Gheg

plural Ghegs · alternative Geg

1. Northern Albanian, living north of the Shkumbin river, speaker of a Gheg dialect.

   The Ghegs live in and around Dibra, Tetovo and Skoplye.

   1920, Macedonia, Foreign Office, page 12

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   Gheg (Gepides) in Upper Albania, as far south as River Shkumbi, and penetrating eastwards across the Morava Valley nearly to Sophia, with detached enclaves in Servia, but on the other hand partly Slavonised on the Montenegrin frontier.

   1880, Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 22, London, New York: Macmillan & co., page 244

   Northern Albania, populated by the Ghegs, is a stronghold of the Democratic Party and of the criminal clans, or fares, who control the oil smuggling business, arms trade with the Kosovo Albanians (also Ghegs) and the shipments of heroin to western Europe (especially to Austria, Germany and Switzerland).

   2002, Marko Hajdinjak, Smuggling in Southeast Europe. The Yugoslav Wars and the Development of Regional Criminal Networks in the Balkans, page 30

   He also seemed to change course, ever so cautiously, on the issue of national identity, by taking up the cause of the Gheg Albanians of the Kosovo.

   2000, Andew C. Janos, East Central Europe in the Modern World, Stanford University Press, page 287

   The term Gheg refers to the northern Albanians, that is, all Albanians living north of the Shkumbin River and speaking Gheg dialects.

   2010, Robert Elsie, Historical Dictionary of Albania, 2nd edition, The Scarecrow Press, page 163

alternative Geg

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to this people.

   Gheg dialects

alternative Geg

1. The Albanian dialect group spoken by this people.