Albania (disambiguation) explained
Albania is a country on the Balkan Peninsula in south-eastern Europe. Albania may also refer to:
Places
Territories related to present-day Albania
- Kingdom of Albania (medieval), Albanian-Angevin kingdom established in 1272
- Venetian Albania, Venetian possessions in southern the coastal area of what is now northern Albania and the coast of Montenegro
- Sanjak of Albania, a subdivision of the Rumelia Eyalet of Ottoman Empire in period 1385–1466
- Albanian Vilayet, a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire projected in 1912 in the western Balkan Peninsula
- Independent Albania, former unrecognized country established in 1912 comprising the territories of Kosovo Vilayet, Monastir Vilayet, Shkodër Vilayet and Janina Vilayet
- Republic of Central Albania, a short-lived unrecognized state established on October 16, 1913, with its administrative centre in Durrës, today in Albania
- Principality of Albania, 1913–25, locally called a kingdom
- Albanian Republic, a 1925–28 republic in Albania which was a de facto protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy
- Albanian Kingdom (1928–39), the constitutional monarchical rule in Albania between 1928 and 1939 which was a de facto protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy
- Albanian Kingdom (1939–43), a protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy
- Albanian Kingdom (1943–44), a puppet state of Nazi Germany
- People's Socialist Republic of Albania, the official name of Albania from 1946 until 1992
- Greater Albania, an irredentist concept of Albanian homeland
Territories not related to present-day Albania
- Caucasian Albania or Arran, a historical territory in the southern Caucasus with borders roughly corresponding to those of modern Azerbaijan
- Albania (satrapy), the same area within the Iranian Sassanid Empire
- Alba, Latinised as Albania, an old Gaelic name for Scotland or Great Britain
Populated places
Other uses
See also