Etudes balkaniques is a quarterly peer-review journal, which has been publishing research since 1964. Research papers related to the Balkan countries in French, English, German, Russian and Italian have appeared in it, thus making them available to a wide scientific community across borders.
THE ALBANIANS IN THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (1991–2001)
Issue: 2018 N 4
Mariyana Stamova - Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Abstract: For more than two centuries the Albanian factor in Macedonia has been an objective and dynamically changing reality. It has manifested itself as an ethnic, demographic, socio-economic factor during the Ottoman rule and in unitarian Yugoslavia; as an ethnic minority, political and constitutional crisis – at the time of SFR Yugoslavia; ten years after the establishment of independent Republic of Macedonia, since the beginning of 2001, the Albanian factor has turned into a major problem for the existence and sovereignty of the country.
Keywords: Albanians, Yugoslavia, Republic of Macedonia, Ethnic Minority, Demographic and Socio-Economic Problems
