Editing Zog I (section)

==Cultural references==

Zog's name was in use by 1972 in the English language [[palaeontological]] [[mnemonic]] for the names of [[Index fossils|zonal index fossils]] in part of the [[Carboniferous System|Lower Carboniferous System]] of Great Britain (namely '''C'''leistopora, which geologists decided to call 'zone k', '''Z'''aphrentis, '''C'''aninia, '''S'''eminula and '''D'''ibanophylum): "'''K'''ing '''Z'''og '''c'''aught '''s'''yphilis and '''d'''ied".<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Mnemonics|year=1972|publisher=Eyre Methuen, Psychology Library Editions|page=32}}</ref>

In the [[James Bond]] novel ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)|The Man with the Golden Gun]]'', [[Ian Fleming]] writes of the villainous [[Francisco Scaramanga]] telling his compatriots that the [[Rastafari]] of [[Jamaica]] "believes it owes allegiance" to the King of [[Ethiopia]], this "King Zog or what-have-you." Fleming had been assigned with the task of escorting Zog when in exile after Albania was annexed by Italy.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

In ''[[Aria (1987 film)|Aria]]'', a 1987 British anthology film, Zog was a character in the first of ten short self-contained segments, each by a different director and each featuring a different opera aria. This segment, entitled '[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092580/ Un ballo in maschera]' after the [[Giuseppe Verdi]] opera, was directed by [[Nicolas Roeg]], with actor [[Theresa Russell]] playing King Zog during a fictionalized account of his visit to Vienna in 1931 and the assassination attempt on the steps of that city's opera house (as noted earlier, Zog had actually seen a performance of 'Pagliacci' before the real attack).

In the "new" [[Doc Savage]] pulp fiction novel, The Whistling Wraith (July 1993, Bantam/Spectra), from the original notes of [[Lester Dent]] (primary writer of the sagas) but now completed as a novel by Will Murray, the life & person of Zog, as well as Albania's political problems and foreign policy issues with Mussolini's Italy are key to the plot. The story slots into the Doc Savage timeline in 1938 (a few weeks after The Motion Menace, per p.&nbsp;61). Egil Goz the First is clearly standing in for King Zog I, for both are Muslims and both were first president before being the first king of their Balkan nation. (Italy is Santa Bellanca, which is behaving badly in Africa in the work, a tie to the invasion and conquest of Ethiopia.)

In episode 13 of [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] he is mentioned as a reporter for made-up news show called ProbeAround but suddenly dies.