A Greater Or A Lesser Albania? The Roots Of The Albanian Nationalist Movement And The Call For A “Greater Albania”

Resumo

Recent manifestations and publicly made arguments for creating a “Greater Albania” which would unite ethnic Albanians into a single territorial entity has resulted in a highly divided response from both the public and politicians. But what is this so-called “Greater Albania”? How did it come into existence? Who supported the idea of a “Greater Albania” and in response, who opposed it? This article will seek to answer these questions by defining what “Greater Albania” was—both as a reality and an ideal—and discuss how it developed and transformed throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.