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Greater Albania

Greater Albania is the proposal of 4 "Albanian vilayets" of the League of Prizren as agreed after the Albanian revolt of 1912

Greater Albania (Albanian: Shqipëria e Madhe) is an irredentist[1] and nationalist concept that seeks to annex the lands that many Albanians consider to form their national homeland.[2] It is based on claims on the present-day or historical presence of Albanian populations in those areas. In addition to the existing Albania, the term incorporates claims to regions in the neighbouring states, the areas include Kosovo, the Preševo Valley of Serbia, territories in southern Montenegro, northwestern Greece (the Greek regional units of Thesprotia and Preveza, referred by Albanians as Chameria, and other territories that were part of the Vilayet of Yanina during the Ottoman Empire),[3][4][5][6][7] and a western part of North Macedonia.

The unification of an even larger area into a single territory under Albanian authority had been theoretically conceived by the League of Prizren, an organization of the 19th century whose goal was to unify the Albanian inhabited lands (and other regions, mostly from the regions of Macedonia and Epirus) into a single autonomous Albanian Vilayet within the Ottoman Empire,[8] which was briefly achieved de jure in September 1912. The concept of a Greater Albania, as in greater than Albania within its 1913 borders, was implemented under the Italian and Nazi German occupation of the Balkans during World War II.[9] The idea of unification has roots in the events of the Treaty of London in 1913, when roughly 30% of the predominantly Albanian territories and 35% of the population were left outside the new country's borders.[10]

  1. ^ Dennison I. Rusinow (1978). The Yugoslav Experiment 1948–1974. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-52003-730-4.
  2. ^ Likmeta, Besar (17 November 2010). "Poll Reveals Support for 'Greater Albania'". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 27 June 2013. The poll, conducted by Gallup in cooperation with the European Fund for the Balkans, showed that 62 per cent of respondents in Albania, 81 per cent in Kosovo and 51.9 per cent of respondents in Macedonia supported the formation of a Greater Albania.
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  4. ^ Kola 2003, p. 15.
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  8. ^ Jelavich 1983, pp. 361–365
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Zolo24 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Bugajski 2002, p. 675."Roughly 30% of the predominantly Albanian territories and 35% of the population were left outside the new country's borders"

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