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Albanian Australians ( Albanian: Shqiptarë Australian) are residents of Australia who have Albanian heritage or descent; many are from Albania and North Macedonia but some are from Kosovo, Montenegro, Greece, Turkey, Bosnia and Italy.
Albanian Australians are a geographically dispersed community; the largest concentrations are in the Melbourne suburb Dandenong and in the regional city Shepparton, both of which are in Victoria. The Albanian community has been present in Australia for a long period, and its presence in the country is unproblematic and peaceful.
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The median age of the Albania-born in 2016 was 39 years compared with. 44 years for all overseas-born and. 38 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed. 2.2 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 8.5 per cent were 15-24 years, 50.4 per cent were 25-44 years, 26.1 per cent were 45-64 years and.
Jan 7, 2024 · After the success of the textile factory in Australia, they decided to transfer much of their capital to Albania and finally decided to move back in 1992 – something Bajram now considers the ...
- Country Background
- Ethnicity, Language and Religion
- Education and Economy
- Albanian Community in Australia
- The Albanian Community in Shepparton
Official Name : Republic of Albania Location Albania is a country in Southeast Europe, bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than 72 km (45 mi) fr...
Ethnicity Albania recognizes three national minorities, Greeks, Macedonians and Montenegrins, and two cultural minorities, Aromanians and Romani people. Other Albanian minorities are Bulgarians, Gorani, Serbs, Balkan Egyptians, Bosniaks and Jews. Regarding the Greeks, “it is difficult to know how many Greeks there are in Albania. The Greek governme...
Education Before the establishment of the People’s Republic, Albania’s illiteracy rate was as high as 85%. Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II. When the People’s Republic was established in 1945, the Party gave high priority to wiping out illiteracy. As part of a vast social campaign, anyone between the ages of 12 and 40 who co...
Albanian Settlement The first recorded Albanian to settle in Australia was Naum Konxha who arrived in Brisbane in 1885 with his English wife and decided to stay permanently. However, the first significant Albanian migration to Australia started in the 1920s after the United States of America placed migration quota restrictions for Southern European...
Albanian migrants were one of the earliest groups to arrive and settle in Greater Shepparton. They began arriving nearly 100 years ago, and now there are over 3000 people in our community who can lay claim to having an Albanian heritage. The Albanian community is one of Shepparton’s strongest and most established multicultural communities, and the ...
Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) are defined as an ethnic group native to Albania and neighboring countries. The term is also used sometimes to refer to the citizens of the Republic of Albania. Ethnic Albanians speak the Albanian language and more than half of ethnic Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo.
Jan 25, 2023 · Today, an estimated 20,000-25,000 people of Albanian descent live in Australia. The largest concentrations are found in Melbourne and Sydney, but there are also smaller pockets of Albanian communities throughout other parts of the country.
