Hellenic forgeries and the Albanian fustanella

Greek Hellenic forgeries regarding the Albanian fustanella

This article discusses Hellenic forgeries, originally documented by Adriano Xhafaj. The album is titled “Falsifikime Hellenice / Hellenic forgeries”. Publication No. 31 Hellenic patriotism of Albanian origin.

In the photo we can read:

YOUTHFUL PATRIOTS OF THE KINGDOM OF HELLAS. Merry-making is general in Greece on the occasion of a State holiday and usually finds expression in enthusiastic processions, of which waving banners and jubilant singing form the principal features; and the schoolboys, in fresh white fustanella, the linen kilt of Albania which has been virtually adopted as the Gerek national costume, are well to the fore in vocilerous acclamations of patriotism”.

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