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Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon

The Arnold Ritter von Harff's lexicon is the second oldest Albanian-language document ever retrieved, after the Formula e pagëzimit. The lexicon was written by Arnold Ritter von Harff, a German traveler, who in 1496 was spending some hours in the port of Durrës and transcribed some words of the locals Albanians, by writing on the side, the German translation of them. The document includes 26 words in Albanian, 8 expressions, and numbers from 1 to 10, and also 100, and 1000.

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The traveler, in addition to the list of words, expressions and numbers, has left some notes in those places of the Albanian coast where he passed. Among other things, he writes that "Ulcinj is a beautiful and small Albanian city". For Shkodër, although he passed through it, because the trip Ulcinj-Durrës, did it by sea, he says "that it is a big city just conquered by the Ottomans". He describes the island of Sazan "as a good sea harbor, where there are many boats, on the left side of which is a large village with 2000 hearths, called Vlora" etc. ==References==
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