The Albanians

Table of Contents

Volume 1
Preface     
Introduction: Who Are the Albanians?     

Part One: Primeval Albania Colonized by the Greeks and Its Civilization (to 168 B.C.)
1. Archeological Reconstruction of Prehistoric Life in Albania     
2. Linguistic Ancestry of the Albanian Language and People     
3. Traditions About Albania in Our Earliest Chronicles     
4. The Early Historical Kingdoms in Albania (1280–323 B.C.)     
5. Dissolution of the Albanian Kingdoms and Their Subjugation by Rome (323–168 B.C.)     

Part Two: Developing Albania Subjugated by the Romans and Its Christianization (168 B.C.–A.D. 1503)
6. The Roman Period (168 B.C.–A.D. 395)     
7. The Byzantine Period (395–489)     
8. Occupation of Albania by the Goths (489–535)     
9. Byzantine Rule Once Again (535–861)     
10. The Bulgarian Period (861–1014)     
11. Byzantine Rule Yet Again (1014–1204)     
12. Norman Rule in Albania (1081–1204)     
13. Quarreling Feudal Families Vulnerable to the Ottoman Turks     
14. The Ottoman Turkish Threat     
15. Gradual Capitulation of Feudal Families to the Ottoman Turks     
16. Temporary Successes of Skanderberg (1443–1468)     
17. Final Capitulation of Albania to the Turks (1503)     
18. Albania’s Peculiar Handicaps in Facing Turkish Occupation     

Part Three: Christian Albania Occupied by the Turks and Its Islamization (1503–1912)
19. The Turkish Government of Occupied Albania     
20. Reasons for the Adoption of Islam by Albanian Christians     
21. Revolutionary and Diplomatic Efforts for Albanian Independence     
22. Albania’s Nonviolent Revolution: Its Cultural Renaissance     
23. Declaration of Albanian Independence at Vlora (28 November 1912)     
24. Grounds for Confidence in Albania’s Eventual Nationhood     

Volume 2
Part Four: Muslim Albania Governed by Feudalists and Its Nationalization (1912–1939)
25. The Fourteen Successive Ineffective Governments (1912–1925)     
26. The Fourteen-Year National Government of Ahmet Zogu (1925–1939)     

Part Five: Nationalist Albania Seized by the Marxists and Its Communization (1939–1985)
27. The Fascist Occupation and the Rise of Marxism (1939–1944)     
28. The Stalinist Government of Enver Hoxha (1944–1985)     

Part Six: Communist Albania Attracted by the West and Its Democratization (1985–)
29. The Reform Government of Ramiz Alia (1985–1992)     
30. The Democratic Government of Sali Berisha (1992– )     

Indexed Maps of Albania     
Bibliography     
Index