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The origin of the Albanians has been the subject of historical, linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi occurred in the 2nd century AD by Ptolemy describing an Illyrian tribe who lived around present-day central Albania.
Contemporary Albanian language employs a different ethnonym, with modern Albanians referring to themselves as Shqiptarë and to their country as Shqipëria. Two etymologies have been proposed for this ethnonym: one, derived the name from the Albanian word for eagle (shqiponjë).
Shqiptar ( Albanian definite form: Shqip (ë)tari; Gheg Albanian: Shqyptar/-i; [1] plural: Shqiptarë/-t, Shqyptarë/-t) is an Albanian ethnonym ( endonym ), by which Albanians call themselves. [2] [3] They call their country Shqipëria ( Gheg Albanian: Shqypnia, Shqipnia ). Etymology.
1 day ago · Albania was declared independent in 1912, but the following year the demarcation of its boundaries by the great powers of Europe (Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia) assigned about half its territory and people to neighbouring states.
The Albanians and their country Albania (Shqipëria) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The native endonym is Shqiptar. The name "Albanians" Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged.
May 18, 2018 · Greeks call historically assimilated Christian Albanians Arvanites or Arbër and refer to recent Albanian immigrant workers as Arvanoi (Albanoi). Ptolemy described the Albanoi, which produced the modern ethnonym Albanians, in the second century b.c.e. as an Illyrian tribe whose town was Albanopolis.
Albania, which before the war had been under the personal dictatorship of King Zog, now fell under the collective dictatorship of the Albanian Communist Party. In 1946 the country officially became the People’s Republic of Albania and in 1976 the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania.
