Name: King zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim King (en Inglés)
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Author: Jason Tomes
ISBN: 9780814782835

portada King zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim King (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

New York Univ Pr

Autor

Jason Tomes

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0814782833

ISBN13

9780814782835

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Biografías de personas históricas, políticos y soldados

King zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim King (en Inglés)

Jason Tomes (Autor) · New York Univ Pr · Tapa Dura

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Shortly before 5 p.m. on Saturday, September 1, 1928, Europe gained a new kingdom and its only Muslim king: 32-year-old Zog I of the Albanians. Few foreign journalists were present in the Parliament House in Tirana to hear him swear his oath on the Koran and the Bible, yet the birth of the Kingdom of Albania—a native monarchy, not an alien imposition—did not go unnoticed abroad. King Zog (1895–1961) was a curiosity, and so he has remained: the most atypical European monarch of the twentieth century, a man entirely without royal connections who created his own kingdom. By contemporaries, he was variously labeled "the last ruler of romance," "an appalling gangster," "the modern Napoleon," "the finest patriot," and "frankly a cad." Even today his reputation is disputed, but Zog is undeniably one of the foremost figures in Albanian history. Though notorious for cut-throat political intrigue, he promised to bring order and progress to a land that had long known little of either. "It was I who made Albania," he claimed. Zog's reign ended in 1939; Italian Fascists forced him into exile and post-war Stalinists kept him there despite his best efforts to return. In this first full biography, Jason Tomes explores the reality behind the man described in The Times as "the bizarre King Zog" and shows him to have been the product of a unique time and place. Tomes invites readers to set aside their assumptions about modern European monarchy and meet a king who fired back at assassins and paid his bills with gold bullion.