King Zog
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A01=Jason Tomes
ahmed muhtar bey zogolli
albania
albanian history
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european monarch
king
King zog
kingdom
monarch
reputation
royal connections
royalty
self-made monarch of albania
zog i
Product details
- ISBN 9780750944397
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2006
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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King Zog was a curiosity, and so he has remained: the most unusual European monarch of the twentieth century, a man entirely without royal connections who created his own kingdom. By contemporaries, he was variously labelled '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 was 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.
Jason Tomes has lectured in modern history and politics for the universities of Oxford, Warsaw and Boston. His interest in Albania dates back twenty years to when he first heard Radio Tirana on short wave. He is the author of ' Balfour' and 'Foreign Policy' and over fifty articles for the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'.
