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Although Iran has always been the site of religious and political clashes and conflicts between different ethnic groups of east and west, Persian language and literature have been able to go beyond the borders of Iran due to its high human-ethical capacities and concepts and cross the geographical borders as a bridge between the East and the West. One of the Farsi transnational literary works is Ferdowsi Shahnameh which has penetrated to Balkan Peninsula in parallel to propagation of Farsi language and literature in the territory of Ottoman Turks. Albania is one of these Eastern European countries where can clearly see the presence trace of Farsi language and Persian literature and Shahnameh; Therefore, in this research the causes of Albanian poets attention to Persian literature and Shahnameh has been investigated.
This study shows in the country of Albania, Shahnameh has been of interest to Albanian poets for the case of linguistic authenticity, expression of ethical-historical and philosophical views in the form of poetry and use of nationalistic and antagonistic contents as a symbol form to point to their own time conditions.

Keywords: Farsi language and Persian literature in Ottoman Territory Persian literature in Albania Ferdowsi Shahnameh
Zahra Rajabi, Abdulla Rexhepi

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