It is of inestimable significance for Albanian studies in Hungary that the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has had the oppurtinity to produce and publish the present book which constitutes a major contribution towards enabling this book to serve as a kind of third volume of Illyrisch-Albanische Forschungen (1916). Altough there has been no organized Albanian research in Hungary, the chapters in this book clearly demonstrate that researches well versed in the various historical periods have engaged in a joint investigation of the Albanian-Hungarian past. The studies reveal new research findings, many of which will cause a sensation in the world of Albanian studies. The book is a distillation of contemporary Hungarian work on Albanian studies and also a salute by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the joint Albanian-Hungarian and Austro-Hungarian past.