The battle was fought between the Catholic Malësor Albanians led by Ded Gjo Luli, against the forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Turgut Pasha.

This was by no means a universal reaction ; many other Albanians fought alongside the Ottomans to resist the Austrian advance.

Later, as the Ottoman Empire betrayed Albanians by making a deal with the Slavs and Greeks to split Albanian into four of five pieces, all leaders of the League of Prizren fought against the Turks.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

Slobodan Milošević, the President of Yugoslavia at the time, was eventually charged with the " murders of about 600 individually identified ethnic Albanians " and " crimes against humanity.

The first undisputed mention of Albanians in the historical record is attested in Byzantine source for the first time in 1079-1080, in a work titled History by Byzantine historian Michael Attaliates, who referred to the Albanoi as having taken part in a revolt against Constantinople in 1043 and to the Arbanitai as subjects of the duke of Dyrrachium.

After Germany's withdrawal from Kosovo in late 1944, Yugoslavia's communist partisans took possession of the province and committed retaliatory massacres against Albanians.

Gaddafi aligned himself with the Orthodox Serbs against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslims and Kosovo's Albanians.

Gaddafi supported Milošević even when Milošević was charged with large-scale ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosovo.

Some of the worst massacres against civilian Albanians by Serbian forces occurred after NATO started its bombing of Yugoslavia.

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

These have been directed against Serbs, other ethnic minorities ( primarily the Roma ) and against ethnic Albanians accused of collaborating with Serb authorities.

The KLA engaged in tit-for-tat attacks against Serbian nationalists in Kosovo, reprisals against ethnic Albanians who " collaborated " with the Serbian government, and bombed police stations and cafes known to be frequented by Serb officials, killing innocent civilians in the process.

After setting up and ambush and attacking their lightly armoured Humvee vehicles with small arms fire and RPG ’ s the patrol stopped and Macedonian forces and guerrillas exchanged fire in a short skirmish, after soldiers started retreating half of the patrol managed to escape one soldier was shot and 7 others captured and allegedly executed with knives and then their corpses were allegedly burned. News of the massacre sparked local uprisings against Muslim Albanians in several towns and cities across Macedonia, and such revolts included burning and vandalising shops and Mosques.

*: On 17 May 2012 Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded Rivera the " Medal of Gratitude " with the citation: " With profound gratitude and esteem, personality and prominent publicist, expensive friend of the Albanians, who made his cause the American public consciousness, and beyond, monstrous crime was making the Serb military machine, in 1999, against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population, thus revealing it as ethnic cleansing and genocide ".

The killings were a major factor in the NATO governments deciding to use force against the Yugoslav government to end its campaign of violence against Kosovo's Albanians.

* 1466 & 1467-The Albanians under Skanderbeg, defend Krujë against massive Ottoman armies led by Sultan Mehmed II

Uprising of Albanians against Tanzimat reform.

Albanians rise against the Ottoman authorities and seize Skopje.

In 1998 the SRS and SPO entered the so-called " war " government, and as Deputy Prime Minister, Šešelj passed new information laws and helped launch propaganda offensives against Kosovo Albanians.

With time, Kosovo Albanians started an insurgency against Belgrade when the Kosovo Liberation Army was founded in 1996.

These troops had been sent for by Khorshid Pasha in order to strengthen himself against the Albanians, but their arrival resulted in the immediate return of Muhammad Ali and his Albanians from their campaign against the Mamelukes in the south.

Despite some stubborn resistance by some patriots, especially at Durrës, the Italians made short work of the Albanians.

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 ).

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 ).

Since the late 19th century, Grafton Hill and Vernon Hill have been points of entry for immigrants from all over the world: Irish, Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, Syrians, Lebanese, Indians, Puerto Ricans, French Canadians, and more recently, Albanians and Brazilians.

While some Albanians continued to resist, " a large part of the population ... welcomed the Italians with cheers ", according to one contemporary account.

The Italians orchestrate the annexation of areas of Greek Epirus by Albania, citing the presence of a significant Albanian minority ( the Cham Albanians ).

Considering the presented historical facts and universally accepted principles of the modern world, as well as the inalienable and indivisible, non-transferable and nonexhaustible right of the Croatian nation to self-determination and state sovereignty, including its fully maintained right to secession and association, as basic provisions for peace and stability of the international order, the Republic of Croatia is established as the national state of the Croatian nation and the state of the members of autochthonous national minorities: Serbs, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Ukrainians, Rusyns, Bosniaks, Slovenians, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Russians, Bulgarians, Poles, Roma, Romanians, Turks, Vlachs, Albanians and the others who are citizens, and who are guaranteed equality with citizens of Croatian nationality and the realization of national rights in accordance with the democratic norms of the United Nations Organization and the countries of the free world.

According to the 2001 census, the population of Poreč is made-up of Croats ( 75. 4 %), Italians ( 4. 23 %), Serbs ( 3. 24 %) and Albanians ( 2. 45 %).

Croats make up the majority with 93. 30 % of the population, while Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians and Italians form the remainder.

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 .).

Croats comprise an absolute majority with 59. 6 %; Italians 18. 3 %, Serbs 3. 8 %, Slovenes 2. 2 %, Bosniaks 1. 7 %, Albanians 1. 3 % and those regionally declared ( as Istrians ) make up the final 1. 57 %.

It was recruited from Italians living in Albania and later on Albanians were also recruited.

While the resistance of the Byzantines, Serbians, Hungarians, Albanians and Wallachians should have given the Austrians ( and Italians ) more time to prepare for an Ottoman threat against them, it is by no means clear that they believed the threat to be serious or consciously prepared for it.

* 20 May: Victorious battle against Italians and Cham Albanians at Agia Kyriaki village.

Large portions of the population began to travel to Senj in 1520 when the Ottoman Empire invaded the Balkan Peninsula with raids and destruction, bringing Senj natives together with those from the lands of Habsburg, other Croatians from Dalmatia and Dubrovnik, Albanians from southern Venetian territories, and Italians from the western shores of the Adriatic.

Albanians celebrate their independence day on 28 November ( which is the date on which they declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912 ), while in the former People's Socialist Republic of Albania the National Liberation festivity date was 29 November.

In addition, the Albanians sought investment funds to develop light industries and an oil refinery, while the Yugoslavs wanted the Albanians to concentrate on agriculture and raw-material extraction.

Molisan Albanians are generally Eastern Orthodox, while Molise Croats are generally Catholics.

* while only various military commanders and since 1916 a Secretary for Civil Affairs in Albania ( Ugo Capialbi ) had acted for Rome since Italy invaded on 27 December 1914 ( occupying Valorë and parts of Southern Albania ; on 3 June 1917 Albanian independence under an Italian protectorate was declared by Italy, opposed by most Albanians ; adding in November 1918 the former Austro-Hungarian occupied areas to the Italian zone ) only since in 1919 an Albanian provisional government recognized by Italy as the legal government of the protected zone, consecutive High Commissioners for the Crown were appointed until Italy effectively withdraw its troops on 3 September 1920 ( as agreed on 22 August 1920 when formally recognizing the total independence of Albania ):

The Kosovo Albanians constitute about 95 % of the population ), while some 7060 Muslims by nationality, Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians making up ca.

Western sources of the time attribute him the titles judex ( judge ) and princeps Arbanorum ( prince of the Albanians ), while Byzatine records refer to him as megas archon ( grand archon ).

The local Greek population also calls them Graeco-Chams ( Ελληνοτσάμηδες, Elinotsamides ), while Muslim Albanians sometimes designate them as Kaur, which means " infidel " and refers to their religion.

Montenegro will be the state of the Montenegrin people, while Serbs, Bosniacs, Albanians and Croats will be also mentioned in the Constitution.

The Rambouillet talks did not yield any results since Serbs and Albanians had two opposite goals-the Albanians wanted an independent Kosovo, while the Serbs wanted to return them autonomy, but refused disarming their forces there or allowing international peacekeepers to be deployed.

Vocality provides the main difference to be found across every region concerning Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, while Albanians also use the Albanian language.

Approximately 30, 000 ethnic Albanians retreated from the captured areas ( partly under duress ), seeking refuge in Kosovo and Metohia, while tens of thousands of Serbs fled Kosovo and Metohia for Serbia ahead of unleashed bashibozouks, irregular auxiliaries of Ottoman troops.

Two chiefs of the Albanians deserted Muhammad Ali and joined Khorshid's party, while many of his soldiers deserted him and went over to Muhammad Ali.

The Committee asked the Kachaks not to mistreat or rob Serbs or destroy their property, while at the same time, some Serbs continued to mistreat Albanians.

while another version of this hypothesis maintains that the Albanians are the descendants of Illyrian tribes located between Dalmatia and Danube, which spilled south.

The scholars who support a Dacian origin of Albanians maintain that between third and sixth centuries AD Albanians moved from Moesian area to south, while those scholars who maintain a Thracian origin hypothesize that the proto-Albanians are to be located in Thracian territory in the area between Niš, Skopje, Sofia and Albania or from the Rhodope and Balkan mountains, where they moved to Albania before the arrival of the Slavs.

For example, while Albanians scholars maintain that the Komani-Kruja burial sites support the Illyrian-Albanian continuity theory, most scholars reject this and consider that the remains indicate a population of Romanized Illyrians who spoke a Romance language.

Most Albanians eventually adopted Islam, while most Serbs did not.

The Communist government did not permit the return of many of the refugees while continuing the imprisonment and killing of the patriots like Shaban Polluzha culminating in the Tivar massacre where 3000-4000 Kosovar Albanians were killed by machine-guns.

Some of the minorities in Vojvodina, like Hungarians ( 14. 28 % of population ), Slovaks ( 2. 79 %) or Croats ( 2. 78 %), are mainly Catholic or Protestant stemming from the Habsburg influence while Albanians and Bosniaks in Kosovo and neighbouring parts of Serbia are mainly Muslim stemming from the Ottoman influence.

In 2002 census, the largest ethnic group in the town were Serbs, while the largest ethnic group in the municipality were Albanians.