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Albanians
Shqiptarët
File:Map of the Albanian Diaspora in the World.svg
Total population
c. 7 to 10 million[1][2][3][4][5]
Regions with significant populations
File:Flag of Albania.svg Albania 2,551,006 (2021)[6]
File:Flag of Kosovo.svg Kosovo 1,797,856 (2021)[7]
Other regions
Southern Europe
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy970,000[8][9][10]
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece500,000–600,000[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
File:Flag of North Macedonia.svg North Macedonia446,245[18]
File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro30,439[19]
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia61,687[20]
File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia17,513[21]
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia6,186[22]
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain3,998[23]
File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal99c[24]
Northern Europe
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom70,000–100,000[25]
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden54,000[26]
File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway19,891c[27]
File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland10,391[28][29]
File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark8,223[30]
File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland953–2,133[31][32]
Central Europe and Baltics
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania10,000[33]
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine5,000[34]
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic1,512[35]
File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia17 - 31[36][37]
Western Europe
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany200,000–300,000[38][39][40]
File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland200,000[41][42]
File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria28,212[43]
File:Flag of France.svg France27,200 (2019)[44]
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands12,969c[45]
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium5,600–30,000[46][47]
File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg2,155c[48]
Americas
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States194,028[49]
File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina50,000[50]
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada39,055c[51]
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia348[52]
File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba101[53]
File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama9[54]
Oceania
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia11,315[55]
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand243[56]
Asia and Africa
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey500,000–6,000,000 b[57][58][59]
File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt18,000[58]
File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar1,200[60]
File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus275[61]
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa268[62]
File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates200–300[63]
Languages
Albanian
Religion
Majority:
File:Star and Crescent.svg Islam
Sunni[a] · Bektashi · Non-denominational
Minority:
File:Christian cross.svg Christianity
Catholicism[b] (Latin Church · Eastern Rites Albanian Greek-Catholic Church · Italo-Albanian Church) · Eastern Orthodoxy[c] (Albanian Orthodox Church · Albanian American Orthodox Church) · Protestantism (Albanian Protestant Church · Kosovan Protestant Church)
Other:
Irreligion
a 502,546 Albanian citizens, an additional 43,751 Kosovo Albanians, 260,000 Arbëreshë people and 169,644 Albanians who have acquired the Italian citizenship[8][9][64][65]
b Albanians are not recognized as a minority in Turkey. However approximately 500,000 people are reported to profess an Albanian identity. Of those with full or partial Albanian ancestry and others who have adopted Turkish language, culture and identity their number is estimated at 1,300,000–5,000,000 many whom do not speak Albanian.[58]
c The estimation contains Kosovo Albanians.

The Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) is a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and Kosovo, who speak Albanian language as their mother tongue. They also form a significant minority in North Macedonia.[66]

Albanians share a common ancestry, culture and history, the majority of ethnic Albanians are Muslim while a significant minority of them profess other religions such as Bektashi, and Catholics and Orthodox Christianity. Their National Hero is Skanderbeg. In the Ottoman Empire, Albanian Men were mostly represented in high ranks, like Muhammad Ali Pasha or Ali Pasha and the Köprülü family. The Albanian Dynasty House of Zogu, was founded by King Zog I of Albania. Muslim Albanian boys get circumcised with a sünnet-ceremony, this was taken at the time of the Ottoman Empire[67]

Notes[change]

  1. ↑ Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of the Albanian people in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
  2. ↑ Roman Catholicism (both Latin and Greek-Byzantine rites) is the largest Christian denomination of the Albanian people in northern Albania, Croatia and Italy.
  3. ↑ Eastern Orthodoxy is the largest Christian denomination of the Albanian people in southern Albania, North Macedonia and Greece.

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