The prime suspect in the alleged homicide of a Greek man in the southern Albanian coastal town of Himare; a fatality that sparked heated local protests and top-level official statements in both Athens and Tirana, surrendered to police late on Sunday.
The man’s arrest comes on the heels of a high profile statement by Albanian Prime [...]
Archive | Albania
Dispute Continues on Greek Man’s Death in Albania
Posted on 16 August 2010.
Posted in Albania, news0 Comments
Albanian Police Arrests 6 for Murder of Greek National
Posted on 15 August 2010.
Albanian police detained 6 persons accused of the murder of a Greek national, RIA Novsti reports.
35-year-old Aristotelis Goumas was murdered on Thursday in the Albanian town of Himara. The man got hit by a car, driving with three local residents. Earlier, Goumas received threats for Speaking Greek in his store.
Greece’s Foreign Ministry insists for Albanian [...]
Posted in Albania, news0 Comments
Man Murdered in Albania for Speaking Greek
Posted on 13 August 2010.
Tension prevails in Himara after the assassination of Aristotelis Goumas, 37, member of the Greek minority in Albania. The incident happened Thursday night in the village Campi in Castro of Himara in South Albania.
The incident started when three Albanians asked Goumas to stop speaking Greek in his shop. The dispute led to beating of [...]
Posted in Albania, news2 Comments
Orthodox building complex
Posted on 23 June 2010.
A metropolitan church, a cultural and educational centre are included in the orthodox building complex of Gjirokaster, inaugurated on Sunday in the presence of the archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, Anastasios.
As it was reported in a relevant article of “Panorama” newspaper of Tirana, the church was planned to be built since the 1960s but [...]
Posted in Albania, news0 Comments
Thieves target historic 11th century monastery in south Albania
Posted on 02 June 2010.
Unknown suspects broke into a church at the Douviani Monastery compound in the Kato (Lower) Dropoli district of Gjirokastr prefecture in southern Albania and reportedly removed an old wooden cross, icons, as well as an old embroidered cloth considered of significant cultural and historical value.
Part of church’s iconostasis (the screen decorated with icons that divides [...]
Posted in Albania, news0 Comments
Cavafy’s poems translated in Albanian
Posted on 13 May 2010.
Poems of the great poet from Alexandria, Constantine Cavafy translated in Albanian, were published in the newspaper of Tirana, Kocha Jone.
The poems have been translated by the Professor of the Department of Greek Literature in the University of Tirana, Aristotelis Spyrou and Sokol Tsunga and Lambros Routsi.
The article is entitled “Cavafy, a poet who diffused [...]
Posted in Albania, news0 Comments
Listen to Greek Music while you are browsing!
