Albania From: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | Date: 2004| Author: JAN PALMOWSKI | © A Dictionary of Contemporary World History 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. Copyright information

Albania Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire since the fifteenth century; a nationalist movement growing since 1878 presaged a series of popular uprisings against attempts to spread Turkish culture starting in 1910, culminating in the declaration of independence on 28 November 1912. This was recognized by the major European powers in 1913, though after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 its southe...