The Price of Amnesia: Interpretations of vendetta in Albania
The Price of Amnesia: Interpretations of vendetta in Albania

Summary/Abstract: The Albanians are descended from the ancient Illyrians, from whom they inherited their language, customs and, to some extent, traditional legal systems. What is really disturbing about Albanian history is that even apparently trivial statements like this cannot be ventured without raising the spectre of "mythologisation". We know almost nothing of the Illyrians, except that they populated the Western end of the Balkan peninsula until the 5th or 6th Century AD. Then all trace of them is lost, like the Traks, Avars, Visigoths, Daks and numerous other tribes and tribal alliances of the period.

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