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- ↑ Elsie, Robert. "1912 Aubrey Herbert: A Meeting with Isa Boletini". Robert Elsie. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
At the time of the Conference of Ambassadors in London in 1913, he founded an Albanian Committee
- ↑ Elsie, Robert. "1912 Aubrey Herbert: A Meeting with Isa Boletini". Robert Elsie. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
This Albanian Committee evolved into the Anglo-Albanian Society (1918), of which Herbert was president, and finally into the Anglo-Albanian Association.
- ↑ Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham: Scarecrow Press, p. 13, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3, OCLC 454375231 , retrieved 4 February 2012
- ↑ https://www.anglo-albanian.org.uk/
- ↑ Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham: Scarecrow Press, p. 14, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3, OCLC 454375231 , retrieved 4 February 2012
- ↑ "Harry Hodgkinson". United Kingdom: Macmillan. 2008. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
Harry Hodgkinson (1913–1994) was a writer, journalist, naval intelligence officer, Balkan expert and from 1985 Chairman of the Anglo-Albanian Association.
- ↑ Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham: Scarecrow Press, p. 14, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3, OCLC 454375231 , retrieved 4 February 2012
- ↑ https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/kit-smarts-blog/anglo-albanian-association-scanderbeg-symposium
