Albania

Albania allied itself first with. Until fairly recently its rumpled mountains fortress towns and sparkling beaches were merely a rumour on most travel maps.

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The landscape ranges from snow-capped mountains to warm and sunny coastal areas along the Ionian and Adriatic seas.

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Background Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 but was conquered by Italy in 1939 and occupied by Germany in 1943. LAlbania è chiamata dai suoi abitanti ShqipëriSami Frashëri nella sua opera Shqipëria çka qënë çështë e çdo të bëhet 1899 dice che gli antenati degli albanesi si facevano chiamare arbën parola questa documentata almeno dal II secolo dC. After the war Albania saw 40 years of isolation and underdevelopment under its Communist leader who died in 1985.

Albania country in southern Europe located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula on the Strait of Otranto the southern entrance to the Adriatic Sea. To read about the background to these events see History of Albania. This is a timeline of Albanian history comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Albania and its predecessor states.

Albania is a sovereing country occupying an area of 28748 sq. Km 11100 sq mi in southeast Europe. With the 1991 fall of communism the Albanian Government sought closer ties with the West in order to improve economic conditions and introduced basic democratic reforms.

See also the list of Albanian monarchs and list of heads of state of Albania. Contents Antiquity 2nd century AD to 12th century. The words Shqipëri and Shqiptar are attested from 14th century onwards 20 but it was only at the end of 17th and beginning of the early 18th centuries that the placename Shqipëria and the ethnic demonym Shqiptarë gradually replaced Arbëria and Arbëreshë amongst Albanian speakers.

Communist partisans took over the country in 1944. The history of Albania forms a part of the history of Europe. Albania Closed to outsiders for much of the 20th century Albania has long been Mediterranean Europes enigma.

As observed on the physical map of Albania the country exhibits significant diversity in topography. Albanian culture or the culture of Albanians Albanian. Kultura shqiptare kultuˈɾa ʃcipˈtaɾɛ is a term that embodies the artistic culinary literary musical political and social elements that are representative of Albanians.

During classical antiquity Albania was home to several Illyrian tribes such as the Ardiaei Albanoi Amantini Enchele Taulantii and many others but also Thracian and Greek tribes as well as several Greek colonies established on the Illyrian coast. But with the end of a particularly brutal strain of communism in 1991 Albania tentatively swung open its gates.

Albania