The 19th century, the century of national movements in the Balkans, found Albanians without a sufficient tradition of a unitary development of the state, language and culture but, instead, with an individualistic and regionalist mentality inherited from the supremacy of clan and kinship and consequently with an underdeveloped national conscience, though with a spirit of spontaneous rebellion.

In some countries, the development of regionalist politics may be a prelude to further demands for greater autonomy or even full separation, especially when ethnic and cultural disparities are present.

Executive Committee members played an active, at times leading, role in English regionalist movements, especially during the 1980s.

In the 1970s, nationalist or regionalist movements emerged in regions such as Brittany, Corsica and Occitania.

As a writer, his best known work is the regionalist novel Os Marimbondos de Fogo (" The Fire Wasps ").

Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana.

After the Villa Savoye Corbusier's experimentation with Surrealism informed his design for the Beistegui apartments, but his next villa design, for Mademoiselle Mandrot near Toulon had a regionalist agenda and relied on local stone for its finish.

In June 2001 the Istrian regionalist party IDS withdrew from the coalition government and its chairman Ivan Jakovčić resigned his post as Minister of European Integration, citing criticism of the way they governed Istria on the regional level which had been coming from other parties within the ruling coalition.

Originally a mainly Flemish regionalist and republican party, the Vlaams Blok soon concentrated on anti-immigration themes, and was often accused of xenophobia and racism.

* Domingos Maria Xavier Rebelo ( Ponta Delgada, 3 December 1891 — Lisbon, 11 January 1975 ), better known as Domingos Rebelo, was a teacher and Azorean regionalist painter, author of many iconographic representations of the Azores, in particular his painting Os Emigrantes, his most recognizable image ( of immigrants on the dock of Ponta Delgada );

His idea would have been a parliamentary republic on the American lines, with some traits of the Swiss constitution to keep in touch with the regionalist and provincialist inclinations of many parts of the peninsula.

The alliance has generally limited its membership to progressive parties, and therefore, not all European regionalist parties are members of EFA.

In 1981 several European regionalist parties joined forces to form a pan-European coalition, called the European Free Alliance.

They were joined by 4 MEPs from the left-wing Danish Eurosceptic People's Movement against the EU, while the other regionalist MEPs, including those of the SDLP, the SVP, Batasuna and the Convergence and Union of Catalonia ( CiU ) refused to join.

The EFA also recognizes friends of the EFA, a special status for regionalist parties outside of the European Union.

This policy shift was continued and strengthened by Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, who pursued a regionalist and pro-South policy with at times strident anti-Western rhetoric.

The Francophone Walloon identity of Belgium is linguistically distinct and regionalist.

Furthermore, in the case of far-right, far-left and regionalist parties in the national parliaments of much of the European Union, mainstream political parties may form an informal cordon sanitaire which applies a policy of non-cooperation towards those " Outsider Parties " present in the legislature which are viewed as ' anti-system ' or otherwise unacceptable for government.

Both the SNP and Plaid Cymru are members of the European Free Alliance ( EFA ), a European political party for regionalist national-level political parties.

The Wessex regionalist organisations justify their eight-shire definition of Wessex in terms both of modern regional geography and ( less convincingly ) early English history.

The region is home to a notable regionalist / nationalist movement.

This stance is common in regionalist circles.

Then, in 1938, a show was held at the Mercury Gallery, in direct defiance of the Whitney Museum, which the group regarded as having a provincial, regionalist agenda.

Tarkington was an unabashed Midwestern regionalist, if somewhat of a world traveler, and set much of his fiction in his native Indiana.

The new party worked in cooperation with another regionalist group, the Northern People's Party.

A further federalist reform was proposed by the regionalist party Lega Nord and in 2005, the centre-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi proposed a new reform of the Constitution that would have greatly increased the power of regions.

Curnoe willingly declared himself a regionalist, and many other artists later followed his lead.

In the beginning of the 1990s, Bert Anciaux became party president and led the party in an ever more progressive direction, combining the social-liberal ideas of his new iD21-movement with the regionalist course of the People's Union.

On the European level the N-VA is part of the European Free Alliance that consists mainly of regionalist or minority parties.

He narrowly lost the seat at the 1984 election but was returned to serve as an MEP in 1989 election where he sat with the regionalist Rainbow Group He also canvassed for IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, in which Sands was elected to Westminster.

In 1930, he was a signatory of the " Pact of San Sebastián ", which united all the republican and regionalist parties in Spain against Primo de Rivera and the King.

The more conservative, Catholic ( or Christian-democratic ) wings of the various nationalist and regionalist movements throughout Spain can claim an indirect influence from Carlism, particularly relating to fueros and regional self-government.

However, the regionalist Samajwadi Party unexpectedly swept the elections.

Political parties representing " Leonesismo ", the Leonese regionalist and nationalist movements, support the creation of an autonomous community separate from Castile.

This example demonstrates the oral tradition of the Homeric epics that flourished long before they were written down sometime in the 7th century BC.

While the zarzuela tradition flourished in Madrid and other Spanish cities, Catalonia developed its own zarzuela, with librettos in Catalan.

As a tradition that has flourished for many generations, the art of Batik is inseparable from Javanese culture.

The Hopewell tradition is an Aboriginal culture that flourished along American rivers from 300 BCE to 500 CE.

Modern Chillicothe was the center of the ancient Hopewell tradition, which flourished from 200 BCE until 500 CE.

Two specimens from the Tlatilco civilization's homelands ( which flourished around 1400 BC ) indicate the practice has a lengthy tradition.

was the tradition of lyric and song writing in Germany which flourished in the 12th century and continued into the 14th century.

Recent scholarship has noted that, although surviving early examples are now uncommon, human figurative art was a continuous tradition in Islamic lands in secular contexts ( such as literature, science, and history ); as early as the 9th century, such art flourished during the Abbasid Caliphate ( c. 749-1258, across Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Mesopotamia, and Persia ).

Despite the communist isolation, the tradition of singer-songwriter in Romania flourished beginning with the end of the 1960s and it was put in the context of the folk music, with its three main styles in Romania: ethno folk, American-style folk and lyrical ( cult ) folk.

The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos, and flourished about 660 BC ( others place him about 50 years earlier ).

English Gothic architecture flourished from the 12th to the early 16th century, and famous examples include Westminster Abbey, the traditional place of coronation for the British monarch, which also has a long tradition as a venue for royal weddings ); Canterbury Cathedral, one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England ; Salisbury Cathedral, which has the tallest church spire in the UK ; and Winchester Cathedral, which contains the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.

The Huayan school (; ; ; ) or Flower Garland is a tradition of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy that flourished in China during the Tang period.

While in China, Woncheuk took as a disciple a Korean-born monk named Dojeung (), who travelled to Silla in 692 and propounded and propagated Woncheuk's exegetical tradition there where it flourished.

The Hopewell tradition ( also called the " Hopewell culture ") describes the common aspects of the Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern United States from 200 BCE to 500 CE.

Composition flourished, with the new music often drawing on the tradition of folk song for tunes and inspiration.

* According to Maurice Magre, in Magicians, Seers, and Mystics, derived from local oral tradition, Christian Rosenkreuz was the last descendant of the Germelschausen, a German family which flourished in the 13th century.

The Klan also flourished in smaller towns of the South where racial violence had a long tradition dating back to the Reconstruction era.

It is expository midrash to the first book of the Torah, assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah ( or Osha ' yah ) who flourished in the third century in Christian Palestine.

In the middle of the nineteenth century Pavel Rybnikov traveled through the region of Lake Onega and rediscovered that the bylina tradition, which was thought to be extinct, still flourished among the peasants of northeast Russia.

This tradition flourished until the United States took control, and officials grew more anxious about unsupervised gatherings of slaves in the years before the Civil War.

Christianity has flourished in coastal South India from the times of St. Thomas the Apostle who came to Kerala in 52 AD and established the Syrian Christian tradition today called as Saint Thomas Christians or Nasranis.

The Golden Age of the Beta Israel kingdom took place, according to the Ethiopian tradition, between the years 858-1270, in which the Jewish kingdom flourished.

But it was in private poetic bouts with fellow poets that the satire tradition flourished.