The albanians - chronicle of a philohellene

In this book are incuded two chapters of the First volume of George Finlay's (1799-1875) book "History of the Greek Revolution" (1861). They give a detailed description of the Albanian society and the conditions in which the Albanian race thrived and adopted itself under the Ottoman domination during the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. Actually, he paints a very clear picture of their lives, their occupations, their involvements in Ottoman society, especially in the Ottoman army, their relations with the Ottoman Turks and their neighbours.

To make the experience of reading this book more enjoyable and with more fluency, fifty-three annotations are added in order to explain all the lexical terms, which were in use in those times in the Ottoman Empire, and the historical figures and events that belong to the history of the Ottoman Empire or to the wider world history.

Particularly, for those readers whose English is not their first language a short vocabulary, with concise meanings of words selected from this book, is included.