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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Theofanis Mavromatis (Fan Noli): consequences of the nationalistic tendencies to the transmutation of national consiousness and religion

open access: yes, 2005
Theofanis Stylianos Noli (Mavromatis) was an Albanian-American writer, scholar,diplomat, politician, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and isconsidered one of the most powerful political personalities of Albania.
Σιμάκου, Γκέργκι
core   +1 more source

Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source

A Fully Bayesian Approach to Adult Skeletal Age Estimation: Multivariate Latent Trait Modeling With Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 2, June 2026.
Ordered probit regression is used as a latent trait model, with age at death estimated from a Gompertz distribution. Combined with Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling, this approach eliminates the need for reference priors for transition ages or population parameters.
Nils Müller‐Scheeßel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two early Post-Byzantine monuments, in Albanian Pogon, and their pictorial decoration, beginning of 16th century

open access: yes, 2011
There is a horde of Byzantine and early post-Byzantine monuments in the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Albania which remain unknown to both Greek and Albanian researchers.
Γιακουμής, Γεώργιος
core   +1 more source

Shteti dhe raporti me religjonet në Shqipëri (1920-1967)

open access: yes, 2023
The first governments formed with the creation of the Albanian state preserved the status quo inherited from the Ottoman Empire for religious matters.
Sadiku, Xhafer
core   +1 more source

St. Clement of Ohrid, Khan/kniaz Boris-Mikhail and Kniaz/tsar Simeon: Historical Aspects [PDF]

open access: yesSlovene, 2016
Eastern and southwestern Macedonia, as well as southern Albania, became parts of Bulgaria in the first decade of the rule of Khan Boris. After his baptism (864/865) and the establishment of an archbishopric (870; 880), the renewal of the former Byzantine
Boban Petrovski
doaj   +1 more source

An Albanian Mission of Bishop Nestor (Sidoruk)

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2015
The article discusses a little known fact from the history of relations between Albanian and Russian Orthodox Churches. In 1948, in terms of the persecution of the Church by the regime of Enver Hodja, three of the four bishops of the Albanian Orthodox ...
Fedoseyev Alexander Nikolaevich
doaj  

Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 950-977, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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