Excerpt from Albania Past and Present Unknown Albania, Darker than dark Africa here are only a few whimsical names that are given to the country which is inhabited by the oldest people in Southeastern Europe. It was only some time ago that a well - meaning editor of a leading newspaper of New York crowned with the additional heading The Riddle of Al bania' the caption of an article on that country writ ten by the author. On another and more interesting occasion, a letter addressed to the British Consulate of Scutari, the principal city of Northern Albania, was shipped across the ocean to Albany, N. Y.; the humorous postmaster of the latter city returned it with the note Try Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.