As pledged before, the General Directorate of Archives (DPA) has donated a significant amount of documents on the activity of Ali Pasha Tepelena to the Historical Museum of Tepelena.

The donation was carried out in the presence of the mayor of Tepelena, Tërmet Peçi, the person in charge of the local museum, Klejda Gaba and the DPA representative, by Ergi Zalohnja of the DPA, in charge of Communication.

The extensive documentation on the personality of the pre-Renaissance period represents a digital database that can potentially serve as an impetus for conducting further research that sheds light on Ali Pasha’s activity.

Meanwhile, in cooperation with the Municipality of Tepelena and the Ministry of Culture, the DPA presented the exhibition “Return to tradition, the folk clothes of Albanians” by the banks of River Vjosa.

Addressing the pedestrian street, the local public and visitors had the opportunity to participate in the opening of this exhibition with images that revealed the variety and peculiarities of the folk costumes of all Albanian regions.

Among the selected materials of the Central State Archive (AQSH), there were images of important historical figures in folk dress (clan leaders, literary persons, defenders of the motherland), folk costumes of the regions in the south and north, and of Central Albania too.

This exhibition was presented in the frame of “My Vjosa”, a set of cultural activities with a two-day agenda, July 8-9, which included a concert with classical music, a poetry evening, a book exhibition, theater performances, a fair with various folk costumes of the province , handmade clothing, woodwork, metalwork, traditional culinary products, medicinal plants, etc.

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