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This is a list of heads of state of Albania who have served since the Declaration of Independence of 1912. Since the collapse of the communist regime in 1991, the head of state of Albania is the president of the republic (Albanian: Presidenti i Republikës).
Zacharia Gropa (Albanian: Zeqiri Gropaj) was an Albanian nobleman and member of the Gropa family who historically ruled over parts of modern day Albania and North Macedonia. He was a military commander who served in the forces of Skanderbeg during Skanderbeg's rebellion. He was also an associate of Moisi Dibra. Pal II Gropa: Andrea I Gropa ...
Debar was significantly involved in the national Albanian movement and on 1 November 1878 the Albanian leaders of the city participated in founding the League of Prizren. In 1907 the Congress of Dibra was held in the town, which made Albanian an official language within the Ottoman Empire. The congress allowed that Albanian be taught in schools ...
Karl Thopia (Albanian: Karl Topia; 1331 – January 1388) was an Albanian feudal prince and warlord who ruled Albanian domains from 1358 until the first Ottoman conquest of Albania in 1388. He claimed the titles Prince of Albania, Lord of Krujë and Duke of Durrës
The new Albanian unity was briefly interrupted by the 1921 rebellion of Catholic tribes in Mirdita led by Marka Gjoni. This separatist Republic of Mirdita was backed by Yugoslavia, which then used the revolt as a pretext to invade Albania. Following a brief war, Yugoslav forces withdrew and Albanian troops led by Ahmet Zogu overran the Mirdita ...
Yugoslavian leaders launched a verbal offensive against anti-Yugoslavian Albanian Communists, including Hoxha, empowering the pro-Yugoslavian faction. July: Albania refused to participate in the Marshall Plan of the United States. 1948: February: Albanian Communist Party leaders began voting to merge the Albanian and Yugoslavian economies and ...
Albania’s prime minister on Tuesday responded to not being invited by Greece to a dinner for top officials from nine Balkan nations and the European Union by saying that in “such turbulent ...
Battle or campaign Order of battle Date Crusades; Battle of Lepanto: Holy League and Ottoman fleets: October 7, 1571 Thirty Years' War; First Battle of Breitenfeld: Holy Roman Empire, Catholic League, Sweden, and Saxony: September 17, 1631 Battle of Rain: Sweden and the Catholic League: April 15, 1632 Second Battle of Breitenfeld