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Albania

Albania

Albania is a country in Southeastern Europe, sorrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian and the Mediterranean Seas. It shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east, Greece to the south; and maritime borders with Greece, Montenegro and Italy. Geographically, Albania is defined in an area of 28,748 km2 (11,100 sq mi) and Tirana is its capital and largest city. It possesses significant diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps as well as the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains to the hot and sunny coasts of the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea along the Mediterranean Sea. Albania has a very rich history beening inhabited by numerous civilizations such as the Illyrians, Thracians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans. After the defeat of the Ottomans in the Balkan Wars, the modern nation state of Albania declared independence in 1912.

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Albania Best Vacation Places

Isolated and shut off from the world for so long, Albania emerged from communist rule in 1991. Nowadays, visitors are invariably surprised at all that it has to offer; beautiful beaches lying alongside breathtaking mountain ranges and glittering lakes. Thanks to ...

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29 photos that prove Albania is the new Croatia

  1/29 Image credit: Instagram.com/adisshera For the past five years Croatia has been a tourist hotspot for very good reason. The Balkan state has a beautiful coastline, historic villages and very favourable prices. So favourable in fact that its ...