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Most Albanians live in Albania, a country bordered by the Adriatic and Ionian seas to the west, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia to the north and east, and Greece to the south. A third of all Albanians live outside Albania's political borders, with large Albanian communities in Greece and Italy, and smaller enclaves in Turkey, Egypt, Russia, and the United States. In Albania, there are two main regional groups, the Tosk and Gheg, each speaking a unique Albanian dialect of the same name. Extended households and clans were the basis of local social and political organization until the 1950s when they were replaced by a socialist collective system and afterwards in the 1990s by a democratic system. Islam, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and Catholicism are the three main religions practiced.

Some tribal origins, laws, and customs of the Balkans

High Albania and its customs in 1908

Women's emancipation and strategy of development in Albania

Last big zadrugas

The cultural ecology of Albanian extended family households in Yugoslav Macedonia

The unwritten law in Albania

Couvade in Albania

Some sources on the Unwritten Law in Albania

Rural land privatisation and distribution in Albania

The tractor, the shop, and the filling station

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A woman's work is never done

Autonomy, entanglement, and the feud

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)	Some tribal origins, laws, and customs of the Balkans	1928
Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)	High Albania and its customs in 1908	1910
Emadi, Hafizullah	Women's emancipation and strategy of development in Albania	1992
Erlich, Vera St.	Last big zadrugas	1976
Grossmith, Christopher J.	The cultural ecology of Albanian extended family households in Yugoslav Macedonia	1976
Hasluck, Margaret Masson Hardie	The unwritten law in Albania	1954
Hasluck, Margaret Masson Hardie	Couvade in Albania	1939
Kastrati, Qazim	Some sources on the Unwritten Law in Albania	1955
Lemel, Harold Walter	Rural land privatisation and distribution in Albania	1998
Nicholson, Beryl	The tractor, the shop, and the filling station	2004
Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie	Culture Summary	2012
Senturia, Kirsten Diana White	A woman's work is never done	1997
Shryock, Andrew	Autonomy, entanglement, and the feud	1988

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