#albanija

[nemanjak]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Nicolas de Largillière [French. 1656 - 1746] Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant. 1696 - The notion that there were no slaves in France was readily extrapolated from the legal code promoted by the minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, whose portrait hangs in this gallery. But exceptions abounded, particularly for families with wealth derived from the slave trade between France and its colonies. This portrait is an explicit document of the reality of a societal structure based on theories of pseudoscientific racism formulated in government-sanctioned academies: a white woman clad in resplendent silk dominates, her scale and placement constructed to inspire reverential admiration, while a Black child wearing a hinged metal slave collar is positioned subserviently to her side. His pictorial equation with the dog, a symbol of fidelity, alludes to enslavers’ fantasy of a natural order of racialized hierarchy.

[ti-i-ja-mozda-nekada]

[zemratethyeraa]

a ta kom thon naj here

qe t’kom zgjedh

pa u menu dy her?

💔.

[albanian-studies]

MEGA Folder with pdf books

Here’s the link to a MEGA folder I made with books and resources, all of them are in pdf format.

What the folder contains:

Albanisch - Wort für wort (Albanian studying book in German)

English-Albanian-Serbian Dictionary of Custom Services

Sketch of the Grammar and a Brief Dictionary of Albanian Language (lots of dictionary words and very few explanations)

Expanded and Improved Pattern Drills to Supplement Spoken Albanian (Old Tosk Spoken Albanian book)

Albanian Basic Course Workbook for Exercises (Written in Gheg dialect)

Albansko-srpskohrvatski rečnik (Albanian-Serbocroatian dictionary)

Readings in Albanian (Newspaper articles and passages in Albanian, with most of the words being translated alongside)

Gramatika e gjuhes shqipe 简明阿尔巴尼亚语语法 (Albanian Grammar book in Chinese) (Actually written during the communistic era of Albania, so yeah a lot of communist propaganda)

Note: I did not participate in the writing of any of these books. All rights go to respective authors.

[balkanorthodoxy]

Albanian Orthodox woman in traditional clothes, Shkodër, Mikel Marubi (1922)

[s-miles]

Sa me zhgënjyeve

[lutnistas]

Krujë Castle ( Albania )