10 facts about Albania


Flag 3d map of Albania, single color outside, satellite sea, flag centered.
1#. The Albanians call Albania ‘Shqiperia’ or Republika e Shqiperise.
2#. Mother Teresa (Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) is generally celebrated as the only Albanian to win a Nobel Prize, though born in Skopje (Shkup) in 1910 (now in Macedonia but then in the Ottoman Empire).
3#. The Albania International airport was named after Mother Teresa in 2001.
4#. The only other Nobel Prize winner of Albanian origin was Ferid Murad  who won the 1998 prize for Medicine. His father was Albanian.
5#. John Belushi, star of the film The Blues Brothers also had an Albanian father
6#. Albania, Armenia and Vatican City are the only countries in Europe without a McDonald’s branch.
7#. In 1995, drivers in the Albanian city of Shkodra refused to pay a new traffic-light tax on the grounds that Shkodra had no traffic lights.
8#. Albania has never won a medal at the Olympics.
9#. King Zog of Albania (ruled 1928-1939) was the only national leader in modern times to return fire during an assassination attempt.10#. In Albanian, “kam mall për ty” means “I miss you”, but it also means “I have drugs for you”

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