Albanian tribes
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The Albanian tribes form a historical mode of social organization in Albania and the southwestern Balkans characterized by a common culture, often common patrilineal kinship ties and shared social tie
Portraits of Lambro the Suliote, and the old Balouk-Bashee of Dervitziana by Charles Robert Cockerell, published in 1820.
View of Albanian Palikars in Pursuit of an Enemy by Charles Robert Cockerell, published in 1820.
Shkreli tribesmen. Photo taken by William Le Queux before 1906.
A fortified tower (kullë) in Theth used as a safe haven for men involved in blood feuds.
Kelmendi (tribe)
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Kelmendi is a historical Albanian tribe and region in Malësia and eastern Montenegro. It is located in the upper valley of the Cem river and its tributaries in the Accursed Mountains range of the Dina
Albanian tribes
…lived in three geographical regions within northern Albania. Malësia e Madhe (great highlands) contained five large tribes, four of which (Hoti, Kelmendi, Shkreli, Kastrati) having a Catholic majority and Muslim minority and with Gruda evenly split between both religions. Within Malësia e Madhe there…
Copperplate etching of Kelmendi in Syrmia by Jacob Adam (1748-1811). It is possibly the first depiction of the Kelmendi fis.
Catholic church in Nikç.
Albanian bajraks (1918). Kelmendi bajraks are numbered 1–4.
A group of Kelmendi men, 1912.