I realy dont know why people call this kind of a dagger albanian, i saw it called like that on several sites, but then again people all over internet call 18/19 century jannisery kilij a pala and pala is a diferent kind of a sword.
In albania weapons made in their workshops were a lower quality, so they mainly used those and for higher end pieces, import from bosnia, boka kotorska or greece, and neither in albania nor neighbours workshops did they made these daggers.
Where is it from? I realy dont know, from some part of ottoman empire, maybe few examples in the past ended up in balkan area with invading ottomans, but i never saw one neither in museum, nor in annyone collection.
For example zeybek yatagans, they came with invading ottoman armies, so there are few examples in museums in montenegro.
There is also sirian dagger in silver, that people in many cases name albanian, but it has nothing to do with albania.
Lots of daggers and swords from boka kotorska with marvelous silverwork were proclaimed persian, although they got nothing to do with persia.
It originated from some were but from where, who would know.
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