The Ardenica Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery, ten kilometers north of Fier, Albania.
The Ardenica Monastery is built by Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II Palaiologos in 1282.
The monastery is famous as the place where, in 1451, was celebrated the marriage of Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, with Andronika Arianiti.
Apollonia - the very impressive big roman town, has never really been excavated.
Apollonia was an ancient Greek city in Illyria, located on the right bank of the Aous river (modern-day Vjosë). Its ruins are situated in the Fier region, near the village of Pojani, in modern-day Albania. Apollonia was founded in 588 BCE by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth, on a site initially occupied by Illyrian tribes. Apollonia flourished in the Roman period and was home to a renowned school of philosophy, but began to decline in the 3rd century AD when its harbour started silting up as a result of an earthquake.
It is logical to build a church in the area, where the old town can act as a quarry.
Heavy winds meant that it was difficult to stand upright
New restaurants have been built in the very centre of the old town, a good example of individual Albanian entrepreneurship combined with lack of protection of the common assets.
Most of the ancient statues in the exhibition were stolen during the collapse of the Albanian state following the famous pyramid scheme collapse in 1997.
In the mid-1990s, Albania was transitioning into a liberalized market economy after years Communist leader Enver Hoxha; the rudimentary financial system became dominated by pyramid schemes, and government officials tacitly endorsed a series of pyramid investment funds. Many Albanians, approximately two-thirds of the population, invested in them.
In 1997, Albanians, who had lost $1.2 billion, took their protest to the streets where uncontainable rioting and attacks on government infrastructure led to the toppling of the government and the temporary existence of a stateless society.
The old Muradie Mosque in Vlore. Vlore is the second largest port city of Albania, after Durrës, with a population of 79,948. In Vlore the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912.
Vlore is founded as an ancient Greek colony in the 6th century BC by the name of Aulon and continuously inhabited for about 26 centuries.
Under Hoxha Vlore was an important recruiting centre for the Sigurimi, the secret police.
In 1997, Vlore was the center of popular riots after the collapse of several fraudulent investment (pyramid) schemes that led to the downfall of the Sali Berisha administration, and almost turned into a civil war.
The Ardenica Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery, ten kilometers north of Fier, Albania.
The Ardenica Monastery is built by Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II Palaiologos in 1282.
The monastery is famous as the place where, in 1451, was celebrated the marriage of Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, with Andronika Arianiti.
Apollonia - the very impressive big roman town, has never really been excavated.
Apollonia was an ancient Greek city in Illyria, located on the right bank of the Aous river (modern-day Vjosë). Its ruins are situated in the Fier region, near the village of Pojani, in modern-day Albania. Apollonia was founded in 588 BCE by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth, on a site initially occupied by Illyrian tribes. Apollonia flourished in the Roman period and was home to a renowned school of philosophy, but began to decline in the 3rd century AD when its harbour started silting up as a result of an earthquake.
It is logical to build a church in the area, where the old town can act as a quarry.
Heavy winds meant that it was difficult to stand upright
New restaurants have been built in the very centre of the old town, a good example of individual Albanian entrepreneurship combined with lack of protection of the common assets.
Most of the ancient statues in the exhibition were stolen during the collapse of the Albanian state following the famous pyramid scheme collapse in 1997.
In the mid-1990s, Albania was transitioning into a liberalized market economy after years Communist leader Enver Hoxha; the rudimentary financial system became dominated by pyramid schemes, and government officials tacitly endorsed a series of pyramid investment funds. Many Albanians, approximately two-thirds of the population, invested in them.
In 1997, Albanians, who had lost $1.2 billion, took their protest to the streets where uncontainable rioting and attacks on government infrastructure led to the toppling of the government and the temporary existence of a stateless society.
The old Muradie Mosque in Vlore. Vlore is the second largest port city of Albania, after Durrës, with a population of 79,948. In Vlore the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912.
Vlore is founded as an ancient Greek colony in the 6th century BC by the name of Aulon and continuously inhabited for about 26 centuries.
Under Hoxha Vlore was an important recruiting centre for the Sigurimi, the secret police.
In 1997, Vlore was the center of popular riots after the collapse of several fraudulent investment (pyramid) schemes that led to the downfall of the Sali Berisha administration, and almost turned into a civil war.
No comments:
Post a Comment