The flag of Albania is a red flag with a silhouetted black double-headed eagle in the center. The red stands for bravery,strength,valour and bloodshed,while the Eagle represents the sovereign state of Albania. The flag was established as the national flag of Albania when the country gained its independence from the Ottoman empire in 1912.
The Albania national football team represents Albania in men's international football,and is governed by the Albanian Football Association,the governing body for football in Albania.
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo is a right-wing political party in Kosovo.
The League of Lezhë,also commonly referred to as the Albanian League,was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy,created in the city of Lezhëon 2 March 1444. The League of Lezhëis considered as the first unified independent Albanian country in the Medieval age,with Skanderbeg as leader of the regional Albanian chieftains and nobles united against the Ottoman Empire. Skanderbeg was proclaimed "Chief of the League of the Albanian people" while Skanderbeg always signed himself as "DominusAlbaniae".
Ilir Rexhep Meta is an Albanian politician who has served as President of Albania since 24 July 2017.
Fatos Kongoli has recently become one of the most forceful and convincing representatives of contemporary Albanian prose.
Besnik Hasi is a Kosovan professional football coach and former player who was most recently the manager of Saudi club Al-Ahli.
Flamurtari FC is a professional football club based in Vlorë,Albania. The club plays in the Kategoria e Parë,which is the second tier of football in the country.
Bamir Myrteza Topi is an Albanian diplomat and politician. He also was the President of Albania from July 2007 to July 2012.
The flag of the Republic of Kosovo was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo immediately following the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo of 17 February 2008. The flag design emerged from an international competition,organized by the United Nations-backed Kosovo Unity Team,which attracted almost one thousand entries. The winning design was proposed by Muhamer Ibrahimi. It shows six white stars in an arc above a golden map of Kosovo,all on a blue field. The stars symbolize Kosovo's six major ethnic groups:Albanians,Serbs,Bosniaks,Turks,Romani,and Gorani.
Football is the most popular sport in Albania,both at a participatory and spectator level. The sport is governed by the Football Association of Albania (FSHF).
In Albania,vehicle registration plates are issued by the regional directorates of transport.
Fatos Lubonja is an Albanian writer and dissident.
Orders,decorations and medals are distinctive symbols awarded to citizens and foreign dignitaries in Albania.
Myslim Pashaj is a retired colonel and retired head of cartographic center of Albania. He was one of the main opposers of the Albanian-Greek Sea border pact,which he called a loss of Albanian territory. He won the case in the Constitutional Court of Albania. He got blackmailed and some people claimed they would kill him for opposing the pact.
Zeta was one of the South Slavic medieval polities that existed between 1356 and 1496,whose territory encompassed parts of present-day Montenegro and northern Albania. The Crnojevićnoble family ruled the Zeta from 1451 until 1496. The state included parts of modern Montenegro and parts of modern Albania.
The Red and Black Alliance is a nationalist political party in Albania. It was created by Kreshnik Spahiu,the former Deputy Head of the High Council of Justice of Albania. It has sometimes been described as ultra-nationalist. It is the first nationalist/far right party in Albania to be led by a woman,Lumturi Ratkoceri.
Hoxhaism is a variant of anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism that developed in the late 1970s due to a split in the anti-revisionist movement,appearing after the ideological dispute between the Chinese Communist Party and the Party of Labour of Albania in 1978. The ideology is named after Enver Hoxha,a notable Albanian communist leader,who served as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour.
The Alliance for Equality and European Justice is a political party of Albania representing the Aromanian minority of the country. The ABDE was founded in 28 October 2011 in Durrës by a group of enthusiastic Aromanians led by Valentino Mustaka,the president of the party,and Koçi Janko. Afterwards,the members of the party began a signature collection campaign to fit the requirements of Albanian law that ask for parties to have 3,000 signatures to be legally registered. The ABDE obtained 3,899 signatures in favor of this and submitted a legal registration request that was accepted on 17 February 2012.
