ALBANIANS, CAUCASIAN Albanians are an ancient people of southeastern Caucasia who originally inhabited the area of the modern republic of Azerbaijan north of the River Kur. In the …

May 18, 2018 · Albanians ETHNONYMS: Albanois, Arbëresh, Arnauts, Arvanits, Illyrians, Shiptare Orientation Identification. The name "Albanian" derives from the ancient town of Albanopolis, …

Both Serbs and Albanians claimed ancestral rights to Kosovo. They each claimed their ancestors were the first to settle the area. In the mid-1980s Albanians in Kosovo began a separatist …

Kosovo Albanians had much higher birth rates than their Serbian neighbors, and by 1960, Kosovo was 67% Albanian and about 23.5% Serbian. In 1968 Albanian Kosovars took to the streets to …

Most of the Albanians who sought refuge in Italy belonged to the Albanian Orthodox Church, as the great majority of them came from the south-central regions of Albania. Thus the Italo …

Many thousands fled to their historic home in Albania, where they were welcomed by the Church. Catholics responded to the crisis by sending humanitarian aid to ethnic Albanians within …

Albanians in Kosovo are also mainly Muslim. But of all the Albanian Muslims in the Balkans, those in western Macedonia are among the most observant. They form at least one-third of the …

Kosovo: Ethnic Tensions and NationalismThe ConflictIn 1999, NATO and the United Nations occupied Kosovo, a province in the former Yugoslavia, in order to protect the Muslim Albanian …

Gjergj Kastrioti-SkanderbegHailed as a national hero in Albania, Gjergj Kastrioti-Skanderbeg (1403-1468) successfully ousted the Ottoman Turks from his native land for over two decades, …

The Albanians who came to the United States prior to 1920 were from rural backgrounds and worked as farmers, while others from the urban areas worked as small shopkeepers and …