On his death, his son Leka was pronounced H. M. King Leka of the Albanians by the exiled Albanian community.

Since Crown Prince Leka's death in late November, 2011, the main pretender to the Albanian Throne is H. R. H.

On 16 August 1920, Albanian patriot P. Nika altogether with A. Erebara, P. Jakova, A. Hoxha, A. Koja, P. Berisha, A. Zajmi, H. Fortuzi, B. Pazari, L. Berisha, S. Frasheri, H. Alizoti, A. Gjitomi and V. Fekeci founded the " Agimi Sports Association ".

An anonymous writer from Elbasan translated into Albanian a number of sections from the Bible ; T. H. Filipi, also from Elbasan, brings the Dhiata e Vjetër dhe e Re ( The Old and the New Testament ).

As of April 2008, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Public Radio International ( PRI ) and of the Carlston Family Foundation ( formerly the Brøderbund Foundation ), and serves on the Boards of the MoveOn Political Action Committee, the Ploughshares Fund, the Albanian American Enterprise Fund, A. H. Belo Corporation and the Long Now Foundation.

* Pickaxe and Rifle: the Story of the Albanian People ( 1974 ) London ; H. Baker ISBN 0-7030-0039-X

The File on H. is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare.

It first appeared in Albanian in 1981 under the title Dosja H.

Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.

And the Chinese, as the Albanian incident shows, have strong suspicions that Khrushchev is anxious to secure a `` shameful '' peace with the West.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

* 1916 – Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer ( d. 1989 )

Sultan Ahmed III had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged ; on September 20, 1730, a mutinous riot of seventeen janissaries, led by the Albanian Patrona Halil, was aided by the citizens as well as the military until it swelled into an insurrection in front of which the Sultan was forced to give up the throne.

In addition to financial assistance, he supplied the Albanian leader with troops, military equipment, and sanctuary for himself and his family if such a need should arise.

* 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.

The ablative case is found in Albanian where it is the fifth case and is called rasa rrjedhore.

A 900-kilometer U. S .- financed alternate route, known as the AMBO pipeline, would bring oil from Burgas across Bulgaria and Macedonia to the Albanian port of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, bypassing both the Bosporus and Greece.

In March 1910, an Albanian insurrection broke out in Kosovo.

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, strengthened Bulgaria's position as a regional military power, significantly reduced Ottoman influence over the Balkans, and resulted in the formation of an independent Albanian state.

Many linguistic families meet in the region, including the Slavic, Romance, Hellenic, Albanian, and Turkic language families.

In the December 1945 Albanian election, the only effective ballot choices were those of the communist Democratic Front ( Albania ), led by Enver Hoxha.

The French occupation was short-lived as British and Ottoman forces, including a sizable Albanian contingent, recaptured the country in 1801.

Continued civil war allowed an Albanian named Muhammad Ali Pasha to ascend to the role of commander and eventually, with the approval of the religious establishment, viceroy of Egypt in 1805.

Both censuses were observed by international experts due to the sensitive issue regarding the ethnic distribution ( i. e. of Macedonian or Albanian origin ).

Arbëreshë Albanians | Albanian couple during marriage in an Italo-Greek Catholic Church rite.

:* Albanian has two special letters Ç and Ё upper and lowercase.

A relationship with Albanian in particular has been advanced by Zecharia Mayani, as well as earlier writers such as Ascoli, 1877, E. Schneider, 1889, Thomopoulos, 1912, Buonamici, 1919 ; but Albanian is known to be an Indo-European language, and widely considered in linguistics to be an isolate.

In 1348, taking advantage of the civil war in Constantinople between John V Palaiologos and John VI Kantakouzenos, the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan conquered Epirus, with a number of Albanian mercenaries assisting him.

In 1451 the city was home to the Treaty of Gaeta, stipulated between Alfonso V and the Albanian lord, Skanderbeg: the treaty ensured protection of the Albanian lands in exchange for political suzerainty of Skanderbeg to Alfonso.

* According to linguist V. Georgiev, the theory of an Illyrian origin for the Albanians is weakened by a lack of any Albanian names before the 12th century and the relative absence of Greek influence that would surely be present if the Albanians inhabited their homeland continuously since ancient times.

Tanić stated that the army leadership didn't use this plan during the Kosovo War, " because there was no external aggression or Albanian rebellion ".

He was born either an Armenian, Albanian or a Greek in a small town called Ağırnas near the city of Kayseri in Anatolia ( as stated in an order by Sultan Selim II ).

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Albanian authorities did not take adequate measures in order to protect the Greek President " by deterring known extremist elements, who are trying to hinder the smooth development of Greek-Albanian relations ".

Albanian president's office stated that President Moisiu expressed deep sorrow at this unexplainable decision, which was based upon misinformation, of the " small, peaceful and well monitored demonstration ".

Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 1846 ).

Although a difficult political issue domestically, Serbia has established a solid working relationship with UNMIK and has released all disputed ethnic Albanian prisoners from Kosovo to the competent UN bodies.

These three entities, covers the history of Albania between the late 12th century, until the half of the 14th century, when Albanian Principalities were created through all Albania.

The initial sparks of the first Balkan War in 1912 were ignited by the Albanian uprising between 1908 and 1910 which were directed at opposing the Young Turk policies of consolidation of the Ottoman Empire.

Some small portions of territories with Albanian majority remained outside the new borders and contact between the two parts was practically impossible: the Albanian population under the Bulgarian rule was heavily oppressed.

Relations between Albania and Yugoslavia declined, however, when the Albanians began complaining that the Yugoslavs were paying too little for Albanian raw materials and exploiting Albania through the joint stock companies.

The Soviet Union, responding with an effort to raise the Albanian leaders ' morale, elevated diplomatic relations between the two countries to the ambassadorial level.

The distinction between dialect and language has been made by scholars ( such as Francesco Bruni ): on the one hand are the languages that made up the Italian koine ; and on the other, those that had little or no part in it, such as Albanian, Greek, German, Ladin, and Occitan, which some minorities still speak.

The dialect of most Kosvar Albanians is Gheg Albanian, which involves significant differences between the generally spoken language and the officially written one.

The relations between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian and Serb populations have been hostile since the rise of nationalism in the Balkans during the 19th century, rivalry which became strong after Serbia gained Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire in 1913 and after Albania became independent in the same year.

The level of intolerance and separation between the ethnic Albanian and Serb communities during the Tito-period was reported by sociologists to be worse than that of Croat and Serb communities in Yugoslavia which also had tensions but held some closer relations between each other.

In 1999, the Kosovo War led to 340, 000 Albanian refugees from Kosovo fleeing into Macedonia, greatly disrupting normal life in the region and threatening to upset the balance between Macedonians and Albanians.

However, the war increased tensions and relations between ethnic Macedonians and Albanian Macedonians became strained.

The guerillas received support from Albanians in NATO-controlled Kosovo and ethnic Albanian guerrillas in the demilitarized zone between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia.

After the fall of the Albanian communist regime in 1991, relations between Greece and Albania became increasingly strained because of widespread allegations of mistreatment by Albanian authorities of the Greek ethnic minority in southern Albania and of the Albanian minorities in northern Greece.

Today, relations between the two countries are relatively good, and, at the Albanian government ’ s request, about 250 Greek military personnel are stationed in Albania to assist with the training and restructuring of the Albanian armed forces.

In the sixteenth century, the island began to be settled by refugees, Greek and Albanian, due to the warfare between the Ottomans and Venetians.

Following Vladimir I. Georgiev, who placed Pelasgian as an Indo-European language " between Albanian and Armenian ", Albert Joris Van Windekens ( 1915 — 1989 ) offered rules for an unattested hypothetical Indo-European Pelasgian language, selecting vocabulary for which there was no Greek etymology among the names of places, heroes, animals, plants, garments, artifacts, social organization.