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Albanians

citizens or residents of Albania and ethnic group

Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) are an ethnic group native to Albania, Kosovo and neighboring countries in southwestern Balkans.

Drawings and Paintings

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16th – 18th centuries

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    Unknown author: Georgius Scanderbek, unknown date, Uffizi, Florence.
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    Dominicus Custos (1560–1612): Georgius Castriotus Scanderbegus – Epiri & Albaniae & c. Princeps Anno 1444, ca. 1600.
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    Unknown author: The Albanians, unknown date.
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    Unknown author: Gran Visir Mehmed Köprülü of the Ottoman Empire, 1666.
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    Unknown author: Abdi Pasha the Albanian, unknown date.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737): An Albanian Shepherd, ca. 1700–1737.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour: A Woman of the Albanian Coast, ca. 1700–1737.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian Soldier, ca. 1700–1737.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian – Patrona Halil, ca. 1700–1737.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour: Patrona Halil, ca. 1700–1737.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour: The Murder of Patrona Halil and his Followers, ca. 1700–1737.
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    Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian Guard, ca. 1707.
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    Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752–1817): Albanian Soldiers, ca. 1782.
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    Unknown author: A woman of San Costantino Albanese, Matera, 1799.

19th century

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20th century

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Photography

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Pietro Marubi (1834–1903)

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    Hamza Kazazi.
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    Catholic woman in Shkodra.
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    Albanian children from Shkodra.
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    A Catholic Albanian woman in Shkodra.
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    Albanians in the early 201th century.
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    An Albanian woman.
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    An Albanian woman in Grudë.
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    An Albanian man in Mirditë.
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    An Albanian man in Dukagjin.
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    An Albanian woman in Shkodra.
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    Albanian women and children in Dajç – Bregu i Bunës.
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    Catholic merchant from Shkodra.
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    An Albanian man in Shala.
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    Albanian man and woman in Elbasan.
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    An Albanian man in Kraja.
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    An Albanian woman in Vrakë.
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    An Albanian man in Peqin.
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    An Albanian man in Lorja.
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    Young albanian women in Kavajë.
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    Albanian men in Dibra.
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    Vatt Marashi, Chief of the Shkreli tribe.
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    Shkreli tribesman.

Edith Durham (1863–1944)

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    Shala men, Albania.
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    A young Sworn Virgin surrounded by men of the Kelmendi tribe, at Selca in Kelmendi territory, Albania.
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    Ferry over the Vjosa River near Tepelena, Albania.
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    Shpend Deli (Deli Shpend) and his men as refugees from Vuthaj/Vusanje, now in Montenegro.
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    A 47-year-old Sworn Virgin from Rapsha in Hoti territory, Albania.
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    Tribesmen visiting the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania.
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    Men of the Shkreli tribe at the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania.
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    Old Said of the Nikaj tribe, inspecting his flint lock gun, a karajfile, Albania.
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    Two men of the Plan tribe in the Pulat/Pult region who guided Edith Durham from Plan to Xhan and then on to Theth in the northern Albanian mountains.
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    Women of the Kastrati tribe, Albania.
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    Ren Vula, a Muslim boy from Gjakova (holding horse), and Edith Durham’s faithful guide, the moustached Mark Shantoja (Marko Shantoya), a Catholic from Shkodra; photo taken in Kosovo.
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    Edith Durham’s guide Krsto Pejović playing a gusle (Alb. lahuta) at Njeguši in Montenegro.
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    An Albanian walking in the streets of Cetinje, Montenegro.
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    Edith Durham speaking to the bajraktar (chieftain) of Koplik, Shkodra.

Franz Nopcsa (1877–1933)

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    Franz Nopcsa in Albanian costume.
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    Franz Nopcsa in Albanian costume.
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    An Albanian man in national costume.
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    An Albanian peasant woman near Shkodra.
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    An Albanian Muslim man.
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    The men of Blinisht in the District of Lezha.
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    Men of the Kir tribe, to the north of the Drin, in the Malësia e Vogël.
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    Men of Raja. Mërturi in the Drin valley of the District of Tropoja.
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    Group of Albanian men.
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    An Albanian in Skopje, 1903.
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    Albanians of Gruda, 1913.

Other

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    Albanian men.
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    Albanian men in Shkoder, 1904.
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    Albanian Highlanders, ca. 1904.
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    Armed Albanian men, 1906.
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    Albanian Insurgents in the Ottoman Empire.
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    Shkreli tribesmen, 1906.
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    Theodor Ippen in Albanian costume.
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    William James Joseph in Albanian costume.
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    Young Albanian in the upper Reka valley near Dibra, Macedonia.
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    Albanian fighters under Dutch command, 1913-1914.
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    Prince Wied’s interpreter in Durrës, ca. 1914.
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    Albanian woman and boy standing against a house wall, ca. 1914.
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    An Albanian man, 1917.
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    An Albanian man in Shkoder.
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    Azem and Shote Galica, 1920.
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    An Albanian rhapsod playing the lahuta.
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    Albanians playing traditional instruments in Has.
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