Greater Albania

Greater Albania – Idea and a program for unification of all Albanians in a large Albanian state in the Balkans with violent acquisition of parts of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. This idea, represented by the Prizren League (1878), demanded in the Albanian state to enter and non-Albanian ethnic and historical territories. In function of that idea, from the 80s of ⅹⅰⅹ c. Until the proclamation of Albanian independence (28. Xi 1912), there were constant clashes and hatred to “Slavs and Greeks”. In the period after, in the border zones of the wide belt in the West-East direction, from Kakanik, Kumanovo and Bujanovac, everything to Pchinja, were directed by Albanian settlers for the occupation of those territories. In a peer “big city”, island in the Prespa Lake territory of “Greater Albania” The Ida World War II in Albania developed a fascist movement and a quisling power was created, which, with the support of Italy and Germany, approached the operationalization of the program for creating ” Greater Albania. ” With the Mussolin’s decree (29th 1941), Greater Albania was formed in the borders determined by the agreement between Germany and Italy (21. 1941), which entered parts of Montenegro, Metohija, most of Kosovo and Western Macedonia. Albania was conducted on those territories by imposing the Albanian language and expulsion of non-Albanian population. The second prytrian league (16-19. IX 1943), with the participation of delegates from Kosovo and Macedonia (Debar, Struga, Ulcinj, Tuz, Kosovska Mitrovica, Pristina, Pek and Prizren), adopted a declaration of unification of the protectorate with Albania. The Greater Albanian idea was defeated in World War II and the Albanian state remained mainly in its traditional historical and ethnic borders (28,000 km 2). Lit: Dr. Engish Borozan, Great Albania (Porijeclo-Ideier), Belgrade, 1995; Miodrag Nikoli, Albania, Belgrade, 1991; Gligor Todorovski – Petko Donovatovski, the occupation of Western Macedonia 1941-1944. Documents, Struga, 2003. F. Malc.


Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис ГОЛЕМА АЛБАНИЈА

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