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Archaeology in Albania after Kosovo.(Brief Article)

History Today,  March, 2000  by Hodges, Richard

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NOVEMBER 1998 MARKED the fiftieth anniversary of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology. Enver Hoxhe, Albania's post-war Communist dictator, formerly opened a prototype Institute in 1948 and appointed its first director. With Soviet support the Institute grew steadily, embarking upon a programme of large-scale excavations to determine the indigenous Illyrian origins of the Albanian people. In the early 1970s the Institute was given its own building with a museum, and was provided with state funding for an annual scientific journal, Illiria.

In these years there was a sense of ...

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