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The Greek Minority in the Albanian Republic: a Demographic Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Arqile Berxholli ,
Sejfi Protopapa  and
Kristaq Prifti
Arqile Berxholli
Affiliation:
Tirana, Albania
Sejfi Protopapa
Affiliation:
Geographical Studies Institute
Kristaq Prifti
Affiliation:
Tirana, Albania
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Albania, founded at the Congress of Vlora on November 12, 1912, has a far more homogeneous national population than its neighboring states in the Balkans. The Sixth London Conference of the great powers in 1912–1913 ruthlessly divided the territories inhabited by Albanians. The conference fragmented more than half the territories inhabited by ethnic Albanian regions as follows: in the east and the northeast—Kosova, Dibra, Ohri, Struga and Pollugu up to Shkup (Scoplje); in the north—Tivari, Ulqini, Tuzi, Plava and Gucija; and in the south—Camerija. These lands, with an autochthonous Albanian population, were annexed by Serbia, Montenegro (in 1918 by the new Yugoslav State) and by Greece in 1913. Thus, the borders of Albania were confined to an area of 28,748 square kilometers and a population of a little more than 800,000.

Type
Up-date: Albania
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Fall 1994 , pp. 427 - 434
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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