Greater Albania?

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Serbian ambassador to Russia says that Kosovo will possibly join a "Greater Albania". I fully support this as I am a Kosovar Albanian. Around the WWII era, Kosovo was apart of Albania. This is a brilliant idea. Kosovo talks the same language, but not only that, they have the same culture. 70 to 80% of Albanian citizens approve of the joining of both countries. If you ever go to Kosovo, you will see the black double headed eagle in a red backround more than the dull border outline with six stars and a blue backround. I will keep my fingers crossed. :D

Cool fact: Dardania, modern day Kosovo came from Illyria, modern day Albania until Serbians invaded.
 
I could Google it, but would rather know the lazy way, why did you guys split? Was it an ugly breakup? Seems like you guys managed to stay friends atleas
 
The Serbs took our land. Albania is our mother land and we would never leave it. I always wonder why the Serbs call it their land. :( Sad world.
 
On a tangent, the whole Israel-Palestine bickering over Gaza Strip. If you think about it, they are fighting over land which has been bombed to **** by each other for years. It's like me and you fighting over an apple core!
 
What would happen to the areas of Serb majority in the north? Should they be handed over to Serbia? If not, would Serbian be kept as an official language?

It's nice to see some oppressed people be able to break away from the control: there was a similar situation regarding East Karelia where inhabitants were 90% Fennic Karelians, a majority of whose would have wanted to part from Soviet Russia in 1918 in favour of joining Finland. My grandmother's family was amongst them, they helped the Finnish volunteer fighters who were trying to conquer the land from Russia, but lost. In the following decades Soviets started an political-ethnic cleansing there (all who didn't support Stalin and his anti-ethnic-minority politics were convicted), and they had to flee to Finland. Nowadays, only about 20% of the inhabitants in East Karelia are Karelians, the remaining 80% are Russian. You were lucky that the same didn't happen between Kosovo and Serbia (and that the West intervened), 50 years from now on you would probably be a minority in your own land.
 
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What would happen to the areas of Serb majority in the north? Should they be handed over to Serbia? If not, would Serbian be kept as an official language?

It's nice to see some oppressed people be able to break away from the control: there was a similar situation regarding East Karelia where inhabitants were 90% Fennic Karelians, a majority of whose would have wanted to part from Soviet Russia in 1918 in favour of joining Finland. My grandmother's family was amongst them, they helped the Finnish volunteer fighters who were trying to conquer the land from Russia, but lost. In the following decades Soviets started an political-ethnic cleansing there (all who didn't support Stalin and his anti-ethnic-minority politics were convicted), and they had to flee to Finland. Nowadays, only about 20% of the inhabitants in East Karelia are Karelians, the remaining 80% are Russian. You were lucky that the same didn't happen between Kosovo and Serbia (and that the West intervened), 50 years from now on you would probably be a minority in your own land.
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We could've possibly won without help. Our military was more powerful than you think. Now trained by NATO, the military is professional. What gets me is that Serbia still calls it it's land, while it began Albanian (Technically) and they invaded. We wanted independence, and got it. America got help from France, look at it now. One of the most, if not the most, powerful military in the world. We didn't start the war. They bombed us and we couldn't take the pain. Serbs are still staying in the north, and won't hop off our d's. It is our land and they do not understand what "leave" is. Thank goodness I live in the south.
 
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The linked article is dated 2008.
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The thing about it is everything is its still pretty much in the same state last I heard. Serbia dosnt recognize their declaration of independence and the Serbian minority in Kosovo still try to fight their independence.
 
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The thing about it is everything is its still pretty much in the same state last I heard. Serbia dosnt recognize their declaration of independence and the Serbian minority in Kosovo still try to fight their independence.
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Exactly. It isn't worth it. It won't work.
 
I would not say the language is exactly the same anymore. It's been a while our people have been separated and you would be surprised how much has changed. I would love to see our people be united again though.
 
The language thing... for those of you who dont know the difference, it's simple. It's like me speaking Modern english v. someone who speaks Shakesperean english. Another analogy is French from France v. French from Canada.
 
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The language thing... for those of you who dont know the difference, it's simple. It's like me speaking Modern english v. someone who speaks Shakesperean english. Another analogy is French from France v. French from Canada.
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Exactly, very similar, but not exactly the same.
 

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