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Since 1866, when he went to Egypt, at the instigation of Thimi Mitko, he set to work collecting folklore material. Some of the collected materials were given to Thimi Mitko, who published a part of them in <i>&#8220;Bleta shqiptare&#8221;<\/i> (<i>\u201cAlbanian<\/i> <i>bee\u201d<\/i>). In 1908, Spiro Dine published in Sofia the work &#8221; Val\u00ebt e detit&#8221; (<i>\u201cThe waves of the sea\u201d<\/i>), where, in addition to folkloric materials, he also summarized his own poetic creations and those of some other compatriots. Folkloric materials of the book include: folk poems of bravery, laments, love songs, customs and wedding songs, satirical poems , toys, proverbs, riddles, fairy tales, etc. The work covers a wide range of the most important folkloric publications of the Renaissance. <i>(In the photo: Spiro Dine)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 485.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spiro_Dine&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12, 1922, Spiro Dine (1844\u20131922), folklorist, follower and collaborator of Thimi Mitko, died in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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