HISTORY OF ALBANIA ALBANIAN NATIONAL HERO THE HISTORY OF ALBANIA ALBANIAN PEOPLE SWORD IN HAND THE PREAMBLE TO STALINIST THESE WORDS DOMINANT FIGURE MODERN ORWELLIAN POSTWAR ENVER FACT ENSHRINED SUPREME LAW INDICATIVE THE SOVIET DICTATOR JOSEPH STALIN HIS PEOPLE COLLECTIVE MEMORY MIGHT THE COMMUNIST TIMELY DOWNFALL COMMUNISM EASTERN EUROPE AT THE END COLLAPSE ECONOMY ENOUGH BREAK SPELL PROPEL TOWARD ANTIQUITY ALBANIANS PROBABLY ETHNIC ANCIENT BALKAN PEOPLE WAR MACEDONIANS ROMAN RULE EASTERN AND WESTERN SECULAR CENTURIES AFTER THE FALL ROME CONTROL LANDS ILLYRIANS DISAPPEARED DISTINCT MOUNTAIN HOMELAND TRIBAL SOCIETY TO SURVIVE MODERN TIMES IDENTITY LANGUAGE ROMAN EMPIRE THE FOURTH BARBARIAN TRIBES THE ROMAN EMPIRE THE FORTUNES GERMANIC GOTHS HUNS AVARS ATTACKED SLAVIC SERBS CROATS AREAS THE EARLY SEVENTH CENTURY ABOUT FIFTY YEARS LATER BULGARS THE BALKAN PENINSULA DOMAIN LOWLANDS CENTRAL FLED COASTAL SEDENTARY PEASANT EXISTENCE THE HERDSMAN CONQUERORS EVENTUALLY THE INVADERS BYZANTINE CULTURAL LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD INVADERS RAVAGED REGIONS OVERLAND THE REGION GRIP RIVAL CLANS TRIGGERED EXODUS FROM THE REGION SOUTHWARD THE AEGEAN LIVING PARTS YUGOSLAVIA GREECE NEVER HISTORICAL MENTION APPEARS ACCOUNT THE RESISTANCE ALEXIUS I COMNENUS OFFENSIVE NORMANS SOUTHERN ITALY NORTHERN THE END TWELFTH CENTURY IN 12 WESTERN CRUSADERS VENICE NOMINAL EPIRUS REGION NORTHERN GREECE POSSESSION PRINCE COMNENUS ALLIANCES CHIEFS THE VENETIANS MAKE UP SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT THE DESPOTATE OF EPIRUS JANINA IOANNINA NORTHWEST THE KING CHARLES I OF ANJOU DURRES ALBANIAN KINGDOM LAST INTERNAL POWER THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE FOURTEENTH CENTURY ENABLING POWERFUL MEDIEVAL STEFAN DUSAN EMPIRE EXCEPT TURKISH ISLAM FIFTEENTH THE OTTOMAN TURKS THE WESTERN DEFENCE GREATEST OTTOMAN RULE THE ALBANIAN FEUDAL LANDOWNERS CONVERTED TO ISLAM RELIGIOUS PRAGMATISM TRAIT LARGE NUMBER ELBASAN MUSLIM PUBLIC USE CHRISTIAN PRIVATE EFFECTIVE METHOD EMPLOYED MISSIONARY THE CENTRAL THE CREATION CLASS BEYS ENDOWED POLITICAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC NOBLES LARGE NUMBERS WHOM COERCION THE PROMISE ECONOMIC THE WARS EUROPEAN POWERS THE OTTOMANS LIBERATION CRUSADES RETALIATION EUROPEAN EXPOSED POPULATION REPRISALS KOSOVO AND METOHIJA MONUMENTS PATRIARCHAL MONASTERY KOSOVO SEAT ADMINISTRATION FOR SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH THIRTEENTH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY OTTOMAN RULERS CAPACITY COMMAND LOYALTY LOCAL GOVERNED DISTRICTS SOON PRESSURES EMERGING MOVEMENTS FARRAGO PEOPLES SHATTER THE EMPIRE ITSELF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY VAIN SHORE CENTRAL AUTHORITY INTRODUCING REFORMS CHECKING SPREAD NATIONALIST 19TH CENTURY ALBANIAN NATIONALISM INDEPENDENT STATE THE FIRST TIME LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY SNATCH THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE LEADERS ORGANIZED PRIZREN LEAGUE PRESSED AUTONOMY PRESENTING THE CONCEPT MAJORITY CLAIMED TERRITORIES THE WHOLE GROUP CONSERVATIVE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ETHNIC GROUPS SUBSEQUENTLY PATTERN FOR ALL SIMILAR DANGEROUS PRECEDENTS DECADES UNREST FIRST BALKAN WAR GREAT POWERS INDEPENDENT ALBANIA SECOND BALKAN WAR PARTITION OF ALBANIA LEFT THE COUNTRY DEEP SENSE RESENTMENT HOSTILITY PERIOD WORLD WARS COMPLETE EMPIRES WORLD WAR ITALY PROTECTION MUSSOLINI DOMINATE KINGDOM CLAN CHIEF PRIME FAILED STAVE ITALIAN ASCENDANCY INTERNAL AFFAIRS TROOPS ANNEXED COMMUNISTS NATIONALISTS EACH OTHER GERMAN FORCES ALLIED ASSISTANCE THE COMMUNISTS COMMUNIST AFTER THE WAR MEHMET SHEHU RIVALS INSIDE THE COMMUNIST PARTY LIQUIDATED ANTICOMMUNIST PURGE SEJFULLA MALESHOVA THE LEADER THE PARTY FACTION MODERATION FOREIGN DOMESTIC RELATIONS THE WEST THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN APPLICATION JOIN UN REJECTED THE UN DECEMBER 1955 PEACE JOSIP BROZ TITO JULY 1946 SIGNED THE TREATY MUTUAL AID INFLUENCE PARTY GOVERNMENT PLANS MERGE TWO COUNTRIES THE BORDER CHINA UP TO TURNED AWAY BEIJING POLICY STRICT AUTARKY NATION RIGID BROKEN TIES LEADING COMMUNIST STATES TOTAL ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE THE ONLY GENUINE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THE GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY SEEK FOREIGN AID CREDITS ENCOURAGE FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN SEEING THE WORLD DIVIDED SYSTEMS SOCIALISM UNITED STATES SOVIET REFUSED SIGN HELSINKI ACCORDS THE UNITED STATES THE SOVIET UNION INITIATED RAMIZ ALIA ORDER TRADE HAD TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY THE LIST POTENTIAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH WEST DROPPING CLAIMS WAR REPARATIONS DISCUSSIONS WESTERN FIRMS ACQUISITION ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PURCHASE ASKED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE EXPLOITING OIL DEPOSITS PROBLEMS PROBLEM CRITICAL FACTOR CAUSED RESORT BARTER IMPORTED GREATER 1990S PROVISION ALBANIAN CONSTITUTION ALLY GORBACHEV PERESTROIKA APPARENTLY CONCERNED WHAT IT SAW SUPPORT FOR YUGOSLAVIA HANDLING THE KOSOVO CALL ATTITUDE TRADITIONALLY WASHINGTON BROKEN IN COMMUNIST REGIME INCLINATION VISIT TIRANE ALBANIAN AMERICANS DESIRE PROMOTE NO RELATIONS FORMAL CONTACTS EXISTED DIPLOMATS MEETINGS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES BAKER MEETING IN BERLIN BAKER ANNOUNCED DEMOCRATIC CHANGES TAKING PROMISED CONCRETE STEPS DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICIAL VISIT MARCH