The celebrated Albanian commander and Ottoman deserter George Kastrioti united the fragmented chieftains and princes. Better ...

I LOVE coming to Tirana. Probably no other capital in Europe has changed as much in the last two decades as here. If you had not been for twenty or even ten years you would not recognise the place, ...

This study originated with Malcolm’s discovery, two decades ago, of a reference in a 16th-century Italian volume on the Ottomans. A passage noted that a treatise on Albania, then the main Ottoman ...

In the early 15th century, the Balkans and Eastern Europe as a whole suffered under Ottoman raids and conquest. The Ottoman Sultan figured fragmented Albania would be an easy conquest. However, ...

SKOPJE, MacedoniaSKOPJE, Macedonia — More than 1,000 ethnic Albanians marched in the capital of Macedonia on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Albania’s independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The nation of Albania has one of Europe’s most in­triguing religious landscapes. Four major groups are usually identified: Catholic and Orthodox Chris­tians, Sunni Muslims, and Bek­tashis. Although ...