Ethnographer: Yes, I know.
Interviewee: Then in 1948, the border separated us.
My wife, for example, has three uncles from Montenegro. My wife.
They were Albanians that were stuck on the other side of the border in 1948. They didn’t have any contact.
Her mother is 85 years old and has only now, during democracy, visited her brother, in Tuz.
It’s like going from Theth to Shkodra.
Ethnographer: Do others go along the Pass of Peja?
Interviewee: In Zogu’s time, until they closed the border, the entire region of Dukagjin
had more relations (economic) with Peja, Plave, and Gusi than with Shkodra.
You could go along the Pass of Peja by donkey and horse.
If you and I left today by horseback, it is now 10:10, we could go to Plav and Gusi and return by dinner time.
They conducted more business over there than they did with Shkodra.
Peja was closer than Shkodra.