Published for the first time: A 1879 engraving taken from a Finnish magazine, brought from the Scandinavian archives by researcher Armand Plaka. It concerns the Corfu Channel, which was once internationally known as the Albanian Channel. The caption in the 1879 engraving, published in a Finnish magazine, confirms this.

The image syas: “Selmi Albanian ja Korfu-saaren näköala” meaning “Albania and the channel of Corfu”. “Between the Albanian Channel and the island of Corfu” is the caption that accompanies the engraving.

Researcher and journalist Armand Plaka published the engraving on Facebook along with explanations. He found it during research work in the Scandinavian archives, and it is being published in Albania for the first time.

“Between the Albanian Channel and the island of Corfu.” This is the caption that comes with the 1879 engraving, published in a Finnish magazine, which I recently came across by chance while digging through the Scandinavian archives.

So for people up there in Europe, it was known as the “Albanian Channel” or “Albanian Strait” — a term that is no longer used today. Albanians and the world now know it more as the “Corfu Channel,” for example in “the Corfu Channel Incident,” writes researcher Armand Plaka.