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The New Jersey cities of Garfield, Clifton, Elmwood Park, and Lodi all bear over 500 Albanians each. The Greater Philadelphia Area of Pennsylvania is rife with Albanian-descended persons. Philadelphia city proper, as well as the suburbs of Progress and Berwyn are over 2% Albanian ethnically, and Philadelphia has over 5,000 Albanians in ...
Albanians began to settle in the USA in the late 19th-20th centuries from Southern Albania, Greece, Turkey, Southern Italy and Kosovo, and in the 1990s from Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and refugees of war. The largest Albanian American (incl. Kosovar Albanian) populations are in New York City, Boston, Detroit, Jacksonville, and Chicago.
Later, in the 1990s, after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, many Albanians flocked to the United States. [108] Two neighborhoods that became Albanian are Belmont and Pelham Parkway. [109] [110] In April 2012, it was reported by the New York Times that 9,500 people in the Bronx identify themselves as Albanian. [111]
Staten Island also has a large Albanian community. The region in the Bronx is also known by the name Little Albania. [1] In Staten Island, Albanians are concentrated in Dongan Hills, Tompkinsville, New Dorp, and Grant City. [2] [3] New York City is home to more than 100,000 Albanians according to the Albanian-American Society Foundation. [4]
The Albanians [d] are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language. [67] They are the main ethnic group of Albania and Kosovo, and they also live in the neighboring countries of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, and Serbia, as well as in Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
Albania. The New Jersey–Albania National Guard Partnership is one of 25 European partnerships that make up the U.S. European Command State Partnership Program and one of 88 worldwide partnerships that make-up the National Guard State Partnership Program. [2] The partnership was established in 1993.
The Rudaj Organization was an Albanian mafia gang in the New York City metro area, named for the man accused of being its kingpin, Alex Rudaj of Yorktown, New York.The Rudaj Organization, called "The Corporation" [citation needed] by its members, was started in 1990s in The Bronx and spread to Westchester county and Queens.
Albanoi is the formal term for Albanians in modern Greek and until the 20th century it was used interchangeably with the term Arbanitai, which now in Greek refers exclusively to Arvanites. [15] These names reflect the Albanian endonym Arbër/n + esh which itself derives from the same root as the name of the Albanoi. [16]