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Albania Quick Facts

26 flashcards on the geography, history, government and culture of Albania. Study material written for practice, not an official test.

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Capital of Albania
Tirana, capital since 1920.
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Date of Albanian independence
28 November 1912, declared in Vlorë by Ismail Qemali.
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Skanderbeg's birth name
Gjergj Kastrioti (c. 1405 to 1468), who led the League of Lezhë in 1444.
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League of Prizren
Founded in 1878 to defend Albanian lands and ask for autonomy within the Ottoman Empire.
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Zog I
Prime minister 1922, president 1925, king of the Albanians from 1928 to 1939.
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Italian invasion
April 1939; Zog went into exile.
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Enver Hoxha
Communist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985.
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First multiparty elections
March 1991, after the end of one-party rule.
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Year Albania joined NATO
2009 (April), together with Croatia.
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EU candidate status
Granted in 2014; accession talks opened in July 2022.
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Currency
The lek (ALL).
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Parliament
The Kuvendi, a single chamber with 140 members.
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Administrative divisions
12 counties (qarqe) and 61 municipalities.
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Neighbours of Albania
Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Greece.
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Two seas
The Adriatic (north) and the Ionian (south).
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Highest peak entirely in Albania
Maja Jezercë, 2,694 m, in the Accursed Mountains.
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Lakes shared with neighbours
Shkodër (with Montenegro), Ohrid (with North Macedonia), Prespa (with North Macedonia and Greece).
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Famous mountain trail of the north
The path between Valbona and Theth in the Albanian Alps.
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Vjosa
Declared a Wild River National Park in 2023.
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Main source of electricity
Hydropower, mainly from the Drin cascade (Fierza, Komani, Vau i Dejës).
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UNESCO sites in Albania
Butrint (1992), the historic centres of Berat and Gjirokastra, and parts of the beech forests (2017).
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Iso-polyphony
Southern Albanian group singing with a drone, on the UNESCO intangible heritage list.
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Ismail Kadare
Novelist born in Gjirokastër in 1936; first Man Booker International winner in 2005.
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Mother Teresa
Born in Skopje in 1910 to an Albanian family; Nobel Peace Prize 1979.
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Alphabet Day
22 November, remembering the Congress of Manastir of 1908.
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National dish
Tavë kosi, baked lamb with a yoghurt topping.

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