You might know little about Albania, the crown jewel of the Balkan ... Here – before we move on to the cultural heartland of Korça where cobblestone streets wind around the old Ottoman bazaar ...

Born Anastasios Yannoulatos in Piraeus, Greece on Nov. 4, 1929, he arrived in Albania in 1991, immediately after the collapse of the Communists that had ruled the country since the mid-1940s ...