsa Lila - Pyes lotin (Festivali i 35-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1996). Elsa Lila's festival-winning breakout song, later covered in a controversial hip-hop version with Capital T; a defining 1990s Albanian pop standard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9d3182fe-7565-4838-a829-cf05f6ff9d15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrjy2HryYXU
### 1997
- **1997-02-05**, Savers besiege the banks in Tirana. Thousands of Albanians ruined by the pyramid schemes crowd banks in Tirana for partial refunds in February 1997. The losses consumed much of the country's savings and pushed Albania towards armed revolt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b2607613-8ca9-4db7-899d-3c05bb9ba3be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFFZuAB-WtQ
- **1997-02-14**, Crowds break police lines in Fier. On 14 February 1997 several thousand demonstrators forced their way past police in the southern town of Fier and marched on the government offices. It was one of the first mass confrontations after the pyramid schemes began to fail. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/964a08fa-a4eb-49b8-a21b-fd9dc99702ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gk3jYVevjA
- **1997-02-20**, VEFA offers to repay its smallest savers. On 20 February 1997 VEFA Holding, one of Albania's largest companies, said it would return money to depositors who had put in less than five thousand dollars. Crowds gathered at its offices as the collapse widened. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4773c33e-ab39-4c07-9b6a-a443087be11f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuomN5wtNE
- **1997-02-26**, Parents and children demand their savings. Families ruined by the fraudulent investment schemes took to the streets on 26 February 1997 to demand the resignation of Sali Berisha's government. Children marched alongside their parents as the protests spread from town to town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fe3260e6-8334-4e8d-8be4-248f5677a0ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dz4FzIABqg
- **1997**, A flotilla leaves for Italy, 1997. About 1,300 Albanians put to sea for southern Italy in overloaded boats during the 1997 collapse, one wave of an exodus that kept growing that spring. The south of the country was by then outside government control. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5bbd87fb-1d21-4143-a78c-07f91c4c8e61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhZg3-kOwE
### 1998
- **1998**, Albërie Hadërgjonaj - Mirësia dhe e vërteta (Festivali i 37-të i Këngës, RTSH, 1998). A festival-winning song by Kosovo-Albanian singer Albërie Hadërgjonaj, notable as a Kosovar voice winning Albania's national song festival in the late 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a5f800a9-cdfa-428f-b540-19205708872a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1km2NncYixE
### 1999
- **1999-05-20**, Albanian tanks near the Kosovo border. Albanian army tanks deploy near the Kosovo border on 20 May 1999, after cross-border shelling by Yugoslav forces. The war next door pulled the Albanian state into a crisis it had barely the means to manage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b773091c-b894-4c3d-a07e-385d6a232cb0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_army_deploys_T-59_tanks_near_Kosovo_border,_May_1999_(Robert_Wright).jpg
- **1999**, Kofi Annan at Kukës during the Kosovo crisis. The United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan visits Kukës in 1999. The small border town took in hundreds of thousands of people expelled from Kosovo that spring, several times its own population. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7b1a0fba-2010-482d-b2cf-fb59c7fe65cd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kofi_Anann_ne_kukes_gjate_Krizes_Kosoves_1999.JPG
- **1999**, Refugee camp on the old mine workings at Kukës. Tents laid out on the ground of a disused mine near Kukës in the summer of 1999. Albania, then the poorest country in Europe, took in around half a million Kosovar refugees in a matter of weeks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/469a1f9f-97ae-40ed-8c9b-56db5f4ef222) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kukes_Refugee_Camp.jpg
- **1999**, A Super Puma flying for the refugee agency at Kukës. A Swiss air force Super Puma in service with the United Nations refugee agency stands at Kukës in the summer of 1999. Air bridges carried supplies into a region with almost no usable roads. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bc61c56f-cf00-4888-a5bb-c580a761c2c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SuperPuma_Kukes.jpg
- **1999**, Diesel locomotives at Pogradec. Locomotives of the Albanian railway standing at Pogradec in 1999. The network, built largely by volunteer youth brigades after 1947, decayed quickly once the state that ran it collapsed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b6dfd4e3-9bf3-4e6c-ab3e-afade7e22651) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1999-Kienzle-Dia_(417).jpg
- **1999**, Stripped locomotives near Pogradec. Vandalised and abandoned engines of the Albanian railway near Pogradec in 1999. In the disorder of the decade after 1990, and especially after the 1997 collapse, state property was stripped for scrap across the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3a6aad21-8594-4507-b101-161144aae088) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1999-Kienzle-Dia_(493).jpg
- **1999**, Ilir Shaqiri - Çlirimtari (qershor 1999, Prizren). A patriotic anthem by Ilir Shaqiri, a leading figure of Kosovo-Albanian patriotic music, filmed in Prizren in the immediate aftermath of the 1999 Kosovo War. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ca8f92ef-4f0a-48f6-8246-592f258d7f4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxIiH6W0Oqw
### 2001
- **2001**, Tirana Opera building, 2001. An earlier photograph of the Tirana Opera building on Skanderbeg Square, scanned from a conventional print taken in 2001. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/43453dae-b3c1-4dda-9aa2-ae25c4dd6028) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana-opera-2001.jpg
- **2001**, Lapidar at Bërzhitë. A concrete partisan monument at Bërzhitë near Tirana, photographed in 2001. Many lapidars were damaged or abandoned in the decade after 1990. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a5780395-3056-48be-a177-748b116f1f55) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2001-Kienzle-Dia_(194).jpg
- **2001-08-25**, Xhema Alibali, sworn virgin. An agency report from 25 August 2001 following Xhema Alibali, one of the burrnesha who took on a man's social role under the Kanun. She dances at a village wedding, smokes at home and sits in the men's cafe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6aeb6a76-46b7-485b-8713-4e951eca0569) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRSMQW0pn8
### 2002
- **2002**, Stamp: Kristaq Antoniu. Albanian postage stamp portrait of opera tenor Kristaq Antoniu, issued 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f107e01a-f31e-4127-9e69-7827353cb083) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kristaq_Antoniu_2002_stamp_of_Albania.jpg
- **2002**, Stamp: Tefta Tashko-Koço. Albanian postage stamp portrait of soprano Tefta Tashko-Koço, issued 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/327f7171-7bfb-4154-9b54-dc4ff03d7f8f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tefta_Tashko-Ko%C3%A7o_2002_stamp_of_Albania.jpg
- **2002**, Ismail Kadare doing a public reading, Zurich, 2002. Ismail Kadare giving a public reading from his work in Zurich in autumn 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/29a3b7f8-0b94-4226-8819-bc0a68f94cbb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ismail_Kadare.jpg
- **2002**, Berat male costume, 2002 postage stamp. A 2002 Albanian postage stamp depicting men's regional costume from Berat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/58fddf8a-78e2-4f62-a49c-9ec2680d6c90) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2002_-_Colnect_372155_-_Berat_male.jpeg
- **2002**, Berat female costume, 2002 postage stamp. The companion 2002 stamp depicting women's regional costume from Berat, paired with the male stamp above. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/40f0d764-e00a-43ca-b1b2-8b694ce2a4cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2002_-_Colnect_372156_-_Berat_female.jpeg
- **2002-11-05**, Ismail Kadare at a literary reading, Zurich, 5 November 2002. Ismail Kadare during a literary reading in Zurich, 5 November 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4f6dc60b-e30e-4e57-ba8b-dfab1b157bea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ismail_Kadare_v0.jpg
### 2003
- **2003**, Clearing illegal buildings by the Qemal Stafa stadium. Demolition of unlicensed buildings around the Qemal Stafa stadium in Tirana in 2003. The clearance of illegal construction was one of the defining battles of Tirana's first post-communist decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/88f76da4-5c58-4625-bf93-d9e215681d39) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2003-Kienzle-Dia_(14).jpg
- **2003**, Dita e Verës crowd, Skanderbeg Square, 2003. Crowds gathered in Tirana's Skanderbeg Square for Dita e Verës in 2003, part of a photographer's contemporaneous slide series of the annual Summer Day festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e9d88ad2-d015-4786-a52e-5189867c0682) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2003-Kienzle-Dia_(32).jpg
- **2003**, Dita e Verës crowd, Skanderbeg Square, 2003 (second view). A second 2003 photograph of the Dita e Verës crowds on Tirana's central boulevard, documenting the festival soon after Albania's post-communist recovery of public religious and folk life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1f54519c-95b6-46c8-8e37-56a2c6605ec7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2003-Kienzle-Dia_(55).jpg
- **2003**, Malësia e Tiranës female costume, 2003 postage stamp. A 2003 Albanian postage stamp depicting women's regional costume from Malësia e Tiranës, a post-communist continuation of the state costume-stamp tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b1bdd340-2cf3-4e21-87ac-c723ed739cc1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2003_-_Colnect_373257_-_Mal%C3%ABsia_e_Tiran%C3%ABs_female.jpeg
- **2003-11-23**, Ema Bytyçi - Ku je ti (Kënga Magjike, 2003). Ema Bytyçi's festival-winning song 'Where Are You,' a well-remembered 2000s Albanian pop ballad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/eeeb6631-591e-4d0a-8f02-bfa750cf75d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vf4QqPAJqw
### 2004
- **2004-05**, THE IMAGE OF YOU - Anjeza Shahini \| Albania \| Eurovision Song Contest 2004 \[HD Remaster\]. Albania's first-ever Eurovision Song Contest entry: Anjeza Shahini performing 'The Image of You', finishing 7th. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/638b913f-abc8-4ed2-8434-010236f20651) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduGRTYj5GA
- **2004-05-14**, Anjeza Shahini at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Final. Anjeza Shahini performing at Albania's debut Eurovision Song Contest appearance in Istanbul, 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4a730b10-feec-4c28-874d-711fa938c66a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anjeza_Shahini_-_Albania_2004_Final.jpg
- **2004**, Stamp: Marie Kraja. Albanian postage stamp portrait of soprano Marie Kraja, issued 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/03cc44a8-307d-4a7e-93e5-6d302b53dceb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Kraja_2004_stamp_of_Albania.jpg
- **2004**, Monument near Barmash, Kolonjë. A war monument on the upland road near Barmash in the Kolonjë district of southern Albania, photographed in 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/29376099-bfcf-4892-8ffd-b62c443f27d2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2004-Kienzle-Dia_(320).jpg
- **2004**, Ibrahim Kodra - 'Knights', Albanian postage stamp reproduction (2004). Albanian postage stamp (2004, 50th-anniversary-of-the-National-Gallery series) reproducing 'Knights', a painting by Ibrahim Kodra, the Milan-based Albanian modernist. Original painting's date not documented in this record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a6ee821f-ae91-478b-8e54-5403f7eced33) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2004_-_Colnect_373760_-_Knights_-_by_Ibrahim_Kodra.jpeg
### 2005
- **2005-05**, Ledina Çelo - Tomorrow I Go (Albania) Live - Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Ledina Çelo performing 'Tomorrow I Go' live for Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0f5bacba-1683-4662-93de-0a57dab277bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W-vu5G5PEE
- **2005**, Çiftelia, traditional Kosovo/Albanian instrument. An early Commons photograph of a çifteli, described as representing the traditional two-stringed Albanian/Kosovar instrument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e18b0013-8c05-4a7c-a0b9-5df1115fc53f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ciftelia.jpg
- **2005**, Modern bridal costume, 2005. A bridal costume made in 2005 in the traditional style, illustrating the continuing use of historic bridal patterns in present-day Albanian ceremony. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b04aa279-d42c-4e66-9f82-3eb372a3d1c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kostum_i_nuseve.jpg
- **2005-07-18**, Albanian special forces training with the US Navy. Albanian special forces fast-rope from an American helicopter during Exercise Adriatic Engagement off the Albanian coast on 18 July 2005. Joint training of this kind ran through the decade of Albania's push into NATO, which it joined in 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6f0d8ed5-ce9a-44e0-925d-0408af747025) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_050718-N-2651J-004_Albanian_Special_Forces_fast_rope_from_a_U.S._Navy_MH-60S_Seahawk_helicopter,_assigned_to_Helicopter_Sea_Combat_Two_Six_(HSC-26),_Detachment_Two.jpg
- **2005-11-13**, Genta Ismajli - Nuk dua tjetër (Kënga Magjike, 2005). Genta Ismajli's breakout hit and Kënga Magjike-winning song, a major 2000s Kosovo-Albanian pop crossover success. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/86f6d6bf-cc77-40d6-9beb-e075f220852d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4B6nw8ymTg
- **2005-12-18**, Luiz Ejlli - Zjarr e ftohtë (Festivali i 44-të i Këngës, RTSH, 2005). Luiz Ejlli's festival-winning ballad 'Cold Fire,' one of the defining Albanian pop hits of the mid-2000s before its English-language Eurovision run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ffe4441b-39eb-44d4-b9d3-11d37261aa39) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5Otbx3ahQ
### 2006
- **2006-03**, Fatos Kongoli reading in Zurich, 2006. Post-1990 Albanian novelist Fatos Kongoli at a public reading in Zurich, March 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/114f297c-71e2-4d99-8a39-3916b725f9ff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fatos_kongoli.jpg
- **2006**, A mayor repaints a capital. A Journeyman Pictures report filmed in Tirana in May 2006 on Edi Rama's colour campaign, the demolition of illegal building and the recovery of public space. It catches the city midway through its post-communist reinvention. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/22049de9-454f-41b8-aca9-a5cc7798bd1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn-_VR5lECo
- **2006**, Bag piper, Elbasan, Albania. A bagpipe (gajde) player photographed in Elbasan, central Albania, one of the few Albanian regions where the gajde bagpipe tradition survives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9d1297cf-bbb6-46df-a1ed-cab9d5e8f594) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bag_piper,_Elbasan,_Albania.jpg
- **2006**, Frederik Ndoci - Balada e gurit (Festivali i 45-të i Këngës, RTSH). Ndoci's festival-winning ballad, later Albania's Eurovision 2007 entry in English; Ndoci is one of the major voices bridging the communist-era Festivali tradition into the 2000s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/253e336d-1a61-4c5e-8b9b-9110786525bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74248c1nSB4
### 2007
- **2007-01-21**, Bridal dowry chest. A carved wooden chest of the kind used to carry a bride's dowry to her new household. The senduk held the textiles a girl and her family had spent years preparing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a369859c-ef70-49e8-99ee-b804573f6f7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Senduk_i_pajes_Nuses.JPG
- **2007**, Archaeologists at work at Butrint. Archaeologists working at Butrint in 2007. The site holds Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Venetian layers on a single headland, and has been excavated more or less continuously since the 1920s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b623110c-de63-4b95-9dda-a961fc121424) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Butrint_2_-_archeologists_at_work.jpg
- **2007**, Lahutar in Shala, northern Albania. An elderly lahuta player in the Shala highlands of northern Albania, the traditional setting for performance of the këngë kreshnike epic songs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/673f4125-9ce8-4d17-9856-3457fae976e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lahutar_in_Shala,_northern_Albania.jpg
- **2007**, Stamp: Çesk Zadeja, Albanian composer (1927-1997). Official Albanian postage stamp honouring composer Çesk Zadeja, issued in 2007. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/22c1ebb7-de1f-49db-95cc-21323bc2fb6c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2007_-_Colnect_374809_-_%C3%87esk_Zadeja_1927-1997_Albanian_composer.jpeg
- **2007-07-20**, Palace of Culture (Opera), Tirana, 2007. The Palace of Culture in Tirana, home of the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, photographed on Skanderbeg Square in 2007. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/de964834-c368-471a-9798-182aca863a47) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_of_Culture_(Opera),_Tirana,_Albania,_20070720_img_1466.jpg
- **2007-08-01**, Ismail Kadare and Masiela Lusha, press conference for Time of the Comet, 2007. Ismail Kadare at a 2007 press conference for the film Time of the Comet, alongside actress Masiela Lusha. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c03e64d6-874e-4db6-b368-b6ce892b3935) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ismail_Kadare_(cropped).jpg
### 2008
- **2008-02-09**, Voices in iso-polyphony. Albanian iso-polyphonic singing, the multi-part vocal form of the south in which a held drone carries the other voices. UNESCO inscribed it as intangible cultural heritage in 2005. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9465932c-16a1-454d-a4a7-70a2d43e7898) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriwgIlJDnQ
- **2008-04-08**, Damage at the Gërdec munitions site. Assessment specialists examine the blast field at Gërdec near Vora in April 2008, after a demilitarisation depot dismantling surplus ammunition exploded and killed twenty-six people. The disaster became a defining scandal of post-communist Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/55383d88-dd91-4b8e-9999-375f7e36d130) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VoraGerdecAlbaniaExplosions.jpg
- **2008-06-06**, The Dollma Tekke below Krujë castle. The eighteenth-century Dollma tekke beneath Krujë's castle, a Bektashi lodge kept in trust by the same family for generations and one of the few to survive the 1967 campaign against religion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4141892a-0727-49da-a274-92a2f44e8f6f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dollma_Tekke_in_Kruj%C3%AB_(5).jpg
- **2008-06-08**, Isë Elezi, lahutar from Rugova. Isë Elezi, a lahuta player (lahutar) from the Rugova region of Kosovo, playing the single-stringed lahuta used to accompany the Highland epic songs (këngë kreshnike). Kosovo-Albanian material, in scope as Albanian-language epic tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/de8d2b24-b225-404b-9bc2-0ca8d3c64760) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Is%C3%AB_Elezi,_lahutar_nga_Rugova.jpg
- **2008**, Basilica at Ballsh. The ruined basilica at Ballsh, on the site of the ancient city of Byllis in southern Albania, photographed in 2008. Byllis had one of the largest groups of early Christian churches in the Balkans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/621220a8-fd9c-482f-b0d3-2898f850ffec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bazilika_e_Ballshit.JPG
- **2008**, A traditional male folk group from Skrapar. A traditional male vocal group performing in Skrapar, south-east Albania, in traditional fustanella dress. Filed under Commons' 'Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity' category for Albanian iso-polyphony. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ef8971c8-5587-4fb4-a59c-e5c5d0a64203) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_traditional_male_folk_group_from_Skrapar.JPG
- **2008-12-27**, The lahute of Hysen Kurtaj. A performance on the lahute, the single-stringed fiddle that carries Gheg epic song, by Hysen Kurtaj of the Rugova folk ensemble. The clip was posted by a workshop that makes and sells the instrument. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8895a2eb-daf1-40a7-84c7-fca0a0d85480) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTuY7pTPkE
### 2009
- **2009**, Excavations beside the Skanderbeg mausoleum, Lezhe. An archaeological trench beside the Skanderbeg mausoleum in Lezhe, opened in 2009. Skanderbeg was buried in the church of St Nicholas here in 1468; Ottoman soldiers later scattered his remains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1f8df8a8-cd4b-4a40-ab1f-11fb2e3e17b2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excavations_next_to_Skanderbeg_Mausoleum.jpg
- **2009**, UNESCO stamp: Albanian iso-polyphony (pair). Official 2009 Albanian postage stamp pair commemorating UNESCO's recognition of Albanian iso-polyphony (Representative List, 2008). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cf8bfe27-2165-4cf7-a3d9-7f50485d7f0d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2009_-_Colnect_375204_-_UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_Albanian_iso_polyphony.jpeg
- **2009**, UNESCO stamp: Albanian iso-polyphony singers. 2009 Albanian postage stamp depicting iso-polyphony singers, part of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage commemorative series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5a3b557b-6c58-43af-a9d4-8771633cef9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2009_-_Colnect_182621_-_Singers.jpeg
- **2009**, UNESCO stamp: Albanian iso-polyphony musicians. 2009 Albanian postage stamp depicting traditional musicians, part of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage commemorative series for iso-polyphony. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e323a9cb-83fe-49cf-9b27-0463a20ec6b9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2009_-_Colnect_182622_-_Musicians.jpeg
- **2009-06-26**, Fanfara Tirana - Zot O Zot (\[dunkelbunt\] remix, official audio). Fanfara Tirana is Albania's best-known Balkan brass band, blending traditional saze/aheng repertoire with modern arrangement; this collaboration brought the band to international festival audiences. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dc6978e2-c287-4cfa-b34c-aab4389d6d91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by2RWAzHC3g
- **2009-07-28**, The Monastery of St John the Baptist, Voskopojë. The Monastery Church of St John the Baptist at Voskopojë, once one of the largest Orthodox towns in the southern Balkans, its churches central to eighteenth-century Albanian religious and artistic life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7a8b15a3-ce57-41ce-82c1-bd38a21114d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voskopoje_St_John_Baptist.JPG
- **2009-09-06**, Ethnographic museum, Kruje. The ethnographic museum in Kruje, housed in an Ottoman-era family house, photographed in 2009. Its rooms are laid out as a working household of the period, with looms, olive presses and a hearth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/672505ee-473e-41d2-8df8-e250740624eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeum_Etnograficzne_w_Kruji_2.jpg
- **2009-09-26**, UNESCO films Albanian iso-polyphony. The UNESCO film for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity sets out the two branches of Albanian polyphonic singing, the Gheg of the north and the Lab and Tosk styles of the south. The tradition was inscribed in 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9ada9b54-5a91-4390-b817-dd88ed83d99e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4V2cE-LmBU
### 2010
- **2010-03**, Qendra Botërore Bektashiane, March 2010. The Bektashi World Center compound in Tirana photographed in March 2010, eighty years after the order made the city its seat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1219968c-b010-481e-82e3-d545c6614519) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qendra_Bot%C3%ABrore_Bektashiane.jpg
- **2010-05-14**, Carved thrones in the Krujë museum. Carved seats displayed at the Skanderbeg museum in Krujë. Objects like these stand in for the court culture of the Albanian principalities of the fifteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/07186766-c7cd-4ccb-9b1d-68261dcd8778) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_thrones_(6933104522).jpg
- **2010-05-14**, Warrior figure in the Krujë museum. A costumed warrior figure in the Skanderbeg museum at Krujë, showing the mail, helmet and arms carried by Albanian fighters during the fifteenth-century wars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/94274fbe-b7a0-4c86-aef1-22d6b2a29ae3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_warrior_(7082917213).jpg
- **2010**, Kori Lira, Albanian choir. Performance photograph of Kori Lira, an Albanian choral ensemble. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c8d7b787-1042-43e8-9c02-35bedbdb0505) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kori_Lira1.jpg
- **2010**, Helidon Xhixha - "Light", stainless steel sculpture, 2010. "Light", a polished stainless-steel sculpture by Albanian-Italian artist Helidon Xhixha, 2010, in a private collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d4f7fd98-ed6a-48ed-b52f-9008b91e3458) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xhixha.jpg
- **2010-06-21**, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Albanian poet. Luljeta Lleshanaku, one of the most internationally translated Albanian poets of the post-1990 generation, photographed in June 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1b08e77e-78b0-4b0a-b919-c48a43f6fe3c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luljeta.JPG
- **2010-08-18**, The castle of Gjirokaster. The long fortress ridge above Gjirokaster, expanded under Ali Pasha of Tepelene in the early nineteenth century. The stone-roofed town below it grew up as an Ottoman trading and administrative centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/40cb2a13-b591-4ac4-a588-a7121c35cc1e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjirokaster,_castle_2.jpg
- **2010-09-09**, The Qemal Stafa stadium, Tirana. Albania's national stadium, opened in 1946 and named for a partisan killed by the Italians, stood in central Tirana until it was pulled down in 2016 for the Air Albania arena. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1d914e9b-67a9-44cc-b14c-97d5ecf84541) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadiumi.jpg
### 2011
- **2011-04-16**, Albanian railways locomotive at Tirana. A Hekurudha Shqiptare diesel locomotive waiting at the old Tirana terminus in 2011. The rolling stock was mostly second-hand European equipment donated after 1990. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/800a4b20-49ac-48f2-86d1-0d5e78fbf3b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1053_HSH_Tirana.JPG
- **2011-05-13**, The house of Ismail Qemali's provisional government, Vlorë. The building in Vlorë that served as the seat of the provisional government headed by Ismail Qemali after independence was declared on 28 November 1912. It is today the Independence Museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/df45a954-1a68-4def-b563-3c1b4cb9d91c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godina_Ku_Ka_Pasur_Seline_Qeveria_Provizore_E_Ismail_Qemalit_2.jpg
- **2011-05-21**, Gjekë Marinaj at the Gjakovë poetry festival. The poet Gjekë Marinaj answers questions at a poetry festival in Gjakovë in 2011. His 1990 poem about horses helped trigger the student movement, and he left Albania the following year for the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/75e9c74e-713c-477f-901b-ec0c9ee1fd89) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marinaj_2.jpg
- **2011**, Aurela Gaçe - Feel the Passion (Albania, Eurovision 2011 live semi-final). Aurela Gaçe, a three-time Festivali i Këngës winner active since 1982, representing Albania at Eurovision 2011; captures a major late-career high point of an artist otherwise underrepresented as a recording. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2a716e09-d754-4ecb-9f99-c1641165edce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0H6gY2jq4
- **2011**, Bujar Alimani interview. An interview with Bujar Alimani, director of Amnesty (2011), the first Albanian feature to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c5190ebf-1b86-4a11-82df-e749b470a463) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArtGeLq0vI
- **2011**, Shooting Stars 2011: Nik Xhelilaj, actor in The Albanian. Nik Xhelilaj profiled as Albania's Shooting Star at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, for his role in The Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d1c9f6a4-102b-455e-bb45-7bb335896b95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0lx1IuwGg
- **2011**, Sislej Xhafa - "Y" sculpture, Zurich, 2011. "Y", a 2011 public sculpture by Kosovo-Albanian artist Sislej Xhafa, installed in Hardaupark, Zurich. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cfe571c1-a82a-4374-868e-b9002d21f5ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Y,_2011,_Sislej_Xhafa,_Hardaupark.jpg
- **2011-06-27**, Two men bound by the blood feud. The international trailer for a documentary on the Kanun and gjakmarrja, following two men held on either side of a feud, with Albanian dialogue subtitled. The customary code still shapes some households in the northern highlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/448fa32f-02b2-49a7-b4be-df7225e7a3cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDBRLFNWaFc
- **2011-07-24**, Stone water trough at Vrith, Shkrel. A carved stone trough for livestock at Vrith in Shkrel, above Shkoder, listed as heritage. Objects like this belong to a pastoral economy that shaped highland life for centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a192dbf4-aec3-474e-831f-b5ca9234fc35) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lug_uji_për_bagëtitë_(Vrith,_Shkrel,_Shkodër).jpg
- **2011-08-08**, The Vlora's captain remembers Bari. An Italian regional bulletin marking twenty years since the landing, built around the recollections of Halim Milaqi, who commanded the Vlora. He recounts the crossing from Durrës with the ship overwhelmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/634455a0-9956-4ada-87cb-e57dc1002be8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqw8k-I2deE
- **2011-12-08**, Bunker mentality. Cris Dupont and Thomas Logoreci travelled through Albania in 2004 to film the abandoned defensive bunkers of the Hoxha years, built in their hundreds of thousands. The film treats the concrete domes as ordinary furniture of the landscape rather than as curiosities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1c84f587-3515-4476-bafd-0386dd2d0e26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xdgamfRDzE
- **2011-12-31**, Skanderbeg bust at Piana degli Albanesi. A bust of Skanderbeg by the sculptor Odhise Paskali, given by Albania in 1968 to Piana degli Albanesi in Sicily. The Arbereshe towns of southern Italy were founded by Albanians who fled after the Ottoman conquest and still speak an archaic Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d50834af-691f-4424-84ac-c68537cb5aaa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busto_Kastriota.jpg
### 2012
- **2012-01-18**, Ethnographic museum at Bajram Curri. The museum at Bajram Curri, which holds the material culture of Tropoja and the Gjakova highlands, photographed in 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3cad1c29-3253-47d5-be65-d48b28957182) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_etnografik_i_qytetit_Bajram_Curri.JPG
- **2012-02-02**, The League of Prizren complex at night. The League buildings lit after dark in Prizren. The site is the main place of memory for the 1878 movement on either side of the Albania-Kosovo border. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/94780e5d-9bde-428f-a608-ee4891dd4fa0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berat_Hoxha_2.jpg
- **2012-02-13**, DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora - Hot Right Now \[Official Video\]. Rita Ora, of Kosovo-Albanian heritage, featured on DJ Fresh's 'Hot Right Now', which topped the UK singles chart in 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cfc8ccbb-7024-48a5-97f7-2756a18ebc19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7OPZOBJZyI
- **2012-03-09**, Skanderbeg's burial place at Lezhe. The memorial over the grave of Gjergj Kastrioti in the ruined church of Saint Nicholas at Lezhe, where he was buried in 1468. Lezhe was also where he bound the Albanian lords into a league in 1444. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b19fae34-11dd-4e58-a1e3-75802c3161da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vendvarrimi_i_Gjergj_Kastriotit_ne_Lezhe,_Skenderbeu_-_panoramio.jpg
- **2012-05-21**, Painting Tirana back to life. Edi Rama, the painter who became mayor of Tirana and later prime minister, explains what happened when grey blocks were covered in colour and residents began treating the streets differently. Recorded at TEDxThessaloniki. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d36253ee-e22a-4ed7-85b5-668285701e72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_QsJShEIs
- **2012-05-22**, Rona Nishliu at Eurovision 2012, Baku semi-final. Rona Nishliu performing 'Suus' at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 semi-final in Baku; her fourth-place finish remains Albania's best Eurovision result. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bf541704-f0ae-437f-92d7-cd5f0e1cd485) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rona_Nishliu_Eurovision_2012_Baku_Semi-Final.jpg
- **2012-05-26**, Rona Nishliu - Suus (Albania) - Live - Grand Final - Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Live Grand Final performance of 'Suus' by Rona Nishliu, Albania's best-ever Eurovision placing (5th), 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3c051c2b-c649-4e77-a48e-1060f7515c00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeBL2UHhyEc
- **2012-06-15**, Valbona in June. The Valbona valley in the Albanian Alps, photographed on the day the summer tourist season opened in 2012. Valbona and neighbouring Theth became the country's first mass hiking destinations after 2000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e82bafd0-e260-47a1-92d4-8351386223a8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valbona_ne_Qershor.JPG
- **2012**, Permet in the Vjosa valley. The small southern town of Permet, photographed in November 2012. It sits on the Vjosa, the river that later became the centre of Albania's wild-river conservation fight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0e628256-4b6c-4f93-ae13-590d1e262ce6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Permet_Albania_-_panoramio_(6).jpg
- **2012**, Elina Duni Quartet - Ka një mot e gjysëm viti. A traditional Albanian folk song reworked by the Elina Duni Quartet on their debut ECM release, the recording that established Duni's international reputation for Albanian folk-jazz. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0c4be941-981f-43d4-b36f-269ea8e311b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4plVarzu0D0
- **2012**, Frasheri brothers monument, Tirana. The monument to the Frasheri brothers on a Tirana street. Abdyl Frasheri led the League of Prizren delegation of 1878, the first organised Albanian political movement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6d94f810-b586-4f5f-839f-c1d4007650b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TiranaFrasheriBrueder.JPG
- **2012-07-09**, Monument to Bajram Curri. The monument to Bajram Curri in the northern town that carries his name. Curri fought for Albanian independence and against Zog, and remains the emblem of the far north-east. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/713f7a32-35e7-405a-b3e9-2f4997fa7bc2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bajram_Curri_2012_(7).jpg
- **2012-08**, Skanderbeg Square during Ramadan, 2012. Tirana's central Skanderbeg Square decorated for Ramadan in front of the Et'hem Bey Mosque, more than two decades after public worship was restored. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/14060875-9bbe-4e2c-a363-9dd06093e639) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_Square_Ramadan2012.jpg
- **2012-08-25**, Arberesh mural of the siege of Kruje. A mural in San Costantino Albanese in Basilicata tells the story of the village's founders, including the siege of Kruje and Skanderbeg's death in 1468. Arberesh communities in southern Italy descend from Albanians who fled after that defeat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4c588355-9898-4fc8-8dfe-6cb892f5c340) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Costantino_Albanese07.jpg
- **2012-09-27**, Kruje castle. The walls of Kruje castle, photographed in 2012. Ottoman armies besieged the fortress three times between 1450 and 1467 and failed to take it while Skanderbeg lived. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/13cff221-8fff-465f-91dd-ecdf1f45916d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalaja_e_Krujes_6.JPG
- **2012-09-27**, The castle of Krujë. Krujë castle, the stronghold Skanderbeg held against Ottoman sieges in 1450, 1466 and 1467. The rebuilt keep now houses the national museum dedicated to him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/965f808c-2fc9-4fe1-9539-7ee7fbf25ce0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalaja_e_Krujes_5.JPG
- **2012-09-28**, Excavating the Roman forum at Butrint. Footage from the 2012 excavation of the Roman forum at Butrint, cut as a trailer for the documentary made about the dig. The work is shown in progress on the site beside the Vivari channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/51924890-876a-4f2d-a1f3-5b894666368e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgQFr_JHvMU
- **2012-10-05**, The lake at Kukës. The Fierza reservoir below Kukës, in the far northeast. The lake was created by damming the Drin in 1976 and drowned the old town, which was rebuilt on higher ground. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2515ef38-da23-4eed-a0cb-b506d3efbe94) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liqeni_i_Kukesit_nen_turizmin_e_ri.JPG
- **2012-11-03**, Ledina Çelo performing in Zurich, 2012. Ledina Çelo, Albania's Eurovision 2006 entrant, performing at a concert in Zurich in 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/333909d7-2e21-457a-be71-aaba8c07616a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ledina_%C3%87elo_2012.jpg
- **2012-11-03**, Aurela Gaçe performing in Zurich, 2012. Aurela Gaçe, who represented Albania at Eurovision 2012, performing at a concert in Zurich later that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5d158d86-a416-44f8-8fae-79464336b1df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurela_Ga%C3%A7e_2012.jpg
- **2012-11-28**, Albanian soldiers dance for the centenary in Afghanistan. Albanian soldiers of the Eagle V contingent dance with civilians at a forward base in Afghanistan on 28 November 2012, marking one hundred years since the Declaration of Independence at Vlore. Albania's small deployments abroad became a fixture of its post-communist foreign policy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/701f354e-a654-45bb-9f08-2449fb002d10) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_Lt._Col._Ekland_Dauti,_center,_commander_of_the_Albanian_Special_Operations_Force_Contingent_Eagle_V,_dances_with_Albanian_soldiers_and_civilians,_during_a_celebration_in_recognition_121128-A-VC646-221.jpg
- **2012-11-28**, Tirana marks one hundred years of independence. Crowds fill Tirana on 28 November 2012 for the centenary of Albanian independence. The date recalls Ismail Qemali raising the flag at Vlore in 1912. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/addf38ea-2985-4df0-b35d-c8afb5b1618e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanien_feiert_100_Jahre_Unabhängigkeit_(8232494746).jpg
- **2012-11-28**, Centenary crowd in Tirana. A vertical view of the centenary crowd in Tirana on 28 November 2012. The anniversary was the largest state celebration Albania had staged since the fall of communism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bfb75f12-afad-4133-8741-e849b8dbe1dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanien_feiert_100_Jahre_Unabhängigkeit_(8232495148).jpg
- **2012-12-12**, Ansambli Folklorik Besa, Kavajë. The Besa folk ensemble of Kavajë performing in regional costume, 2012, a still-active continuation of the state folk-ensemble tradition established under Hoxha. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cbfb6a6a-fc43-4b73-85ef-1151af48f99e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ansambli_Folklorik_%22Besa%22.jpg
- **2012-12-21**, Opinga, traditional leather shoes. Opinga, the traditional curled-toe leather shoes worn across the Albanian and wider Balkan highlands, photographed at a market in Ferizaj, Kosovo, the everyday footwear component of the regional costume. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1d1b5d6b-fa5e-439c-8e77-200c34eb94cf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opingat.jpg
### 2013
- **2013-01-20**, Albanian military police and an army helicopter. Members of the Albanian military police in front of an army helicopter. Albania joined NATO in 2009 and rebuilt its forces around alliance commitments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ee33e365-0547-4621-8491-b1ba9928d287) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military-Police-Albania&airforce.jpg
- **2013-02-12**, The former Scola degli Albanesi in Venice. The facade of the confraternity house built by Albanian exiles in Venice after the Ottoman conquest. Its carved panels record the sieges of Shkodra, the last Venetian-Albanian stronghold to fall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/23728d76-faa7-41da-a4db-1493892818b1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venetia,_siege_of_Scutari_memorial.jpg
- **2013-05-15**, Adrian Lulgjuraj and Bledar Sejko, Eurovision 2013. Adrian Lulgjuraj and Bledar Sejko performing 'Identitet' for Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/683a3166-8d3b-465a-b82e-d3100cf81cfc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESC2013_-_Albania_01.jpg
- **2013**, Shkodër Cathedral today. The Catholic cathedral of Shkodër as it stands today, the seat of the archdiocese and site of Pope John Paul II's 1993 Mass that re-established the local Catholic hierarchy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/af211894-7bb9-4879-81b8-7faff30bd495) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkod%C3%ABr_Cathedral,_Shkod%C3%ABr,_Albania.jpg
- **2013**, Traditional (Arbëresh) - Moj e bukura More, arr. Giovanni Sollima. The Arbëresh diaspora's defining lament, dedicated to the Morea (Peloponnese) region the Arbëreshë fled; this Sollima arrangement is a well-known concert setting of the centuries-old song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8d87de06-d2c2-4f18-aa1d-1916799f8fbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsErWuo3n_A
- **2013**, Adrian Paci - "The Column", Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. "The Column", a marble column sculpted en route by Chinese artisans aboard a cargo ship, a video/sculpture installation by Albanian artist Adrian Paci, created 2013, shown at the Albanian pavilion of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4e860334-3be9-48a5-b0d0-8044ffc2ad27) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_colonne_d%27Adrian_Paci_(Biennale_d%27architecture_2014,_Venise)_(15624853968).jpg
- **2013-06-20**, Panorama of the League of Prizren complex. The courtyard and buildings of the League of Prizren seen in one sweep. The original complex was burnt in 1999 and rebuilt afterwards as a museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ecfc79bd-bd4b-4128-a00e-0d55ec85cbcb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_panoramic_view_of_"Lidhja_e_Prizrenit".jpg
- **2013-07-05**, Bleimoschee interior detail, Shkodër. A closer view of the Lead Mosque in Shkodër, whose dome sheathing gave the building its name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/69293b96-466d-4265-a22d-d9570a7b4430) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bleimoschee_(Xhamia_e_Plumbit)_in_Shkodra_(2).JPG
- **2013-07-17**, Action Bronson live in Paris, 2013. Action Bronson, the Albanian-American rapper, performing live in Paris in 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2dad1b07-d774-4241-8cbd-10135618e415) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Action_Bronson.jpg
- **2013-09-24**, The Church of the Dormition, Berat (Onufri Museum). The sixteenth-century Church of the Dormition of St Mary in Berat's citadel, now the Onufri Museum, housing the icons of the sixteenth-century painter Onufri. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ea8b5356-8e76-4674-bfa5-85861c19e41e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Mary,_Berat,_Albania_2013-09_01.jpg
- **2013-10-02**, What was left of Tirana station. Tirana's railway station in October 2013, shortly after it was closed and the line cut back to Kashar. The Albanian network, built largely by volunteer brigades after 1947, has been shrinking ever since. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/59db6a19-8d19-4f05-a61f-24fc544beb7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:02.10.13_Tiranë_Station_(or_what's_left_of_it!)_(10101196125).jpg
- **2013-10-03**, Bajram Curri in the northern highlands. The town of Bajram Curri in Tropoja, gateway to the Valbona valley and the peaks of the Albanian Alps, photographed in 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9796ef88-0208-4511-aedd-40fabc6f2bd2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-10-03_Bajram_Curri_(town),_Albania_0649.jpg
- **2013-10-03**, The Lead Mosque of Shkodër. The eighteenth-century Xhamia e Plumbit (Lead Mosque) in Shkodër, named for its lead-sheathed dome, one of the few Ottoman mosques in the city to survive the 1967 campaign against religion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b3305174-e992-44b3-9172-2f22fb74b927) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-10-03_Lead_Mosque,_Shkod%C3%ABr_0214.jpg
- **2013-12-01**, The rediscovery of ancient Butrint. An Albanian docufiction retracing how the buried city of Butrint, near Sarandë, was found and read. Its Greek, Roman and Byzantine layers are now inscribed by UNESCO. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ac19e6ea-e2e3-4aca-89d6-44b5a69c1d26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ3EdCafUEo
### 2014
- **2014-02**, Piro Sulioti as 'Sokoli' in the operetta Agimi. Albanian tenor Piro Sulioti performing the role of 'Sokoli' in the operetta Agimi, an example of Albanian operatic/operetta repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4c312a5b-d121-4f9a-9eb5-6b2fdccb64ab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piro_Sulioti_ne_rolin_e_%22Sokolit%22_ne_opereta_Agimi.jpg
- **2014-02-03**, Gazi Mehmed Pasha mosque, Prizren. The domed mosque built at Prizren in 1574, standing beside the League museum. Its complex once included a bathhouse, a library and a madrasa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6f7eef84-391a-45f0-9638-169ecdff88ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berat_Hoxha_12.jpg
- **2014-04-18**, The Skanderbeg museum at Krujë. The stone mass of the Skanderbeg museum rises within the walls of Krujë castle. The town below has lived off the memory of the fifteenth-century resistance for a century and more. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/09187f50-857f-42d6-ae6a-3abae340c47c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_Skanderbeg,_Kruja,_Albania,_2014-04-18,_DD_06.jpg
- **2014-04-20**, Building the boulevard over Tirana station. The site of Tirana's former central station in 2014, cleared so the main boulevard could be pushed north. The old station building still stands at the left of the works. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e25f0c52-8d2c-405c-89f0-fe4122502a6e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana_train_station_construction_site.JPG
- **2014-05-05**, Shëngjergj day gathering at Novosej. Villagers gather at Novosej for Shëngjergj, the spring feast of Saint George kept by both Christian and Muslim Albanians as a marker of the pastoral year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cc59b168-2350-4fa5-97ca-431a91664480) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dita_e_Shengjergjit.JPG
- **2014-05-10**, Breastplate and sword at Skanderbeg's tomb in Lezhë. Replicas of armour and sword hang above the burial place of Gjergj Kastrioti in the ruined church of Saint Nicholas at Lezhë. He died there of fever in January 1468, and Ottoman soldiers later broke open the grave for relics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1dfe36d2-1b77-4cd4-80cb-b0eb1970d947) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parzmorja_dhe_shpata_ne_Vendvarrimin_e_Skenderbeut.JPG
- **2014-05-24**, Fetching the bride at Valbone. The ceremony of collecting the bride from her family's house in Valbone in the northern Alps. The handover of the bride, with its songs and gifts, is the core of the traditional highland wedding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/37ba7d00-e786-4ac9-8479-e9aeb8750688) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceremonia_e_Marrjes_se_Nuses_-_Valbonë.JPG
- **2014-06-15**, Sofra Dardane at Bajram Curri. The Sofra Dardane festival brings singers and folk groups to Bajram Curri each summer. The name invokes the shared table, the sofra, around which northern hospitality is organised. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/486f7d29-61f7-41f3-ad5c-7268b25d9552) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sofra_Dardane_-_Bajram_Curr_03.JPG
- **2014**, Elina Duni - Moj e bukura More (live, TEDxPlaceDesNations). Jazz vocalist Elina Duni's acclaimed reworking of the traditional Arbëresh lament, part of her celebrated ECM-era project bringing Albanian folk song into jazz; distinct artefact from the traditional and choral versions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/257250f1-d7a0-40f0-bee5-c14e56b657e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZe8nmxq3NA
- **2014**, Elina Duni - Albanian folk songs (TEDxPlaceDesNations). Elina Duni performing a set of traditional Albanian folk songs in jazz arrangement, illustrating how Albanian folk repertoire has been reworked for international concert audiences. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0019f3b0-9c4f-417c-8e71-6686ac6f1180) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv9rRjYGlFI
- **2014-07-10**, Display hall of the Skanderbeg Museum. An exhibition hall in the Krujë museum, where armour, banners and reproductions set out the long war against the Ottomans. The building was designed in the 1980s inside the castle walls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/06556a31-ab2c-478a-b9dc-d366f0079700) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_Museum_(5).JPG
- **2014-07-10**, The Ottoman conquest, Krujë museum display. A section of the Krujë museum covering the Ottoman advance that followed Skanderbeg's death in 1468. Krujë fell in 1478, a decade after the resistance lost its leader. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4416fc33-0c7c-49cd-9c9a-4a1b2b73dd66) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_Museum_(7).JPG
- **2014-07-10**, Skanderbeg statue in the museum at Kruje. A statue of Skanderbeg in the museum built beneath the castle at Kruje. The museum opened in 1982 and turned the fifteenth-century resistance into the founding story of the modern nation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/64896254-a597-4caf-a442-b22cccb2fc8e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_in_skanderbeg_museum.JPG
- **2014-07-10**, Bazaar at Kruje. The old bazaar street climbing to the castle at Kruje, photographed in 2014. Rebuilt in Ottoman style, it now sells carpets, copper and Skanderbeg souvenirs to visitors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a35212ac-b8cf-44f7-bac7-4886d6863e24) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bazaar_in_Kruje_(4).JPG
- **2014-07-10**, Skanderbeg and his warriors, Krujë museum. A large composition of Skanderbeg with his commanders in the Krujë museum. The League of Lezhë brought the rival Albanian princes under his leadership in March 1444. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e073df13-f0c1-495d-a156-cec4081ff476) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_and_his_warriors_in_skanderbeg_museum,_Kruje.JPG
- **2014-07-11**, Interior of the Onufri Museum, Berat. The carved portal and interior of the Church of the Dormition in Berat castle, home to the Onufri Museum's collection of Orthodox icons. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/600a1831-3625-4b4b-abe7-f2230be71703) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onufri_Museum_(4).JPG
- **2014-08**, Ardenica Monastery exterior. Ardenica Monastery in central Albania, an Orthodox foundation where Skanderbeg married in 1451 and which remains a working monastery today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/26f2ee39-e33a-48b4-b16a-ce37fb1c6135) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardenica_Monastery_(by_Pudelek).JPG
- **2014-08-23**, The türbe atop Mount Tomorr. The shrine (türbe) of Abbas Ali on the summit of Mount Tomorr, focus of the annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August when the saint is believed to return on a white horse. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5a695ae6-2c46-40e4-a5f3-8d7ddd3dadfa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomorr_mountain_%E2%80%93_tyrbe_on_top_of_the_peak_-_Mapillary_(dbzVXIxZI1Dyb0zEVQMOzQ).jpg
- **2014-09-01**, The Llogara pass above the Vlorë coast. The Llogara pass, where the Ceraunian mountains drop straight to the Ionian sea. The road over it is the gateway to the Albanian Riviera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1016a39b-1759-4d7f-a371-b54ec54ff25b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Llogara,_Vlorë_(20).jpg
- **2014-09-21**, Pope Francis in Tirana: welcome ceremony and meeting with the president. Official Vatican News footage of Pope Francis's welcome ceremony in Tirana on 21 September 2014, his first foreign visit after election and a trip built around interfaith dialogue in Albania's plural-religion society. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1b6b563a-6d34-4442-a289-1ccb39f738d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp3amp5wH8Q
- **2014-10-06**, The former Hotel Iliria, Manastir, site of the 1908 alphabet congress. The building in Bitola (Manastir) that hosted the November 1908 congress which fixed the Albanian alphabet still used today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/02287630-6e4e-4a8a-82b3-af60baa661b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Objekti_i_Kongresit_t%C3%AB_Manastirit.jpg
- **2014-10-20**, The chestnut festival at Bajram Curri. The Festa e Gështenjave, the autumn chestnut fair, in Bajram Curri in October 2014. Chestnut groves are one of the few cash crops of the Tropoja highlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e86e3970-692a-4560-8a5b-b247caf60962) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bujar_Nishani_-_Festa_e_Gështenjave_-_Bajram_Curr_04.JPG
- **2014-11-30**, The grave of Enver Hoxha at Sharrë. Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, lies in the Sharrë public cemetery outside Tirana. His remains were removed from the Martyrs' Cemetery in 1992, after the fall of the system he built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cd68e706-4198-430d-a0ed-87cdfd7b523c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_gravesite_of_Enver_Hoxha_(15834153420).jpg
### 2015
- **2015-01-25**, Skanderbeg monument at Krujë castle. A statue of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg standing within the castle walls at Krujë. His image became the central symbol of the Albanian nation from the nineteenth century onwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/42832700-60ab-45ee-9951-90a8d0750cc2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_i_skenderbeut_ne_kalane_e_krujes.JPG
- **2015-01-25**, Plaster relief of Skanderbeg, Krujë castle. A moulded relief portrait of Skanderbeg displayed at Krujë. Reliefs and casts of the helmeted head circulate everywhere in Albania, from museums to schoolrooms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c1a6c310-cfbb-4e62-835e-21f03712bc15) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punim_ne_allci_i_skenderbeut_ne_kalane_e_krujes.JPG
- **2015-02-01**, Tirana's painted facades. The painted apartment blocks of Tirana, the result of a programme begun by Edi Rama as mayor that covered grey communist-era housing in flat blocks of colour. Filmed by visitors walking the streets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7623ce0b-1a6b-4f18-bc6d-02bd83ff022d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEkecBwArTc
- **2015-02-03**, The old bridge on the road to Prizren. The bridge near the former Luma tower once carried the road from old Kukës to Prizren. Built in 1918 under Austrian occupation, it stayed in use until 1976, when the Fierza reservoir flooded the town it served. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/052f7189-758f-49a1-8533-8a52e2ff54ae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ura_e_Kulles_Lumes.JPG
- **2015-03-22**, The bonfire of Dita e Verës, Tropojë. A bonfire lit for Dita e Verës in the Tropojë district of northern Albania, the ritual fire is one of the festival's oldest surviving elements, tracing to pre-Christian spring rites. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c968efca-0e9e-4aff-bc56-eb893e290f68) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zjarri.jpg
- **2015-03-29**, Wedding guests singing. Krushq, the party that escorts the bride, singing at a wedding in the Kukës region. Unaccompanied group song of this kind is the backbone of northern Albanian ceremony. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9257013b-ce38-421f-97e6-98294ca0cbef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krushq_duke_kënduar.jpg
- **2015-05-12**, Elhaida Dani, Eurovision 2015. Elhaida Dani performing 'I'm Alive' for Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/11c02558-22e7-45f8-a00d-5b14a8f40715) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20150512_ESC_2015_Elhaida_Dani_4861.jpg
- **2015-05-20**, Nine voices in Gjirokaster. A field recording made in Gjirokaster in May 2015, with as many as nine singers holding the drone and the two solo lines of southern iso-polyphony. It was caught by a listener standing among them rather than staged for a camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7e5c60a2-352f-484b-87b2-469d5f128142) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG2u9yOmr6g
- **2015-05-23**, Elhaida Dani - I'm Alive (Albania) - LIVE at Eurovision 2015 Grand Final. Elhaida Dani's live Grand Final performance of 'I'm Alive' for Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, finishing 17th. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4feaacb8-323c-4170-a3e2-4ee0e64e4e96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsH9iVaZSaA
- **2015**, Bust of Naum Veqilharxhi. A modern bust monument to Naum Veqilharxhi, creator of the 1845 Albanian primer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/babcef69-b8bd-4451-971b-1a14cea4a104) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bust_of_Naum_Veqilharxhi.jpg
- **2015**, Luigj Gjerkaj, lahutar. Portrait of Luigj Gjerkaj, a lahuta player, credited to photographer Shkëlzen Rexha. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c661fb52-5ef6-4951-bfeb-5e616ad00e10) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luigj_Gjerkaj_-_Lahutar_-_%C2%A9_Shk%C3%ABlzen_Rexha.jpg
- **2015**, Pretash Nilaj, lahutar. Portrait of Pretash Nilaj, another lahuta player, from the same documentary series by Shkëlzen Rexha. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/479a7ade-913b-44c6-88fa-7cce05fede6f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pretash_Nilaj_-_Lahutar_-_%C2%A9_Shk%C3%ABlzen_Rexha.jpg
- **2015**, Stamp: Gaqo Avrazi, Albanian composer (1915-1985). Official Albanian postage stamp honouring composer Gaqo Avrazi, issued in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/016c27a1-2379-4724-a721-ad18a22795e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Albania_-_2015_-_Colnect_582210_-_Gaqo_Avrazi_1915-1985_Albanian_composer.jpeg
- **2015**, Shyhrete Behluli - Moj qershi. Shyhrete Behluli is one of Kosovo's most prolific and popular folk-pop vocalists, active across several decades of the popullore tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/71862806-6619-42bd-a94f-6aceb775eee3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIjCPaeJ9BQ
- **2015**, Press Conference with Albanian Novelist Ismail Kadare. A recorded press conference with Ismail Kadare. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ba714b0c-1b31-434e-b7c8-1e7a69d3bad7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4PMt1oyfTM
- **2015**, Sworn Virgin (2015), official trailer. Official trailer for Sworn Virgin (2015), Laura Bispuri's film about an Albanian woman living as a sworn virgin under the Kanun, starring Alba Rohrwacher. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2c1ce2e5-96cd-4de7-9c67-060f17906aa3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOPOavoL4rY
- **2015**, Motrat Mustafa - Kunatat. Motrat Mustafa, a folk sister group from Mushtisht, Suhareka in Kosovo, are among the most enduring names in Albanian wedding/celebration folk music, active since their 1986 debut album 'Mori Nan'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8c437478-bf77-4679-9040-ebf999635d0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYxDlQ5xjpk
- **2015**, Sworn Virgin (2015), German-subtitled trailer. A second trailer for Sworn Virgin (2015), with German subtitles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2e1e227a-4283-4d21-8dc7-e4ccf02a23d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g003RNF04uE
- **2015**, Saimir Pirgu and Mariss Jansons, 2015. Saimir Pirgu, the leading contemporary Albanian operatic tenor, performing alongside conductor Mariss Jansons in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9ba680f6-657d-4539-84cc-d1cdb07f5a11) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_Nuredini_Aki,Jansons_Mariss-Pirgu_Saimir-0212_(18793224138).jpg
- **2015**, Nik Xhelilaj, actor. Footage or interview material featuring Albanian actor Nik Xhelilaj; verify recording date before publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6840dcfe-c4ce-40aa-80c0-f99e5c27fe10) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIJnELhgeI
- **2015**, Monument to Migjeni, Shkodër. A monument to Migjeni (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla) in Shkodër, his home city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/605dafa9-1891-485e-a6a7-bb5cd4e469ff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Millosh_Gjergj_Nikolla_monument_in_Shkoder.JPG
- **2015**, Iso-polifonia popolare albanese. Field recording of Albanian iso-polyphonic (isopolifonia) group singing, an actual sung performance of the UNESCO-recognised tradition rather than an explainer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/73b65da6-4690-493e-9739-d2dc2de2cabe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qKyox010iY
- **2015**, Iso-polifonia popolare albanese, 2° parte. Continuation of the same iso-polyphonic group-singing field recording, second part. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3a1f0038-5e2f-4836-bfae-e973d1babab8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL10c6mT-M
- **2015**, Adrian Paci Interview: Moments of Transition. Louisiana Channel interview with Albanian artist Adrian Paci discussing his practice, intercut with excerpts of his video-art works. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/42a8c9a2-1ad6-4e68-953d-83494ba9c34d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2cN2erqnY
- **2015**, Adrian Paci Interview: The Story of a Stone. Louisiana Channel interview with Adrian Paci discussing 'The Column' and related marble/stone works. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/02632b56-b43e-4fcc-aee2-a4c1baedbedf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AryeyqySIBc
- **2015-07-12**, Mount Shkëlzen in Tropojë. The bare limestone summit of Shkëlzen, at over two thousand metres one of the high points of the Tropojë highlands. The mountain gives its name to the surrounding pastures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4f045c84-8df3-4633-ad93-0e01288f430a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pamje_nga_Shkelzeni2.jpg
- **2015-07-30**, The T-33 wreck in Gjirokaster castle. The remains of a United States Air Force T-33 stand inside the castle of Gjirokaster. Forced down in 1957, the aircraft was displayed for decades as proof of American aggression against socialist Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/416151e2-26e3-47e1-9e75-c9bdc848dfbd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjirokastër_-_T-33_Wrack_2.jpg
- **2015-07-30**, Painted chimneypiece in the Skenduli house, Gjirokaster. The banquet hall of the Skenduli house in Gjirokaster keeps its carved and painted chimneypiece. The tower houses of Gjirokaster show how wealthy Ottoman-era families in southern Albania lived and decorated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e1a5f919-ffc2-4931-b2f3-4b87663bda2e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjirokastër_Skenduli-Haus_-_Sommergeschoss_6d_Festsaal_Kamin.jpg
- **2015-08-05**, Elvana Gjata in concert, Prishtina 2015. Albanian pop singer Elvana Gjata performing live at Zone Club in Prishtina, Kosovo, 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dd0a58ca-c9cc-48a1-8723-ce815611d3b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elvana_Gjata_concert_at_Zone_Club_(Prishtina)_2015_1.jpg
- **2015-08-10**, "Toka Jonë" (Our Land) monument, Lushnjë. "Toka Jonë" (Our Land) monument in Lushnjë, a public sculpture in the Albanian socialist-monument tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b833c5b8-1f74-4e91-bd37-2d708e1f6645) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Toka_jon%C3%AB%22_monument.jpg
- **2015-12-03**, Traditional Kosovo Albanian costume and silver jewellery, Prishtina. A Kosovo Albanian bridal costume and silver jewellery set at the Prishtina Ethnological Museum, labelled Kosovo Albanian traditional clothing, distinct from the Shkodër bridal set found elsewhere in this facet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/98331742-e7ba-424e-a1b0-0674ea6d70aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PrishtinaEthnologicalMuseum_WikipediaWeekendTirana2015_Jewelery_185.JPG
- **2015-12-30**, Era Istrefi - BonBon (Official Music Video). Kosovo-Albanian singer Era Istrefi's international breakthrough single 'BonBon', filmed in the Brezovicë mountains, Kosovo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/04a7edea-39ed-4220-9bb4-103c31fb41aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvr--SHYdMY
### 2016
- **2016-03-14**, Dita e Verës food traditions, Elbasan. Traditional food prepared for Dita e Verës in Elbasan, the town most associated with the Summer Day festival, photographed on the festival date itself in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/74abba2a-13f2-4ea2-8320-c86e9d86c20a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditat_e_Dites_se_Veres.jpg
- **2016-04-02**, Opening a leadership bunker to visitors. An agency report filmed on 2 April 2016 inside one of the shelters built to keep the communist leadership alive through a nuclear attack. Parts of that apparatus are now open to anyone who buys a ticket. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8cd21597-b1da-4514-9fff-b9580906b51f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjxqkNsljUQ
- **2016-05-05**, Eneda Tarifa at Eurovision 2016 Meet & Greet. Eneda Tarifa, Albania's Eurovision 2016 entrant, at an official Meet & Greet event. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/dfb6e036-a195-4123-a2de-804b5040300d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eneda_Tarifa_at_Eurovision%27s_Albania_Meet_%26_Greet_(2016).jpg
- **2016-05-17**, Masiela Lusha in Time of the Comet. Masiela Lusha in character on the set of the film Time of the Comet. Born in Tirana and raised abroad after her family left Albania, she is among the best known figures of the recent diaspora. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f7d912b8-99aa-4952-bb6e-b7eb2ada4503) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masiela_Lusha_in_Time_of_the_Comet.jpeg
- **2016-06-11**, House of the Frasheri brothers. The house of the Frasheri brothers, a protected monument. From this family came the alphabet, the first Albanian schoolbooks and much of the political argument for a separate Albanian state. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/33540d84-b9b0-48dd-9f72-fea422fc3a49) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banesa_e_Vëllazërisë_Frashëri_01.jpg
- **2016**, Pride march in Tirana, 2016. Marchers on the streets of Tirana during the city's pride event in 2016. Albania decriminalised homosexuality in 1995 and the first Tirana march was held in 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0b933212-9600-4f6b-9af5-46140da06d36) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gay_(P)ride_2016_in_Tirana_01.jpg
- **2016**, Motrat Mustafa - A t'kam thanë. Another official video by Motrat Mustafa, illustrating the group's continuing prominence in Kosovo-Albanian folk/wedding music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0ffb67af-6546-4603-8f24-dcb9e9e850d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h5kBsJCQoI
- **2016**, Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Footage of Ismail Kadare discussing his life and work as an Albanian writer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/31fcc7fd-4154-44f8-bebc-231b163c2c3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P0BLlKx6YU
- **2016**, Gazmend Kapllani, red chair portrait. A second portrait of writer Gazmend Kapllani, seated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/05bb05af-7b9b-4f74-9119-0ce0f33f8fad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GazmendKapllani-RedChair.jpg
- **2016**, Iso-polifonia albanese, il laboratorio musicale della Fondazione Guido d'Arezzo. Documentation of an Albanian iso-polyphony workshop/laboratory session hosted by the Fondazione Guido d'Arezzo, capturing live group singing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/81be2b2a-baed-4c3d-b8be-f4628beaeb11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irHfHuNBu_4
- **2016-07-09**, Seat of the Vlorë National Assembly. The Vlorë house where the National Assembly met in 1912 and where the provisional government of Ismail Qemali worked until 1914. Independence was proclaimed from this address on 28 November 1912. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ab905074-dcdd-4966-becf-c7622b1e049b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Independence_Museum,_Vlorë,_Albania_-_2016-07_01.jpg
- **2016-08**, Church of St Haralambos, Dhërmi. The Orthodox church of St Haralambos in Dhërmi on the Albanian Riviera, serving one of the coastal Greek-Albanian communities of the south. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/125af9bc-90d9-478f-b874-ed51a0321366) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dh%C3%ABrmi_Kisha_Sh%C3%ABn_Harallambi.JPG
- **2016-08-05**, The historical museum of Vlore. 1912. Its collections run from Illyrian material through to the twentieth-century national movement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6d7f0320-9fc4-4a73-999c-35b87c531a40) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_Historik_Vlorë.jpg
- **2016-10-08**, The Skanderbeg museum and the clock tower at Krujë. The National Museum Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu stands inside the castle of Krujë beside the old clock tower. Designed by Pranvera Hoxha and Pirro Vaso, it opened in 1982 on the hill Skanderbeg held against three Ottoman sieges. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7dea4159-1d9b-4491-97bf-fbc0c88bf161) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_dhe_Kulla_e_Sahatit_ne_Kruje.jpg
- **2016-10-16**, Noizy performing on stage, 2016. Noizy, the Kosovo-Albanian hip-hop artist, performing on stage in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/25e31cba-b47b-4e5d-9d9c-6318d783ea78) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noizy.jpg
- **2016-11-13**, Gazmend Kapllani, Boston, November 2016. Gazmend Kapllani, Albanian-born writer and academic known for his memoir on emigration to Greece, photographed in Boston in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/33ab6edd-3600-4ac4-aa49-78cafd93cdb9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gazmend-kapllani-bw2.jpg
- **2016-12-20**, Hoxha's nuclear bunker opens to visitors. Filmed in Tirana in December 2016 as the leadership's anti-nuclear shelter reopened as a museum of political persecution. Its rooms now hold displays on four decades of surveillance and internment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fb429eac-93c1-4339-a488-38beabe70e56) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqmd_tbnRa0
### 2017
- **2017-02-16**, Memorial House of Mother Teresa, Skopje. The memorial house built on the site where Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 to an Albanian family in Skopje. She left home at eighteen and never returned to live in the Balkans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5f4d86d0-35fc-488f-9c0a-6a29752e7983) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Спомен_куќа_на_Мајка_Тереза_18.jpg
- **2017-03**, Çifteli, traditional Albanian instrument. A çifteli, the two-stringed long-necked lute central to Albanian highland folk music, photographed as an object. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c77401c6-38d5-40d6-951a-871c64615f2d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%87ifteli.jpg
- **2017-03-17**, Reja Pavilion, National Art Gallery Tirana extension. Reja ("The Cloud"), the striking angular pavilion extension of the National Art Gallery, Tirana, an architectural artwork in its own right. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/90feceab-7d20-419a-9dfd-2df3bc842d6c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reja,_Tirane_Albania.jpg
- **2017-05-04**, Lindita, Kosovo-Albanian singer, Eurovision 2017. Lindita Halimi, a Kosovo-Albanian singer, representing Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3dd4b9db-4910-4e73-bb34-73e2d35019ab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lindita_Kyiv_2017.jpg
- **2017-05-21**, Arbëreshë costume from Piana degli Albanesi. ARBËRESH (Italy, diaspora community, in scope but labelled). Traditional Arbëreshë costume from Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, worn at the 2017 Bukuria Arbëreshe festival celebrating Italo-Albanian heritage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/44c2858d-bb5a-4b2d-839f-0c89187d9371) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arb%C3%ABresh%C3%AB_costume_(Piana_degli_Albanesi)09.jpg
- **2017-05-30**, The kulla of Abdullah Dreni in Gjakovë. A stone kulla in Gjakovë, the fortified tower house of the northern Albanian lands. Its blind lower walls and narrow firing slits belong to a society governed by the Kanun and by blood feud. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7acb7838-b40a-40a5-b576-6de5ecceef41) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjakovë,_Kosovo_–_Abdullah_Dreni's_kulla_2017_01.jpg
- **2017**, Christmas market on Skanderbeg Square. Stalls of a Christmas market spread across Skanderbeg Square in Tirana in December 2017. Public religious festivity returned only after 1990, in a country that had declared itself officially atheist in 1967. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c4f8188b-0c7d-4d24-ab36-4b56f1ea94bd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christmas_market_on_Skanderbeg_Square_3_(WPWTR17).jpg
- **2017**, Houses and monument in the centre of Krumë. The centre of Krumë with its monument among ordinary houses. In small Albanian towns the lapidar was usually the only piece of public sculpture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/79f88b1e-9444-4738-b5b4-5807fbc8aceb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kruma_houses_(WPWTR17).jpg
- **2017**, Lapidar south of Bajram Curri. A monument on the road south of Bajram Curri, in the mountains of Tropojë. The town itself is named after a leader of the early independence movement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c1070ca8-b0a9-4931-b8c8-5e97c17955a3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lapidar_near_BC_(WPWTR17).jpg
- **2017**, 2017 Albania stamp of Musine Kokalari. A 2017 Albanian postage stamp honouring Musine Kokalari, decades after her death in internal exile. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d1eeb0f3-a338-473f-80b5-c25e3770ce97) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musine_Kokalari_2017_stamp_of_Albania.jpg
- **2017**, Sculpted frieze honouring Ismail Kadare, Gjirokastra Castle. A sculpted frieze in Gjirokastra Castle honouring native son Ismail Kadare, in his home city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8898d4d7-02f0-49f3-b77a-a44d46e117c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sculpted_Frieze_in_Honor_of_Author_Ismail_Kadare_-_Gjirokastra_Castle_-_Gjirokastra_-_Albania_(41485616795).jpg
- **2017**, LAHUTA - LUTE - këngë kreshnike. A lahuta player performing këngë kreshnike (Highland epic song), the traditional narrow-range recitative style accompanying the Albanian heroic-cycle epics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1f314e74-38e5-4469-87d8-05c6a41f7c66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JXLfOHiTY
- **2017-06-22**, Archaeologist at the church of St Michael, Vithkuq. An Albanian archaeologist inspects the church of St Michael at Vithkuq near Korce in 2017. Vithkuq's cluster of post-Byzantine churches has been slowly documented and stabilised since the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/57ab13ad-0b18-4d4f-a58d-2b5e573500ab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archeologist_monintoring_the_Church_of_Saint_Michael,_Vithkuq,_Albania.jpg
- **2017-07-07**, Dua Lipa - New Rules (Official Music Video). Dua Lipa's global breakout hit 'New Rules', one of the best-known videos by an artist of Kosovo-Albanian descent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4c5c2071-6866-4c5d-8f66-9224ae474dc6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qgadSvNyU
- **2017-07-16**, Berat in July 2017. Berat in 2017, its Ottoman houses stacked up the hillside below the castle. The town is often called the city of a thousand windows and is on the UNESCO list alongside Gjirokaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/698a97ed-a31a-4562-8ed3-f8a8d459d68a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0596_Berat.jpg
- **2017-07-29**, Lapidar in the mountain village of Gjinar. A monument to the wartime resistance in Gjinar, a village in the hills above Elbasan. Even remote settlements were given a lapidar naming their dead. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6cc9dbd3-f074-4665-af48-abf3c5917edc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjinar_Lapidar.jpg
- **2017-08-05**, Logu i Bjeshkëve 2017, dancers in xhubleta. Dancers from Malësia e Madhe performing the K'cimi dance in xhubleta costume at the Logu i Bjeshkëve highland festival, 2017, a modern living performance of the UNESCO-flagged garment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4e76b3a2-ead0-48f9-8651-975c96b3c2f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logu_i_Bjeshk%C3%ABve_2017_%E2%80%93_dancers_on_stage.jpg
- **2017-08-05**, Visitor in traditional dress, Logu i Bjeshkëve 2017. A festival visitor wearing traditional dress with the Albanian flag at the 2017 Logu i Bjeshkëve festival, an example of fustanella-tradition costume worn in modern ceremony rather than performance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fb82404c-45c8-4d55-a1a8-d251abc8eb93) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logu_i_Bjeshk%C3%ABve_2017_%E2%80%93_visitor_in_traditional_dress.jpg
- **2017-08-26**, The coast at Himarë. The shoreline at Himarë on the Ionian coast, where the Ceraunian mountains meet the sea. The stretch between Llogara and Sarandë is the core of the Albanian Riviera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/52b6d50f-7871-4caa-b92c-15b3812513c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himara_2.jpg
- **2017-09-03**, A wedding in Tirana. A wedding party in Tirana in 2017. Albanian weddings remain large, multi-day affairs that draw in whole extended families, in the city as much as in the villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4cc2d477-53f8-4b29-9ad8-5e72269e394c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matrimonio_Tirana.jpg
- **2017-09-13**, What to do with 750,000 bunkers. Aeon's 'Mushrooms of Concrete', directed by Martijn Payens, on the concrete domes Hoxha scattered across the country and what has become of them. They were poured for a war that never came and cannot easily be removed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1953286f-412d-476a-a096-c83e3d36a264) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw9Ts_Q5nPI
- **2017-10-01**, Alban Skënderaj, 2017. Alban Skënderaj, a leading contemporary Albanian pop singer, photographed in 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/065ad6ee-e133-460a-a3a9-13f26b24b681) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alban_Skenderaj_(2017).jpg
- **2017-11-20**, Traditional Oda, gathering place in Malisheva. The traditional 'oda' guest room in the Malisheva area of Kosovo, the customary setting where çifteli and lahuta music and epic recitation are performed for gathered guests. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/64f90ae5-1c96-4dd5-8391-89db4ad44afa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditional_Oda.jpg
### 2018
- **2018-03-17**, The room where Mother Teresa lived. The bare room kept as she left it at the Missionaries of Charity house in Calcutta. A bed, a table and a chair are the whole of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/33cdf82d-11f1-4eca-a0ba-15500398dbda) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Room_of_Mother_Theresa.jpg
- **2018-04-21**, The minaret of the castle mosque at Krujë. The lone minaret left standing inside Krujë castle, all that remains of the mosque built there in the Ottoman centuries. It stands a few steps from the museum dedicated to the man who fought that empire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/853ba13b-bc84-43f9-8960-050325ad7666) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_grounds_-_The_remaining_minaret_of_the_castle_mosque_to_the_left,_the_Skanderbeg_museum_in_the_center_and_the_old_Watchtower_to_the_right_-_Kruja,_Albania.jpg
- **2018-04-22**, Kanina Castle above Vlorë. The walls of Kanina, the hill fortress that commands the bay of Vlorë. The site has been fortified since antiquity and was rebuilt in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2252f84f-8f00-4b51-8290-90df32b61185) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalaja_e_Kaninës.jpg
- **2018-04-30**, Skanderbeg monument at the Korce stadium. A monument to Skanderbeg at the entrance of the Skenderbeu stadium in Korce. His name is attached to clubs, streets, squares and currency across the Albanian-speaking world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c35706fc-2d45-4803-b5ff-4d730b37b343) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjergj_Skënderbej_monument.jpg
- **2018-05-02**, The rebuilt Dervish Sokoli teqe, Tropojë. A Bektashi teqe under reconstruction in the northern highlands of Tropojë in 2018, on the site of a historic lodge destroyed by a snowslide in 2012, a reminder that tekke culture persists in remote Albania beyond Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/98b6eaca-5c59-4d0e-8af4-e3ee39df5945) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bu%C3%A7aj,_Tropoj%C3%AB,_Albania_%E2%80%93_Dervish_Sokoli_Teqe_2018-05_01.jpg
- **2018-05-08**, Eugent Bushpepa press conference, Eurovision 2018. Eugent Bushpepa at the press conference following Albania's semi-final performance at Eurovision 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c40b1e19-a104-4eeb-af87-adbd029b63c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eugent_Bushpepa_(2)_20180508_EuroVisionary.jpg
- **2018-05-27**, Embroidered lace outside Gjirokaster castle. Embroidered lacework laid out for sale outside the castle at Gjirokaster in 2018. Needlework of this kind is one of the crafts that survived the collectivised decades and now depends on tourism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3c8c3d7a-ce78-42b1-9b65-2461a0873780) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Display_of_Embroidered_Lacework_outside_Gjirokastra_Castle_-_Gjirokastra_-_Albania_(28515038818).jpg
- **2018-05-27**, Embroidered dress detail, Gjirokastra Castle museum. A close detail of embroidered traditional dress on display in the museum at Gjirokastra Castle, representing Labëria's regional needlework tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4de5dfc7-a879-4654-b50e-01111534430a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Traditional_Embroidered_Dress_in_Museum_-_Gjirokastra_Castle_-_Gjirokastra_-_Albania_-_01_(41486797865).jpg
- **2018-06-02**, Embroidered woman's jacket, Berat Ethnographic Museum. Detail of an embroidered woman's jacket (jelek-type) at the Berat Ethnographic Museum, showing the gold- and silver-thread work typical of festival dress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0ef22061-b30d-4f59-b184-fa8bf83b180c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Traditional_Embroidered_Woman%27s_Jacket_-_Ethnographic_Museum_-_Berat_-_Albania_(41795536194).jpg
- **2018-06-10**, The Tirana sign in the park. The oversized lettering installed beside the artificial lake in Tirana, one of the props of the city's twenty-first century reinvention under mayor and later prime minister Edi Rama. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/72cdfe92-fd3d-4525-bbf3-4497ac797029) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana_sign.jpg
- **2018-06-12**, Ornamental belt detail, Kruja Ethnographic Museum. A detail shot of an ornamental brez (belt) on display at the Kruja Ethnographic Museum, showing the silver and metalwork typical of regional costume accessories. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/02868a51-e41b-4631-a8ea-7819feecc029) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Ornamental_Belt_-_Ethnographic_Museum_-_Kruja_-_Albania_(42036509544).jpg
- **2018-06-12**, Mannequin display of traditional dress, Kruja Ethnographic Museum. A full mannequin display of a regional costume ensemble at the Kruja Ethnographic Museum, showing how the pieces are worn together. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d10a2ed5-7911-4f7b-bb62-847ca2faae03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mannequin_with_Display_of_Traditional_Dress_-_Ethnographic_Museum_-_Kruja_-_Albania_(42036152204).jpg
- **2018-06-14**, Model of an Illyrian lembus. A model of the light Illyrian warship known as the lembus, displayed in the Skanderbeg museum at Krujë. Fast oared craft of this type made the Illyrians of the southern Adriatic a naval power that Rome went to war to suppress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f5b1a553-428d-4697-b990-4fa2e42b3227) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_i_Krujes,_2021.jpg
- **2018**, House of Migjeni, Shkodër. The house of Migjeni (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla) in Shkodër, the poet whose modernist, bleak verse broke from the Rilindja tradition before his death from tuberculosis in 1938. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d0813a41-eb4e-4e12-8e63-1e581f3dc1fd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Migjeni_in_Shkodra,_Albania.jpg
- **2018**, Era Istrefi, 2018. Era Istrefi, the Kosovo-Albanian pop singer known internationally for 'Bonbon' and 'Redrum'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9175e198-7b35-4d53-b58d-b3adc470f1cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Era_Istrefi_2018.jpg
- **2018**, Ansambli Trade Folk Tirana - Vallja e Zyleve (Official Video HD). Folk song and dance performance 'Vallja e Zyleve' by a Tirana folk ensemble, preserving central Albanian traditional repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/af8d5e00-05fb-4ca1-b841-90d9f259de9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMTUddj-H5Q
- **2018**, Austro-Hungarian submarine wreck in the Bay of Vlore. The wreck of an Austro-Hungarian submarine lost in 1916, photographed on the seabed of the Bay of Vlore in 2018. The bay was one of the most heavily contested anchorages of the Adriatic war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0bd35d35-be6e-4767-90e2-d47aea8138ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMU_16.jpg
- **2018-07-03**, The Pyramid of Tirana - 'Home' graffiti before renovation. "Home" graffiti on the derelict Pyramid of Tirana (former Enver Hoxha museum) before its renovation, an example of the building's period as an informal street-art canvas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cc6c8337-2c8b-45b3-b672-627ed0952b31) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyramid_of_Tirana_Home_Graffiti.jpg
- **2018-08-11**, Crowds at the beer festival, 2018. An evening crowd at the Festa e Birrës in August 2018. The beer festival is among the largest of the summer gatherings that fill Albanian towns after the harvest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8156065a-db0a-4caf-ae5c-d3b11a4cf4c2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Festa_e_Birrës_2018.jpg
- **2018-08-18**, Kerri i nuses, the bride's cart in Prizren. A decorated bride's cart paraded through Prizren as part of a traditional wedding. Marriage customs remain one of the most durable parts of Albanian social life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ee18fb27-6dd3-477e-9618-cfec3efa9e0f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Kerri_i_nuses"_Prizren.jpg
- **2018-08-18**, The house of the League of Prizren. The timber-galleried house at the heart of the League complex, where the delegates of 1878 sat. It now holds the museum's core exhibition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fe4b1d0f-121e-4924-8da5-5d69e7a4615a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shtepia_e_Lidhjes_se_Prizrenit.jpg
- **2018-08-19**, The Skanderbeg statue on Tirana's central square. Odhise Paskali's equestrian Skanderbeg has stood on the main square of Tirana since 1968, the five hundredth anniversary of his death. The square and the statue are the standard backdrop of Albanian public life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2a52146a-377c-457a-9de1-23e9966cdb1a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjergj_Kastrioti_-Skenderbeu.jpg
- **2018-08-25**, Çiftelia and boy. A young boy with a çifteli, illustrating the instrument's continuing role in transmitting Albanian folk music to new generations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/71af3e4b-6977-4f86-8437-acaa949a6a4a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%87iftelia_dhe_djali.jpg
- **2018-08-27**, Cameria graffiti in Korce. Graffiti in Korce reading do not forget Cameria. The expulsion of the Muslim Cham Albanians from north-western Greece in 1944-1945 remains an open question in Albanian politics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/229a9132-7833-451a-8799-e1eaf7444932) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pro_Çamëria_graffiti_in_Korçë_2018.jpg
- **2018-09-22**, Rita Ora refugee-history plaque, London. A commemorative plaque at a London primary school noting that Rita Ora, the Kosovo-Albanian pop singer, studied there after her family fled the war in Kosovo in 1991. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fbf7fa5d-2c9f-42e7-8a82-6faa474040db) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rita_Ora_singer_and_actress_fled_the_war_in_Kosovo_and_studied_here_after_arriving_in_the_UK_in_1991.jpg
- **2018-09-24**, Men's jelek vest, Elbasan region. A men's jelek (embroidered vest) from the Elbasan region on museum display, a core piece of male regional dress worn over the shirt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/03eefbf7-3fdd-43c5-8112-e78b6278a837) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_traditional_vest_jelek_burrash.jpg
- **2018-09-24**, Traditional Elbasan costumes, Elbasan Ethnographic Museum. A museum display of traditional Elbasan-region costume, showing the town's distinct central-Albanian variant of dress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/61823768-d2e6-4976-bb67-de1bbe6b321c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditional_costumes_from_Elbasan_Albania.jpg
- **2018-10-03**, The Skanderbeg museum tower, Krujë. The museum raised inside Krujë castle in 1982, its stone tower deliberately styled to read as part of the fortress. It is the main national shrine to Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a39e19d6-5f2b-473d-b0e1-7c06ba2cc915) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanderbeg_Muesum_in_Kruja_2018.jpg
- **2018-10-06**, An old man playing çifteli at the Skanderbeg Museum in Kruja. An elderly musician performing on the çifteli at the Skanderbeg Museum in Kruja, a common venue for demonstrating traditional Albanian folk instruments to visitors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ee31567c-2afb-4fe9-ae26-7298087e2768) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_old_man_playing_ciftelia_at_Scanderbeg_museum_in_Kruja.jpg
- **2018-10-10**, Buying in the old bazaar of Kruje. Visitors browse the restored wooden bazaar below the castle of Kruje. The bazaar sells carpets, copper and antiques and is now one of the busiest stops on the Albanian tourist route. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cd58b54a-0f8c-4086-ad1a-73ac8728a02f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shopping_in_Kruja.jpg
- **2018-11-23**, The lahuta and the Song of Halil's Wedding. Isa Elezi-Lekgjekaj of Rugova sings the opening verses of a song from the Kreshnik cycle, accompanying himself on the single-string lahuta. That cycle is the spine of the northern Albanian oral epic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/481220f3-44c3-4e51-a325-33d40e29742e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKBlQqn9aB0
### 2019
- **2019-02-19**, Bust of Ahmet Zogu in the National History Museum. A bust of Ahmet Zogu, who ruled Albania as prime minister, president and finally as King Zog from 1928 until the Italian invasion of April 1939. The museum in Tirana has only displayed him openly since the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a8217573-6ed3-4ba8-993f-e2f3d632a590) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahmet_Zogu.jpg
- **2019-04-19**, Bebe Rexha - You Can't Stop The Girl \[Official Music Video\]. Bebe Rexha, whose family is from Has in Kosovo, performing 'You Can't Stop The Girl' for Disney's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8ae934ed-8c39-4351-9fc8-3cab8a73b678) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DmwyNkmTJ0
- **2019-04-21**, Catholic wedding at Saint Paul's cathedral, Tirana. A marriage at the Catholic cathedral of Saint Paul in Tirana in 2019. Religious weddings returned to Albania only after 1990, when the ban on all worship imposed in 1967 was lifted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/30a795be-b7f5-446f-b792-64195c0cb4a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:52_Casament_a_la_catedral_catòlica_de_Sant_Pau_(Katedralja_e_Shën_Palit),_Tirana.jpg
- **2019-04-22**, Berat from the east wall of the citadel. The town of Berat seen from the eastern wall of the citadel in 2019. People have lived continuously inside these walls since the thirteenth century, in houses wedged between churches and Ottoman-era ruins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ab611610-d4b7-45bd-9d8d-ec36e4c3024b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:070_Ciutadella_de_Berat_(Kështjella_e_Beratit),_la_ciutat_des_del_mur_est_de_l'acròpolis.jpg
- **2019-05-16**, Village church at Dëshnicë. A village Orthodox church at Dëshnicë in southern Albania, typical of the small rural parish churches that dot the Vjosa valley. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f4506ece-7f70-4632-998b-dbdb1f4d6870) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_at_D%C3%ABshnic%C3%AB,_Albania.jpg
- **2019-06-05**, Stone Age flint mine near Goranxi. A flint source worked in the Stone Age in the hills near Goranxi, above Gjirokaster, photographed in 2019. Flint from sites like this is among the oldest evidence of habitation in Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/49f8cc5e-b0b3-4fa8-b368-4ccd1b23c359) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goranxi,_Gjirokastër_Albania_2019-06_03.jpg
- **2019-06-06**, The main square of Memaliaj. The central square of Memaliaj, a town built around a coal mine opened in the 1940s. Its layout and buildings are a straightforward record of socialist-era planning in southern Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8a2fd840-690d-4e1c-9655-bc0b0b867779) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memaliaj,_Albania_2019_04.jpg
- **2019-06-07**, Independence monument in Lushnjë. The monument to independence in Lushnjë, the town where the 1920 congress moved the capital to Tirana and reasserted Albanian sovereignty after the war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/172ed0b1-6e47-47a5-a73f-e98d71651556) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lushnjë,_Albania_2019_17_–_Independence_monument.jpg
- **2019-06-07**, Delegates' room, Congress of Lushnje Museum. The delegates' room reconstructed inside the Congress of Lushnje Museum. In January 1920 fifty delegates met in Lushnje, refused the carve-up of the country and set up the government that took Albania into the League of Nations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/706f7e11-16c0-4046-a8e0-0f60eac99114) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lushnjë,_Albania_2019_10_–_Congress_of_Lushnjë_Museum.jpg
- **2019-06-07**, Shqiponja monument, Lushnje. The double-headed eagle monument at Lushnje, with the Congress museum behind it. The eagle has stood for Albania since Skanderbeg's banner and gives the country its name in Albanian, Shqiperia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/99397cca-75ed-4540-956a-4940913cdbe7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lushnjë,_Albania_2019_22_–_Shqiponja_Monument.jpg
- **2019-06-08**, The Bektashi World Headquarters, Tirana. The Kryegjyshata, world headquarters of the Bektashi Sufi order, whose leadership relocated to Tirana on 20 March 1930 after Turkey banned the dervish lodges; suppressed in 1967 and rebuilt after 1990. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/989d2d76-0313-4c2d-8479-491b13e2bd1b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_headquarter_of_the_Bektashis.jpg
- **2019-06-12**, Ermal Fejzullahu ft. Kida - Tela. One of Ermal Fejzullahu's most-streamed hits, a collaboration with Kida that became a major crossover success across the Albanian-speaking world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e5f6ec25-159b-4f54-a7e1-875a2db54974) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnMEC84oKI
- **2019-06-13**, Sislej Xhafa portrait, Art Basel 2019. Kosovo-Albanian conceptual artist Sislej Xhafa (Venice Biennale representative) photographed at Art Basel 2019 with students. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b8dbd5fa-cb33-482b-a12e-659ccd778060) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RRIM_190613_Sislej_XHAFA_at_ArtBasel2019_0269_LR_web.jpg
- **2019**, Old fountain at the Elbasan bezistan. Work at the old fountain beside the bezistan, the Ottoman covered market of Elbasan, in 2019. Elbasan grew around an Ottoman fortress built in 1466 to press the siege of Kruje. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f0d75ad7-41f2-4a28-a85e-484d4b7ed131) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shatervani_Vjeter_tek_Bezistani_i_Qytetit_te_Elbasanit_03.jpg
- **2019**, Albanian iso-polyphony in Gjirokastër. A live performance of Albanian iso-polyphony, the UNESCO-recognised drone-and-solo singing tradition of the south, filmed in Gjirokastër, the genre that anchors the town's National Folklore Festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/12fbe929-f691-44fd-87ae-52aef9125c61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5OsdulpX9w
- **2019**, Helidon Xhixha - "Refracting Surface", Lugano public sculpture. "Refracting Surface", a mirrored stainless-steel public sculpture by Helidon Xhixha, installed in Lugano, Switzerland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/367a616a-bb88-4eab-8e72-191c5ccd7221) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Refracting_Surface.jpg
- **2019**, Mother of Albania (Nëna Shqipëri), statue overlooking Tirana. On-site footage of the Mother Albania statue and the National Martyrs' Cemetery overlooking Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d2829a96-85df-478a-b2cb-9598a2472ee3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1vdyWHGqw
- **2019**, Mother of Albania statue - drone footage. Aerial drone footage of the Mother Albania statue, giving a full view of the 1971 monumental sculpture and its hilltop setting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5b17b0da-659b-44b4-bf26-6222443bd5ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQf5kF_OcEI
- **2019**, Busts of the Frasheri brothers, Tirana. Abdyl, Naim and Sami Frasheri stand together in the National Historical Museum in Tirana. The three brothers drove the Rilindja, the nineteenth-century awakening that gave Albanian its alphabet and its case for statehood. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d050bc42-99e6-4e2b-8391-cc33e4d1026f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busts_of_Frashëri_brothers.jpg
- **2019-07-13**, The coast at Cape Rodon. The headland of Kepi i Rodonit and the bay of Lalzi on the central Adriatic coast. Skanderbeg built a castle on this cape in the 1450s as an escape route to Italy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3038155e-a783-4998-9237-f431dc7118be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepi_i_Rodonit_Shqiperi_11.jpg
- **2019-07-24**, The National Theatre of Albania, the day of the artists' occupation. The National Theatre photographed on the day in July 2019 when artists and actors occupied the building to protest its planned demolition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f6b47aaf-e07c-4467-9329-97bb72371755) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Theatre_of_Albania_(photographed_the_day_of_the_occupation).jpg
- **2019-10-08**, Bronze Age display, National Historical Museum. The Bronze Age installation in the National Historical Museum in Tirana, photographed in 2019. The material comes from tumulus burials that link the territory of Albania to the wider Illyrian world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/45441931-9762-440e-a24a-626005d48d2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_03.jpg
- **2019-10-08**, The Skanderbeg room in the National History Museum. The hall devoted to Gjergj Kastrioti in the National History Museum in Tirana, with arms, standards and copies of his portraits. Skanderbeg has anchored every version of Albania's national story since the nineteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6fa4621a-f9af-4c7a-b112-0cc7c9e8eff9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_16.jpg
- **2019-10-08**, Copy of the Lepenice rock art. A reproduction of the Neolithic engravings from Lepenice, displayed in the National History Museum in Tirana. The originals are among the oldest human marks left on Albanian ground. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b9d2b024-0325-40cf-a31f-1eea0da35a08) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_06.jpg
- **2019-10-08**, The Zog years in the National History Museum. A gallery in the National History Museum in Tirana covering the Albanian kingdom and Zog I, who ruled from 1928 until the Italian invasion of April 1939. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/daa0c82d-650d-4fd0-b84c-a892e0158460) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_19.jpg
- **2019-10-08**, Copy of the Tren rock art. A reproduction of the Late Bronze Age rock art from Tren, on Lake Prespa, in the National Historical Museum in Tirana. The figures are among the oldest images made in Albania. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fea5cb9e-c1dd-4d6d-86a0-dbad4bda9f6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana,_Albania_–_National_Museum_of_History_2019_07.jpg
- **2019-11-27**, Aid unloaded at Durrës after the earthquake. Relief material is unloaded at Durrës on 27 November 2019, a day after the strongest earthquake to hit Albania in decades killed fifty-one people and left thousands homeless along the central coast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/33bd20c5-1e21-4071-ae1a-e593184a5b5b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terremoto_in_Albania_(49131696036).jpg
- **2019-12-28**, The National Theatre of Albania, before demolition. Albania's National Theatre, built 1939, photographed in December 2019, months before the government demolished it despite a protected-monument designation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d86e8ba9-5e23-4456-bfa1-b02cbdef4dab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teatri_Komb%C3%ABtar_i_Shqip%C3%ABris%C3%AB_-_Monument_kulture_para_se_t%C3%AB_shkat%C3%ABrrohej.jpg
### 2020
- **2020-01-26**, Bulqizë miners protest in Tirana. Chrome miners from Bulqizë demonstrate in Tirana in January 2020 for the right to organise a union. The Bulqizë mine, opened under the communist government, remains one of the country's hardest workplaces. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0f00df36-cbfb-45e7-bd86-9d4f5e0d8106) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miners_of_Bulqiza_protesting_in_Tirana_01.jpg
- **2020-04-19**, Village school at Sotirë. The school building in the village of Sotirë in southern Albania, part of the Greek-speaking minority area of the Dropull and Vurg valleys. Community schools like this one carry minority-language teaching in the far south. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1a4a4c28-6a68-4895-8be2-8fe21048f78e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotira-sxolio_wik.jpg
- **2020-05-14**, Monument to Queen Teuta at the Kruje museum. A modern figure of Teuta at the museum in Kruje. Albania's national imagination reaches past Skanderbeg to the Illyrian rulers, and Teuta is the one most often given a face. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/40912562-65d3-4af3-aba4-61061dd87d10) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumenti_i_Teutes,_Muzeu_i_Krujes.jpg
- **2020-05-18**, Demolition of the National Theatre of Albania, 18 May 2020. The demolition of Albania's National Theatre, photographed 18 May 2020, one day after riot police cleared protesting artists and the building was bulldozed overnight. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/86fbdecf-f12c-4034-967f-dfb04b80ea30) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demolition_process_of_the_National_Theater_of_Albania.jpg
- **2020-05-22**, Window of the Dollma teqe at Krujë. A carved window of the Dollma teqe below Krujë castle, a Bektashi lodge kept by the same family since the eighteenth century. It survived the 1967 campaign that closed every other place of worship in the country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f8f20858-53ae-4e17-9f4f-00a1efd11e57) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teqja_e_dollmes,_dritare.jpg
- **2020**, Bektashi pilgrimage on Mount Tomorr. Footage of the Bektashi pilgrimage to the shrine of Abbas Ali on Mount Tomorr, the August gathering that draws hundreds of thousands of believers to the mountain sacred to the order. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/707ad6f0-b41a-43bc-a24d-7f2a4985a89f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UooOZZJ8sow
- **2020**, Remains of the National Theatre of Albania. The rubble of the National Theatre of Albania after its May 2020 demolition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3893ab2b-328e-4b35-8f0f-da11e0f072fc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remainings_of_the_National_Theater_of_Albania.jpg
- **2020**, MIRUD performing at Festivali i Këngës 59. The artist MIRUD performing at the 59th Festivali i Këngës in 2020, the annual Albanian song contest broadcast by RTSH. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d998c3ec-521d-4514-8a00-1f3350d3b835) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_MIRUD_performing_at_Festivali_I_Kenges_59.jpg
- **2020**, Introducing: The Albanian Çifteli. Introductory demonstration of the çifteli, the two-string long-necked lute central to northern Albanian folk music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/eb660579-5ae8-4a73-871e-15fb1532ea2d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWQ5rUPofdM
- **2020**, Queen Teuta Quartet - Arbëresh Medley (Traditional). Arbëresh (Italo-Albanian diaspora, Calabria/Sicily) traditional medley performed by the Queen Teuta Quartet, preserving song heritage descended from 15th-century Albanian settlement in Italy. Labeled Arbëresh, not mainland-Albanian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/eea26573-2659-40fb-b2e2-82fffbadb2e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL-lqpQ9Z3E
- **2020-08-06**, Inside the Independence Museum, Vlorë. A reconstructed working room inside the Independence Museum in Vlorë. The furnishings recall the improvised offices from which the new Albanian state was administered in 1912 and 1913. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2a86ea9e-3293-40d5-bf45-6f082ec76361) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_Museum_of_Independence_in_Vlora.jpg
- **2020-08-06**, National Museum of Independence, Vlorë. The Muzeu Kombëtar i Pavarësisë occupies the villa where Albania's first government sat in 1912. The museum preserves the rooms used by Ismail Qemali and his ministers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a426265a-812b-476a-85c8-afa482049a86) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_Kombëtar_i_Pavarësisë.jpg
- **2020-10-02**, The Marubi archive on show in Milan. A short piece from the Marubi National Museum of Photography in Shkodër for 'Marubi archive: the photographic ritual', curated by Zef Paci. The Marubi studio photographed Albanians across three generations from 1856 onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/23d22f79-8000-4744-9f0b-dc5b25762fbb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlrzLkdjOZw
- **2020-10-10**, Inside Hoxha's secret villa and bunker. Top Channel's 'Gjurme Shqiptare' examines the hidden villa and the command bunker prepared for Enver Hoxha in case of war, and asks how many labourers died building them. The complex stayed unknown to the public for decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e79370cc-7bbb-48c1-b4c0-3385fbe737f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO6Mh_EzuNI
- **2020-11**, Making Albanian raki by grape distillation. Grapes fermented and run through a still at a farm in Daias, Albania, to make raki, the actual distillation process behind the fruit brandy that anchors Albanian hospitality and the autumn household calendar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/df0745e4-50e5-4daf-b36c-544606b22603) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA2WbXYs-dk
- **2020-11-15**, Northern folk motifs by Agron Pllumaj. The Gheg musician Agron Pllumaj performs motifs from the northern Albanian folk repertoire in a clip he dedicates to an old church and to family members no longer living. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9a05b710-0222-4195-8688-c0efc1e9b9e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MST5DR8c0I
### 2021
- **2021-02-10**, Copper ewer and tray in the ethnographic museum. A copper gjym and tepsi in an Albanian ethnographic museum. Coppersmiths worked whole quarters of the old bazaars at Shkoder, Kruje and Gjirokaster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e4dc5d5a-cfed-42ee-8f0c-36744c77b3dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjym_dhe_tepsi_bakri.jpg
- **2021-02-10**, Women's jelek, Elbasan Ethnographic Museum. A women's jelek from the Elbasan Ethnographic Museum, photographed for Wiki Loves Folklore 2021, showing the embroidered vest style specific to the region's women's ensemble. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fe468e58-eda4-4056-af22-02d5ec19be7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jelek_grash.jpg
- **2021-02-24**, Labëria regional folk costume. Regional folk costume of Labëria, southern Albania, photographed for Wiki Loves Folklore 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6ed58401-7f7d-4c13-9ec7-a51d050f8aaa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veshje_folklorike_e_zones_se_laberise_01.jpg
- **2021-03**, Anxhela Peristeri - Karma - Albania - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2021. Anxhela Peristeri performing 'Karma' for Albania at Eurovision 2021, winner of that year's Festivali i Këngës. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/36ecddfe-1730-4bdd-bddb-7a08b7496dd5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4D_RfEFwd4
- **2021-06-11**, Bebe Rexha - Baby, I'm Jealous (feat. Doja Cat) \[Official Music Video\]. Bebe Rexha featuring Doja Cat, official music video for 'Baby, I'm Jealous'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3319e225-420e-45e2-b654-753312158b64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznMpRASjAg
- **2021**, Petition for public transport passes, Tirana. Activists of Levizja Bashke hand in a petition for the return of urban travel passes and better public transport in Tirana in the summer of 2021. Street campaigning of this kind has become a normal part of Albanian civic life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9b716f9d-fa5e-4062-b04a-acc371c6200d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peticion_për_transport_publik_falas_dhe_cilësor_02.jpg
- **2021**, Visiting the summit of Mount Tomorr. First-person footage of the climb to the 2,416-metre summit of Mount Tomorr, showing the pilgrimage türbe and the mountain landscape sacred to the Bektashi order. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/09451da1-e8c1-4679-98d0-eb45efa5f709) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ3mLLGbr9E
- **2021**, Manjola Nallbani - Triumf. A more recent official single from Manjola Nallbani, three-time Festivali i Këngës winner (1989, 1992, 1993) and one of the defining voices connecting communist-era and modern Albanian pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d6d48625-c1e0-4c45-b014-47be63ab20f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUI7hGjrB2w
- **2021**, Olimpia Smajlaj performing at Festivali i Këngës 60. Olimpia Smajlaj performing at the 60th Festivali i Këngës in 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0b38f74a-ac1d-46b2-b5e9-a9349b90795d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OlimpiaSmajlaj_Performing_festivali_i_Kenges_60.jpg
- **2021**, National Geographic reportazh për Voskopojën. National Geographic-produced report on Voskopojë, focusing on the town's 18th-century fresco-covered churches, rebroadcast on Tv Klan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/88029555-7ba1-4798-a669-aeb5851d6b71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_4-9bALFiQ
- **2021**, Arilena Ara, Albanian singer. Arilena Ara, who represented Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with 'Fall from the Sky'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/986b21d2-40d4-4f17-8625-5f4aa5852eff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arilena_Ara_01.jpg
- **2021**, Albanian Sharki (Çifteli Qifteli) me 3 tela, instrument Shqiptar. Demonstration of the 3-string Albanian sharki, a çifteli variant, by a dedicated instrument-focused channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fb0e22d2-d308-4ebd-aa19-ed6f1f304744) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_SAl8lrDLE
- **2021-07-18**, A row over the Mother Teresa memorial. Skopje's mayor wants the memorial to Mother Teresa, born in the city in 1910 to an Albanian family, removed because it blocks a street. The proposal put the municipality at odds with the Vatican. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ea035e9b-79f2-44e4-85c8-409614bbe6bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJLVPHy1gI
- **2021-09-29**, Lea Ypi on the year everything changed. The writer Lea Ypi describes coming of age in Albania as the last Stalinist state in Europe fell apart, the subject of her memoir 'Free'. She speaks from inside a family whose own history the change reopened. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a57eeb53-9557-4fff-98e8-b2f1c8bcb5a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rfK4HY_Qk
- **2021-10-17**, Statues of Abdyl Frashëri, Ymer Prizreni and Sulejman Vokshi. The three leading figures of the League of Prizren, cast in bronze in the town where the League met. Abdyl Frashëri went on to argue the Albanian case in the European capitals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/cd0b0a64-2804-4546-8780-a6ab54d75814) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Abdyl_Frashëri,_Ymer_Prizreni_and_Sulejman_Vokshi.jpg
- **2021-11-06**, Orthodox chapel in Pustec on Lake Prespa. A small Orthodox chapel in Pustec on Lake Prespa in eastern Albania, home to the country's Slavic Orthodox Macedonian minority. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/158597b5-1f49-4028-9e97-5e2893ab4ad6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapel_in_Pustec,_Albania_01.jpg
### 2022
- **2022-03-12**, Thousands on Skanderbeg Square against price rises. Crowds fill Skanderbeg Square in Tirana on 12 March 2022 to protest against the sharp rise in fuel and food prices. It was the largest street mobilisation in the capital in several years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/818d0684-a1d4-45f3-8655-64aee82cbabc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protestat_në_Shqipëri_kundër_rritjes_së_çmimeve_(01)_05.jpg
- **2022-05-10**, Ronela Hajati performing 'Sekret', Eurovision 2022. Ronela Hajati performing 'Sekret' on stage at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 semi-final in Turin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fbd6ceaa-601d-4ec3-b5d8-2179e8d74c75) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurovision_2022_-_Semi-final_1_-_Albania_-_Ronela_Hajati.jpg
- **2022-05-26**, The League of Prizren complex. The restored complex in Prizren where Albanian delegates met in June 1878 to resist the partition of Albanian-inhabited lands. The League is treated as the start of the national awakening. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/c77e75f8-3d49-4b22-92cf-4f0ba6046277) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_League_of_Prizren1.jpg
- **2022-06-03**, Ermal Meta, 2022. Ermal Meta, the Albanian-Italian singer-songwriter and 2018 Sanremo Music Festival winner, performing in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/413505dc-cf44-47ae-a622-63013296bd1c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ermal_Meta_2022.jpg
- **2022-06-12**, Gjon's Tears in concert, Fribourg 2022. Gjon's Tears, the Swiss singer of Kosovo-Albanian descent who represented Switzerland at Eurovision 2021, performing live in 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/70dbdbb8-2735-447b-ba41-933702c0b744) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjon%27s_Tears_1.jpg
- **2022-06-12**, Inside the submarine pen and the airbase. A walk through abandoned military installations of the communist decades, among them a rock-cut submarine shelter on the coast and a disused air base with its aircraft left behind. They were built against an invasion that never came. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ee7b056d-686e-4998-80f6-e89c46fa14ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6GOEZQSxHA
- **2022-06-15**, Ardenica Monastery, interior. Frescoed interior of the church at Ardenica Monastery, one of the Orthodox foundations that anchored religious life in southern-central Albania for centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a143008c-e029-42f7-bb2b-081ef99c4822) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardenica_Monastery_-_interior_02.jpg
- **2022**, Shkodra Elektronike - Turtulleshë. Shkodra Elektronike's folktronica reinterpretation of a traditional Shkodran song, distinct from their Eurovision 2025 entry 'Zjerm' which is excluded per the dedupe list. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5a203f61-fd4d-4da7-a923-2e8eff2bb6ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6T6z_vG-k
- **2022**, Voskopoja, fshati unik i 24 kishave, turistët të mahnitur nga ikonat. Euronews Albania news segment on Voskopojë, the village of 24 churches, showing visitors viewing the fresco and icon cycles inside the churches. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f7944c39-ea81-4e92-b1b2-257d0d607ee4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Inv2zzUow
- **2022**, Kisha Fjetja e Shën Mërisë, Voskopojë. Travel-documentary visit to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary church in Voskopojë, one of the town's fresco-covered 18th-century churches. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/a7f50c39-6813-42df-98e7-378c49619cef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geS_G523Po8
- **2022**, Adnan Aliu - live with gajde (Albanian bagpipe). Live gajde (Albanian bagpipe) performance by Adnan Aliu, illustrating the instrument's continuing use in Albanian folk music, notably in the Elbasan region. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/85bf6ad3-3a17-4b99-a530-4f955f645c69) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZV-ZUOOw_k
- **2022-06-19**, Tavë kosi, the Elbasan yoghurt-and-lamb bake. Tavë kosi, Albania's de facto national dish, baked lamb and rice under a yoghurt-and-egg custard, a recipe traced to Elbasan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3c5b0fba-8562-4e42-a6a6-e69cdc6a8762) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tav%C3%AB_kosi.jpg
- **2022-10-09**, Korçë kilim, wreath motif detail. Detail of a traditional Korçë kilim showing repeating geometric and wreath motifs, an example of Albania's regional carpet-weaving craft tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9bc5cda1-7a18-4df3-a552-5aae526eccf7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:31-korce-carpet-wreath-held-arm-artiesa.jpg
- **2022-11-18**, Scene from 'The Bat' at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana. A live stage scene from Johann Strauss's operetta 'Die Fledermaus' (The Bat) performed at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, Tirana, 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4fd10099-b776-401c-a649-72491485e964) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shfaqje_n%C3%AB_TKOB_01.jpg
- **2022-12-03**, Albanian armed forces band at the independence centenary-and-ten. The band of the Albanian armed forces plays in Tirana on 3 December 2022, part of the celebrations for 110 years since the declaration of independence at Vlorë. Bands from eight countries took part. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2cb305f7-6799-4fff-8c35-6a14afb1de9d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albania's_110_Year_Independence_Celebration_(7548781).jpg
### 2023
- **2023-01-05**, BUNK'ART 2 - art installation inside the bunker museum. Contemporary art installation inside BUNK'ART 2, the former secret-police bunker beneath Tirana's Skanderbeg Square, converted into a museum and exhibition space. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8154b692-8884-461c-ad84-3a1401ac343a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiran%C3%AB,_Albania_January_2023_-_BUNK%27ART_2_museum_17.jpg
- **2023-01-22**, Bettany Hughes at Butrint. The historian Bettany Hughes walks the Roman city on the Vivari channel and then travels inland to mountain communities, setting the ruins beside the customs that still govern life in the highlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/7d7222a1-4d77-4079-a74c-211ef78ce337) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgbVKxudSo
- **2023-01-26**, Bari, August 1991, remembered. An Italian documentary on the ship Vlora and the arrival of the Albanians at Bari, carrying the account of Eva Meksi, who made the crossing. It sets the exodus against the collapse of the regime that produced it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2bec5444-4eec-414f-b70e-a283907fba03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLutB9gPejU
- **2023-02-20**, Fërgesë with peppers and cottage cheese. Fërgesë, a stewed dish of peppers, tomato and cottage cheese found across Albanian home cooking, shown here in a domestic kitchen preparation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9e6257f1-e456-412a-8ba3-b74b33739f0a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%ABrges%C3%AB_domatesh.jpg
- **2023-03-16**, Fërgesë e verë, the summer version. Fërgesë e verë, the lighter summer preparation of the classic pepper-and-cheese stew, plated for a home meal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5ff4d806-2d53-4b1f-b5ed-c5e0013d43f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fergese_vere.jpg
- **2023-05-19**, A stanza of Gjergj Fishta's verse, displayed. A public inscription of a stanza by Gjergj Fishta, photographed in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/86c919bc-a28a-451d-9036-dcaa2ff0c8fe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strof%C3%AB_e_Gjergj_Fisht%C3%ABs.jpg
- **2023-05-31**, Tirana's Rock under construction. The Skanderbeg Building, known as Tirana's Rock, rising beside the central square in 2023. A decade of high-rise building has changed the skyline of the capital beyond recognition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8715d09a-8364-45e9-8cd1-de28992e8c65) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana's_Rock_1.jpg
- **2023**, Sinan Vllasaliu - Hite 2023 (Hitet më të mira). Sinan Vllasaliu is among the most prominent tallava-adjacent Kosovo popullore performers active today; this compilation represents his contemporary hits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3f60fb58-6c36-40a0-a1ac-e2a394bbd3af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzEVpFnYF0
- **2023**, Muzeu Ikonografik Onufri Berat (Fronti Dhespotik). Museum-guide video walkthrough of the despotic throne (Fronti Dhespotik) and icon display inside the Onufri Museum, Berat, showing the icons themselves on screen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/db39f112-3a22-40f6-8500-7bd7875e3666) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjpx3_2ruKM
- **2023**, Muzeu Ikonografik Onufri Berat, Ikonostasi. Close-up footage of the carved and painted iconostasis inside the Onufri Museum, Berat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/786fc1b2-b849-41f5-b9e0-1c295effb634) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyvORNhGO0o
- **2023**, The Pyramid's Remarkable Rebirth - mini-documentary. Official mini-documentary on the architectural renovation of the Pyramid of Tirana, from derelict Hoxha-era museum to a youth and technology centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/599d3a47-f8bb-4eed-9e94-d31337fbd5bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH_WjCHPHYY
- **2023**, Former Radio Tirana villa, exterior. The former Radio Tirana broadcast villa building, a modern photograph of the site associated with the state radio's music and propaganda broadcasts under communism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/02bc1f55-98b2-4b50-892c-e5b2a255a8c3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_Tirana_1.jpg
- **2023**, Festivali i Këngës 62 logo. Official logo of the 62nd Festivali i Këngës, the long-running RTSH Albanian song contest (since 1962) that doubles as the Eurovision national selection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/da4478ad-e350-4ee9-b2eb-2ca412045095) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Festivali_i_K%C3%ABng%C3%ABs_62_logo.jpg
- **2023-06-23**, House of Gjergj Fishta at Fishte. The house of Gjergj Fishta at Fishte near Lezhe. The Franciscan poet wrote Lahuta e Malcis, the verse epic of the northern highlands, and took part in the 1908 alphabet congress at Manastir; the communist state later banned his work outright. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/72bb5769-a97d-4ded-b547-41a3e97bb647) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fishtë,_shtëpia_e_Gjergj_Fishtës_2023_03.jpg
- **2023-06-24**, The Marubi National Museum of Photography, Shkodër. The Shkodër museum that holds the Marubi collection, some half a million negatives covering a century of Albanian life. It opened in its present form in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d7df1373-8b7b-4122-9934-91a1b0e5bb48) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marubi_Museum_Photography_in_Shkodër_Albania.jpg
- **2023-07-19**, The fortress of Krujë. The walls of Krujë with the museum tower rising inside them. The League of Lezhë, formed in 1444, made this fortress the centre of Albanian resistance to the Ottomans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/be8cb538-995d-42d8-a836-88aad220ec94) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musée_Skanderbeg.jpg
- **2023-07-27**, The Resurrection of Christ Orthodox Cathedral, Tirana. The Resurrection of Christ Cathedral in Tirana, seat of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania under Archbishop Anastasios, consecrated in 2012 on the site of a demolished predecessor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e6e40bee-fb85-497f-b5ae-eccee06f884d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resurrection_of_Christ_Orthodox_Cathedral_of_Tirana.jpg
- **2023-07-29**, Albanian Muslim community centre, London. The UK Albanian Muslim Community and Cultural Centre on Carlton Vale in London, photographed in 2023. Britain took in large numbers of Albanians from Kosovo and Albania from the 1990s onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4ca08044-69e8-4b70-9c3b-12bcb1af2485) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UK_Albanian_Muslim_Community_and_Cultural_Centre_-_2023-07-29.jpg
- **2023-08-11**, The Bektashi world headquarters in Tirana. The seat of the Bektashi order, whose leadership moved from Anatolia to Tirana in 1930 after the Turkish republic banned the dervish lodges. Suppressed in 1967, the order re-established itself here after 1990. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/254d9928-2af0-44b6-b0f0-8d0640cd9beb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Headquarters_of_the_Bektashi.jpg
- **2023-09-09**, Gazmend Freitag visits Ismail Kadare at his home in Qerret, 2023. Ismail Kadare photographed at his home in Qerret in September 2023, less than a year before his death. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8dfa18e9-f356-482a-a5b2-9d2876e1e5f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gazmend_Freitag_beim_Schriftsteller_Ismail_Kadare.jpg
- **2023-09-23**, 1944 Congress Monument, Përmet. The 1944 Congress Monument in Përmet's town centre, a socialist-era lapidar (memorial sculpture) commemorating the founding congress of communist Albania's anti-fascist government. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6b8390dd-f0a1-4ecc-a520-342ed29abc82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumenti_i_Kongresit_t%C3%AB_P%C3%ABrmetit.jpg
- **2023-10-15**, Bronze bust of Gjon Buzuku. A modern bronze bust of Gjon Buzuku, author of the 1555 Meshari, by sculptor Ilia Doko. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/402f7218-4244-4e8c-87ad-b861c2abd111) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GjonBuzuku.jpg
- **2023-11-28**, Performance at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Tirana. A 2023 performance at Tirana's National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the venue that later hosted Ismail Kadare's state funeral in July 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ed52f019-3811-4fb4-8680-3ff6e9700631) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shfaqje_n%C3%AB_TKOB_02.jpg
### 2024
- **2024-01-14**, The economics of self-reliance. An examination of how communist Albania tried to build a closed, self-supplying economy after breaking with Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and finally China, and what that policy cost. It draws on Blendi Fevziu's biography of Enver Hoxha. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8d6ff9f0-e1bd-4105-b10d-1d0e5b4276f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOXEj7Oiv_o
- **2024-03-15**, Ballakume and revani, the desserts of Dita e Verës. Ballakume and revani, the traditional sweets baked for Dita e Verës (Summer Day) on 14 March, a pagan-rooted spring festival centred on Elbasan and marked nationwide with bonfires and sweets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4bad5fe2-3ed8-412c-aa2c-f870318c06be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dita_e_Veres_01.jpg
- **2024-04-08**, Triangle byrek. Triangular byrek pastries, the phyllo pie Albanians eat most often, filled here in the classic folded shape sold from bakeries nationwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/403af59c-81dc-47e2-a967-5f1f73db80be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albanian_triangle_byrek.jpg
- **2024-05-04**, Inside the Skanderbeg Museum, Krujë. A gallery inside the National Museum Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu, built into the castle of Krujë. The museum tells the story of the 1443 to 1468 resistance from the fortress that withstood three Ottoman sieges. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/28bd3227-c871-4614-bc6f-d5228bf025c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brenda_Muzeut_të_Krujës.jpg
- **2024-05-04**, Collections of the Kruje museum. Displays in the historical museum at Kruje, where copies of Skanderbeg's helmet and sword stand in for originals held in Vienna. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/2e999065-a6ae-4d4b-91d2-91f336f1e2c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_historik_i_Kruës_05.jpg
- **2024-05-04**, Inside the Skanderbeg museum, Kruje. The interior of the national museum Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu at Kruje in 2024. The building, designed by Pranvera Hoxha, wraps the story of the 1443-1468 resistance around the castle ruins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4d03955d-941f-43e1-a328-6bbf35e27560) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brenda_Muzeut_të_Krujës2.jpg
- **2024-05-04**, Skanderbeg statue at San Basile, Calabria. A statue of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg in San Basile, one of the Arbëresh villages founded by Albanians who crossed to Italy after the Ottoman conquest. The communities have kept their language for five centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/6e500fd3-8e07-46ce-bb04-6c71d98e5bec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statua_Skanderbeg_San_Basile.jpg
- **2024**, Alban Skënderaj - Pranvera. A recent official single by Alban Skënderaj, one of contemporary Albania's most consistently popular male pop vocalists since his 2005 Top Fest debut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b55391e8-62e3-4f65-8c23-0de69e9cc620) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtVUgEPDBgI
- **2024**, Anri Sala - Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles. Gallery walkthrough footage of Anri Sala's video/sound/light installation 'Time No Longer' at Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, the Albanian artist who represented the country at the Venice Biennale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/48e3e32d-0df2-4182-b011-1c19516b00fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqmXJsWhDAk
- **2024-07-12**, Over the pass from Valbona to Theth. A complete account of the day-long walk between Valbona Valley and Theth national parks, filmed along the trail. The crossing is the main way through the Albanian Alps and has reshaped both villages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/73ab5108-a800-49a8-b0fd-7c92d4a62c81) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMqbsSJd04
- **2024-08-24**, Memorial to the Cham victims at Kllogjer. A monument at Kllogjer to the Cham Albanians killed and driven out of Epirus at the end of the Second World War. Tens of thousands crossed into Albania in 1944 and 1945 and never went back. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5e7b2e0f-0da1-48a6-94ee-c8c840e0b589) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_love_Çamëria.jpg
- **2024-09-29**, Skanderbeg monument on the field of Vajkal, Bulqizë. A monument to Skanderbeg on the plain of Vajkal in the Bulqizë highlands, where his forces fought the Ottomans. Rural sites like this carry the memory of the campaigns as strongly as the museums do. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d6218542-391a-4585-93df-ae6856535e7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumenti_I_Skënderbeut_në_fushën_e_Vajkalit_Bulqizë.jpg
- **2024-10-20**, St Mary's monastery church at Dhermi. The historic monastery church of St Mary above Dhermi on the Albanian Riviera, with its graveyard, photographed in 2024. The Himara coast kept its Orthodox monasteries through the Ottoman centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/70ceb100-c096-4067-9db9-abc3c725b077) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himara,_Dhërmi,_Shën_Mërisë,_2024-10_CN-02.jpg
- **2024-12-23**, Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm \| Albania \| National Final Performance #Eurovision2025. Shkodra Elektronike's Festivali i Këngës 63 national-final performance of 'Zjerm', which went on to place 8th for Albania at Eurovision 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/9e543fb2-1ee8-4d53-92a4-8d0d333a30d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNT1SmmxuIk
### 2025
- **2025-02-05**, Cham memorial in Elbasan. A monument in Elbasan to the Cham Albanians, the Muslim Albanian population of Greek Epirus who left or were driven out at the end of the Second World War. Many of the families resettled in towns like this one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d0d26ba6-a5d5-4469-8977-133bfdef9372) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cham_monument_Elbasan.jpg
- **2025-02-19**, The Duam bukë memorial in Kavajë. A memorial in Kavajë carrying the words Duam bukë, we want bread. Kavajë was one of the towns where public protest against the old order became open at the start of the 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/bad3afd5-1a89-4a40-a75c-c99ae1891013) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memorali_Duam_Buke_Kavaje.jpg
- **2025-02-19**, Partisan memorial in Berat. The partisan memorial in Berat, the town where the National Liberation Front formed its provisional government in October 1944. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/d7efe5a8-d6d4-4eeb-a31f-07ea3f73bb03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partisan_memorial_Berat.jpg
- **2025-02-19**, Lushnje history museum from the air. An aerial view of the history museum at Lushnje in 2025. The Congress of Lushnje met here in January 1920, rejected the partition of Albania planned by the Paris peace conference and moved the capital to Tirana. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e6a1f43f-f603-4529-8740-5a234dbf1725) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_Lushnjë_Muzeu_Historik.jpg
- **2025-03-08**, Krujë castle above the plain. The walls of Krujë on their ridge, with the coastal plain falling away below. The position is why the fortress held out through three Ottoman sieges. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4cc1b7a5-586f-489e-a35f-44d00eaf332c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalaja_e_Krujës_-_Krujë_03.jpg
- **2025-03-19**, Lapidar at Peza e Vogël. A partisan monument at Peza e Vogël, near the village where the National Liberation Movement held its founding conference in September 1942. Thousands of such lapidars were raised across Albania between the 1960s and the 1980s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e2c27b24-a049-4fe0-9894-c73db00bb6a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lapidari_Pezës_të_Vogël_-_©_Shkëlzen_Rexha.jpg
- **2025-04-05**, Tirana's Rock completed. The finished Skanderbeg Building on the edge of the central square in 2025. Its jagged form was designed to echo the mountains, and it now dominates every view of the square. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ca8ab265-9abc-4ad1-998e-bd7b3980112e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tirana's_Rock_2025.jpg
- **2025-04-19**, Inside the Marubi museum. A display of prints and plate cameras in the Marubi museum at Shkodër. Pjetër Marubi opened the first photographic studio in Albania here in the 1850s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/399bf76b-000f-4385-9c37-b2e226a2d3b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muzeu_Marubi_(18707).jpg
- **2025-04-19**, The Gjon Markagjoni tower, Shkoder. The stone tower attached to the Shkoder historical museum belonged to the Markagjoni family, chiefs of Mirdita. Fortified tower houses like this were the standard architecture of the northern clans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4d5cb2bd-e726-4b36-9058-402c030a5380) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkodra_Historic_Museum_06.jpg
- **2025-04-19**, The historical museum of Shkoder. 's archaeological, ethnographic and photographic collections, including Marubi material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/8eeccc96-9fb0-4198-b17a-b07077add419) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shkodra_Historic_Museum_03.jpg
- **2025-04-19**, Rozafa fortress above Shkoder. Rozafa stands on the ridge where the Buna and Drin meet, an Illyrian stronghold rebuilt by Venice and the Ottomans. The legend of the woman walled into its foundations is one of the best known Albanian stories. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/e1f68623-eec4-4a3a-bd8f-4319d6613059) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalaja_e_Rozafës_(Shkodër)_16.jpg
- **2025-05-18**, Skanderbeg in Piana degli Albanesi. Gezim Muriqi's statue of Skanderbeg stands in Piana degli Albanesi in Sicily, an Arberesh town that has kept the Albanian language and the Byzantine rite since the fifteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ddbe0ab0-83cd-4c7f-99da-322fcc11bc83) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Skanderbeg_in_Piana_degli_Albanesi,_Sicily.jpg
- **2025-05-23**, Martyrs' cemetery at Kuc. The Martyrs' Cemetery below the village of Kuc. Every district in Albania was given a cemetery like this for its partisan dead, laid out with the same star and the same rows of identical stones. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0f318a6c-8672-4441-8aa5-f93b1823d19d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuç_Martyrs'_Cemetery.jpg
- **2025**, What Is Ismail Kadare's Impact On Albanian Literature? - Talking Southeast Europe. A 2025 discussion programme on Ismail Kadare's impact on Albanian literature, made after his death. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/35c7918e-b631-4090-a145-4d9695549fe3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9b59S8h6vQ
- **2025-07-09**, Skanderbeg on horseback in Skopje. The equestrian statue of Skanderbeg in the Albanian quarter of Skopje. His figure serves as a common reference point for Albanians across the region. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/580e2dbc-bfa6-4c0e-ab50-afae127ef148) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gjergj_Kastrioti_Skanderbeg_socha_v_Skopje.jpg
- **2025-07-09**, Inside the dome of the Et'hem Bey Mosque. The painted interior dome of the Et'hem Bey Mosque in Tirana, the neoclassical Ottoman mosque whose unauthorised 1991 reopening by ten thousand worshippers marked the public end of the atheist-state era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/93fba226-abe7-4408-b665-20a5e8fc2c9f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dome_of_Et%27hem_Bey_Mosque,_July_2025.jpg
- **2025-08-21**, Hoxha, the dictator next door. An Italian documentary on Enver Hoxha, the ruler across the Adriatic whose regime shaped four decades of Albanian life and whose repression is still argued over. It follows his rise and the apparatus he built around himself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b61ca388-8541-4276-bf74-642fd23d3775) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unqsg7S5Lg8
- **2025-09-01**, Statue of Queen Geraldine in Tirana. The bronze of Geraldine Apponyi, Hungarian-born queen of the Albanians, unveiled in Tirana in 2022. She married Zog in April 1938 and left the country with him a year later, two days after giving birth, as Italian troops landed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/11501e89-31de-495a-bdba-76fd4605ccf2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Géraldine_Apponyi,_Tirana,_2025.jpg
- **2025-11-16**, Buthrotum above the Vivari channel. A survey of Butrint, the ancient Buthrotum, whose occupation runs from the eighth and seventh centuries BC through Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Venetian phases. The site lies on Albania's southern coast between Lake Butrint and the sea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1bd8e43e-e428-40de-bdcd-a652e9360c44) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0q7vWfTtGw
- **2025-11-26**, Gjirokastra marks twenty years of protection. Local television from Gjirokastra on the celebrations for two decades of international protection for Albanian iso-polyphony, first proclaimed in 2005. The town marked it with singing in the old quarter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ee91bfaa-4611-4d98-898b-ee8f71f5a764) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISargyY0wlc
- **2025-12-20**, Festivali i Këngës 64 - Nata Finale (livestream). Official RTSH livestream of the Festivali i Këngës 64 grand final, the annual state song contest (since 1962) that selected Albania's Eurovision 2026 entry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/5e1eb4ca-4c1c-4e61-88ca-ac56e121d1b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXSet3X1Ie0
### 2026
- **2026-01-01**, Over the pass from Theth to Valbona. A multi-day crossing of the Albanian Alps from Theth over the pass to Valbona and north to Cerem near the Montenegrin border. The route runs through high summer villages and empty limestone country. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/50911827-6f06-4af4-beaa-afae0aa3e16b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMhTEBUXOqY
- **2026-02-14**, Dua Lipa at a Berlin premiere, February 2026. Dua Lipa, the British-Albanian/Kosovar pop star, photographed at a film premiere event in Berlin in February 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/3add89e2-b5e7-4dfe-973f-7f7662e6a7a2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dua_Lipa-69798.jpg
- **2026-03-02**, Skanderbeg Square at night, Tirana. The central square of Tirana after dark, rebuilt as a pedestrian space in the 2010s. The National History Museum and its mosaic front stand on its northern side. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/01af45fc-7a12-44fe-b8a9-8bd0f1559abb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ciudad_de_Tirana_de_noche_03.jpg
- **2026-05-22**, Berat above the Osum. A walk through Berat, whose Mangalem and Gorica quarters and hillside castle preserve one of the best kept Ottoman townscapes in the country. The tiers of windowed houses rise straight from the Osum river. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0d9117f8-9b77-4943-abb9-1068a23ed32b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVfQur6Dus
- **2026-06-07**, Wedding procession through Krume. A wedding procession moving through the streets of Krume in Has, in the far north-east, in June 2026. The convoy of cars with horns and flags has replaced the horseback procession but the ritual is the same. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/69ac93b5-012f-41dd-8254-988efe221186) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krume_06-2026_108.jpg
- **2026-06-07**, Memorial at the Qafë Prush crossing. A memorial at the Qafë Prush pass on the border between Has in Albania and Kosovo. The crossing was closed for most of the communist period and reopened only after 1990. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ca89f587-8ace-4077-b10d-61b01e98ea1c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krume_06-2026_143.jpg
- **2026-06-07**, Partisan memorial at Krumë. The partisan memorial in Krumë, the small highland centre of the Has district. Monuments to the wartime resistance were built in almost every Albanian town. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/ee90594d-539e-427e-b1b2-614cc1f36937) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partisan_Memorial_Krume_06-2026_066.jpg
- **2026-06-13**, Türbes and graves at the Bektashi World Center. Türbes (mausoleum shrines) and graves within the walled Bektashi World Center in Tirana, photographed in June 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/f4176d0d-d4d5-459f-8391-235fb9565edf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qendra_Bot%C3%ABrore_Bektashiane_2026_%E2%80%93_tyrbet.jpg
- **2026-06-14**, Flamingo Revolution protest on Skanderbeg Square. Demonstrators fill Skanderbeg Square on 14 June 2026 during the protests nicknamed the Flamingo Revolution, aimed at the government and at resort building inside protected wetlands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/fb7c2884-ab7a-4c6c-b272-12c3afda6b5a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flamingo_Revolution_Tirana_Protest_nr15_June_14_2026_04.jpg
- **2026**, Bust of Havzi Nela, Kukes. The bust of the teacher and poet Havzi Nela outside the school named after him in Kukes. Nela was hanged in 1988, the last public execution in communist Albania, for verses and views the state judged hostile. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/4691e014-ca3b-4bf8-92a7-592460923e75) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bust_i_Havzi_Nelës.jpg
- **2026**, Bust of Hasan Prishtina, Kukes. The bust of Hasan Prishtina outside the culture palace in Kukes. Prishtina led the Albanian revolt of 1912 that helped force the Ottoman government's hand months before independence was declared at Vlore. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/0900b196-0fa1-4cb4-9cc4-9eae89d1a773) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busti_i_Hasan_Prishtinës_-_Kukës.jpg
- **2026-07-04**, Protesters fill Boulevard Dëshmorët e Kombit. Demonstrators of the movement known as the Flamingo Revolution occupy Tirana's central boulevard on 4 July 2026. The avenue laid out under Zog and widened under Hoxha remains the stage for Albanian political life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/b2dce5e3-307b-4c2d-99d8-b5bc17671ad4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flamingo_Revolution_on_4_July_2026.jpg
- **2026-07-11**, Ye (Kanye West) performing at Eagle Stadium, Tirana, 2026. American rapper Ye (Kanye West) performing a major international concert at Eagle Stadium, Tirana, July 2026, evidence of Albania's growing role as an international live-music tour stop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/albania/scene/1efc2c8b-7a55-4816-804a-e57e4e7551df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ye_(f.k.a._Kanye_West)_performing_in_Eagle_Stadium_(Tirana,_Albania)_on_11_July_2026.jpg

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