Albanian folklore is the folk tradition of the Albanian people. Albanian traditions have been orally transmitted – through memory systems that have survived intact into modern times – down the generations and are still very much alive in the mountainous regions of Albania, Kosovo and western North Macedonia, as well as among the Arbëreshë in Italy and the Arvanites in Greece, and the Arbanasi in Croatia.[1]
The most important artistic festival of Albanian folklore – the Gjirokastër National Folk Festival – takes place every five years at Gjirokastër Castle in Gjirokastër, southern Albania.[2]
- ^ Elsie 1994, p. i; Elsie 2001b, p. ix; Tarifa 2008, pp. 3, 11–12; Stipčević 2009, pp. 505–509; Sokoli 2013, pp. 182–184; Galaty 2018, pp. 100–102.
- ^ Novik 2020, pp. 157–158.