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  2. Traditional authority - Wikipedia

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    Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. Reasons for the given state of affairs include belief that tradition is inherently valuable and a more general appeal to tradition .

  3. Kanun (Albania) - Wikipedia

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    The Kanun (also Gheg Albanian: Kanû/-ja, other names include Albanian: doke, zakon, venom, usull, itifatk, adet, sharte, udhë, rrugë [1]) is a set of Albanian traditional customary laws, which has directed all the aspects of the Albanian tribal society.

  4. Category:Authority - Wikipedia

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    Shqip; کوردی ... Traditional authority; Tripartite classification of authority This page was last edited on 10 May 2023, at 18:42 (UTC). Text is available under ...

  5. Tripartite classification of authority - Wikipedia

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    traditional authority (patriarchs, patrimonialism, feudalism) and; rational-legal authority (modern law and state, bureaucracy). These three types are ideal types and rarely appear in their pure form. According to Weber, authority (as distinct from power (German: Macht)) is power accepted as legitimate by those subjected to it. The three forms ...

  6. Authority - Wikipedia

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    Ancient understandings of authority trace back to Rome and draw later from Catholic thought and other traditional understandings. In more modern terms, forms of authority include transitional authority (exhibited in, for example, Cambodia), [6] public authority in the form of popular power, and, in more administrative terms, bureaucratic or managerial techniques.

  7. Besa (Albanian culture) - Wikipedia

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    The Albanian word besa is an Indo-European cognate and shares similarities with the Classical Latin word fides.In Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, Latin fides took on the Christian meaning of 'faith' or '(religious) belief,' a sense that persists in modern Romance languages and was borrowed into Albanian as feja.

  8. Politics of Albania - Wikipedia

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    The Kuvendi serves as the seat of the Parliament of Albania.. The Parliament of Albania (Kuvendi i Shqipërisë) is a unicameral legislative body. It is composed of not less than 140 members elected to a four-year term on the basis of direct, universal, periodic and equal suffrage by secret ballot.

  9. Albanian paganism - Wikipedia

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    Albanian warrior dance in circle around fire (), drawing from the book Childe Harold's Pilgrimage written by Lord Byron in the early 19th century. Practiced for several hours with very short intervals, the dance gets new vigour from the words of the accompanying song that starts with a battle cry invoking war drums, and which is of a piece with the movement and usually changed only once or ...