Racial restrictions were relaxed to the extent that Ukrainian Slavs, Albanians from Kosovo, Arabs, Turkic Tatars, and even Asians from Dutch East Indies ( Indonesia ) units were recruited.

Orthodox Greeks were seen as part of the millet-i Rûm ( literally " Roman community ") which included all Orthodox Christians, including besides Greeks also Bulgarians, Albanians, Vlachs, Macedonian Slavs, Georgians, Arabs, Romanians and Serbs, despite their differences in ethnicity and language and despite the fact that the religious hierarchy was Greek dominated.

The new parliament comprised 142 Turks, 60 Arabs, 25 Albanians, 23 Greeks, 12 Armenians ( including four Dashnaks and two Hunchas ), 5 Jews, 4 Bulgarians, 3 Serbs, and 1 Vlach.

Under this umbrella name one could find ethnic Albanians, Bulgarians, Arabs, Serbians, Jews, Greeks, Turks, Kurds and Armenians united by the common goal of changing the régime.

Therefore, Orthodox Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians, Vlachs, Macedonian Slavs, Georgians, Arabs, Romanians and Serbs were all considered part of the same millet despite their differences in ethnicity and language and despite the fact that the religious hierarchy was Greek dominated.

The largest minority groups of people living in Nørrebro are Arabs, Turks, Pakistanis, Bosnians, Somalians, Albanians and many more.

* Armenians, Albanians, and Iberians rise in rebellion against the Caliphate.

It became home to an extremely diverse population of Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans ( including Mennonites ), Greeks, Italians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, and traders representing many other nationalities ( hence numerous " ethnic " names on the city's map, for example Frantsuzky ( French ) and Italiansky ( Italian ) Boulevards, Gretcheskaya ( Greek ), Yevreyskaya ( Jewish ), Arnautskaya ( Albanian ) Streets ).

After the Caucasian Albanians were Christianized in the 4th century, the western parts of the population were gradually assimilated by the ancestors of modern Armenians, and the eastern parts of Caucasian Albania were Islamized and absorbed by Iranian and subsequently Turkic peoples ( modern Azerbaijanis ).

This led to a rebellion of Albanians, along with Armenians and Georgians.

In 1905 it had about 80, 000 inhabitants, of whom 30, 000 were Muslims ( Turks and some Albanians, Roma and Circassians ); 22, 000 Greeks ; 10, 000 Bulgarians ; 4, 000 Armenians ; 12, 000 Jews ; and 2, 000 more citizens of non-classifiable ethnic / religious backgrounds.

Following the inconclusive Battle of Avarayr ( 451 ), in which a united Christian army consisting of Armenians, Georgians, and Caucasian Albanians clashed with the Sassanid army, many of the Armenian nobles retreated to impassable mountains and forests in several provinces, including Artsakh, which became a center for resistance against Sassanid Iran.

Ottoman Greece was a multiethnic and multicultural society ; apart from Greeks and Turks, there were many Jews, Italians ( especially Venetians ), Armenians, and various Balkan peoples ( Serbs, Albanians, Gypsies, Bulgarians etc .).

The ethnic composition of Kosovo's population during this period included Serbs, Albanians, and Vlachs along with a token number of Greeks, Armenians, Saxons, and Bulgarians, according to Serbian monastic charters or chrysobulls.

The phrase has also found its way into the colloquial language of many non-Arabic peoples, such as Persians, Turks ( who say " maşallah "), Kurds, Armenians, Bosniaks, Albanians and Muslims and Urdu-speakers of South Asia ( who say " Masha ' allah "), and some of the peoples of the Balkans who once lived under Turkish rule, including some who are not of the Islamic faith ( Serbians, who say " mašala ").

In modern times, such mythical aetiologies in nationalist constructions of history were replaced by the frequent attempt to link one's own ethnic group to a source as ancient as possible, often known not from tradition but only from archaeology or philology, such as Armenians claiming as their origin the Urartians, the Albanians claiming as their origin the Illyrians, the Georgians claiming as their origin the Mushki, or Hindu nationalists claiming as the origin of their religion the Indus Valley Civilization ( see Indigenous Aryans ( India )) — all of the mentioned groups being known only from either ancient historiographers or archaeology.

The Albanian defeat ended a planned alliance between the Albanians and the Bosnians, who were similarly seeking autonomy.

The Treaty of San Stefano triggered profound anxiety among the Albanians and Bosnians meanwhile, and it spurred their leaders to organize a defense of the lands they inhabited.

The work claimed lands that were inhabited by Bulgarians, Macedonians, Albanians, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Hungarians and Croats as part of Greater Serbia.

The ABS 2001 Census reported that 43 % were of Southern or Eastern European origin, with 10 % of Maltese extraction alone and about 20 % from the Balkan region, including Albanians, Bosnians, Croatians, Macedonians and Serbs.

The First Battle of Kosovo occurred on the field of Kosovo Polje on June 28, 1389, when the ruling knez ( prince ) of Serbia, Lazar Hrebeljanović, marshalled a coalition of Christian soldiers, made up of Serbs, but in small numbers also of Bosnians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Magyars and a troop of Saxon mercenaries.

It was against US intervention in the Balkans, leaning more toward the Orthodox Christian Serbs than the Muslim Bosnians and Albanians.

The deposition of the reformer Sultan Selim III in 1807, and his replacement with the reactionary Mustafa IV by the Janissaries and other opponents of reform, provoked Alemdar Mustafa Pasha to lead his army of Albanians and Bosnians to Constantinople in an attempt to reinstate Selim III and restore his reforms.

The city also had a temporary population of ethnic Albanians and Bosnians flown in during the Kosovo conflict as part of Turkey and Macedonia's efforts to aid the suffering populaces of former Yugoslavia by offering them temporary asylum.

Albania is also mentioned by Dionysius Periegetes ( 2nd or 3rd c. AD ) who describes Albanians as a nation of warriors, living by the Iberians and the Georgians.

In 1064, he participated in the unsuccessful defense of Ani against the Seljuk leader Alp Arslanand his allies: the Caucasian Georgians headed by King Bagrat IV of Georgia and Albanians headed by King Goridzhan. He served afterwards under Michael VII Doukas ( 1071 – 78 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 81 ) in various responsible positions on both the eastern and the western frontiers of the empire.

Examples include Albanians claiming as their origin the Illyrians, Bulgarians claiming identity with the Thracians, Iraqi propaganda invoking Sumer or Babylonia, Georgians claiming as their origin the Mushki, Hindu nationalists claiming as their origin the Indus Valley Civilization — all of the mentioned groups being known only from either ancient historiographers or archaeology.

The largest groups of foreign nationals were Turks ( 43, 309 ), Albanians ( 30, 385 ), Croats ( 24, 866 ), Serbs ( 24, 439 ), Greeks ( 22, 486 ), Austrians ( 21, 411 ), and Italians ( 20, 847 ).

During medieval and modern times, Macedonia has been known as a Balkan region inhabited by ethnic Greeks, Albanians, Vlachs, Serbs, Bulgarians, Jews, and Turks.

Another version posits that the settlement appeared after Odessa itself was founded, as a settlement of Moldavians, Greeks and Albanians fleeing the Ottoman yoke.

Albania is since the 1940s demanding that Greece grant a Right of Return to the Muslim Cham Albanians, who were expelled from the Greek region of Epirus between 1944 and 1945, at the end of World War II-a demand firmly rejected by the Greeks ( see Cham issue ).

Genetically, modern Bulgarians are more closely related to other neighbouring Balkan populations ( Macedonians, Serbs, Romanians, Greeks and Albanians ) than to the rest of the Europeans.

Initially the recruiters favoured Greeks ( who formed the largest part of the first units ) and Albanians ( who also served as gendarmes ), usually selecting about one boy from 40 houses, but the numbers could be changed to correspond with the need for soldiers.

During the 20th century, after the creation of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece have come to dissociate themselves much more strongly from the Albanians, stressing instead their national self-identification as Greeks.

Many Arvanites find the designation " Albanians " offensive as they identify nationally and ethnically as Greeks and not Albanians.

Two Irish pilgrims who visited Albania on their way to Jerusalem in 1322, report that Durres is “ inhabited by Latins, Greeks, perfidious Jews and barbaric Albanians ”.< ref > Itinerarium Symonis Simeonis et Hugonis Illuminatoris ad Terram Sanctam, edited by J. Nasmith, 1778, cited in:

:” Inhabitatur enim Latinis, Grecis, Judeis perfidis, et barbaris Albanensibus ” ( Translation in R. Elsie: For it is inhabited by Latins, Greeks, perfidious Jews and barbaric Albanians ).</ ref >

In the Ottoman Empire, until the 19th century, meyhanes run by Greeks and Albanians would mainly serve wine along with meze, due to religious restrictions imposed by various sultans.

The Greeks, who dominated the education of Orthodox Albanians, joined the Turks in suppressing the Albanians ' culture, especially Albanian-language education.

The Illyrian descent theory soon became one of the pillars of Albanian nationalism, especially because it could provide evidence of continuity of Albanian presence both in Kosovo and in southern Albania, i. e. areas that were subjected to ethnic conflicts between Albanians, Serbs and Greeks.

Over the centuries, the Vlachs split into various Vlach groups ( see Romania in the Dark Ages ) and mixed with neighbouring populations: South Slavs, Greeks, Albanians, Bulgars, and others.

Despite this low level of differentiation between them, tree reconstruction and principle component analyses allowed a distinction between Balkan – Carpathian ( Romanians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Macedonians and Gagauzes ) and Balkan Mediterranean ( Greeks, Albanians, Turks ) population groups.

In 1346, Stephen Uroš IV Dušan was crowned Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks Albanians and Bulgarians, and the Archbishopric of Serbia was elevated to a Patriarchate.