BRIEF HISTORY ALBANIA SHORT HISTORY OF ALBANIA LAMBERT ANCIENT THE PEOPLE OF LEARNED BRONZE THE IRON PEOPLE OF ALBANIA ILLYRIANS EVENTUALLY CONFLICT ROME THE ROMANS 167 BC ROMAN RULE PROSPERED ROADS AREA TOWNS ELBASANI THE ROMAN EMPIRE SPLIT EAST EASTERN EMPIRE US AS THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE CENTURIES GERMANIC PEOPLES INVADED TIMES ALWAYS INVASIONS POSITION ON THE EDGE OF BULGARIANS PARTS TERRITORY THE EARLY EMPEROR BASIL ALBANIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES THE NORMANS CAPTURED SICILY SOUTHERN ITALY TURNED ATTENTION THE COAST DURRESI BACK IN HELP IN 12 THE CRUSADERS BYZANTINE CONTROL UP FOR GRABS PERIOD WARFARE POWERS FIGHTING VENICE SEIZED CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN DIRECTLY RULED GREEK VASSAL RULED TURNED ON THE VENETIANS THE DESPOTATE OF EPIRUS THE KINGDOM ITALIANS FELL SERBIAN KING STEFAN DUSAN IN 13 DEATH SERBS LOST CONTROL FEUDAL LORDS THEMSELVES THREAT THE OTTOMAN TURKS THE TURKS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL THE YEARS REBELLION BROKE GEORGE KASTRIOTI ALBANIANS THE NORTH RESIST TURKISH CONVERTED TO ISLAM CHRISTIANS PRACTICE GENERALLY STABILITY LATE 19TH CENTURY STRONG INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT THE 20TH CENTURY THE NATIONALIST PROMOTED ALBANIAN LANGUAGE WAR THE BALKAN LEAGUE SERBIA TURKISH EMPIRE STEEP DECLINE COUNTRY DIVIDED PREVENT HAPPENING ALBANIAN LEADERS VLORA NOVEMBER 1912 DECEMBER 1912 THE EUROPEAN GREAT POWERS AUSTRIA RUSSIA ALBANIAN INDEPENDENCE COMMISSION REFUSED PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT GERMAN PRINCE WILLIAM OF WIED KING OF ALBANIA WILLIAM FLED MONTHS IN SEPTEMBER REGIONS CENTRAL ELECTIONS PARLIAMENT TIRANA THE ALBANIAN INTERIOR MINISTER AHMED ZOGU DECEMBER 1922 ZOGU THE ELECTION JANUARY 1924 DECEMBER 1924 QUICKLY HIMSELF KING ZOG OF ALBANIA ITALIAN INFLUENCE FINALLY APRIL 1939 THE ITALIAN DICTATOR MUSSOLINI PUPPET GOVERNMENT GERMANY YUGOSLAVIA GREECE NOVEMBER 1941 COMMUNIST PARTY ENVER THE SUMMER THE COMMUNISTS ITALY SURRENDERED THE GERMANS OCTOBER 1944 WITHDRAW NOVEMBER 1944 TOTALITARIAN REGIME NATIONALISE INDUSTRY RELATIONS ITSELF THE SOVIET UNION THE OTHER EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS RESTORED 1950S RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA SIDED THE CHINESE ECONOMIC AID DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH DIED COOLED ORDINARY PEOPLE THE REST TYRANNICAL REGIME MEANWHILE MARXISTS STATE IN THE WORLD RELIGION RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS CLOSED WORSHIP LEADER RAMIZ ALIA MINOR STUDENT FORCED THE GOVERNMENT POLITICAL PARTIES ON 31 GENERAL STRIKE COALITION THE COMMUNIST PARTY THE SOCIALIST PARTY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TODAY THE MAJORITY MINORITIES ORTHODOX PYRAMID INVESTMENT SPRANG AT THE END UNREST HOLD THE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY REMAINS TRYING IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE HOPING JOIN POPULATION OF ALBANIA TIMELINE OF BULGARIA CROATIA SLOVENIA TOURISM IN ALBANIA LAST