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nga **Admini** Tue May 26, 2009 10:56 am

Information about Albania - The Land of Eagles

Where is Albania on the Map? Albania is located in the western part of the Balkan peninsula. It borders the former Yugoslavia (Serbia - Montenegro) and Kosova in the north and the east, (FYR of) Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south. It has access to the Adriatic and Ionian Seas in the west. From the Strait of Otranto, Albania is less than 100 km (60 miles) from Italy. The country covers a total of 28,000 squared kilometers (11,000 squared miles) and its population is 3.3 million

nga **Admini** Tue May 26, 2009 10:57 am

Born in Uskub, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, in the Republic of Macedonia), at 18 she left home to join the Sisters of Loretto. In 1962, she received the Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding. In 1971, she was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and St. Gabriel award. Teresa was also awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980. She was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1981. She was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States... For more Here!

nga **Admini** Tue May 26, 2009 10:57 am

AHMET ZOGU

Ahmet Bey Zogu (b. Oct. 8, 1895, Castle Burgajet, Albania--d. April 9, 1961, Suresnes, France), president of Albania from 1925 to 1928 and king from 1928 to 1939. Though able to manipulate Albania's internal affairs to his own advantage, he came to depend heavily on Benito Mussolini's Italy and was eventually ousted by the Italian dictator on the eve of World War II.

nga **Admini** Tue May 26, 2009 10:57 am

Enver Hoxha (b. Oct. 16, 1908, Gjirokast‘r, Alb.--d. April 11, 1985, Tiran‘), the first communist chief of state of Albania. As that country's ruler for 40 years after World War II, he forced its transformation from a semifeudal relic of the Ottoman Empire into an industrialized economy with the most tightly controlled society in Europe. Hoxha, the son of a Muslim cloth merchant, studied at the French lycÚe at Kor‘.

nga **Admini** Tue May 26, 2009 10:57 am

Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg astrioti was born in Kruja from Gjon Kastrioti, lord of Middle Albania, who was obliged by the Ottomans to pay tribute to the Empire. To assure the fidelity of local rulers the Sultan used to take their sons as hostage and bring them up in his court. Gjergj Kastrioti attended military school in the Ottoman Empire and was named Iskander Bey which in Turkish means Lord Alexandre.

nga **Admini** Tue May 26, 2009 10:57 am

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AHMET ZOGU

Enver Hoxha (b. Oct. 16, 1908, Gjirokast‘r, Alb.--d. April 11, 1985, Tiran‘), the first communist chief of state of Albania. As that country's ruler for 40 years after World War II, he forced its transformation from a semifeudal relic of the Ottoman Empir

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