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More Balkan ephemera…

An Albanian 1 Lek coin from 1931. Albania, in the early part of the twentieth century, had a complex, and at times farcical history. Emerging from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after the Balkan wars, at first the European … Continue reading

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Other people’s history

History is a strange and slippery thing, full of truths, half-truths, and strange inexplicable seeming events. And so it is when you watch other people’s tv. Sometimes it turns out what you think you know isn’t quite true. For example, … Continue reading

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