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5 days ago · Albanians refer to themselves as shqiptarë—often taken to mean “sons of eagles,” though it may well refer to “those associated with the shqip (i.e., Albanian) language”—and to their country as Shqipëria.
- People
Albania - Ethnic Groups, Language, Religion: Albania has one...
- Collapse of Communism
Albania - Post-Communist, Balkan, Geography: After Hoxha’s...
- Economy
Albania - Economy, Agriculture, Tourism: Before 1991 the...
- Cultural Institutions
Albania - Cultural Institutions: Tirana is the home of a...
- Constitutional Framework
Albania - Constitution, Government, Parliament: The...
- Languages
Albania - Albanian, Greek, Vlach: The Albanian language,...
- Climate
Albania - Mediterranean, Mountains, Coastline: Like other...
- Albanian Nationalism
Albania - Nationalism, Ethnicity, Culture: By the mid-19th...
- People
2 days ago · When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in AD 395, Illyria east of the Drinus River (Drina between Bosnia and Serbia), including the lands form Albania, were administered by the Eastern Empire but were ecclesiastically dependent on Rome.
1 day ago · The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
1 day ago · The first recorded settlers in the land of what is modern Uzbekistan were Eastern Iranian nomads, known as Scythians, who founded kingdoms in Khwarazm, Bactria, and Sogdia in the 8th–6th centuries BC, as well as Fergana and Margiana in the 3rd century BC – 6th century AD.
5 days ago · Whereas Braschi's trilogy of experimental works (Empire of Dreams, 1988; Yo-Yo Boing!, 1998, and United States of Banana, 2011) deals with the very subject of translation.
1 day ago · The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland, following Johnny Logan's win at the 1987 contest with the song "Hold Me Now".
1 day ago · In the late 1980s, the Indian military twice intervened abroad at the invitation of the host country: a peace-keeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990; and an armed intervention to prevent a 1988 coup d'état attempt in the Maldives.
