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Basic Data for Albania
Albania surface is 28.748 km2.
Albania's population is around 4,000,000.
There are more than 2.000.000 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, hundreds
of thousands in Macedonia and Montenegro and an estimated,
2.000.000 in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,
Greece, and Canada.
Around 70% of the population is estimated to be non-religious or
non-practicing. Of the others, 20% is Muslim, 6% is Orthodox, and
4% is Catholic.
Tirana officially has 750,000 inhabitants (though the real number
may be much higher).
Tirana covers 42 km2 and lies at 110m above sea level, though two
mountains of 1612m and 1828m also rise within the
municipality.
Tirana has some 30,000 students.
History
By the Seventh Century BC, the Illyrians (the apparent ancestors of
the Albanian nation) settle in what is now Albania.
In 229-168 BC the Romans defeat the Illyrians and establish the
protectorate of Illyricum. The Roman Empire is divided in 395 AD,
and the territory of today's Albania falls into the Eastern
(Byzantine) Empire.
The Ottomans invade what is now Albania in 1385. Their rule lasts
more than 500 years. Skanderbeg, the Albanian leader, wages a war
of independence against the Ottomans starting in 1443 until his
death in 1468.
In the 1830, the Ottomans crush Albanian autonomy.
In November1912, Albanians proclaim independence
in Vlora.
In 1925 Ahmet Zogu becomes president of the new Republic, but in
1928 Zogu proclaims a kingdom and crowns himself King Zog In
November 1944.
The Communist-led National Liberation Front takes power.
In 1968 Albania withdraws from the Warsaw Pact. Albania cultivates
relations with China.
In 1978 the leadership condemns even China as revisionist and is
left with no friends. Party head Enver Hoxha dies on April 1985.
Communist Party leader Ramiz Alia announces cautious
democratization in March. Reform comes slowly.
On December 1991- The Democratic Party is founded, In 1992 - The
faults in the economy become clear when thousands of Albanians
seeking asylum in Italy commandeer ships.
In 1997 - Collapsing pyramid schemes.
In June, parliamentary elections, held amidst nationwide unrest,
result in a landslide victory for the Socialists.
President Berisha, blamed for allowing the pyramid schemes to
flourish, resigns.
In March 1999 - NATO launches an air war on Yugoslavia. The war
turns Albania into a NATO base of operations, and by May 500,000
Kosovars have flooded into the country.
In 2006 - Albania signs the Stabilization and Association
Agreement with the EU, the first step towards closer cooperation
with the EU.
In April 2009 - Albania joins NATO.
In December 2010 - EU finally announces visa-free travel for
Albanians to Europe's Schengen countries.
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