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	Greece Travel Guide - Travel to Greece
		The glorious history of Greece is reflected in the ruins and monuments that lie scattered all over the country.
		The islands of Greece such as Crete, Rhodes, and the Cyclades are also noted for their picturesque scenery and rich histories.
		Greece is known for its beautiful, rugged mountains and sun bleached and unspoiled islands.
	www.justgreece.org (785 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Albania
		It is generally divided into three regions: Upper Albania, from the Montenegrin frontier to the river Shkumbi; Lower Albania, or Epirus, from the Shkumbi to the Gulf of Arta; and Eastern Albania, to the east of the Schar-Dagh chain.
		Albania shares with Greece the peculiar phenomenon of subterranean rivers; the waters of the lake of Jamina flow through one of these underground channels into the Gulf of Arta, and this gave rise to the myth that here was the entrance to the infernal world of the ancient Greeks.
		Near it are the ruins of the temple of Dodona, the cradle of pagan civilization in Greece.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01253b.htm (2306 words)

	Greece (10/06)
		Greece has been a major net beneficiary of the EU budget; in 2004, EU transfers accounted for 3.6 percent of GDP and are estimated to have been approximately 3.2 percent of GDP in 2005.
		Greece was adamantly opposed to the use of "Macedonia" by the government in Skopje, claiming that the term is intrinsically Greek and should not be used by a foreign country.
		Greece and Turkey have unresolved disagreements regarding the Aegean maritime boundary, the treatment of the Orthodox Church and Greek minority in Istanbul, and the Muslim (primarily ethnic Turkish) minority in western Thrace.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3395.htm (4278 words)

	Country Pages: Albania
		Albania -- which means "Land of the Eagle" in Albanian -- is a country steeped in history.
		The natural environment of Albania reflects its location on the Adriatic Sea: the climate is largely dry and warm from April through October and winters are generally (though not always!) mild and rainy.
		The Fulbright Program in Albania is looking to attract scholars and professionals who want to immerse themselves in a new culture, work with students and faculty on issues in their specialty but also on larger issues of higher education reform and who relish challenge.
	www.cies.org /country/albania.htm (869 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Greeks in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He claimed that ethnic Greeks in Albania lived under intolerable "inhumane" conditions, and that the end to the state of war was "inadmissible at the present time from the national point of view...and...failed to safeguard the basic human rights of the Greeks of Northern Epirus".(Keesing's March 1986 34249).
		MAVI condemns Greece for "criminal indifference" to the fate of the ethnic Greeks in Albania.
		Greece protests after 22 Greek journalists and lawyers are attacked and arrested by Albanian police while observing the trial of the 5 Omonia members accused of treason.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=33901 (4590 words)

	World InfoZone - Albania Facts
		Albania is on the Balkan Peninsula in South Eastern Europe.
		Albania is called "Shqiperia" translated as "land of the eagles".
		Albania was a member of the "Warsaw Pact" until 1968.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Albania (495 words)

	Country Narrative - Albania
		Albania is primarily a source country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor.
		Victims are trafficked to Greece and Italy, with many of these victims trafficked onward to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands.
		In 2005, the Government of Albania actively continued to investigate and prosecute trafficking; it investigated 49 cases, prosecuted 51 traffickers, and convicted 54 traffickers.
	gvnet.com /humantrafficking/Albania-2.htm (743 words)

	Foreign relations of Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Government of Albania is very concerned with developments in the ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo in neighboring Serbia, particularly in the post-Dayton agreement period.
		After the fall of the Albanian communist regime in 1991, relations between Greece and Albania became increasingly strained because of widespread allegations of mistreatment by Albanian authorities of the Greek ethnic minority in southern Albania and of the alleged Albanian minorities in northern Greece.
		Greece responded by freezing all EU aid to Albania, and sealing its border with Albania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Albania (916 words)

	Albania & Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		northern invaders in Central Greece and the Peloponesus.
		of Modern Greece to be the heir of Ancient Greece.
		Albania set on foot after the Greek Army had evacuated the country in the spring
	www.albasoul.com /historia/AlGr.htm (1775 words)

	Greek minority in Northern Epirus (Albania) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1922, when the border between Albania and Greece was set up, Greeks living north of the border were incorporated into Albania, in what is called Northern Epirus by Athens, whereas Albanians living south of the border were incorporated into Greece.
		In 1993, the deportation of the Greek Archimandrit of Gjirokaster (the main city in the South of Albania) by the Albanian authorities caused an Albanian-Greek crisis.
		The Greek minority in Albania represents less than 2% of the total population of the country but is concentrated in a small area and very revendicative.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/al}gk.html (695 words)

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		The Archdiocese of Durazzo in Albania, situated on the Adriatic, has a good port, and is the chief town of a sandjak in the vilayet of Scutari; the population is about 9000.
		According to Appian it was founded by a barbarian king, Epidamnus, after whom it was called Epidamnum; it then took the name of Dyrrachium, from Dyrrachus, nephew of a daughter of Epidamnus, to whom was due its port.
		Although the exact origin of Albania is not entirely known, records exist that trace their evolution from the ancient Illyrians.
	www.lycos.com /info/albania--greece.html (264 words)

	ALBANIA HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES, 1993
		The Law on Major Constitutional Provisions declares Albania to be "a secular state" which "respects the freedom of religious faith and creates conditions to exercise it." The human rights law passed by Parliament in March also guarantees full religious freedom.
		In June a Greek priest, Archimandrite Chrystostomos, who had been working in ethnic Greek areas of southern Albania for almost a year, was expelled from Albania for allegedly engaging in anti-Albanian activities, including publicly calling for the union of parts of southern Albania with Greece.
		After Albania expelled a Greek priest in June for alleged anti-Albanian activities and the Greek Government retaliated by deporting over 25,000 documented and undocumented Albanian workers, tensions between ethnic Greeks and Albanians rose in southern Albania.
	www.hri.org /docs/USSD-Rights/93/Albania93.html (5775 words)

	UNPO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Most of the Greek Minority in Albania live in southern Albania, a region called Northern Epiros by most Greeks, referring to the historical state of Epiros which was divided between Albania and Greece in 1913.
		Greece brought the issue to the Council of the League of Nations, which referred it to the Permanent Court of International Justice and in 1935, this court decided that Albania had to restore the right of its minorities to establish their own schools.
		The Greek Minority in Albania is represented in the UNPO by the Democratic Union of the Greek Ethnic Minority in Albania (OMONIA).
	www.unpo.org /member_profile.php?id=23 (769 words)

	U.S., Greece Hands Off Albania!
		Working people of Albania deserve the wholehearted solidarity of their brothers and sisters in Greece, the Balkans, and around the world.
		A strengthened Eighth Division of the Greek army is patrolling the Greek-Albanian border with fingers on the trigger.
		It is the policies of the Greek government that place in danger the Greek-speaking minority and other citizens of Albania, as well as workers and farmers in Greece, by fanning the flames for imperialist intervention.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/62/024.html (979 words)

	CNN/SI - World Soccer - Greece defeats Albania 2-0 in qualifier - Wednesday October 06, 1999 05:26 PM
		The match, postponed from Sept. 8 because of a deadly earthquake that hit Athens the day before, was essentially a formality for the two countries, both out of the running for berths in the final rounds of the championships.
		The Albanians became more aggressive in the second half, but it was Greece that lost an opportunity to score again when goalie Foto Strakosha saved a shot by Nikolaidis with his foot.
		Greece: Ilias Atmatzidis, Giorgos Amanatidis, Grigoris Georgatos (Costas Constantinidis, 66th), Marinos Ouzounidis, Ilias Poursanidis, Theodoros Zagorakis (Giorgos Georgiadis, 46th), Nikos Dabizas, Vassilis Zikos, Nikos Machlas, Vassilis Tsartas (Andreas Niniadis, 74th), Demis Nikolaidis.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/news/1999/10/06/bosnia_albania (379 words)

	Gadling
		Albanian is spoken in Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, and the Republic of Macedonia.
		Albania's Ancient History Surfaces explores a region of Albania where Illyrians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans invaded poor Albania as regular as the tides.
		Having recently returned from a trip to Albania, I was disappointed to run across a rather frank assessment of the pollution problems which currently plague the developing nation and negatively effect its tourist trade.
	www.gadling.com /category/albania (4131 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Europe - ALBANIA
		Detainees, including children, continued to be frequently ill-treated and sometimes tortured during arrest and in police custody, usually to force confessions.
		Organized crime, involving drugs trafficking, and the trafficking in women, children and would-be immigrants to countries in the European Union, continued to be a major problem despite measures to combat it.
		In October an International Anti-trafficking Centre was established in Vlora, to which Albania, Germany, Greece and Italy contributed.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/eur/albania!Open (1257 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Publications: Europe and Central Asia : Albania
		Albania inventoried its stockpiled mines and in May 2000 reported having 1,607,420 mines stored in 120 depots in the country.
		At the center of the dispute is the treatment of the Greek minority living in Albania and this report documents their situation.
		In advance of Albania’s first contested elections under Communist rule on March 31, we took part in a fact-finding mission from March 7 to March 12 as part of the first team of independent human rights investigators to have officially visited the country.
	hrw.org /reports/world/albania-pubs.php (766 words)

	Albania - The HUBB
		Until few years ago, Albania was definitely a "no go" place because of heavy risk of criminality targeting foreigners, but recently I heard different opinions about it and now it looks it is become a "doable" country, at least on the main coastal western road and in the main cities.
		If you enter/exit Albania from/to Montenegro, we were told to use (and we did) the border crossing south of the lake of Skodher and to avoid the border crossing north of the same lake.
		Albania sounds like somewhere where we may be able to finally get ourselves into some offroad terrain (after all the road riding from Western Europe to get there).
	www.horizonsunlimited.com /hubb/europe/albania-19323#post89234 (1779 words)

	Albanian Pride Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Albania, though, lays claim to most of the mainland Greece through Epirus and therefore to the many foods that originated from there.
		For thousands of years, the cultures of Albania and Greece have been so intermingled that it is almost impossible to differentiate between the cuisine and the origin of these foods.
		Albania has the right to claim this antique culinary cuisine just as much as Greece does, but the cook books and history books fail to mention these facts.
	www.albanianpride.com /recipe.php (222 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-08-24
		TIRANE, August 24 (ATA)-By E.Nepravishta, Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of the Republic of Greece, on Monday, one day prior to his formal visit to Tirane, had an interview with the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) and said that it is the wish of the Greek Government, of the two countries, to broaden bilateral cooperation".
		He said Albania's development and progress is to secure stability in the Balkans and for this reason cooperation will make up a key objective of the Greek foreign policy.
		"Albania and Greece are offering a good example in the Balkans, for the way they are resolving problems in their relations," the Prime Minister's spokesman cited Majko as saying.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1999/99-08-24.ata.html (2205 words)

	Greece, Albania, Macedonia to deepen military cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Greece, Macedonia and Albania pledged Monday to tighten military cooperation against cross-border organised crime and illegal immigration.
		Buckovski and Majko pledged to provide Greece with intelligence relating to potential threats against the 2004 Athens Olympics.
		Greece said Thursday it will move army units posted on the frontier with former Soviet bloc countries Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria to its border with longtime rival Turkey as part of plans to streamline the military.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/031110170641.4p00rp4o.html (173 words)

	Albania - Greece - Juventuz Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Albania hasn't lost any home games since 2002 IIRC.
		if czech can't even score a goal against greece, i doubt albania will be able to.
		Just heard that Albania PM has promised 500 000 euros for albanian NT if they win against Greece.
	www.juventuz.com /forum/showthread.php?t=7877 (779 words)

	CRIN - Violence Study - Transnational Protection of Children: The case of Albania and Greece 2000-2006
		The joint activities of the organizations, both in Albania and Greece have sought to enhance the resilience of children and families against trafficking.
		One of the problems evidenced is that often their status as illegal migrants is more decisive for the authorities’ approach than their rights as children.
		In addition to improving the national policies in Greece, the publication envisages the need for increased collaboration between the Albanian and Greek States.
	www.crin.org /violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=10732 (476 words)

	Albania - World War I and Its Effects on Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Political chaos engulfed Albania after the outbreak of World War I. Surrounded in by insurgents Durrës, Prince Wilhelm departed the country in September 1914, just six months after arriving, and subsequently joined the German army and served on the Eastern Front.
		Italy occupied Vlorë, and Serbia and Montenegro occupied parts of northern Albania until a Central Powers offensive scattered the Serbian army, which was evacuated by the French to Thessaloniki.
		Serbia and Montenegro were promised much of northern Albania, and Greece was promised much of the country's southern half.
	countrystudies.us /albania/23.htm (265 words)

	Albania: The Greek Minority
		In addition, Albania’s sudden return from self-imposed isolation has brought a host of new problems for which the fragile political structures are not prepared.
		The Greek government claims that Albania is repressing the rights of ethnic Greeks, who live primarily in the south.
		The report is based on visits to Albania between July 1993 and January 1995 during which time Human Rights Watch/Helsinki consultants interviewed numerous individuals in the Albanian and Greek governments, representatives of the Greek minority, Albanian and Greek journalists, and human rights activists.
	www.hrw.org /hrw/summaries/s.albania952.html (1233 words)

	Julian Evans concludes his tour of the European novel \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Gjirokastër and southern Albania are a centre of the Epirote song tradition that some scholars maintain to be a pattern for the choruses of Greek tragedy.
		This is distinct from the north's epic tradition: Kadare's citation of Lamartine is an echo of national pride in those roots, in poetry close to the Homeric model.
		But since Greece's return to civilian rule, and the beneficial effects of EU membership - since life got easier - the question perhaps is not whether novelists are right to free themselves from their identity, but how they can relate to it.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,782982,00.html (1482 words)

	Greece and the IMF -- Page 1 of 5
		Greece is a subscriber to the Special Data Dissemination Standard.
		On behalf of: Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Republic of San Marino, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
		Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (borrow from the IMF), as part of discussions of staff monitored programs, and as part of other staff reviews of economic developments.
	www.imf.org /external/country/GRC/index.htm (849 words)

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