“I think no place where human beings live have given me such an impression of majestic isolation from all the world. It is a spot where the centuries shrivel; the river might be the world’s well-spring, its banks the fit home of elemental instincts–passions that are red and rapid” - said by the traveller Edith Durham when she visited Theth in the early 20th century.

She had travelled almost everywhere in the Balkans, but there she found something that made her wanted it all and marveled at the hospitality of the natives, who rightly respected and called the Queen of Malësi.