Albanians

Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) are an ethnic group native to Albania, Kosovo and neighboring countries in southwestern Balkans.

Drawings and Paintings

16th – 18th centuries

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  Unknown author: Georgius Scanderbek, unknown date, Uffizi, Florence.
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  Dominicus Custos (1560–1612): Georgius Castriotus Scanderbegus – Epiri & Albaniae & c. Princeps Anno 1444, ca. 1600.
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  Unknown author: The Albanians, unknown date.
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  Unknown author: Gran Visir Mehmed Köprülü of the Ottoman Empire, 1666.
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  Unknown author: Abdi Pasha the Albanian, unknown date.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737): An Albanian Shepherd, ca. 1700–1737.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour: A Woman of the Albanian Coast, ca. 1700–1737.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian Soldier, ca. 1700–1737.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian – Patrona Halil, ca. 1700–1737.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour: Patrona Halil, ca. 1700–1737.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour: The Murder of Patrona Halil and his Followers, ca. 1700–1737.
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  Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian Guard, ca. 1707.
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  Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752–1817): Albanian Soldiers, ca. 1782.
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  Unknown author: A woman of San Costantino Albanese, Matera, 1799.

19th century

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  Pierre Didot (1760–1853): A group of upper-class Albanians in Typical Dress, ca. 1850.
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  Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822): An Albanian of Greece, 1814.
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  John Hobhouse (1786–1869): An Albanian, 1812.
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  Thomas Smart Hughes (1786–1847): Portrait of Ali Pasha, 1820.
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  Thomas Smart Hughes: View of Albanian palikars in pursuit of an enemy, 1820.
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  Thomas Smart Hughes: Portraits of Lambro the Suliote, and the old Balouk-Bashee of Dervitzina, 1820.
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  Joseph Cartwright (1789–1829): An Albanian of Jannina, unknown date.
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  Louis Dupré (1789–1837): Ali Pasha of Janina Hunting on Lake Butrinto, 1825.
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  Thomas Phillips (1770–1845): Portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, 1813.
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  Auguste Couder (1789–1873): Mehmet Ali Viceroy of Egypt, 1841.
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  Horace Vernet (1789–1863): Massacre of Mamluks, ca. 1840.
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  Raymond Monvoisin (1790–1870): Ali Pasha and Vassiliki, 1832.
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  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875): The Albanian, ca. 1820.
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  Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863): Portrait of Omer Vrioni, unknown date.
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  Achille Devéria (1800–1857): Albanian Colonies in Calabria, 1840.
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  Paul Emil Jacobs (1802–1866): The Pasha's Favourite (Ali Pasha and Kira Vassiliki), 1844.
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  Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803–1860): Albanian Duel, 1828.
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  Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps: Albanian Dancers, ca. 1835.
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  Erwin Speckter (1806–1835): An Albanian, 1831.
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  Charles Gleyre (1806–1874): Albanian Peasant, Athens, unknown date.
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  Nicolas Dally: A young woman of Caraffa, Calabria, 1844.
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  Michela De Vito: Costume of the Albanian colony of Villabadessa, 1820.
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  Edward Lear (1812–1888): Costume of the Women of Abadessa, 1846.
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  Edward Lear: The Falls of the Kalama, Albania, 1851.
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  Edward Lear: Butrinto, Albania, 1861.
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  Constantin Lecca (1807–1887): An Albanian, unknown date.
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  Amedeo Preziosi (1816–1882): Albanian Mercenaries in the Ottoman Army, ca. 1857.
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  Amedeo Preziosi: An Albanian, ca. 1860.
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  Amedeo Preziosi: An Albanian, ca. 1866.
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  Theodore Valerio (1819–1879): Albanians, 1875.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904): Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert, 1857.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Prayers at the Home of an Albanian Chieftain, 1857.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanians Playing Chess, 1859.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: The Prisoner, 1861.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanian Guard in Cairo, 1861.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: A Joke – An Albanian Blowing Smoke into his Dog's Nose, 1864.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Prayer in the Desert, 1864.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian on his donkey crossing the desert, unknown date.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian with his Dog, 1865.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Old Clothing Merchant Seller in Cairo, 1866.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian with Two Whippets, 1867.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian in Cairo, unknown date.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Smoking, 1868.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Bashi-Bazouk Singing, 1868.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: A Street Schene, Albanian Patrol in Cairo, ca. 1870.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Bashi-Bazouk, 1896.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Marco Bozzari, 1874.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Bashi-Bazouk Chieftain, 1881.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Bashi-Bazouk, unknown date.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Standing at a Wall, unknown date.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: A Café in Cairo – Casting Bullets in a Café, 1881.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanians performing the sword-dance, 1885.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Public Prayer in a Mosque, 1887.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanian bashi-bazouks in a detail of Public Prayer in a Mosque, 1887.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Return to the Palace, 1892.
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  Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanian Officer, 1894.
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  Charles Bargue (1826–1883): The Albanian Sentinel, 1860.
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  Charles Bargue: The Albanian Sentinel in Cairo, 1877.
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  Charles Bargue: Head of a Young man. Study, ca. 1880.
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  Charles Wynne Nicholls (1831–1903): The Parting Of Conrad And Medora, unknown date.
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  Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904): Bashi-bazouk (Albanian), ca. 1877–1878.
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  Gyula Benczúr (1844-1920): The Recapture of Buda Castle in 1686, 1896.
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  Gyula Benczúr: Abdi Pasha the Albanian in a detail of The Recapture of Buda Castle in 1686, 1896.
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  Amand von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld (1856–1927): Albanians from Scutari crossing the Boyana to occupy Dulcigno, 1880.
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  Richard Caton Woodville, Jr (1846–1910): Albanian Frontier Guards at Prayer, 1889.
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  Richard Caton Woodville, Jr: Settling a Frontier Dispute, 1880.
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  Richard Caton Woodville, Jr: Albanian War-Dance, 1880.
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  Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld (1856–1913): Street scene, 1887.
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  Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld: A Montenegrin, 1888.
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  Unknoun author: The Albanian, 1871.
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  Kolë Idromeno (1860–1939): My Sister Tone, 1883.
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  Unknown author: A Geg Albanian, 1888.

20th century

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  Unknown author: Albanian Kachaks, ca. 1900.
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  Unknown author: Oso Kuka, 1901.
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  Franz Eisenhut (1857–1903): An Armed Albanian Standing, 1902.
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  Edith Durham (1863–1944): Head-shaves in Kastrati and Shkreli, Northern Albania, 1909.
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  Edith Durham (1863–1944): Tosk Costume, Southern Albania, 1905.
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  Percy Anderson (1851–1928): Albanian Peasants Costumes, 1906.
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  John Singer Sargent (1856–1925): Albanian olive pickers, 1909.
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  Kolë Idromeno (1860–1939): Wedding in Shkodra, 1924.
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  Kolë Idromeno: Self-portrait, 1931.
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  Kolë Idromeno: Courtyard of a Shkodra House, 1933.
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  Ettore De Maria Bergler (1850–1938): A Woman of Sicily in costume of Piana degli Albanesi, 1933.

Photography

Pietro Marubi (1834–1903)

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  Hamza Kazazi.
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  Catholic woman in Shkodra.
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  Albanian children from Shkodra.
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  A Catholic Albanian woman in Shkodra.
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  Albanians in the early 201th century.
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  An Albanian woman.
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  An Albanian woman in Grudë.
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  An Albanian man in Mirditë.
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  An Albanian man in Dukagjin.
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  An Albanian woman in Shkodra.
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  Albanian women and children in Dajç – Bregu i Bunës.
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  Catholic merchant from Shkodra.
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  An Albanian man in Shala.
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  Albanian man and woman in Elbasan.
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  An Albanian man in Kraja.
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  An Albanian woman in Vrakë.
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  An Albanian man in Peqin.
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  An Albanian man in Lorja.
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  Young albanian women in Kavajë.
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  Albanian men in Dibra.
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  Vatt Marashi, Chief of the Shkreli tribe.
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  Shkreli tribesman.

Edith Durham (1863–1944)

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  Shala men, Albania.
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  A young Sworn Virgin surrounded by men of the Kelmendi tribe, at Selca in Kelmendi territory, Albania.
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  Ferry over the Vjosa River near Tepelena, Albania.
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  Shpend Deli (Deli Shpend) and his men as refugees from Vuthaj/Vusanje, now in Montenegro.
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  A 47-year-old Sworn Virgin from Rapsha in Hoti territory, Albania.
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  Tribesmen visiting the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania.
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  Men of the Shkreli tribe at the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania.
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  Old Said of the Nikaj tribe, inspecting his flint lock gun, a karajfile, Albania.
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  Two men of the Plan tribe in the Pulat/Pult region who guided Edith Durham from Plan to Xhan and then on to Theth in the northern Albanian mountains.
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  Women of the Kastrati tribe, Albania.
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  Ren Vula, a Muslim boy from Gjakova (holding horse), and Edith Durham’s faithful guide, the moustached Mark Shantoja (Marko Shantoya), a Catholic from Shkodra; photo taken in Kosovo.
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  Edith Durham’s guide Krsto Pejović playing a gusle (Alb. lahuta) at Njeguši in Montenegro.
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  An Albanian walking in the streets of Cetinje, Montenegro.
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  Edith Durham speaking to the bajraktar (chieftain) of Koplik, Shkodra.

Franz Nopcsa (1877–1933)

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  Franz Nopcsa in Albanian costume.
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  Franz Nopcsa in Albanian costume.
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  An Albanian man in national costume.
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  An Albanian peasant woman near Shkodra.
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  An Albanian Muslim man.
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  The men of Blinisht in the District of Lezha.
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  Men of the Kir tribe, to the north of the Drin, in the Malësia e Vogël.
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  Men of Raja. Mërturi in the Drin valley of the District of Tropoja.
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  Group of Albanian men.
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  An Albanian in Skopje, 1903.
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  Albanians of Gruda, 1913.

Other

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  Albanian men.
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  Albanian men in Shkoder, 1904.
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  Albanian Highlanders, ca. 1904.
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  Armed Albanian men, 1906.
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  Albanian Insurgents in the Ottoman Empire.
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  Shkreli tribesmen, 1906.
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  Theodor Ippen in Albanian costume.
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  William James Joseph in Albanian costume.
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  Young Albanian in the upper Reka valley near Dibra, Macedonia.
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  Albanian fighters under Dutch command, 1913-1914.
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  Prince Wied’s interpreter in Durrës, ca. 1914.
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  Albanian woman and boy standing against a house wall, ca. 1914.
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  An Albanian man, 1917.
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  An Albanian man in Shkoder.
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  Azem and Shote Galica, 1920.
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  An Albanian rhapsod playing the lahuta.
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  Albanians playing traditional instruments in Has.