Albania

[ al-bey-nee-uh, -beyn-yuh ]

noun

1. 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.
2. Obsolete. Scotland.

Albania

/ ælˈbeɪnɪə /

noun

1. 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

1. 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.

Notes

The most secretive and closed of the former Eastern Bloc nations, Albania held free elections in March 1991, ending almost fifty years of communist rule and inaugurating a multiparty system. Protests over the collapse of a government-sponsored fraudulent investment scheme led to near anarchy in 1997. United Nations peacekeepers restored order.

Example Sentences

In the second half of 2019, I raised and flagged about three dozen more networks of inauthentic political activities from Afghanistan to Albania, from Brazil, to Bolivia, from India to Indonesia.

From MIT Technology Review

I should not have been in a position in which I needed to choose was Albania or Azerbaijan more important.

From MIT Technology Review

Albania had general elections earlier this year, and it was still going on at the time.

From MIT Technology Review

I don’t think anyone should be in the position of deciding if Albania is more important than Azerbaijan or questions like that.

From MIT Technology Review

Driving crime waves from Ecuador to Italy of all places, the Albanians distinguish themselves for being wildly ruthless and violent and often still finding safe haven in Albania if necessary.

From Ozy

But after a while, the edit wars ended, and the article no longer had Einstein going to Albania.

From The Daily Beast

The Secret Rescue By Cate Lineberry The story of non-combat heroes and their escape from Nazi-occupied Albania.

From The Daily Beast

In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokastër, my home city, and Tirana.

From The Daily Beast

The recent situation in my country [Albania], its problems, its grotesque aspects, its misunderstandings.

From The Daily Beast

But, to much ridicule, the Army then took weeks to prepare the field in Albania from which the Apaches were to operate.

From The Daily Beast

On her western frontier she was occupied in putting down an insurrection which had broken out in Albania.

From Project Gutenberg

The little country of Albania is so called from Alba, or "white," because of its snowy mountains.

From Project Gutenberg

His predilection for the inhabitants of Epirus, of Albania, and for the Suliotes, is known.

From Project Gutenberg

He thought of erecting first a principality in Albania and the Morea, and then a kingdom in Tunis.

From Project Gutenberg

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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