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Albania returns 20 stolen icons to North Macedonia


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Twenty icons stolen from Macedonian churches and monasteries over the past few decades, which were discovered a decade ago in Albania, were finally returned to North Macedonia.

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The handover took place in Tirana during the visit of North Macedonia’s Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska to her counterpart from Albania, Elva Margariti.

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“This is a historic day for my country and for our cultural heritage,” Kostadinovska-Stojcevska commented on receiving the icons back, adding that this is a sign of extraordinary friendship and morality from the Albanian side.

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The returned icons were stolen from the many smaller churches and monasteries in remote areas over the past decades, and are just part of over 100 such icons and valuables that went missing, said an art historian from the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Source: BalkanInsight

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