Albanian Gallery

Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Memorial wall dedicated

Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Memorial wall dedicated to Pepe George Kastrioti Skanderbeg (1405A?i?1468). National hero and a key figure of the Albanian National Awakening Battle scene. Albanians fight against the Ottomans. National Skanderbeg Museum. Kruje. Albania

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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King Peter I of Serbia - capture of Durres from the Ottomans

King Peter I of Serbia (1844-1921, reigned from 1903 - 1921) in all his regal finery on horseback astride the border of Serbia and Albania, to signify his re-capture of Durres from the Ottoman Turks during the First Balkan War in 1912. Date: 1912

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Relief with a lion and tree. Mesopotam. Albania

BYZANTINE ART. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. St. Nicholas Church, built in the XIII and remodeled in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Relief with a lion and tree. Mesopotam

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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