I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever." - Edith Durham
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
- Edith Durham
I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Tu… - Edith Durham
I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Tu…
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first on… - Edith Durham
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first on…
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords. - Edith Durham
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
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