History of the Jews in Albania
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history-of-the-jews-in-albania-163-11742199
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History of the Jews in Albania
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The history of the Jews in Albania dates back about 2,000 years.
According to historian Apostol Kotani: "Jews may have first arrived in Albania as early as 70 C.E. as captives on Roman ships that washed up on the country's southern shores... descendants of these captives that would build the first synagogue in the southern port city of Sarandë in the fifth century...[but] Little is known about the Jewish community in the area until the 15th century." In the early 16th century, there were Jewish
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Ethnic group
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Albania
date created:
2007-02-09T17:26:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T13:17:06Z
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