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	Greater Albania Explained
		The emergence of a nationalist ideology of Greater Albania was precipitated by the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in 1878, a defeat which endangered the Albanian position in the Ottoman Empire.
		The aims of the Greater Albania ideology are territorial expansion at the expense of neighboring sovereign nations and states.
		The Albanian guerrillas were attacking to achieve a ìGreater Kosovoî;, to enlarge the territory of Kosovo, to achieve a ìGreater Albaniaî, to unite all areas inhabited by Albanians into a single state, to ìgain greater powerî, to ìgain greater rightsî, to ìseize the city of Tetovoî.
	www.kosovo.net /gralbania.html (2563 words)

	Macedonia News - Tetovo and Greater Albania: Tetovo During World by Carl Savich
		The Greater Albania ideology was anti-Orthodox, anti-Slavic in nature, and atrocities, deportations, and murders were committed against the Slavic, Orthodox populations.
		The goal and agenda of the ethnic Albanian Skanderbeg Waffen SS Division was to advance the Greater Albania ideology by deporting and killing the non-Albanian populations of Western Macedonia.
		By furthering and advancing the agenda of the Greater Albania ideology, the German occupation forces ensured that their military occupation of the region would be safeguarded and assured.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/savich/savich1.html (5323 words)

	The Greater Albania Ideology and the Macedonian Conflict \| Carl Savich \| Columns \| Serbianna.com
		The Greater Albania strategy and ideology thus inherently involved the aggrandizement of territory not settled by Albanians, the dispossession of foreign land.
		The Greater Albania strategy requires an outside foreign power to sponsor or intervene to support the movement because the Albanian population is a minority in the Greater Albania territory, which would entail a war to achieve.
		Throughout the twentieth century, the Greater Albania strategy was guided by this ethnic polarization of the conflict, by a perception of the conflict as one between different ethnic groups, i.e., the conflict is defined only as an ethnic conflict.
	www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/018.shtml (6145 words)

	Greater Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Greater Albania or Great Albania is an irredentist political movement with the stated purpose of uniting all perceived ethnic Albanians into one entity, by the annexation of neighbouring countries' territories.
		In addition to conflict with the Ottoman Empire, the League was opposed by the neighbors because the mere existence of Albania.
		In 1913, when Albania's borders were set by the Great Powers, Serbia did not get the coastal territories that it had wanted, however it annexed the territories that today are known as Kosovo, causing a dissent in the local Albanian population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Albania (813 words)

	Albania: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		Albania is situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, with Montenegro and Serbia to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south.
		In spring 1999, Albania was heavily involved in the affairs of its fellow ethnic Albanians to the north, in Kosovo.
		Albania served as an outpost for NATO troops and took in approximately 440,000 Kosovar refugees, about half the total number of ethnic Albanians who were driven from their homes in Kosovo.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107268.html (923 words)

	Albania: A Mere Supporter of Kosovo Team in the Grandstand
		Although Albania declared that it was ready to help with the process of resolving Kosovo's status, it pointed out that it did not intend to become a key player in the negotiations.
		The arrival of Kosovo Albanians in Albania and their influence in some unsavory spheres of the economy have caused resentment among Albanians from Albania proper, most of whom are too preoccupied with the daily struggle for existence to devote much time or thought to national questions.
		Albania, which is still in a precarious economic situation, lives quasi dependent on Western investments and aids.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=819 (1873 words)

	Albania: State of the Nation. Part I. International Crisis Group. March, 2000
		Throughout the Southern Balkans maps are widely circulated of territory that at one time comprised either the empires of past rulers, such as the Serbs and the Bulgarians, or as is the case with the Greeks and the Albanians, territory which is claimed historically to have been predominantly inhabited by people of their particular ethnicity.
		Serbia was deprived of an Albanian port, Montenegro lost the town of Shkoder, and Greece had to relinquish southern Albania having been deprived of the Saranda district which, she argued, was predominantly Greek and was the natural outlet to the sea for the Greek region north of Janina.
		Albania's President, Rexhep Meidani, 54, taught physics for four years, from 1977 to 1980, at Pristina University, during which time he developed strong ties with the Kosovo Albanians, witnessing at first hand their difficult relationship with the Belgrade authorities.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Albania1.htm (6099 words)

	[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] THE HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT
		In essence, the “Greater Albania” project, as a product of the great powers, Balkan policy, is directly opposed to the liberation movement of an overwhelming majority of the Balkan Christians, which have all been (allowing for some exceptions) in the spirit of modernization, based on the original principles of the liberal and democratic European tradition.
		Albania and Albanians were not explicitly mentioned in any of the 16 articles of the Statute, but instead they speak in general terms of “nation and motherland”, “country”, “our land”, “Balkan country”, “in the Balkans” and similar.
		The Greater Albanian chauvinist propaganda achieved its greatest success in the period 1975-1980, after the adoption of the federal Yugoslav Constitution in 1974, which gave the provinces in Serbia attributes of statehood and federal constituency.
	rastko.org.yu /kosovo/istorija/sanu/GrtAlb.html (5267 words)

	Serbia Info News / Heroin and armament for "greater Albania"
		The Republic of Albania is, as the western press writes, the new "narco-Mecca" that has, for the amount of deliveries of cannabis, come into the second place in Europe, just behind Morocco.
		The project of "greater Albania" seems to be dizzying enough for them to participate in its financing, because it not only the climate that placed Albania in the smugglers' Eldorado.
		Doubtlessly, the project of "greater Albania" explains this silence, because smuggling of drugs in fact has geostrategic implications (this is a commentary of the international magazine Le depeche Internacional", specilizing in the issues of global trade with narcotics).
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-02/26/9245.html (839 words)

	The dream of a Greater Albania, by Jean-Arnault Dérens and Laurent Geslin
		By igniting local conflict, radical militants and supporters of a Greater Albania sought to remind the world that the international protectorate did not solve the Kosovo question.
		Greater Albania designates the lands that at various times were peopled by Albanians or their supposed ancestors, the Illyrians.
		Ethnic Albania corresponds to the regions where Albanians are the majority of the population (2).
	mondediplo.com /2006/07/14albania (785 words)

	Map of "Greater Albania" and the Propaganda of James Pettifer
		Map of "Greater Albania" and the Propaganda of James Pettifer
		Speaking in historical and ethnic terms, Kosovo had been part of Serbia since the middle ages, before the Albanians even came to Europe from Asia. The medieval Serbian Orthodox churches are proof of it and it is in Kosovo where the Serbs fought the Turkish conquerors in the 14
		Albania, for all its terrible infrastructure and social problems, may have found the key to the future, while the neighbouring Slavs have yet to make a really decisive break with the communist past."
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AlbanianTerrorism/greatheralbania.html (706 words)

	Macedonian Heritage - Opinion: "‘Greater Albania’ still troubles the Balkans" by Stavros Lygeros
		The West’s military intervention and the de facto secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia have added an aggressiveness to the perspective of the Albanians, who believe it is time to lay claim to as much as possible.
		Kosovo is like a pilot area, and its secession will be the first step toward a “greater Albania.” Once this link was broken, it was inevitable that Albanian nationalism would attempt to break the remaining links with precisely the same method.
		The dogma of Greek foreign policy is that national interests demand that FYROM survive, thus preventing the creation of a greater Albania and a greater Bulgaria on our borders.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Opinion/comm_20010205Lygeros.html (1148 words)

	Welcome to Frosina.org :: An Albanian Immigrant and Cultural Resource
		What the Serbs choose to call Greater Albania is a gross misnomer for Ethnic Albania, meaning the historical borders of compact and contiguous lands, inhabited mostly by Albanians, which defined Albania under the Ottoman Empire.
		Savich states: “Greater Albania isthe primary focus of their national being and identity.” I answer, “Not so!” “Greater Albania” is the primary focus of Serbs with the mind-set of Savich, not Albanians.
		Their top priority is for Albania to gain membership in the European Union, for they identify with Western Civilization and feel themselves to be a part of Western Europe, unlike the Serbs who historically have looked eastward (and still do) for allies and support to achieve their national goals.
	www.frosina.org /articles/default.asp?id=188 (6240 words)

	eXile - Issue #174 - War Nerd - Albania: Great and Greater - By Gary Brecher
		What they mean by "Greater Albania" is "bigger Albania," Bigger than the Albania on the maps.
		Albania's a little country in a real rough part of the world, it's been stomped on lots of times, and you can't afford to go soft.
		Albania was chained down under a Stalin-midget, Enver Hoxha, till the USSR fell, and it went from there to gangster-ocracy in a few bad months, with one of the biggest pyramid schemes in history grabbing all the legal cash in the country in between.
	www.exile.ru /174/174052003.html (2437 words)

	back010502b.htm The Fantasy of Greater Albania in Albanian Politics - AIM Tirana, April 23, 2001 published 2 May 2001
		The government of Albania and its diplomacy have spent a considerable amount of energy in order to convince their international interlocutors that the accusations of certain circles in neighbouring states concerning the aspirations to create “Greater Albania” were unsustainable.
		In four points of that platform, the political and institutional union of Albania with Kosovo is demanded, joint economic reform, customs and monetary union, psychological and cultural union and joint diplomatic action aimed at persuading the international community to start believing that such a union would be useful.
		Indeed, the idea of what is called “Greater Albania”, but which is in political vocabulary called “Ethnic Albania” and which implies the union of all the territories where the Albanians live in various states in the region, have always been present but on the margins of Albanian politics.
	www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/back010502b.htm (1362 words)

	Central Europe Review - Sam Vaknin: The Myth of Greater Albania (Part 2)
		The inhabitants of the highlands (the current Albania) were isolated and backward, while those of the lowland were worldly and civilized.
		It was not until 1388 that Albania was invaded by the Turks.
		From his mountain hideout in Kruje, he frustrated the Turkish efforts to regain Albania (they were planning to use it as staging ground for the invasion of Italy and, thereafter, Western Europe).
	www.ce-review.org /99/18/vaknin18.html (1460 words)

	Carl K. Savich Tetovo and Greater Albania - November, 2001
		The UCK seeks to re-establish and re-create the Greater Albania created by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini from 1941 to 1944.
		The majority of the Albanian settlement of Tetovo and the surrounding villages resulted due to the influx of Albanian migration and settlement from Albania.
		The goal of the Albanian policies, according to the BHHRG, is to force Macedonians to leave Tetovo by a “subtle ethnic cleansing.” The Orthodox Slavic population is the target of the Greater Albania separatists.
	www.snd-us.com /Liberty/cksavich_tetovo.htm (5327 words)

	Greater Albania: a Place, or Just a State of Mind?, by Christopher Deliso
		Although the current trend has been visible for years, few in the outside world have had the stomach to publicly admit what’s going on – that Macedonia is day by day inexorably slipping away.
		During Yugoslav days, this city was the epicenter for Albanian radicalism, a place where young revolutionaries were inculcated with the ideology of a Greater Albania, though they often had little in common with their countrymen trapped behind Hoxha’s iron curtain.
		And so the anarchy that was once limited to northern Albania, the street wars that were once limited to Kosovo –; and after, that which spread to Tetovo and the west of Macedonia – will spread further.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/deliso59.html (2555 words)

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		The statement, in an Albanian-language newspaper, said that Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia were "unnatural creations." The over-the-top statement also said that a "natural Albania" (Greater Albania?) should be formed by 2013.
		Calls for a "Greater Anything" (Serbia, Albania, Greece, etc.) in the Balkans have ignited bloody wars in the past.
		Albania has said it needs an improved system to fight sea-borne smuggling and organized criminals who operate along in the islands of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas.
	www.strategypage.com /qnd/balkans/articles/20060904.aspx (485 words)

	"Moderate" Kosovo Albanian Leader Threatens War for Greater Albania [Free Republic]
		Western officials have warned against what would become a greater Albania as a threat to regional stability and have said that Kosovo must remain part of Yugoslavia, that includes Serbia and Montenegro.
		It was certainly not a groundswell of support for a greater Albania based on brotherly feelings for Albanians in Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro.
		Indeed, that was one of the early complaints of the instigators inside Albania: the people just didn't care about the Albanians in Kosovo, they were more concerned with their own livlihood and personal safety (with communist gangs running rampant, that is no wonder).
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38fa62167af2.htm (2226 words)

	Greater Albania
		The Albanians of Albania were sealed in behind the frontiers of a Stalinist state while Albanians in Yugoslavia were treated with suspicion by the Communist authorities.
		The prerequisite to creating a Greater Kosovo including parts of Macedonia or a Greater Albania has, of course, to be an independent Kosovo.
		If there is one thing that Albania's Albanians understand it is that if they want growth and prosperity, more war in the Balkans will certainly undermine their chances to have them.
	www.kosovo.net /judah.html (4510 words)

	Carl K. Savich VIEWPOINT: Greater Albania or Greater Rights? - March 25, 2001 Special
		In the Agence France Presse news report “Albania rebels are fighting to protect mafia interests: expert”, Xavier Raufer, a researcher at the Paris Institute of Criminology and the author of “The Albanian Mafia”, concluded that the NLA “rebels” are the “paramilitary wing of an Albanian mafia exporting drugs and trafficking in humans”.
		National Public Radio (NPR) stated that Albanian insurgents were besieging Tetovo to obtain “greater rights.” The NPR view mirrored the demands of the NLA itself in a communiqué which the insurgents released to the media, describing themselves as the “National Liberation Army---Tetovo branch”.
		He stated that the Albanian minority could seek to achieve greater freedom or greater rights through political channels in Macedonia instead of a guerrilla war, by means of democratic methods.
	www.snd-us.com /Liberty/cksavich_great_rights.htm (3853 words)

	ICG CLAIMS THAT ALBANIANS AREN'T TRYING TO ACHEIVE "GREATER ALBANIA" BUT ONE ALBANIAN ORGANIZATION SAYS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		There is not even a document in which ANUF and ANA have used the term "Greater Albania", but every time rightly were declared for the Albanian national reunification of Albanian lands, which are continuing to be conquered and colonized by Serb, Montenegrin, Slavic-macedonian and Greek conquerers and colonizers.
		Like a "proof" for the upper affirmations, thinking that the political leadership in Albania is against national unification and pan- Albanianism, ICG reminds the arrest's case of the Leader of the Albanian National Union Front by Albanian authorities.
		During the war in Kosovo, KLA soldiers were based in Albania and KLA members had been from all Albanian lands, from Tirana to Prishtina, from Tetova to Presheva, from Plava to Janina.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/anuf041104.htm (3139 words)

	Kosovo's dream of "Greater Albania"
		Whatever small arms the Albanians in might have would be no match for the combined forces of the private armies and the JNA depots.
		Albania allowed the freedom to practice a religion that had died out, while the Kosovars were struggling to keep from suffocating under renewed Serbian chauvinism.
		A Kosovo independent of Serbia and perhaps reunified with Albania could rescue a culture from the Pristina necessary to revive Tirana, Ismajli said.
	people.bu.edu /crr/Kosovo.html (3790 words)

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