miniatura|250px|Bandeira nacional de Albania. O nacionalismo albanés é un conxunto de ideas e conceptos nacionalistas xurdidos no pobo albanés a comezos do século XIX, durante o Espertar Nacional Albanés (en ). O termo tamén se asocia con conceptos semellantes, como o albanesismoThe Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913 (Library of Ottoman Studies) by George Gawrych, 2006, page 20: "... dynamic that would remain essential for understanding the development of Albanianism."Kosovo: War and Revenge by Mr. Tim Judah and Tim Judah, 2002, page 12, the religion of Albanians is AlbanianismThe Oxford Companion to Politics of the World by Joel Krieger, 2001, page 475: "... frequently then and since, "The religion of the Albanians is Albanianism.One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (The Global Century Series) by David Reynolds, 2001, page 233: "... the country." Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Bernd Jürgen Fischer, Albanian Identities: Myth and History, Indiana University Press, 2002, , page 92 & (100)-(102)-(132) e o panalbanismoThe Balkans: A Post-Communist History by Bideleux/Jeffri, 2006, page 423, "... form a 'Greater Albania'. Pan-Albanianism: How Big a Threat to Balkan Stability (Central and Eastern European) by Miranda Vickers, 2004, e ideas que levarían á formación da Grande Albania.
Algunhas destas ideas adoptáronse parcialmente durante a República Popular de Albania, proclamada en 1946, que se centraba na continuidade entre os ilirios e os albaneses.The practice of Archaeology under dictatorship, Michael L. Galary & Charles Watkinson, Chapter 1, page 8-17,2The practice of Archaeology under dictatorship, Michael L. Galary & Charles Watkinson, Chapter 1, page 8-17,2 Porén, os valores fundamentais do Espertar Nacional Albanés seguen aínda vixentes ata o presente, e a ideoloxía desenvolvida durante o réxime de Enver Hoxha aínda está presente (aínda que "semella que hai vontade de cambio") na sociedade e institucións albanesas modernas, en Albania e en Kosovo.The practice of Archaeology under dictatorship, Michael L. Galary & Charles Watkinson, Chapter 1, page 8-17,2.The practice of Archaeology under dictatorship, Michael L. Galary & Charles Watkinson, Chapter 1, page 8-17,2
Os albaneses considéranse descendentes dos ilirios, aínda que non haxa ningún apoio científio a esta teoría. A idea do século XVIII segundo a cal os albaneses eran descendentes dos pelasgosAnthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2009, Gilles de Rapper, "by identifying with Pelasgians, Albanians could claim that they were present in their Balkan homeland not only before the "barbarian" invaders of late Roman times (such as the Slavs), not only before the Romans themselves, but also, even more importantly, before the Greeks‟ (Malcolm 2002: 76-77)." e que os etruscosAnthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2009, Gilles de Rapper tiñan orixes ilirias aínda están presentes en certos círculos albaneses.Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible by Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter Willem Van Der Horst, 1999, page 537, "Pelasgians, the mythical predecessors of Greek civilisation". Estas ideas formaron parte da creación dun mito que permitiu a creación de movementos independentistas.Communism and the Emergence of Democracy by Harald Wydra, 2007, , page 230, "Albanians tended to go further back in time to the sixth and seventh centuries, claiming an Illyrian- Albanian continuity and superiority over Slavic people. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2009, Gilles de Rapper, "by identifying with Pelasgians, Albanians could claim that they were present in their Balkan homeland not only before the "barbarian" invaders of late Roman times (such as the Slavs), not only before the Romans themselves, but also, even more importantly, before the Greeks‟ (Malcolm 2002: 76-77)."The Balkans - a post-communist history by Robert Bideleux & Ian Jeffries, Routledge, 2007, , page 513Kosovo: what everyone needs to know by Tim Judah, , 2008, page 31
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