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3 days ago · Albania, country in southern Europe, located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula on the Strait of Otranto, the southern entrance to the Adriatic Sea. The capital city is Tirana ( Tiranë ). Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... Albanians refer to themselves as shqiptarë —often taken to mean “sons of eagles,” though it ...
- People
Albania - Ethnic Groups, Language, Religion: Albania has one...
- Collapse of Communism
Albania - Post-Communist, Balkan, Geography: After Hoxha’s...
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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...
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Albania - Albanian, Greek, Vlach: The Albanian language,...
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Albania - Mediterranean, Mountains, Coastline: Like other...
- Albanian Nationalism
Albania - Nationalism, Ethnicity, Culture: By the mid-19th...
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1 day ago · Mexico. c. 400 – c. 200 BC [35] [36] Toluca, in the State of Mexico, has been continuously inhabited at least since the 8th century BC. [37] [dubious – discuss] The oldest sedentary remains ( Calixtlahuaca) date from around the 600 BC to 400 BC. [citation needed] Papantla / El Tajín. Totonac people.
3 days ago · Balkans, easternmost of Europe’s three great southern peninsulas. There is not universal agreement on the region’s components. The Balkans are usually characterized as comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia—with all or part of each of those countries located within the peninsula.
2 days ago · Shkodër is a city in northwestern Albania. It is one of the most significant settlements in Albania and in the pre-Roman era it was the capital of the Illyrian kingdom of Genthius. Late antiquity Scodra was a Romanized city, which even relatively late in the Middle Ages had a native Dalmatian-speaking population which called it Skudra.
3 days ago · Emileigh and Morgan Explore the history and spooky legends of some of St. Augustine's oldest structures. This episode is full of tragic tales and even a few ...
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1 day ago · The city's area has been inhabited since the fifth or fourth millennium BC, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the fifth century BC the first town, or oppidum , was founded probably by the ancient Ligures (which gave the name to the modern region of Liguria ) at the top of the hill today called Castello ...
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4 days ago · Lucera is located only about 240 km northwest of Brindisi, which was the main port of disembarkation. Charles claimed rights in Albania, as Manfred's successor, since 1267 when the Treaty of Viterbo was drawn up. During the winter of 1271, the Angevin forces took Durrës. Within a year, Charles began to use the title "rex Albaniae", a title ...