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King Zog of Albania :

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0814782833

(Number (ISBN

9780814782835

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bc1010690

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

King Zog of Albania :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Europe's self-made Muslim king /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jason Hunter Tomes.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Washington Square, N.Y. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

New York University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vii, 312 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-303) and index.

Text of Note

"Shortly before 5 p.m., on Saturday, September 1, 1928, Europe gained a new kingdom and its only Muslim king: 32 year old Zog I of the Albanians. Few foreign journalists were present in the Parliament House in Tirana to hear him swear his oath on the Koran and the Bible, yet the birth of the Kingdom of Albania - a native monarchy, not an alien imposition - did not go unnoticed abroad. The strangeness of his name saw to that." "King Zog was a curiosity, and so he has remained: the most unusual European monarch of the twentieth century, a man entirely without royal connections who created his own kingdom. By contemporaries, he was variously labelled "the last ruler of romance," "an appalling gangster," "the modern Napoleon," "the finest patriot," and "frankly a cad." Even today his reputation is disputed, but Zog was undeniably one of the foremost figures in Albanian history. Though notorious for cutthroat political intrigue, he promised to bring order and progress to a land that had long known little of either. "It was I who made Albania," he claimed." "Zog's reign ended in 1939; Italian Fascists forced him into exile and post-war Stalinists kept him there despite his best efforts to return. In this first full biography, Jason Tomes explores the reality behind the man described in The Times as "the bizarre King Zog" and shows him to have been the product of a unique time and place. People who live in secure, stable countries are invited to set aside their assumptions about modern European monarchy and meet a king who fired back at assassins and paid his bills with gold bullion."--Jacket.

Title

King Zog of Albania.

Zog, I,1895-1961.

Zog, I,1895-1961

Zog, I,1895-1961.

Zogu (Albanien, König, I.)

Zogu, I,1895-1961.

Nationalism-- Albania.

Nationalisme-- Albanie.

15.70 history of Europe.

Albania.

Biographies, memoirs and correspondance.

Civilization.

Government.

Heads of State and Heads of government.

Kings and rulers.

Koningen (vorsten)

Monarchy.

Nationalism-- Albania-- History.

Nationalism.

Political history.

Politics.

Royal families.

Albania, Civilization, 20th century.

Albania, History, 1912-1944, Biography.

Albania, Kings and rulers, Biography.

Albanie, Histoire, 1912-1944, Biographies.

Albania, Civilization, 20th century.

Albania, History, 1912-1944.

Albania, Kings and rulers, Biography.

Albania.

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Tomes, Jason.

Date of Transaction

20220908125403.0

Electronic name

[Book]

270410

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