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- ↑ Robert Elsie (2001), A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture, NYU Press, p. 132, ISBN 978-0814722145
- ↑ Owen Pearson (2006), Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History, vol. II: Albania in Occupation and War, 1939–45, I. B. Tauris, p. 493, ISBN 978-1845110147
- 1 2 Sabrina P. Ramet (1998), Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia, Duke University Press Books, pp. 214, 224, ISBN 978-0822320708