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Albanian nationalism is a general grouping of nationalistic ideologies among ethnic Albanian communities. The term is associated with similar concepts, such as Albanianism and Pan-Albanianism, with irredentist aims towards neighboring countries, for the formation of a Greater Albania. Albanian nationalism emerged in the middle of 19th century as a national movement. These ideologies were partially adopted during the People's Republic of Albania (1945-1991), which was more focused on Illyrian-Albanian continuity issue and appropriating Ancient Greek history as Albanian. However these ideologies have survived largely intact in modern Albanian society and institutions, as well have a degree of acceptance and proliferation in Kosovo.

Albanian nationalist ideology currently considers Albanians to be Illyrians and co-identifies them with unrelated ancient peoples, namely Ancient Greeks, the mythical Pelasgians and the Etruscans, claiming an Albanian origin for all these peoples. This kind of historical revisionist ideology is mainly associated with concepts of irredentism and ethnic superiority over neighboring states and peoples.

Origins of Albanian nationalism

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Theoretical background

Among controversial claims Aristotle, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Alexander the Great, and Phillip II of Macedon (along with all the ancient Macedonians) were Pelasgian-Illyrian-Albanian and that ancient Greek culture (and thus the result of the Hellenistic civilisation) had been spread by Albanians. Macedonians are considered forefathers (among several others) of the Albanians. Ancient Greek gods are seen as "Albanian" as well.

Through the Pelasgian claim, most if not all European cultures are claimed to be derivatory, even those of the Romans and Celts.

Robert D'Angély is one of the authors that tries to re-actualize XIX century claims that Albanians descend from the most ancient peoples, the Pelasgians, and that the European "white race" descends from these people. According to Angély, Greek people or Greek nation does not exist (he writes that Greeks mixed with Semites) and that the ancient Greeks were Pelasgian Albanians.

Edwin Everett Jacques an American XIX century missionary in Albania in his book "The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present" supported and recreated these notions by considering all the Ancient Greeks Albanians.

Ismail Kadare, a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature, himself claims that Albanians are more Greek than the Greeks themselves, and attempts to construct a Greek-Illyrian continuity.

Evolution under the People's Republic of Albania (1945-1991)

Enver Hoxha had declared

"the only religion would be "Albanianism"

In Communist Albania, an Illyrian origin of the Albanians (without denying Pelasgian roots a theory which has been revitalized today) continued to play a significant role in Albanian nationalism, resulting in a revival of given names suppposedly of "Illyrian" origin, at the expense of given names associated with Christianity. At first, Albanian nationalist writers opted for the Pelasgians as the forefathers of the Albanians, but as this form of nationalism flourished in communist Albania under Enver Hoxha, the Pelasgians became a secondary element to the Illyrian theory of Albanian origins, which could claim some support in scholarship. The Illyrian descent theory soon became one of the pillars of Albanian nationalism, especially because it could provide some evidence of continuity of an Albanian presence both in Kosovo and in southern Albania, i.e., areas that were subject to ethnic conflicts between Albanians, Serbs and Greeks.. Under the regime of Enver Hoxha, an autochthonous ethnogenesis was promoted and physical anthropologists tried to demonstrate that Albanians were different from any other Indo-European populations, a theory now disproved. Communist-era Albanian archaeologists claimed that ancient Greek poleis, gods, ideas, culture and prominent personalities were wholly Illyrian (example Pyrrhus of Epirus and the region of Epirus.).They claimed that the Illyrians were the most ancient people in the Balkans and greatly extended the age of the Illyrian language. This is continued in post-communist Albania and has spread to Kosovo. Nationalist theories developed during communism have survived largely intact into the present day.

Post-communist era developments

Modern Education

Albanian schoolbooks assert that the Illyrians are the heirs of the Pelasgians. Characteristically, in Albanian schools, pupils are taught that Alexander the Great and Aristotle were Albanians by ethnicity.Ancient Greece as a whole is usurped along with all her prominent personalities and achievements including the Hellenistic civilization.

Impacts on modern Albanian society and culture

Nationalist theories developed during communism have survived largely intact into the present day. The Pelasgian theory especially has been revitalized today. The Albanian Kanun, a very ancient set of laws that is still partially applied in several areas of northern Albania is believed to have been inherited by Illyrians. Muzafer Korkuti, one of the dominant figures in post-war Albanian archaeology and now Director of the institute of Archaeology in Tirana said this in an interview of July 10, 2002:

"Archaeology is part of the politics which the party in power has and this was understood better than anything else by Enver Hoxha. Folklore and archaeology were respected because they are the indicators of the nation, and a party that shows respect to national identity is listened to by other people; good or bad as this may be. Enver Hoxha did this as did Hitler. In Germany in the 1930s there was an increase in Balkan studies and languages and this too was all part of nationalism."

Influence on Albanian diaspora

The Albanian newspaper in the USA is called Illyria Albanian companies based abroad are named Illyrian-related names such as Illyria Holdings in Switzerland and the Swiss-Albanian Illyrian bank.

A USA-based Albanian company, Illyria Entertaintment, plans a documentary that calls the Illyrians "greatest forgotten people" that "contributed to the formation and development of the Western civilization", "shrouded in myth and legend" though little to nothing is known of their myths (see Illyrian gods) "before the dawn of classical Greece and the rise of the Roman empire" despite the fact the first account of Illyrians comes at the 4th century BC by a Greek writer.

Influence on movement toward Kosovan secessionism

This ideology of this type has spread to Kosovo The struggle for the liberation of Kosovo from Serb rule became the struggle for the recovery of the ancient land of the Dardanians and thus a re-creation of their ancient kingdom The concept of Illyrian descent proved impossible to eradicate in Kosovo despite the suppression by the Serbs.. They have also been brought up to believe that their nation is the oldest in the Balkans, directly descended from the ancient Dardanians, a branch of the so-called Illyrians who had allegedly inhabited the region for many centuries before the arrival of the Slavic 'interlopers'. Some Kosovar Albanians refer to Kosovo as Dardania. The former Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova had been an enthusiastic backer of a "Dardanian" identity and its flag and presidential seal refer to this national identity. However, it is not recognised by any international power and the name "Kosova" remains more widely used among the Albanian population. The name change and the ideology that goes with it has the intention of a weapon against Serbian historical rights by claiming that the Albanians were the original inhabitants of the region(the Dardanians).Orthodox Christianity is considered a Slavic characteristic and Roman Catholicism is preferred as the claim is that the Dardanians were Roman Catholics and that the invading Slavs usurped and turned their Catholic churches into Orthodox ones. Albanians in Kosovo believe that they are the direct descendants of the Illyrians, that they were the first Christians in Europe, and that St. Paul had been in "Dardania" first

Shops in Kovoso are frequently named Illyria Tours or Dardania Import-Export. A Dardania Bank exists in Albania.

These ideologies and Greater Albania have proponents and patrons that are not only nationalists but criminals and terrorists involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking and other activities motivated by profit.

Greater Albania

The term Greater Albania or Great Albania refers to an irredentist concept of lands outside the borders of the Republic of Albania which are considered part of a greater national homeland by some Albanians, based on the present-day or historical presence of Albanian populations in those areas. The term incorporates claims to Kosovo, as well as territories in the neighbouring countries Montenegro, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. Albanians themselves mostly use the term ethnic Albania instead.

Illyrida

In 1992 Albanian activists in Struga proclaimed also the founding of the Republic of Illyrade(Alb:Republika e Iliridës) with the intention of autonomy or federalization inside the Republic of Macedonia. The declaration had only symbolic meaning and the idea of an autonomous state of Illyrade(Alb:Iliridë) is not officially accepted by the ethnic Albanian politicians in the Republic of Macedonia . The name Illyrida is another form of Illyria.

Kosovo Liberation Army

The Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA (Template:Lang-sq or Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) was a Kosovar Albanian terrorist group which sought the independence of Kosovo from Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Albanian National Army

The Albanian National Army (abbreviated ANA; Template:Lang-sq, AKSh), is an ethnic Albanian terrorist organization closely associated with the Kosovo Liberation Army — operating in the Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo. The group opposes the Ohrid Framework Agreement which ended the 2001 Macedonia conflict between insurgents of the National Liberation Army and Macedonian security forces.

FBKSH

FBKSH (Template:Lang-sq, Template:Lang-en) is a pan-Albanian irredentist organization whose objective is to create a "United Albania", a homeland for all Albanians. The activity of FBKSH is strictly related to that of the Albanian National Army, a terrorist organisation active in the Republic of Macedonia.

National Liberation Army (Albanians of Macedonia)

The National Liberation Army (Template:Lang-sq; Template:Lang-mk), also known as the Macedonian UÇK, was an insurgent and terrorist organization that operated in the Republic of Macedonia in 2001 and was closely associated with the KLA.

Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac

The Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac,LAPMB (Template:Lang-sq, UÇPMB; Template:Lang-sr, Cyrillic script: Ослободилачка војска Прешева, Медвеђе и Бујановца) was an Albanian terrorist guerrilla group fighting for the secession of Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa were at the time municipalities of the Republic of Serbia, itself a federal unit of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (not to be confused with SFR Yugoslavia); today they are municipalities of modern Serbia. The three municipalities were home to most of the Albanians of Central Serbia, adjacent to Kosovo. LAPMB uniforms, procedures and tactics mirrored those of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The LAPMB operated from 1999 to 2001. The goal of the LAPMB was to secede these municipalities from Yugoslavia and join them to a future independent Kosovo.

Liberation Army of Chameria

Liberation Army of Chameria (Template:Lang-sq) is a reported paramilitary formation in the northern Greek region of Epirus. The organisation is reportedly linked to the Kosovo Liberation Army and the National Liberation Army, both ethnic Albanian paramilitary organisations in Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia respectively.

Albanian foreign relations

Albanian–Kosovan relations are foreign relations between Albania and the Republic of Kosovo. When Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia in 17 February 2008, Albania became one of the first countries to announce officially about recognition of sovereign Republic of Kosovo, which is recognised as an integral part of Serbia by the international community. Also Albania was the only country which recognized Republic of Kosova in 1990. Albania has an embassy in Pristina. The Republic of Kosovo has an embassy in Tirana. There are 2,000,000 Albanians living in Kosovo (93% of Kosovo's population) and Albanian is the official language of Kosovo.

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Macedonia and Albania have friendly and cooperative relations. In August 2008, they signed a treaty enabling visa-free movement between the countries. Both countries support each others ethnic minorities in cultural, political and educational aspects. During the ethnic conflict in 2001, the Albanian government did not interfere and supported peaceful resolution.

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Albanian-Greek relations are foreign relations between Greece and Albania. The two countries share a history of conflict that continues to the present day. However, from both sides it has been expressed that the foreign relations between the two countries are being transformed into an excellent example of good neighborliness, but also of cooperation.

Albanian–Serbian relations are foreign relations between Albania and Serbia. Albania has an embassy in Belgrade. Serbia has an embassy in Tirana. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). Also both countries are recognized as potential candidate countries by the European Union.

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See also

• Historical revisionism
• Greater Albania
• Chameria
• Origin of the Albanians
• Illyrians
• National Renaissance of Albania

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