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Albania (disambiguation)

Albania is a country on the Balkan Peninsula in south-eastern Europe.

Albania may also refer to:

Places

  • Albania (placename)

Territories related to present-day Albania

  • Kingdom of Albania (medieval), Albanian-Angevin kingdom established in 1272
  • Venetian Albania, Venetian possessions in southern the coastal area of what is now northern Albania and the coast of Montenegro
  • Sanjak of Albania, a subdivision of the Rumelia Eyalet of Ottoman Empire in period 1385–1466
  • Albanian Vilayet, a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire projected in 1912 in the western Balkan Peninsula
  • Independent Albania, former unrecognized country established in 1912 comprising the territories of Kosovo Vilayet, Monastir Vilayet, Shkodër Vilayet and Janina Vilayet
  • Republic of Central Albania, a short-lived unrecognized state established on October 16, 1913, with its administrative centre in Durrës, today in Albania
  • Principality of Albania, 1913–25, locally called a kingdom
  • Albanian Republic, a 1925–28 republic in Albania which was a de facto protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy
  • Albanian Kingdom (1928–39), the constitutional monarchical rule in Albania between 1928 and 1939 which was a de facto protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy
  • Albanian Kingdom (1939–43), a protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy
  • Albanian Kingdom (1943–44), a puppet state of Nazi Germany
  • People's Socialist Republic of Albania, the official name of Albania from 1946 until 1991
  • Greater Albania, an irredentist concept of Albanian homeland

Territories not related to present-day Albania

  • Caucasian Albania or Arran, a historical territory in the southern Caucasus with borders roughly corresponding to those of modern Azerbaijan
  • Albania (satrapy), the same area within the Iranian Sassanid Empire
  • Alba, Latinised as Albania, an old Gaelic name for Scotland or Great Britain

Populated places

Other uses

  • Albania (periodical), an Albanian publication by Faik Konica 1896–1910
  • Albania (album), a 1973 album by Marinella

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Albania
  • Alba (disambiguation)
  • Albanian (disambiguation)
  • Albany (disambiguation)
  • Alban Hills, ancient Latin Albanus Mons, a region near Rome, Italy
  • Albani people, an ancient tribe living in Italy
  • Names of the Albanians and Albania
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