“Albanianism,” wrote the 19th-century poet Pashko Vasa, was his country’s one true faith. Not many outsiders will get the ...

Local police helped federal authorities arrest an Albanian man wanted for the deaths of three people in Belgium and Albania ...

Enver Hoxha’s empty villa stands in the centre of the revitalised Blloku district of Tirana. Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy Enver Hoxha’s villa in central Tirana, once sealed off by the Albanian secret ...

Littering the Albanian countryside and mountain valleys are hundreds of thousands of little concrete bunkers. These bunkers – bunkerët, were built from the 1960s to the 1980s, during the communist ...

This is the first in an occasional series on books written by some of the world's most notorious dictators. The author's goal is to subject himself to as much tyrant prose as he can bear, reporting ...

Between 1944 and 1985, the small Balkan nation of Albania was ruled by a strange, sociopathic and, frankly, completely mad dictator by the name of Enver Hoxha. While Stalinism effectively ended in ...

When Enver Hoxha, Albania's long-term Stalinist dictator, was buried with honour under the socialist-realist statue of Mother Albania in the martyrs' cemetery in Tirana, the date of his death - 11 ...

Like other powerful women in the traditionally male-dominated societies of the Balkans during the communist era, Nexhmije Hoxha, Albania’s “first lady” for more than 40 years, owed her influence to ...

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