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The Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) and their country Albania (Shqipëria) have been identified by many ethnonyms.The native endonym is Shqiptar.The name "Albanians" (Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. [1]
Palasë (Albanian: Palasë or Palasa; Greek: Παλάσα, Palasa) also Paljasa (Albanian: Paljasë) (Greek: Παλιάσα), [1] is a village in Himarë municipality (13 kilometres from the town), Vlorë County, southern Albania. [2] It is located near the Llogara National Park and next to the Ionian coast on the Albanian Riviera.
Dajti is a mountain located in central Albania, just east of the capital, Tirana.Part of the Skanderbeg Mountains range, it stretches from Shkalla e Tujanit in the northwest to Qafa e Priskës in the southeast, at a length of 8 km (5.0 mi) and a width of 5 km (3.1 mi).
Historically Mirdita was the largest tribal region of Albania in terms of geographic spread and population. [3] The region is situated in northern Albania, and it borders the traditional tribal areas of Puka (Berisha, Kabashi, Qerreti) in the north; the Lezha highlands (Vela, Bulgëri, Manatia, Kryeziu) in the west and southwest; the northern Albanian coastal plain of Lezha and Zadrima between ...
In Albania, it is also estimated that emigrant remittances account for 18% of GDP or $530 million annually, though declining in the late 2000s. [12] Those who have come back have opened micro-enterprises, while the proximity of Greece and Italy to Albania, where more than half of immigrants are located has contributed to continuous labor ...
Dukat is a community in Vlorë County, southern Albania.With the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Vlorë. [1] The Dukat Plain covers an area of around 1,000–1,500 ha delimited by the Ceraunian Mountains and opened in the north towards the Bay of Vlorë on the Adriatic.
Of this population around 12,000 live in the city of Kuçova, classifying it as 12th of 65 municipalities on a national scale. [citation needed] Population density is 567 inhabitants/km 2, which ranks the Kuçova district as the most heavily populated on a national scale. Another feature of this district compared with others in Albania is that ...
As a result, the Slavic minority in Albania was recognized in 1945 as Macedonian. [20] The former Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi openly admitted the presence of ethnic Bulgarians near the Lake Prespa in 1993. [21] After the fall of communism, in 1998, many Macedonians from Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo illegally crossed to the Republic of ...