Albanians
The Albanians (; Albanian: Shqiptarët, pronounced [ʃcipˈta:ɾət]) are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula and are identified by a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language. They primarily live in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia as well as in Croatia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. They also constitute a large diaspora with several communities established across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Diaspora based Albanians may self identify as Albanian, use hybrid identification or identify with their nationality, often creating an obstacle in establishing a total figure of the population.The ethnogenesis of the Albanians and their language is a …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 in Iraq opened the door for Kurdish nationalists to move toward outright independence. Despite the recent visibility of the Kurds in the international …
increasingly violent dispute between the Kosovar Albanians, including its Kosovo 33228_MGQ_Hassan.indd … for the historical ownership of Kosovo. Kosovar Albanians 33228_MGQ_Hassan.indd 22 33228_MGQ_Hassan.indd … 7 This historical connection allows Kosovar Albanians to lay claim to modern-day Kosovo. At the same … absorbed and converted many Albanians to the Serbian Orthodox Church, and Albanians and Serbs fought together … historical claims to the territory, the Kosovar Albanians pointed not only to their version of history but …
Wilson Center Canada · 12 January 2022 English
Ninth, convergence opens the way for a Kosovo settlement that impedes 'Greater Albania' and 'Greater Serbia.' The more unitary the Republic of Kosovo, with the country’s north and south intact, …
independence. Fourth, unlike the Bosnian Serbs, Kosovar Albanians were never offered commensurate political rights … offers to restore Kosovo’s autonomy, nor do ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley enjoy special rights remotely … over its strategic orientation. 27 While Kosovar Albanians meted out disgraceful, even organized post-war … Kosovo [to Serbia], but would not accept Kosovo Albanians having any prominent roles in public life in Serbia … Serb victims of war crimes committed by ethnic Albanians. 33 Private meeting of Edward P. Joseph with senior …
ECW Press · 6 April 2021 English
Anna Porter’s feisty art fraud heroine Helena Marsh returns in Deceptions, chasing down a long-lost Artemisia painting while staying one step ahead of the eastern European mobsters and art thieves …
Ukrainian oligarch; the time before, a gang of Albanians looking to make an easy living off Váci Street …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 31 August 2019 English
Born on the Idaho frontier, Florence James was a New York City suffragette. The first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, she founded both the Negro Repertory Theatre and the …
and his wife for the relief of the starving Albanians. They had printed up brochures with pictures … The husband was away, carting wheat to the Albanians, and management of the office had been left to …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 28 February 2019 English
Most Canadians know little, if anything at all, about the role of the Canadian Air Force in the 1999 Kosovo Air War. Yet lives were at put at stake as …
75 million Muslim Albanians and 200,000 Orthodox Serbs. The ethnic (Muslim) Albanians, by 1998, had been … that a news report of the deaths of sixteen Albanians and four Serbian policemen in a six-paragraph … however, as the rampage of eth- nic cleansing of Albanians reached crisis proportions and world leaders …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 31 October 2018 English
By the early twentieth century, there were close to two hundred American missionaries working in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. They came in droves as early as 1830, organizing …
Istanbul as the leader of the Greeks, Orthodox Albanians, Arabs, Bulgarians, Romanians, and Serbs. The …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 March 2018 English
The book explores resettlement policies conducted by Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the South Caucasus in 1817-1953. The author investigates the state-managed population transfers concerning Germans, Russians, Armenians …
Albania.8 By the eighteenth century, Caucasian Albanians (or to be more precise, the remnants of their … today.9 Second, surrounded by Muslims, Christian Albanians and Armenians natu- rally had common ground for … the Armenian eth- nos were indeed Christianized Albanians – a point of view which is categorically rejected … Ronald Suny, also supports the opinion that “the Albanians in the mountainous area of Kara- bagh up to historic … in Karabakh (“pure” Armenians or “Armenized” Albanians) had some historical memory about the past; still …
RI: Rideau Institute · 12 September 2016 English
The Department of Citizenship and Immigration also applies the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act when determining the admissibility of temporary and permanent residents to Canada; the Department of Citizenship and …
forced deportation and ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians, including in the location of Pec, Kosovo. In …
desLibris · 12 September 2016 English
'This is the 13th Report on Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program, hereafter referred to as the War Crimes Program. This report summarizes program activities from April 1, …
forced deportation and ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians, including in the location of Pec, Kosovo. …
RI: Rideau Institute · 3 June 2016 English
However, in spite of the large number of analyses produced, few have looked at what came to be called the ‘Ukraine crisis’ from the point of view of Russo-Ukrainian relations, …
Walloon); Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia; Albanians in Macedonia and Montenegro; Swedes in Finland; … would get – for the noted Hungarians, Swedes, and Albanians, that number corresponds to their share in the … forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Albanians by Serbian forces. When China and Russia vetoed …
