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	ilir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Illyrians occupied lands extending from the Danube, Sava, and Morava rivers to the Adriatic Sea and the Šar Mountains.
		Christianity came to the Illyrian-populated lands in the 1st century Saint Paul wrote that he preached in the Roman province of Illyricum, and legend holds that he visited Durres.
		For centuries thereafter, the Albanian lands became an arena for the ecclesiastical struggle between Rome and Constantinople.
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	History of Albania - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ottoman supremacy in the Balkan region began in 1385 but was briefly interrupted in the 15th century, when an Albanian warrior known as Gjerg Kastrioti(Skanderbeg) allied with some Albanian chiefs and fought-off Turkish rule from 1443-1478.
		For their part, the Albanians claim the land based on the argument that they are the descendants of the ancient Illyrians, the indigenous people of the region, and have been there since before the first Serb ever set foot in the Balkans.
		Although the Albanians have not left architectural remains similar to the Serbs' religious shrines, the Albanians point to the fact that Prizren was the seat of their first nationalist organization, the Prizren League, and call the region the cradle of their national awakening.
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	Encyclopedia: Illyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lezhë; (Albanian: Lezhë; or Lezha) is a city in northwest Albania, in the district and county with the same name.
		The Šar mountain (Serbian Шар планина, Šar Planina; Albanian Malet e Sharrit, Sharr) is a mountain on the border of Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia.
		Shkodër (Albanian: Shkodër or Shkodra, Serbian Skadar, Latin Scutari, German Skutari) is a city located in North West Albania, in the District of Shkodër and it is the capital of the County of Shkodër.
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	History of Albania -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A forbidding mountain homeland and resilient tribal society enabled the Albanians to survive into modern times with their identity and their (The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia) Indo-European language intact.
		The Illyrians occupied lands extending from the Danube, Sava, and Morava rivers to the Adriatic Sea and the Sar Mountains.
		Albanians had created The (additional info and facts about Prizren League) Prizren League held in what is now Kosova, attempting to unify Albanian territory and established the current-day Albanian alphabet in Monastir, which is now Bitola, FYROMacedonia.
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	History of Ottoman Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The land that is today Albania was controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1385 until 1913.
		They crossed the Bosporus in 1352, and in 1389 they crushed a Serb-led army that included Albanian forces in the Battle of Kosovo.
		With support from the Kingdom of Naples and the Vatican, resistance to the Ottoman Empire continued mostly in Albania's highlands, where the chieftains even opposed the construction of roads out of fear that they would bring Ottoman soldiers and tax collectors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Ottoman_Albania (2386 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		Under British influence, a monarchy was set up in 1907; three years later, a treaty was signed whereby the British agreed not to interfere in Bhutanese internal affairs and Bhutan allowed Britain to direct its foreign affairs.
		Under UN supervision the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
		Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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	Albania and the Eastern Question
		On March 1, 1444, Albanian chieftains gathered in the cathedral of LezhÎ; with the prince of Montenegro and delegates from Venice and proclaimed Skanderbeg commander of the Albanian resistance.
		The Albanians, because of the preponderance of Muslims link with Islam and their internal social divisions, were the last of the Balkan peoples to develop a national consciousness, which was triggered by fears that the Ottoman Empire would lose its Albanian-populated lands to the emerging Balkan states--Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
		Albanian leaders formed the Prizren League in 1878, which pressed for territorial autonomy, and after decades of unrest a major uprising exploded in the Albanian-populated Ottoman territories in 1912, on the eve of the First Balkan War.
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	History of Albania, Albanian Lands Under Ottoman Domination, 1385-1876
		The Ottoman Turks expanded their empire from Anatolia to the Balkans in the fourteenth century.
		In the early seventeenth century, many Albanian converts to Islam migrated elsewhere within the Ottoman Empire and found careers in the Ottoman military and government.
		During and after a Christian counteroffensive against the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1690, when Albanian Catholics revolted against their Muslim overlords, the Ottoman pasha of Pec, a town in the south of present-day Yugoslavia, retaliated by forcing entire Albanian villages to accept Islam.
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	Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Origin of the Myth of a Tolerant, Pluralistic Islamic Society
		Ottoman rule was brandished as the most suitable regime to rule Christians of the Balkans.
		First the Ottoman Empire was created by centuries of Jihad against Christian populations; consequently the rules of Jihad, elaborated by Arab-Muslim theologians from the 8th to the 10th centuries, applied to the subjected Christian and Jewish populations of the Turkish Islamic dominions.
		When the Ottomans cut throats, raped women and stole the children of Balkan Christians - and this is not hyperbole, it all happened with horrible regularity - it was OK for the Brits.
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		Under Siege is a 1992 action film, in which a band of terrorists captures a warship with nuclear weapons, and threaten the world with armageddon.
		The only thing in their way is a ship's cook.
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	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Albania - THE ALBANIAN LANDS UNDER OTTOMAN DOMINATION, 1385-1876 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		At first, the feuding Albanian clans proved no match for the armies of the sultan (see Glossary).
		Within a century, the Albanian Islamic community was split between Sunni (see Glossary) Muslims and adherents to the Bektashi (see Glossary) sect.
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	AllRefer.com - Albania - Albanians under Ottoman Rule \| Albanian Information Resource
		Many of the best fighters in the sultan's elite guard, the janissaries (see Glossary), were conscripted as young boys from Christian Albanian families, and high-ranking Ottoman officials often had Albanian bodyguards.
		An association of clans was called a bajrak, (see Glossary).
		The Sublime Porte (see Glossary) attempted to press a divide-and-rule policy to keep the local beys from uniting and posing a threat to Ottoman rule itself, but with little success.
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	Albania under the Ottomans - Eduseek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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