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The Siege is a historical novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella (The Castle).It concerns the siege of an unnamed Albanian fortress by troops of the Ottoman Empire during the time of Skanderbeg, loosely based on the historical Siege of Krujë (1450).
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the remains of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. [1]
Ismail Kadare was born on 28 January 1936, in the Kingdom of Albania during the reign of King Zog I.He was born in Gjirokastër, a historic Ottoman fortress–city in the mountains, made up of tall stone houses in what is today southern Albania, a dozen miles from the border with Greece.
Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine (originally in Albanian: Kush e solli Doruntinën) is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine .
Constantin and Doruntine (Albanian: Kostandini dhe Doruntina), or Constantin's Besa (Albanian: Besa e Kostandinit), is an Albanian ballad and legend. It is also narrated in a prose version [1] The legend has been narrated also: As a novel written by Ismail Kadare named in Albanian Who brought Doruntine back? (Albanian: Kush e solli Doruntinën?
Kështjella shqip e Kafkës, roman (a novel): Veli Karahoda: 9788677850029: Amazon.com: Books This page was last edited on 10 November 2024, at 20:17 (UTC). ...
Settling a Frontier Dispute by Richard Caton Woodville, 1880.. The main theme of the cycle is the brave warfare between the Albanian heroes (Albanian: kreshnikë or trima, and aga), who have supernatural strength and an extremely large body holding ordinary family lives, and opposing Slavic warriors (Albanian: shkje and krajla), who are likewise powerful and brave, but without besë.
Buragajet Castle, or Castle Burgajet, (Albanian: Kalaja e Burgajetit or Kështjella e Burgajetit, also known as the Kështjella e Zogollëve or Kështjella e Zogut) was a large fortified house, located in Burgajet in northern Mat, Albania.