Kanun (Albania)

The Kanun is a body of traditional Albanian customary law that governed marriage, property, hospitality, honor and conflict resolution in the mountain tribal societies of northern Albania. It was preserved orally by tribal elders for centuries rather than written down, and applied to both Muslim and Christian Albanians as an autonomous legal framework independent of Ottoman or state law. Its most famous codification, associated with the medieval prince Lekë Dukagjini, was transcribed by the priest Shtjefën Gjeçovi in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with the complete 1,262 article text published in 1933 after his death. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/