They are the excesses of a dictator who was determined to make his country one of the most isolated nations in the world. At the height of the Cold War, the Stalinist leader Enver Hoxha dotted Albania ...

In Spaniard Marco Lledo Escartin’s debut ‘The Invocation of Enver Simaku,’ a journalist investigating his partner’s death gets caught up in the supernatural side of life in Albania. By Jonathan ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...

For four decades, he ruled Albania with an iron fist, imposing Stalinist principles and leading the western Balkan state into isolation and poverty. So the idea that his former home in central Tirana ...

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal. This post is also ...

During the mass CND marches of more than 30 years ago, groups travelling to London would amuse themselves by singing an absurd anthem that went “Enver Hoxha is our Leader, Happy! Happy! Happy!” There ...

Fearing invasion during the Cold War, Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha forced his country to build tens of thousands of bunkers. Long after the regime’s collapse, many still remain. It is a spring morning ...

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MOUNT SHPIRAG, Albania (Reuters) - It took Sheme Filja 10 days and an army of villagers to paint the name "ENVER" on the side of Albania's Mount Shpirag in 1968, in tribute to then communist dictator ...

In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s history of isolation and ...