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Albania
[ al-bey-nee-uh, -beyn-yuh ]
noun
- a republic in S Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula, W of Macedonia and NW of Greece. 10,632 sq. mi. (27,535 sq. km). : Tirana.
- Obsolete. Scotland.
Albania
/ ælˈbeɪnɪə /
noun
- a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula: became independent in 1912 after more than four centuries of Turkish rule; established as a republic (1946) under Communist rule; multiparty constitution adopted in 1991. It is generally mountainous, rising over 2700 m (9000 ft), with extensive forests. Language: Albanian. Religion: Muslim majority. Currency: lek. Capital: Tirana. Pop: 3 011 405 (2013 est). Area: 28 749 sq km (11 100 sq miles)
Albania
- Republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic Sea coast of the Balkan Peninsula , bordered by Yugoslavia to the northwest, north, and northeast, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the southeast and south. Tirana is its capital and largest city.
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But after a while, the edit wars ended, and the article no longer had Einstein going to Albania.
The Secret Rescue By Cate Lineberry The story of non-combat heroes and their escape from Nazi-occupied Albania.
In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokastër, my home city, and Tirana.
The recent situation in my country [Albania], its problems, its grotesque aspects, its misunderstandings.
But, to much ridicule, the Army then took weeks to prepare the field in Albania from which the Apaches were to operate.
On her western frontier she was occupied in putting down an insurrection which had broken out in Albania.
The little country of Albania is so called from Alba, or "white," because of its snowy mountains.
His predilection for the inhabitants of Epirus, of Albania, and for the Suliotes, is known.
He thought of erecting first a principality in Albania and the Morea, and then a kingdom in Tunis.
And after is Albania, a full great realm; so called because the people are whiter there than in other countries thereabout.
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