* 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.

An example is the cult status of British comedic actor Norman Wisdom's films in Albania.

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

Recognize that the goal for the post-war era is an independent, democratic Albania where the people themselves will decide the form of government.

The Communist Party of Albania will unite with any group that used to have contacts with the fascist invaders, but has now terminated those contacts and is willing to now fight against the fascist invaders, provided those groups have not committed any crimes against the people.

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 order to solve the Gheg-Tosk divide, books were written in the Tosk dialect, and the majority of the Party's members came from southern Albania where the Tosk dialect is spoken.

* 1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.

Furthermore, Greek is officially recognized as a minority language in parts of Italy and Albania, as well as in Armenia, Romania and Ukraine as a regional or minority language in the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

The territory of what is now Albania was invaded by Serbia in the north and Greece in the south, restricting the country to only a patch of land around the southern coastal city of Vlora.

Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries ( such as Switzerland and Albania ) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is more than 85 million.

In central-east Europe Italian is first in Albania and Montenegro, second in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine after English, and third in Hungary, Romania and Russia after English and German.

The Italian language is well known and studied in Albania, another non-EU member, due to its historical and geographical proximity with Italy.

In some Muslim-majority nations, such as Albania, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia or Mali, same-sex intercourse is not forbidden by law, and in Albania there has been discussions of legalizing same-sex marriage.

It is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and holds the status of official minority language in parts of Albania, Romania and Serbia.

The Macedonian language has the status of official language only in the Republic of Macedonia, and is a recognised minority and official language in parts of Albania ( Municipality of Pustec ), Romania, and Serbia ( Municipalities of Jabuka and Plandište ).

* In Albania, a municipality is either part of a city ( bashki ) or a province ( komunë ).

Modern region of Macedonia is Macedonia ( terminology )# Subregions | divided by the national boundaries of Greece ( Macedonia ( Greece ) | Greek Macedonia ), the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria ( Blagoevgrad Province ), Albania ( Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo ), Serbia ( Prohor Pčinjski and Gora ( region ) | Gora ).

Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia ( including the Gora region in Kosovo ).

The Roman province of Macedonia consisted of what is today Northern and Central Greece, much of the geographical area of the present-day Republic of Macedonia and southeast Albania.

The Republic of Macedonia is a country situated in southeastern Europe with geographic coordinates, bordering Kosovo and Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west.

* 1944 – Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.

Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to construct a fake war with Albania.

When the Bolsheviks published its secret provisions in 1917, he rejected the idea of Albania as merely a small Muslim state, the fiefdom he believed of Essad Pasha.

Albania became a vassal state of the Sassanid Empire, but retained its monarchy ; the Albanian king had no real power and most civil, religious, and military authority lay with the Sassanid marzban ( military governor ) of the territory.

Albania had declared its independence in 1912, but after the chaos of the First World War, no unity or real national government authority was achieved until the early 1920s.

Burgu i Mërgimit () is an artistic Albanian film that treats the real situation of the 1990s Albania.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

Within Albania itself there were difficulties in communications between groups of partisans fighting the fascist invaders.

Throughout the war, repeated attempts were made to improve communications between the many partisan groups operating within Albania.

In August 1943, a secret meeting was held in the town of Mukje between the anti-communist Balli Kombëtar ( National Front ) and the Communist Party of Albania.

Albanian economists H. Banja and V. Toçi stated that the relationship between Albania and Yugoslavia during this period was exploitative and that it constituted attempts by Yugoslavia to make the Albanian economy an " appendage " to the Yugoslav economy.

In western Macedonia however, the lack of coordination between the Greek and Serbian HQs cost the Greeks a setback in the Battle of Vevi on, when the Greek 5th Infantry Division crossed its way with the VI Ottoman Corps ( a part of the Vardar Army consisting of the 16th, 17th and 18th Nizamiye divisions ), retreating to Albania following the battle of Prilep against the Serbs.

When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in AD 395, Illyria east of the Drinus River ( Drina between Bosnia and Serbia ), including the lands that now form Albania, were administered by the Eastern Empire but were ecclesiastically dependent on Rome.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

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.

On the conquered part of Albania, which territory stretched between Mat River on the north and Çameria to the south, Ottoman Empire established the Sanjak of Albania and in 1419 Gjirokastra became the county town of the Sanjak of Albania.

The border between Albania and its neighbors was delineated in 1913 following the decision by the Ambassadors at the Conference of London.

The republic proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916, however in 1917 it was driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania.

In January 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference, negotiators from France, Britain, and Greece agreed to divide Albania among Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece as a diplomatic expedient aimed at finding a compromise solution to the territorial conflict between Italy and Yugoslavia.

Unable to survive a predatory environment without a foreign protector, Albania became the object of tensions between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which both sought to dominate the country.

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.

Hoxha and Shehu apparently decided in May or June 1960 that Albania was assured of Chinese support, and they openly sided with the PRC when sharp polemics erupted between the PRC and the Soviet Union.

Let us invite over my son Octa, and his brother Ebissa, who are brave soldiers, and give them the countries that are in the northern parts of Britain, by the wall, between Deira and Albania.

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.