information on the albanian culture?
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THAT IS A WIDE TOPIC:-)\nCULTURE MEANS MANY THINGS..... I'VE GIVING SOME LINKS BELOW TO INFORMATION ABOUT THE HISTORY....THE LITERATURE...\nTHE ART ...THE LANGUAGE...FAMOUS ....PEOPLE AND MORE....\n\nBUT I THINK THE NAME OF A COUNTRY IS IMPORTANT....IT SHOWS THE CARACTER OF THE PEOPLE....\n\nSO HERE THE FOLK TAIL OF HOW ALBANIA GOT IT'S NAME..\nWHY IT IS CALLED THE LAND OF THE EAGLE..  Shqipëria :-)  \n\n\nA youth was hunting in the mountains. An eagle flying above him alighted on top of a crag. The eagle was especially large and had a snake in its beak. After a while, the eagle flew away from the crag where it had its nest. The youth then climbed to the top of the crag where he saw, in the nest, an eaglet playing with the dead snake. But the snake wasn't really dead! Suddenly it stirred, revealed its fangs and was ready to pierce the eaglet with its deadly venom. The youth quickly took out his bow and arrow and killed the snake. Then he took the eaglet and started for his home. Suddenly the youth heard above him the loud whir of the great eagle's wings.\n\n"Why do you kidnap my child?" cried the eagle.\n\n"The child is mine because I saved it from the snake which you didn't kill," answered the youth.\n\n"Give me back my child, and I will give you as a reward the sharpness of my eyes and the powerful strength of my wings. You will become invincible, and you will be called by my name!"\n\nThus the youth handed over the eaglet. After the eaglet grew, it would always fly above the head of the youth, now a grown man, who with his bow and arrows killed many wild beasts of the forest, and with his sword slew many enemies of the land. During all of these feats, the eagle faithfully watched over and guided him.\n\nAmazed by the valiant hunter's deeds, the people of the land elected him king and called him Shqipëtar, which is to say Son of the Eagle (shqipe or shqiponjë is Albanian for eagle) and his kingdom became known as "Shqipëria" or Land of the Eagles.
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The myceanean culture had beautiful artwork. Lots of frescoes and pottery. I studied it for Classical Studies.\nCheck out http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&search-form=graphical/edu/main.html&submit-button=search\n\nOr the adult section if thats more relevant, there are links there. The more individual specimens you use on your assignment, including all the info u have on them, the higher your marks will be! GoodLuck!
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Is there a certain country you are looking for?  Here's a link I hope it helps.  If you need more info, let me know.  I have also been studying culture so I have a lot of resources depending on the situations or countries.
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+\nOh i would try the society and culture section of Yahoo.\nNOT
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Here's some info about it\nhttp://www.italianhospitalsociety.com/Pages/about%20us.htm
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You may try the following site:\nhttp://www.tarjem.com/
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Try these web\nhttp://istina.rin.ru/eng/para/gadanie.html\n\nhttp://www.powerfortunes.com/\n\nhttp://www.interactivelunacy.com/fortuneteller.htm\n\nhttp://www.handanalysis.com/
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Hi im Albanian, in fact here r not too much but i have seen some of them. For example an african football player is the goalkeeper of an albanian team, and there are acouple of them which play in other teams . and there are others that just live and work here.
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I have the perfect site for you to look up the information you  are looking for. It has myths listed from Aboriginal tribes up to the latest urban mythology. I am sure you will find this link most useful for your studies.
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Try this site www.farsidic.com or http://www.ariadic.com.
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Hi, Look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_mythology\n\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/goth/bow/bow11.htm\n\nhttp://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/literarystudies/MythsandMyth-Makers/chap2.html
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All the Greek culture you can stand ... enjoy!\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/greekculture.html
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I'm in Peja, Albanian (pronounced : payer) or Pec, Serbian (pron : petch). Its in the western part of Kosovo near the border of Montenegro. I'm working with the United Nations. I don't think its weird though - just a bit behind the rest of Europe.
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Albania is in the ancient territory of pelazgs and the people is direct descenders of illirians which are the late pelazgians...(pelazgs) those where the first humans in the Balkans...greeks (helen tribes - from Elleno -son of Deucalione e Pirra ) came later from those territories now called mongolia...Greeks were so cruel that they raped the girls and the wifes of the pelazgians in front of the husband dying. Later After Armenians accepted for the first time Christ Albania was visited by St Pietro who made Albania the 2nd christian country...so strong was this religion that Constantine (the emperor of Rome who legitimate Christianity) has his mother from Albanian territory..Albania gave to Rome 3 Emperors and 4 popes. The first document written in Albania is the baptize formula from the PAL ENGJELLI cardinal of Durres. The first texts written in Albania were also catholic texts. for 500 yrs Alb was under a strong pressure of the ottomans (was invaded) and those who does not convert in Muslims must pay 5 time more taxes...so great part of albanians converted themselves....until the 2nd part of the 1900 albanians made the death rites with a priest in the night and for the public they put the dead underground with a muslim hodja(the muslim priest).Skanderbeg fought against muslims for 25 years ...he was nominated cavalier of Christianity...he is Albanian national hero....the only one...what does this mean...\nthat Albania always belonged to Europe...geographically and in every other mean....\n\nAlbania is not a very strong religious country...80% converted in muslims and muslims here are not as the muslims in M.East...so we are tolerant....tolerant with our neighbors we never declared war to anyone of them, only they to us....this explain the greeks pretends and propaganda...but people must be informed....\n\n\n\nDown you can find the internet version of the Van Loon book-http://www.gutenberg.org\njust to say that greeks does not have the right to pretend to be the culture master and claim territory from Albania wich become smaller and smaller ....till now... Omerus him self said that Albania is older than Greece \n\nTHE GREEKS\n\nMEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE\nOF THE HELLENES WAS TAKING\nPOSSESSION OF GREECE\n\n\nTHE Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning\nto show the first signs of decay, and Hammurabi, the\nwise king of Babylon, had been dead and buried several centuries,\nwhen a small tribe of shepherds left their homes along\nthe banks of the River Danube and wandered southward in\nsearch of fresh pastures. They called themselves Hellenes,\nafter Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. According\nto the old myths these were the only two human beings who\nhad escaped the great flood, which countless years before had\ndestroyed all the people of the world, when they had grown\nso wicked that they disgusted Zeus, the mighty God, who lived\non Mount Olympus.\n\nOf these early Hellenes we know nothing. Thucydides,\nthe historian of the fall of Athens, describing his earliest\nancestors, said that they ``did not amount to very much,'' and\nthis was probably true. They were very ill-mannered. They\nlived like pigs and threw the bodies of their enemies to the wild\ndogs who guarded their sheep. They had very little respect\nfor other people's rights, and they killed the natives of the\nGreek peninsula (who were called the Pelasgians) and stole\ntheir farms and took their cattle and made their wives and\ndaughters slaves and wrote endless songs praising the courage\nof the clan of the Achaeans, who had led the Hellenic advance-\nguard into the mountains of Thessaly and the Peloponnesus.\n\nBut here and there, on the tops of high rocks, they saw\nthe castles of the AEgeans and those they did not attack for\nthey feared the metal swords and the spears of the AEgean\nsoldiers and knew that they could not hope to defeat them with\ntheir clumsy stone axes.\n\nFor many centuries they continued to wander fro
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Check out http://www.vakilno1.com
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http://www.frenchculture.org/education/
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http://www.greekmythology.com/