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Gheg or Geg (Gheg Albanian: gegnisht, Standard Albanian: gegërisht) is one of the two major varieties of Albanian, the other being Tosk. The geographic...

The Ghegs (also spelled as Gegs; Albanian: Gegët) are one of two major ethnic subgroups of Albanians (the other being the Tosks). They are differentiated...

The Albanians of Kosovo (Albanian: Shqiptarët e Kosovës, pronounced [ʃcipˈtaɾət ɛ kɔˈsɔvəs]), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovan Albanians, Kosovars...

after the settlement of the Albanians in roughly their present location, so that the speech area straddled the Jireček Line". Gheg is divided into four sub-dialects:...

Zealand. Albanian Tosk Northern Tosk Labërisht Cham Arvanitika Arbëresh Gheg Northwest Gheg Northeast Gheg Central Gheg Southern Gheg The Albanian language...

1912. Albanian traditional clothing, with its contrasting variations for the northern Gheg and southern Tosk Albanians, is a testament to Albania's history...

(/tɪˈrɑːnə/ tih-RAH-nə, Albanian pronunciation: [tiˈɾana]; Gheg Albanian: Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre...

The first women's association in Albania was founded in 1909. Albanian women from the northern Gheg region resided within a conservative and patriarchal...

Albanian ethnonym (endonym), by which Albanians call themselves. They call their country Shqipëria (Gheg Albanian: Shqypnia, Shqipnia). The first documentation...

1555 by the Catholic Gheg, Gjon Buzuku, in his missal), North Albanians (Ghegs) referred to themselves as Arbën, and South Albanians (Tosks) Arbër. Hence...

ancient and medieval Albanians used by Albanians. The Albanian language was referred to as Arbërisht (Gheg Albanian: Arbënisht). While the country was called...

beliefs of Tosk Albanians. Albanian mythological figures related to fate and destiny can also be found in the folk beliefs of Gheg Albanians with the name...

(also Gheg Albanian: Kanû/-ja, other names include Albanian: doke, zakon, venom, usull, itifatk, adet, sharte, udhë, rrugë) is a set of Albanian traditional...

Zonja e Dheut (also Gheg Albanian: Zôja e Dheut) is the Albanian name for the Earth Goddess. In Albanian folk beliefs, earth is the object of a special...

various states and groups—such as the Seljuks, the Ottomans, even the Albanians (Turkalvanoi)". "Jorge Amado: São turcos ou árabes?". Brasilturquia.com...

ethnonym for Albanians would appear as Arbanasi. Meanwhile, the Albanians, during the Middle Ages, referred to their country as Arbëria (Gheg Albanian: Arbënia)...

geographic spread of the Albanians. It is likely that Albanians took refuge in the mountainous areas of northern and central Albania, eastern Montenegro,...

Proto-Albanian is the ancestral reconstructed language of Albanian, before the Gheg–Tosk dialectal diversification (before c. 600 CE). Albanoid and other...

Likewise, Lab Albanians may say they speak "shkip" ([ʃkip]), not shqip ([ʃcip]). Lab also has some features that are more typical of Gheg dialects than...

(natively: Arbëneshë) is a dialect of Gheg Albanian that is spoken in long-standing diaspora communities of Albanians in Croatia. Its speakers originated...