Sanjak of Durrës (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق دراج, Sancağı-i Dıraç or Draç, or لواء دراج, Livâ-i Dıraç or Draç; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Durrësit) was one of...

the Pashalik of Scutari under Mehmed Pasha Bushati against the Pashalik of Berat under Ahmet Kurt Pasha, who fought over the Sanjak of Durrës in 1775. In...

and seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality. It is one of Albania's oldest continuously inhabited cities, with roughly 2,500 years of recorded history...

Vilayet and Dibra passed to the Monastir Vilayet, while Durrës (Dıraç) township became Durrës Sanjak. After the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Bar, Podgorica...

becoming the Pasha of Scutari. Recognizing the significance of tax-farming in the Sanjak of Durrës for the merchants of Shkodra and the Pasha of Scutari itself...

transfers, the Sanjak of Scutari was subsequently divided into two sanjaks: Sanjak of Scutari and Sanjak of Draç (Durrës). Following the invasion of Montenegrin...

the Pasha of Berat, Ahmet Kurt Pasha, also adopted a passive approach. Despite losing control over the Sanjak of Durrës to Hasan Aga of Istanbul and...

other groups. The four vilayets were divided into the sanjaks (sanxhaqe/sanxhaqet) of Scutari, Durrës, Ioannina, Ergiri, Preveze, Berat, Manastir, Serfiğe...

control of the Toptani family of Krujë.[citation needed] Later, Tirana became a sub-prefecture of the newly created Vilayet of Shkodër and the Sanjak of Durrës...

in the town of Tirana, which at that time was the center of a kaza of the Sanjak of Durrës, which itself was a subdivision of the Vilayet of Shkodra. His...

This is a list of wars that Albanian states and Albanian armed forces have been involved in.   Albanian victory   Albanian defeat   Another result (e.g...

The Sanjak of Albania (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاق آرونید, romanized: Sancâk-ı Arvanid, or آرونید سنجاغی, Arvanid sancâğı; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Arbërisë or...

War of the Albanian People. Baba Faja was born Mustafa Xhani in Luz i Madh, Kavajë. He pursued religious studies to become a baba at the tekke of Martanesh...

"Çeta e Pezës", the members of which founded the Communist Party of Albania. Peza came to Albania from Yugoslavia in the summer of 1939, and immediately began...

The Angevin resistance continued for some years in Kaninë, Durrës and Vlorë. However Durrës fell in Byzantine hands in 1288 and in the same year Byzantine...

in Albania at his provisional capital of Durrës on March 7, 1914, along with the royal family. The security of Albania was to be provided by an International...

territories around Durrës, as well as Krujë, which would serve as his headquarters. Karl was ultimately able to conquer Durrës in March of 1368. This was...

Congress of Durrës (Albanian: Kongresi i Durrësit) was a conference of Albanian political leaders, held from December 25 to December 27, 1918, in Durrës, at...

Palace of Durrës, sometimes known as the Konak of Durrës (Albanian: Pallati Mbretëror i Shqipërisë or Konaku i Durrësit), was a royal palace of the Principality...

Essad Pasha Toptani, the deputy of the Sanjak of Durrës, Mufid bej Libohova of Delvina and Aziz Pasha Vrioni of Vlorë, all highly influential figures in...

territorial transfers, the Sanjak of Scutari was subsequently divided into two sanjaks: Sanjak of Scutari and Sanjak of Draç (Durrës). Mehmed Bushati (1757–1774)...

Albania was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire and its newly established Sanjak of Albania. In 1432-36 local Albanian chieftains dissatisfied with losing...

The Sanjak of Dibra, Debar, or Dibër (Turkish: Debre Sancağı, Albanian: Sanxhaku i Dibrës, Macedonian: Дебарски санџак, romanized: Debarski sandžak) was...

Ottoman administration and represented Kaza of Gjirokastër, Sanjak of Delvina as a deputy in the 1908 parliament of the Young Turks. As an Ottoman parliamentarian...

country. The Durrës Amphitheatre is host to the Durrës International Film Festival, the second largest film festival. After the fall of communism in 1991...

state free from Ottoman control. However, by annexing the Sanjak as well as large parts of Montenegro and by instituting military and political reforms...

on October 16, 1913, with its administrative centre in Durrës, today in Albania Principality of Albania, 1913–25, locally called a kingdom Albanian Republic...

also became Pasha of the Morea Eyalet in 1807. Ali's eldest son, Muhtar Pasha, was granted the Sanjak of Karli-Eli and the Sanjak of Eğriboz in 1792, stretching...

Muslim Albanians whom were expelled by the Serb army from most parts of the Sanjak of Niş and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet during and after the Serbian–Ottoman...

of all Albanian lands, most Albanian ethnic territories were still governed by medieval Albanian nobility who were free of Ottoman rule. The Sanjak of...