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Other Albanian minorities are the Gorani people and Jews. [4] Regarding the Greeks, "it is difficult to know how many Greeks there are in Albania". The estimates vary between 60,000 and 300,000 ethnic Greeks in Albania. According to Ian Jeffries, most of Western sources put the number at around 200,000.
There are Italian Albanians in the Americas especially in such countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Canada and the United States. After 1991, a mass migration of Albanians towards Italy occurred. [217] Between 2015 and 2016, the number of Albanian migrants who held legal permits of residence in Italy was numbered to be around 480,000 and ...
This page lists Albanian citizens of African ancestry or national origin. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A.
Albania has a high Human Development Index of 0.764, ranking 75th in the world in 2016. [8] In 2016, Albania had a total population of 2,786,026, 1,361,326 being males and 1,424,700 females. 42,922 inhabitants have left Albania and in the same year the number of immigrants in the country was 25,846. [9]
There is a sizable Albanian population in Missouri, especially in Greater St. Louis; the town of Bella Villa, which also has a large population of another Southern European ethnic group (Bosnian Americans), is 4% Albanian. [31] There are 1,200 Albanians in St. Louis County. [32] There is an Albanian presence in the Nashville area.
German historian Gottfried Schramm speculated that the Albanians derived from the Christianized Bessi, after their remnants were allegedly pushed by Slavs and Bulgars during the 9th century westwards into today Albania. [226] Archaeologically, there is absolutely no evidence of a 9th-century migration of any population, such as the Bessi, from ...
Turkey has about six million citizens of full or partial Albanian descent, [30] and most still feel a connection to Albania. There is also a strong Turkish minority in Kosovo. Albania was the last nation in southeastern Europe to claim independence from the Ottoman Empire, on 28 November 1912. Many Albanians emigrated to Turkey between 1950 and ...
Albanisation is the spread of Albanian culture, people, and language, either by integration or assimilation.Diverse peoples were affected by Albanisation including peoples with different ethnic origins, such as Turks, Serbs, Croats, Circassians, Bosniaks, Greeks, Aromanians, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians, Romani, Gorani, and Macedonians from all the regions of the Balkans.