Archive for August, 2010
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In a pamphlet written in 1416 by the Byzantine satirist Mazaris, ‘The Sojourn of Mazaris in Hades’, there is an imaginary letter dated 21 September 1415 and addressed from the Peloponnese to one Holobolos of the Underworld, which describes the condition then existing in the peninsula:

We are going to present in following some pieces from a journal reportage of some European travelers* who met
Albanian ruler of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha (1769 – 1849)**. This journal paper goes to them who thought Albanians as newcomers in Macedonia, while allevidences support the contrary. Alexander the Great has left his traces in memory of native people of Macedonia. That’s why Albanians of Macedonia never forgot their hero and were inspired to follow him.

