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Albania
Albania , Albanian Shqipëria or Shqipnija, officially Republic of Albania, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,563,000), 11,101 sq mi (28,752 sq km), SE Europe. Albania is on the Adriatic Sea coast of the Balkan Peninsula, between Montenegro on the northwest, Kosovo on the northeast, Macedonia on... Read more |
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King of Albania Zog I
Zog I Zog I (1895-1961) was an Albanian ruler who fought to defend Albanian autonomy. Ahmed Bey Zog, originally Zogolli (Zogu), son of the most powerful Muslim chieftain in northern Albania, the head of the Mati tribe, was born in the village of Burgayet. His formal Ottoman education was... Read more |
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Zog
Zog , 1895-1961, king of Albania. Originally Ahmad Zogu, he came from a Muslim family and served in the Austrian army in World War I. He became Albanian minister of the interior in 1920, minister of war in 1921, and premier in 1922. A revolution in 1924 led to his flight, but he returned with... Read more |
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Enver Hoxha
Enver Hoxha , 1908-85, Albanian Communist leader and general. A founder (1941) of the Albanian Communist party (Albanian Labor party from 1948), Hoxha headed the radical resistance group in Italian-occupied Albania during World War II. General secretary of the party from 1943, he was premier... Read more |
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Dinaric Alps
Dinaric Alps , Ital. Alpi Dinariche, Serbo-Croatian Dinara Planina, mountain system, extending c.400 mi (640 km) along the east coast of the Adriatic Sea from the Isonzo River, NE Italy, through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia, to the Drin River, N Albania. The... Read more |
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Ramiz Alia
Ramiz Alia Following the death of Enver Hoxha, Albania's long-time (1945-1985) dictator in April 1985, Ramiz Alia (born 1925) became the dominant political personality in the country. Ramiz Alia was born on October 18, 1925, into a poor working-class family from the northern Albanian city of... Read more |
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Shkoder
Shkodër or Scutari , Serbo-Croatian Skadar, anc. Scodra, city (1989 est. pop. 80,200), capital of Shkodër dist., NW Albania, at the outlet of Lake Scutari. It is a market center in a fertile agricultural area that produces a variety of crops. Shkodër is the industrial and... Read more |
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Korce
Korçë Korça , or Koritsa , city (1989 pop. 63,623), capital of Korçë dist., SE Albania, near the Greek border. Located in an agricultural region, it is a commercial and industrial center producing foodstuffs, rugs, and knitwear. Lignite deposits are mined... Read more |
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Durres
Durrës , Ital. Durazzo, city (1989 pop. 82,719), capital of Durrës dist., W Albania, on the Adriatic Sea. The chief seaport of Albania and the leading commercial and communications center, it has a dockyard, a shipyard, and industries that manufacture leather, plastic, and tobacco... Read more |
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Scanderbeg
Scanderbeg or Skanderbeg , c.1404-1468, Albanian national hero. His original name was George Castriota or Kastriotes, but the Ottomans called him Iskender Bey, and this was corrupted into Scanderbeg. The son of a prince of N Albania, he was educated in the Muslim faith as a hostage at the court... Read more |
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Ustinov, Sir Peter Alexander
...displayed his great gift for mimicry. His first play Fishing for Shadows (1940), in which he himself appeared, was based on Sarment...Hets (Frenzy). In 1949 he acted in Linklater's Love in Albania, after which he appeared only in his own plays for the next... |
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`BIOGRAFI' FOCUSES ON POLITICALLY DRIVEN ALBANIA
...traveler's tale, a story of Albania that relies as much on the...in the way of background: Albania's history, economy, culture...deal of "Biografi" left in shadow. Maybe deliberately so. Albania, after all, is a shadowy... |
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ALBANIA: EUROPE -- SO NEAR, YET SO FAR AWAY
...socialist realismcast dark shadows over the people. The journey...destined to die. We were back in Albania,this time under an ex...the country, Berisha led Albania intoa vicious circle of fear...Kosovo and Macedonia. Within Albania, meanwhile, the ... |
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Doctors struggle to treat the 290,000 refugees crossing into northern Albania.
KUKES, Albania _ In the shadow of a medical tent, Dr. Durim Bebeci worked swiftly on two listless...struggling to treat some of the 290,000 refugees crossing into northern Albania. ``We are looking at epidemics coming,'' said Bebeci, director... |
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UN: Secretary-General visits former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia and...
...representatives and NGOs working in Albania. He thanked the President...Kukes II, which lies in the shadow of a huge ridge dividing Albania from the Kosovo province of...child over the mountains into Albania. After visiting a second camp... |
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Travel: Libya, Algeria, Albania - these are the `in' places to visit, despite...
...low-lying countries such as Kiribati and Tuvalu this year. Back in Europe one has to look at Albania, which temporarily emerged from the shadows in the early 1990s, only to retreat again before hardly anyone had got round to going there... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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ANGERED BY SHIPWRECK, ALBANIA REBUFFS ITALIAN AID.(MAIN)
...Associated Press TIRANA, Albania -- Angered by the drowning...the sea. The threat cast a shadow over U.N. attempts to help Albania overcome food shortages by...considered any ramming accidental. Albania cannot afford to burden relations... |
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Croatia pledges full support for Albania in EU membership bid
...his country fully supports Albania's EU membership aspiration...Drobnjak, would soon visit Albania to meet his Albanian counterparts...member Slovenia has cast a shadow over the progress of its membership talks. Albania signed the Stabilization... |
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International monitors critical of Albania poll
...parliamentary elections in Albania _ a key test of the Balkan...incidents, one fatal, cast a shadow over the process," a preliminary...Parliamentary elections in Albania on 3 July complied only partially...Preliminary results from 248 of Albania's 4,763 ... |
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TRAVEL: Albania mania.(Features)
...boyfriend and I would like to visit Albania this summer and we would like...have to take? Jayne Greene A ALBANIA is slowly dragging itself into...century after 50 years in the shadow of Enver Hoxha, a brutal communist...said, some 30 per cent of Albania's ... |
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In Albania, where almost anything goes, the hunt for al-Qaida intensifies
...presence of terrorist elements in Albania, a predominantly Muslim nation...atmosphere _ one with plenty of shadows in which terrorists can hide...by frequent power outages. Albania, Pollo concedes, "needs...into al-Qaida operations in Albania. Authorities ... |
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