Albanians

Europeintensive agriculturalists

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Most Albanians live in Albania, a country bordered by the Adriatic and Ionian seas to the west, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia to the north and east, and Greece to the south. A third of all Albanians live outside Albania's political borders, with large Albanian communities in Greece and Italy, and smaller enclaves in Turkey, Egypt, Russia, and the United States. In Albania, there are two main regional groups, the Tosk and Gheg, each speaking a unique Albanian dialect of the same name. Extended households and clans were the basis of local social and political organization until the 1950s when they were replaced by a socialist collective system and afterwards in the 1990s by a democratic system. Islam, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and Catholicism are the three main religions practiced.

Identifier
Region
  • Europe
Subregion
  • Southeastern Europe
Subsistence Type
  • intensive agriculturalists
Samples
Countries
  • Albania
  • Kosovo
  • Montenegro
  • Macedonia
  • Serbia
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