Albania - Introduction
Here, let us take a look at some of the important facts about the country Albania. Albania (officially: Republic of Albania) is a country in Europe, precisely in Southeast Europe, with a population of about 2.8 Millions inhabitants today (2024-12-22). The capital city of Republic of Albania is Tirana, and the official country TLD code is .al. Albania has cca2, cca3, cioc, ccn3 codes as AL, ALB, ALB, 008 respectively. Check some other vital information below.
After declaring independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania experienced a period of political upheaval that led to a short-lived monarchy, which ended in 1939 when Italy conquered the country. Germany then occupied Albania in 1943, and communist partisans took over the country in 1944. Albania allied itself first with the USSR (until 1960) and then with China (until 1978). In the early 1990s, Albania ended communist rule and established a multiparty democracy.
Government-endorsed pyramid schemes in 1997 led to economic collapse and civil disorder, which only ended when UN peacekeeping troops intervened. In 1999, some 450,000 ethnic Albanians fled from Kosovo to Albania to escape the war with the Serbs. Albania joined NATO in 2009 and became an official candidate for EU membership in 2014.
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