zog was a godlike figure or a devil. a saviour or a tyrant. he was prime minister, then president, then in 1928 he crowned himself europe's first and only muslim king. but he didn't have a drop of royal blood. tirana was zog's capital city, but not for long. from 1946 to 1991, albania was communist. this was stalin boulevard — a place for parades for the people's republic of albania. and now it's king zog i boulevard, which i think counts as a return to prominence for a monarch who was deposed by mussolini in 1939.