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Nowadays religious observance and practice is generally lax, and polls have shown that, compared to the populations of other countries, few Albanians consider religion to be a dominant factor in their lives. When asked about religion, people generally refer to their family's historical religious legacy and not to their own choice of faith.
The Albanian people maintain a very chequered and tumultuous history behind them, a fact explained by their geographical position in the Southeast of Europe at the cultural and political crossroad between the east and west, but they also have historically inhabited a hardly accessible mountainous region, which helped them preserve their ...
The Albanians are also one of Europe's ethnic groups with the highest number of common ancestors within their own ethnic group even though they share ancestors with other ethnic groups. [4] Albanian is an Indo-European language [5] and the only surviving representative of its own branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group, having its ...
The Albanian population of Italy, only the Albanians with Albanian nationality, has noted a steady increase in the recent years especially during the fall of communism in the 1990s and the beginnings of the 21st century. [13] [14] [4] It has doubled between 2003 and 2009 from 216,582 to 441,396 constituting a total increase of 103,8%. [15]
Christianity is still the largest religion in Europe; according to a 2011 survey, 76.2% of Europeans considered themselves Christians. [80] [81] Also according to a study on Religiosity in the European Union in 2012, by Eurobarometer, Christianity is the largest religion in the European Union, accounting for 72% of the EU's population. [82]
The Ghegs (also spelled Gegs; Albanian: Gegët) are one of the two main ethnic subgroups of Albanians, alongside the Tosks. [1] These groups are distinguished by their cultural, dialectal, social, and religious characteristics, which contribute to the diversity within the Albanian population.
There are an estimated 250,000 ethnic Albanians in Switzerland, most of them from Kosovo, a sizeable minority arriving from North Macedonia. [32] Albanians have migrated to Switzerland since the 1960s, [33] but bulk of immigration took place during the 1990s, especially during 1998–1999. They account for about 2% of total Swiss population ...
It was one of the most significant developments in Albanian history as Albanians in Albania went from being a largely Christian (Catholic and Orthodox) population to one that is mainly Sunni Muslim, while retaining significant ethnic Albanian Christian minorities in certain regions. The resulting situation where Sunni Islam was the largest ...