[ALBSA-Info] [balkans] New Books

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DOCUMENTS ON CHAMERIA
1912-1939
Collected and introduced by Dr. Kaliopi Naska
In original: DOKUMENTE PER CAMERINE

Publisher "Dituria Publishing House", with the assistance of
the General Directorate of Albanian Archives
Tirana, 1999
ISBN 99927-31-69-9
Pages 743


The book contains 391 archival documents of the Albanian administration, of 
various international organizations, by representatives of the people of 
Chameria and other Albanian territories.  Ninety percent of the documents are 
published for the first time.

The documents are in Albanian, and many in French, English and a few in Greek.  
The book includes a geographical, name and subject matter index.

Chameria is the region assigned to Greece in the London Conference of 
Ambassadors of 1913.    This publication reflects the efforts of the Chameria 
people and those of the Albanian state to protect the human rights of the Chams 
during the period from Albania's independence in 1912 up to her occupation by 
Italy in 1939.

The book fills a vacuum in the field of the Albanian-Greek diplomatic relations 
as well as the history, ethnicity, anthropology, customs, laws, folklore, and 
other features  of the region.