Area Handbook for Albania

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Stephen Peters. Area Handbook for Albania

Area Handbook for Albania

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

PREFACE

COUNTRY SUMMARY

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

LIST OF TABLES

CHAPTER 1

GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE SOCIETY

CHAPTER 2

HISTORICAL SETTING

CHAPTER 3

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 4

THE PEOPLE

CHAPTER 5

SOCIAL SYSTEM

CHAPTER 6

GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL SYSTEM

CHAPTER 7

COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 8

ECONOMIC SYSTEM

CHAPTER 9

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SECURITY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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Published by Good Press, 2021

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The lack of resources and an undeveloped economy, the same economic problems that had plagued newly independent Albania in the 1920s, continued to be problems in 1970, and foreign aid was still a necessity. Communist China provided an undetermined amount of assistance during the 1960s and into 1970 but, from the Albanian point of view, the danger of loss of sovereignty to distant China was much less than it had been during the periods when the country was a client state of nearby Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union.

The lack of easily defended national boundaries was an additional concern in the maintenance of territorial integrity. Although the boundaries originally established in 1913 remained relatively unchanged and were not officially disputed in 1970, they were not considered satisfactory in some sectors. About 1 million Albanians lived in adjacent areas of Yugoslavia, mostly in the Kosovo region, and Albania revealed her dissatisfaction that they were not included within its territory. Neither Albania nor Greece was content with the demarcation along the two most southerly districts of Albania. The lack of sharply defined terrain features in most places along the northern and eastern borders with Yugoslavia and the southeastern and southern delineation between Albania and Greece increased the potential for dispute (see ch. 2, Historical Setting; ch. 3, Physical Environment).

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