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Albania
Albania
Country Profile
Capital City: Tirana (Tiranë)
Geography:
Border countries: Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro Maps
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Maps of Albania
Internet LinksOfficial Sites of Albania ( Shqipëria )
The President of
Albania
Alfred Moisiu's Office.
Kuvendi
The Albanian Parliament.
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
General information about Albania.
Statistics
Instituti
Shqiptar i Statistikes
Albania's Institute for Statistics
Albania News
Albanian Telegraphic
Agency
National and international news
Kosova Crisis Center
Kosova related News and Information
Kosovapress
More Kosova related News and Information
TIRFAX
Albanian Independent News Agency
Business & Economy
Banka e Shqiperise
Bank of Albania
Country Guides
Albanian Home Page
Comprehensive Information about Albania and the Albanians
Albania - Land of
the Eagles
Education
University
of Tirana
State University of Tirana, founded 1957
Search
AlbaFind
Albanian search engine
Albania Info
Albanian resources
Mario's Cyberspace Station: Albania and Kosova
Newsgroup of Albania
soc.culture.albanian
General Resources U.S. Library of Congress,
Federal Research Division. Albania, A Country Study
The Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress published in 1994 an
extensive handbook entitled Albania: A Country Study. The entire 288-page work
is freely available as an e-book. (No revised editions are planned unless
outside funding again becomes available.)
U.S. State Department--Background
Notes
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions,
economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and
areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.
Albanian.com
Informs about Albanian history, government, culture, media, recent news, travel
and major cities, and Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro. Links to
numerous maps, online media, and hundreds of Albanian home pages. In English.
Albanian Network Group
Provides lengthy essays on Albanian folklore, history, language, literature, and
the press. Includes biographies of many Albanian authors. In Albanian.
Albanien.ch
This Swiss information center for Albanian topics includes a journal entitled
newsletter Albanien, archived back to 1993. Many of the articles are in German;
some are in French and English. The website itself is in German, French and
English.
Big-Albania
Informs about a great variety of topics and includes perhaps the most thorough
portal (choose the category "Nyje") to many Albanian-language websites,
especially media, organizations, government and politics, and the Albanian
diaspora. In Albanian.
Frosina Information Network
(http://www.frosina.org/home.shtml)
An NGO in Boston aimed at assisting Albanian immigrants in the United States.
Informs about culture, history, religion, and cuisine; and provides folktales
and book reviews. Includes a map, circa 1878, of the four Albanian provinces
administered by the Ottoman Empire. In English.
Shqiperia.com (http://www.shqiperia.com)
Provides lengthy articles and links regarding numerous aspects of Albanian
culture. In Albanian.
Business, Commerce, Economy AATDA -
Albanian American Trade and Development Association
In Albanian and English.
Albanian Economic Development Agency
An Albanian governmental agency to encourage domestic and foreign investment in
Albania. In English.
American Bank of Albania
In Albanian and English.
American Chamber of Commerce in Albania
In English.
Banka e Shqiperise
Bank of Albania. Informs about monetary policy, banknotes and coins, the banking
system, pertinent legislation, and provides its many publications and
statistics. In Albanian or English.
Banks in Albania
Informs about domestic and foreign banks in Albania. In English.
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry of Tirana, Albania
In Albanian and English.
Ministria e Financave e Shqiperise
The Albanian Ministry of Finance. In Albanian and English.
U.S. Department of Commerce. Government Export Portal
Includes links to country and industry market reports, country information,
trade agreements, and trade statistics. Searchable.
World Bank Country Briefs for Europe and Central Asia
Provides an overview of the economy and World Bank projects for each country. In
English.
Culture Ministria e Kultures Rinise
dhe Sporteve
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. Mostly in Albanian; partially in English.
The Center for Art
Studies, the Academy of Sciences of Albania
Informs about its structure, departments, projects, and publications. In
English.
Institute
of Folk Culture, the Academy of Sciences of Albania
Informs about its structure, projects, and publications. In English.
Alba Center
Provides images and texts of several Albanian writers, painters, sculptors, etc.
Also maintains a moderated listserv on Albanian art. Based in Italy, this site
is in Albanian, English and Italian.
Education
Ministria e Arsimit dhe Shkence¨s
The Ministry of Education and Science. In Albanian; partially in English.
Universiteti i Tirane¨s
University of Tirana. In Albanian and English.
Universiteti i Tetoves
University of Tetova, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Established
in 1994 by the large Albanian minority of FYR Macedonia. In Albanian.
Embassies United States Embassy,
Tirana
In English.
Diplomatic list
The U.S. Department of State prepares this quarterly list of foreign diplomats
and their spouses in the United States.
Ministria e Puneve te
Jashtme
The Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs about its structure, foreign
policy, and Kosovo. In Albanian and English.
The Republic of Albania
Albanian Institute for
International Studies
This independent think-tank in Albania focuses on issues pertinent to that
country and the region, and provides its publications. In English.
Genealogy
Albanian Genealogy Resources
The genealogical website, DistantCousin.com, includes an annotated portal to
websites concerned with Albanian genealogy. In English.
Geography and Environment Digital Gazetteers
GEOnet Names Server
A sophisticated database including over 5 million place names world-wide.
Maintained by two U.S. agencies - the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and
the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Probably the largest online gazetteer for
most countries of the world. A pull-down menu allows searching by country,
retrieving thousands or tens of thousands of records for most East European
countries. Records give the name of each location or feature, variant spellings,
latitude and longitude, and additional numeric data. Searches may focus on a
variety of elements, such as populated place, administrative region, type of
area, vegetation, and fresh- and saltwater features. Searches may also be
limited to areas demarcated by two lines each of latitude and longitude.
Geographic Studies Center, the Academy of Sciences of Albania
Describes the Center's history, structure, projects, and publications. In
English.
Maps--Historical Northern
Greece, Macedonia and Albania
From the website of the Federation of East European Family History Societies.
This map is from Blackie & Son's Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World
(Edinburgh, 1882).
Maps--Present-Day Albania
The United Nations provides this map of Albania, produced in 2003. This is a
.pdf file.
Virtual Albania Online
Provides an interactive map of the 25 districts of Albania. In English.
Agriculture AGRICOLA - The National Agricultural Library's Catalog and Article
Citation Database
The U.S. National Agricultural Library makes available two important databases:
1) its online catalog, which reflects the library's holdings of books,
periodicals and other materials; and 2) its subject-indexed database of
periodical articles, reflecting the contents of agricultural journals world-wide
from 1971 to the present. More than 200 article citations pertain to Albania or
come from Albanian agricultural periodicals.
Natural
Resources USGS Minerals Information - Europe and Central Asia
The United States Geological Survey provides lengthy annual reports on the
mineral resources of most countries throughout the world. The annual reports for
Albania are archived beginning with 1994.
Albania-EU Energy Efficiency Centre
Informs about energy projects in Albania and provides its EEC Newsletter in
English, with issues archived from September, 2000. In English.
Environment
Ministria e Mjedisit
Albanian Ministry of the Environment. In Albanian.
Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment - Albania
This lengthy report was first published by the United Nations Environment
Programme in 2000. In English and Albanian.
Albanian
Environmental Laws
Pace University School of Law, in New York, provides these English translations.
Government, Politics, Law General Resources
Institute for Policy and Legal Studies (IPLS)
Instituti per Studimet Publike dhe Ligjore. An NGO located in Tirana, affiliated
with a New York-based NGO. Provides its many publications, e.g., a brief
constitutional history (chronology), a study of the judicial system, etc. In
English, though some of the documents are in Albanian only.
Politikere i
Albanien
A Danish sociologist provides these biographies and photographs of governmental
and political figures in Albania. Mostly in English; some texts are in Danish
only.
Executive, Legislative, Judiciary
Keshilli i Ministrave,
Departamenti i Informacionit
The Albanian Ministry of Information. In Albanian; partly in English.
Presidenti i Republikes se Shqiperise
The President of Albania. Provides news and speeches, and informs about the
current and past presidents. In Albanian and English.
Kuvendi i Shqipe¨rise¨
The Albanian Parliament. The parliament is unicameral. Its website includes a
weekly bulletin and biographies of the 140 Members of Parliament. In Albanian,
English and French.
Komisioni Qe¨ndrori i Zgjedhjeve
Central Elections Commission of Albania. In Albanian and English.
Constitution and Laws
Kushtetuta
The Albanian Constitution, 1998. In Albanian.
The Albanian
Constitution, 1998
In English.
The Albanian Constitution, 1998
In English.
Albanian
Constitution, 1991
In English.
The Legal Aid Society of CAFOD Albania
An NGO whose mission is to meet the legal requirements of people in need and to
promote civil society and the rule of law. In English.
Local Government
Researchers should also consult Central and Eastern Europe: Local Government,
a selection of the most informative websites on local administration in each
East European country.
Local Government Center - Europe and Eurasia-- Albania
The United States Agency for International Development provides reports on local
government issues pertaining to each country. In English.
Bashkia e Tirane¨s
The mayor's office of Tirana. Tirana is the capital of Albania and has a
population of approximately 350,000. In Albanian.
Bashkia e Elbasanit
The mayor's office of Elbasan, Albania's third largest city, with approximately
97,000 inhabitants. In Albanian and Italian.
Shkoder.net
A cultural website on Shkoder, the fourth largest city, with approximately
85,000 inhabitants. In Albanian, English, German and Italian.
Bashkia Korce
The mayor's office of Korce, the seventh largest city in Albania, with
approximately 58,000 inhabitants. In Albanian.
Health United States National Library of
Medicine
Provides numerous links to health resources and databases such as Medline/PubMed.
This database references or abstracts over 4,300 biomedical journals world-wide.
Over 400 of the articles and other documents cited in Medline/PubMed concerning
Albania.
History WWW-VL
History Index
Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library. In English.
Albanian Historical Resource
An overview of Albanian history in 10-12 pages, from Chicago-Kent College of
Law. In English.
Language and Literature
English-Albanian and
Albanian-English Online Dictionary
www.albanian.com - Language
The language section of the www.albanian.com website provides a historical
overview of the Albanian language and its grammar, dialects, vocabulary, and
alphabet. In English.
Libraries, Archives Libraries
As of early 2004, no libraries in Albania have created websites. The largest
library is the National Library of Albania, with more than one million volumes.
Descriptions of Albanian Collections outside Albania
Albanian
Collections at the British Library
The British Library Slavonic and East European Section acquires material across
the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. It is responsible for
obtaining and making available material published in the countries of Central
and Eastern Europe, and for material in the languages of those countries
published anywhere in the world. This page provides an overview of the Albanian
Collections, illustrated by specific examples.
Albanian Collections
at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has more than 13,500 volumes of monographs, annuals, and
bound periodicals from or about Albania, covering nearly all disciplines. Most
of the materials were published from 1950 to the present. Special collections
contain additional materials, such as rare books, maps, music scores, sound
recordings, motion pictures, microfilm, manuscripts, and newspapers.
Immigration History Research
Center
The IHRC, affiliated with the University of Minnesota, possesses several
retrospective Albanian-American newspapers and serials, as well as monographs
and other materials.
Electronic Libraries
The Online Books Page
OPB links to more than 20,000 freely available e-books. The site is hosted by
the University of Pennsylvania Library and is created by a University of
Pennsylvania researcher, who welcomes information about additional online books.
The site links to at least two books about Albania: The Library of Congress's
Albania: A Country Study (1994); and M. Edith Durham's High Albania (London,
1909).
Archives
Archival
Research Catalog
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has recorded only selected
materials in its catalog. It does contain, however, more than 100 references to
Albania.
National Union Catalog of
Manuscript Collections
The NUCMC website, maintained by the Library of Congress, informs about its
program and links to the Archival and Mixed Collections of the RLG Union Catalog
and to OCLC MSS Records. Both the RLG and OCLC mss catalogs include records
pertaining to Albania. Each of these two mss union catalogs contains records not
found in the other.
Listservs, Newsgroups Albforumi
Provides several discussion groups on various topics. In Albanian.
Media and Communications Selected Online Resources
Gazeta 55 Online
An Albanian daily from Tirana. The paper edition was founded in 1997. Online
archives are available from October 2002.
Koha Jone Online
An Albanian-language daily from Tirana. The paper edition was founded in 1991;
it quickly became Albania's largest-circulation newspaper, but is now second to
Shekulli. The website provides a history of the paper in Albanian and in
English. The search feature retrieves articles from at least as far back as
January 2003.
Korrieri
Takes a long time to load. Considered one of the best papers in Albania. In
Albanian.
Republika
A newspaper-format weekly in Albanian from Tirana. Organ of the Republican
Party. Provides an archive of recent months.
Rilindja Demokratike
A newspaper-format, general weekly in Albanian from Tirana. The paper edition
was founded in 1991. Organ of the Democratic Party of Albania. Current issue
only.
Shekulli
A daily in Albanian from Tirana. Founded ca 1997. Users must establish a
password to use it. The largest-circulation newspaper in Albania.
Zeri i Popullit
A daily (except Monday) in Albanian from Tirana. Founded in 1942. Organ of the
Socialist Party of Albania.
Online Periodicals and Mailing Lists for News
ARS Revista Letrare Shqiptare
- Albanian Literary Review
A literary review in Albanian. Online archives begin with first issue - 31 March
2002.
Revista Klan - Shqip
A weekly magazine of news and politics. Founded in 1996. Its internal search
engine retrieves articles from at least the most recent 4-5 months. In Albanian.
AlbaNews
A mailing list on Albania, Kosovo, and the Albanian-populated regions in
Montenegro and FYR Macedonia, as well as the Albanian diaspora world-wide.
Provides a searchable archive of its own materials and from newspapers in
Albanian and English, beginning August, 1995. Maintained at the State University
of New York at Buffalo.
News Agencies
ATA - Albanian Telegraphic Agency
Requires a password. Provides several dozen news stories per day. In Albanian.
Online Radio and Television
Keshilli Kombetar i Radios dhe Televizionit
The National Council of Radio and Television. Oversees radio and television
broadcasting in Albania. In Albanian.
BBC World Service - Albanian
Provides radio broadcasts and textual news in many languages.
Deutsche Welle
Provides radio broadcasts in German and textual news in many languages,
including Albanian.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - South
Slavic and Albanian Languages Service
Provides radio broadcasts and textual news and reports in many languages.
Voice of America - Albanian
Service
Provides radio broadcasts and textual news in many languages.
Organizations
National Albanian Center of Social Studies
An NGO in Tirana that promotes research and education in social studies. In
Albanian and English.
Institute for Contemporary Studies - Albania
ICS was founded in Tirana in 1995, as an independent public policy institute. In
English.
Recreation and Travel
U.S. Department of
State: Bureau of Consular Affairs.
The U.S. Department of State provides consular information for each country and
when necessary issues travel advisories. The consular information sheets address
entrance requirements, travel, safety and health concerns. In English.
Welcome to Albania
Provides travel information and Albanian recipes. In English.
Religion and Philosophy The
international religious freedom report
The U.S. Department of State provides extensive annual reports on religion in
most countries, including Albania. Kosovo is covered within the report on Serbia
and Montenegro.
Faqe Islamike Shqiptare
Albanian Islamic Pages. Informs about Islam in Albania and provides teachings
for the Albanian people. In Albanian and English.
Albanian Islamic Cultural Center
Based in New York, this site informs about Islam in Albania and Kosovo. In
Albanian and English.
Islam in Albania Al-Islaah Publications provides this essay by a Muslim scholar. In English.
Orthodox Autocephalous Church of
Albania
In Albanian, English and Greek.
The Hierarchy of
the Catholic Church - Albania
The Catholic-Hierarchy website provides this information. In English.
Science and Technology
The Academy of Sciences of Albania
In English.
Ministria e Arsimit dhe Shkence¨s
The Ministry of Education and Science. In Albanian; partially in English.
Search Engines
Albanian Search Engines
The three search engines below are also portals or directories, and each engine
searches the contents of the associated internal directory. Each has an
English-language interface.
AlbaSearch.net
Alb-Info
AlbaFind
Search Engines of U.S. Government Websites
The two websites given below, GPO Access and GPO Access on the Web, make
available the most thorough set of search engines for important U.S. government
serial publications and related sources of Congress and the President, such as:
Budget of the U.S. Government; Congressional Bills Database; Congressional
Directory; Congressional Documents; Congressional Record; Congressional Reports;
Federal Register; Public Papers of the President; and Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents. Each of the serial titles listed above contains numerous
references to Albania. Archives vary for each title, but most of them begin in
the mid or late 1990s.
GPO Access Maintained by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Search GPO Access Maintained by SAILOR, Maryland's Public Information Network.
Society
Civil Society and NGOs
National Albanian
Center of Social Studies
An NGO in Tirana that promotes research and education in social studies. In
Albanian and English.
Institute for Contemporary Studies - Albania
ICS was founded in Tirana in 1995, as an independent public policy institute. In
English.
Women's Studies
Komiteti Gruaja dhe Familja
Committee on Women and Family. This website of the Albanian government informs
about women's issues, legislation, official agencies and pertinent NGOs. In
Albanian; plans are to add English.
Qendra e Gruas Tirane¨
Women's Center Tirana. An NGO that provides information and training concerning
gender issues. In Albanian and English.
Ethnic Minorities in Albania
Greeks and Other Minorities
This page, from the Library of Congress's handbook entitled Albania: A Country
Study (1994), discusses ethnic minorities in Albania.
Diaspora WWW Project
This site, maintained by Greek Americans, informs about the Greek diaspora,
including Greeks in Albania and Greek-Albanian relations. In English.
Macedonians in Albania
In English; partially in Macedonian.
Roma in
Albania
In English.
Aromanians in the Balkans -
Albania
The Aromanian language is related to Romanian.
Jewish History of Albania
The Heritage Films website provides extensive English-language essays on Jewish
history in each East European country.
Ethnologue
report for Albania
Provides information on languages spoken in Albania, the populations speaking
them, and the corresponding regions. In English.
Albanians Outside of Albania
Additional information about the Albanian diaspora can be found in several of
the websites listed under General Resources.
Albemigrant
Informs about Albanian emigrants. In Albanian; partly in English.
Albanians in Macedonia Crisis Center
In English.
Map -
Ethnic Albanians in the Balkans
The U.S. Institute of Peace provides this map and informs about Albanians in the
Balkan region.
Albanian American National Organization
Informs about and promotes Albanian communities of North America. In English.
National Albanian American Council (NAAC)
A non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. Promotes democracy and
economic development in Albania and provides information about Albanian issues
for Washington policy makers. In English.
FactFinder
The U.S. Census Bureau provides data from the U.S. census of 2000. Click on
"People" and then "Origins and Language," which provides state-by-state or
aggregate information about foreign ancestry, speakers of foreign languages, and
country of birth.
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