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  2. Zori - Wikipedia

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    In the Edo period (1603-1867), the production of zori became professionalized, and a variety of fancy types of zori emerged, using fancier materials. [2] While zori were still commonly woven of rice straw ( wara-zōri 藁 草履 ( わら ぞうり ) , literally "straw zori"), rushes of various kinds and bamboo sheath were also used. [ 3 ]

  3. Albanian Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Albanian Wikipedia (Albanian: Wikipedia Shqip) is the Albanian language edition of Wikipedia started on 12 October 2003. As of 12 December 2024, the Wikipedia has 100,956 articles and is the 73rd-largest Wikipedia.

  4. Geta (footwear) - Wikipedia

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    Ordinarily, people wear slightly more formal zori when wearing tabi. Geta are worn with the foot overhanging the back and a finger-width of space between the strap and the skin webbing between the toes. The toes pinch the strap to lift the toe of the geta. Wearing them otherwise can make balancing more difficult and blisters more likely. [4]

  5. Waraji - Wikipedia

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    Waraji woven entirely from rice straw (somewhat finer straw, and more tightly packed, than the festival zori above) Waraji with two different-coloured fibers for the warp and weft . Side loops are made from the outer warps of the opposite side; each is woven as a weft across, made into a side loop, and woven back again, trapping the loop

  6. Albanian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known mention of Albanian writings comes from a French Catholic church document from 1332. [10] [11] Written either by archbishop Guillaume Adam or the monk Brocardus Monacus the report notes that Licet Albanenses aliam omnino linguam a latina habeant et diversam, tamen litteram latinam habent in usu et in omnibus suis libris ("Though the Albanians have a language entirely their ...

  7. Albanian language - Wikipedia

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    Albanian (endonym: shqip ⓘ, gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ], or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group. [9] It is the native language of the Albanian people.

  8. Albanian tribes - Wikipedia

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    The Albanian tribes (Albanian: fiset shqiptare) form a historical mode of social organization (farefisní) in Albania and the southwestern Balkans characterized by a common culture, often common patrilineal kinship ties and shared social ties.

  9. Zorya - Wikipedia

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    Vy zori-zirnytsi, vas na nebi tri sestrytsi: odna nudna, druga pryvitna, a tretia pechal'na You dawn-stars, you three sisters in the sky: one dull, the second welcoming, and the third sorrowful. Zorya also patronized marriages, as manifested by her frequent appearance in wedding songs, and arranged marriages between the gods.