Albania

One of the more obscure of the limited list of countries I’ve visited, I’ll always have a soft spot for this place. Go to Berat!

Questions

Used by an ethnic goup native to the southern Balkans that are sometimes known as ‘Vlachs’, what is a recognised minority language in Albania and North Macedonia?

AROMANIAN

A term also used in Kosovo and having seats for 140 MPs, what is the unicameral parliament of Albania called?

KUVENDI

Having its capital at Krujë, which principality established in 1190 and ruled by the native Progoni family was the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history? Its independence gained in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade was short-lived.

ARBANON

Commonly referred to as the Albanian League, which alliance that was named for the city where it was created in 1444 had Skanderbeg as leader of a united group against the Ottoman Empire?

(LEAGUE OF) LEZHE

Translated as the ‘thunderbolt mountains’, which mountain range lies in Vlöre county along the Adriatic coast with the city of Sarandë being at its south-easternmost end?

CERAUNION / AKROCERAUNION MOUNTAINS

One of only two peaks in Europe to mark the high point of two countries, which mountain with a namesake range is the highest in both Albania and North Macedonia?

(MOUNT) KORAB

Towering above Tirana and reachable by a long cable-car ride, Mount Dajti belongs to which range of mountains?

SKANDERBEG MOUNTAINS

Supposedly created by the devil and once containing landmines, how are the Albanian Alps also known, a sub-range of the Dinaric Alps?

ACCURSED MOUNTAINS

Sounding like Jason may have ‘gone away’, what was an ethnonym used by the Ottoman Turks for Albanians?

ARNAUTS

In what year did Albania declare their independence, the first of the two that make up the Balkan Wars?

1912

Albania is a member of the OIC, which stands for what and includes 57 member states, with Albania being the only one entirely in Europe?

ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC CO-OPERATION

The Illyrian tribe of the Labeates has their first known mention in the 2nd century BC work “The Histories” by Polybius. Which stronghold was their capital, still the site of one of Albania’s most populous cities with only small differences between their spellings?

SCODRA / SHKODËR

The Ardiaei were an Illyrian tribe that had their capital at which city in Montenegro located on the Bay of Kotor, with the modern town that now exists only having small variations in its spelling?

RHIZON / RISAN