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Albania,officially the Republic of Albania,is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans,on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea,and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest,Kosovo to the northeast,North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. With an area of 28,748 km2 (11,100 sq mi),it has a varied range of climatic,geological,hydrological and morphological conditions. Albania's landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps and the Korab,Skanderbeg,Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains,to fertile lowland plains extending from the Adriatic and Ionian seacoasts. Tirana is the capital and largest city in the country,followed by Durrës,Vlorë,and Shkodër.
The House of Zogu,or Zogolli during Ottoman times and until 1922,is an Albanian dynastic family whose roots date back to the early 20th century. The family provided the first president and the short-lived modern Albanian Kingdom with its only monarch,Zog I of Albania (1928–1939).
Greater Albania is an irredentist and nationalist concept that seeks to annex the lands that many Albanians consider to form their national homeland. It is based on claims on the present-day or historical presence of Albanian populations in those areas. In addition to the existing Albania,the term incorporates claims to regions in the neighbouring states,the areas include Kosovo,the Preševo Valley of Serbia,territories in southern Montenegro,northwestern Greece,and a western part of North Macedonia.
The Democratic Union for Integration is the largest ethnic Albanian political party in North Macedonia and the third largest political party in the country. It was formed immediately after the country's 2001 armed conflict between the National Liberation Army and Macedonian security forces. NLA founder Ali Ahmeti has been the party's president ever since.
Ibrahim Rugova was a Kosovo-Albanian politician,scholar,and writer,who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova,serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President of Kosovo from 2002 until his death in 2006. He oversaw a popular struggle for independence,advocating a peaceful resistance to Yugoslav rule and lobbying for U.S. and European support,especially during the Kosovo War.
The 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak was the largest outbreak of smallpox in Europe after the Second World War. It was centered in SAP Kosovo,a province of Serbia within Yugoslavia,and the capital city of Belgrade. A Kosovar Albanian Muslim pilgrim had contracted the smallpox virus in the Middle East. Upon returning to his home in Kosovo,he started the epidemic in which 175 people were infected,killing 35. The epidemic was efficiently contained by enforced quarantine and mass vaccination. The 1982 film Variola Vera is based on the event.
The Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (Macedonian Party) (Albanian:Aleanca Maqedonase për Integrimin Europian;Macedonian:МакедонскаАлијансазаЕвропскаИнтеграција) is a political party of the ethnic Macedonians in Albania. It was established on 30 October 2004 under the name Macedonian Alliance for European Integration and was registered as a political party on 8 June 2005. The first president of the party was Edmond Temelko,who was the mayor of the Pustec Municipality from 2007 until 2019. It first succeeded in electing an ethnic Macedonian to parliament in 2019,Vasil Sterjovski. Sterjovski himself was elected as the president of the party in September 2019. The party does not support the claims that a Bulgarian minority exists in Albania.
The Democratic National Front Party (PBKD),also sometimes referred to as the Right National Front or Right National Party,is a political party in Albania led by Artur Roshi. It was formed in 1998 by breaking away from the ultra-nationalist National Front. The PBKD is a right-wing group with nationalist policies which aim to create a Greater Albania. It remains closely linked to the National Front,but has made its policies more moderate.
The New Albanian Party of Labour was a communist party in Albania. It was legalized in 1998,as the third communist party to obtain legal recognition post-1991. It was led by radio journalist Agim Xheka.
Ilirida or the Republic of Ilirida is a proposed state in the western regions of North Macedonia,declared twice by the politician Nevzat Halili,once in 1992 and again in 2014. The proposal has been declared unconstitutional by the Macedonian government. The secessionist concept of Ilirida emerged in the early 1990s and was advocated by some Albanian politicians as a solution to concerns and disputes the Albanian community had regarding constitutional recognition and minority rights within Macedonia.
Miss Universe Albania is a national Beauty pageant in Albania. The pageant was founded as Miss Albania in 2002,until rebranding as Miss Universe Albania in 2006.
Albanian wine is produced in several regions throughout Albania within the Mediterranean Basin. The country has one of the oldest wine making traditions,dating back at least 3000 years ago to the Bronze Age Illyrians. It belongs chronologically to the old world of wine producing countries.
Vera Isaku was an Albanian journalist,writer and director of institutions.
Vera Bitanji is an Albanian athlete and triple jumper. She represented Albania in the 1996 Summer Olympics competing in the women's triple jump.
Vera Razburgaj is an American-born Albanian footballer who plays as a midfielder who plays for Albanian club Vllaznia Shkodër.
Albanian nationalism in North Macedonia traces its roots in the wider Albanian nationalist movement which emerged as a response to the Eastern Crisis (1878) and proposed partitioning of Ottoman Albanian inhabited lands in the Balkans among neighbouring countries. During the remainder of the late Ottoman period various disagreements culminated between Albanian nationalists and the Ottoman Empire over socio-cultural rights. The Balkan Wars (1912–13) ending with Ottoman defeat,Serbian and later Yugoslav sovereignty over the area generated an Albanian nationalism that has become distinct to North Macedonia stressing Albanian language,culture and identity within the context of state and sociopolitical rights. Pan-Albanian sentiments are also present and historically have been achieved only once when western Macedonia was united by Italian Axis forces to their protectorate of Albania during the Second World War.
Krakornica is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša,North Macedonia.
Honeymoons is a 2009 Serbian-Albanian drama film directed by Goran Paskaljević.
Arbanaška vera was a 14th-century Serbian antonomasic denunciation of Catholic Albanians in Shkodër,Zeta,Kosovo,Macedonia and other regions modern day Northern Albania.
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