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Many progressive, westernized Albanians had continued to entertain hopes for a rational settlement of the crisis.

Music has always been a potent means of national expression for Albanians.

It said it would support such a package only if it were agreed between Serbia and Kosovo's Albanians.

In the end it has been a pell-mell, 10-day rush to be ready for a day that has been spoken of throughout Kosovo Albanians' lifetimes.

The Albanians in Kosovo used to have rights before all this happened.

The irony is that, even if the court were to find against the Kosovars, Serbia would be quite unable to absorb 2m hostile Albanians.

In the next few weeks Bosnians and Albanians are expected to be granted visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen area.

For now, Albanians can only hope their leaders will end their power plays and save the country themselves, before any more blood is spilled.

They would last for eleven weeks, as Milosevic continued to kill Kosovar Albanians and drive almost one million people from their homes.

Yet a few hundred metres south, across the River Ibar, Albanians stroll around in the sunshine.

Just like the Albanians, Italians and Hispanics who live nearby, its patrons are Americans.

The last round of Serb aggression had sparked another exodus of refugees and had increased the desire of Kosovar Albanians for independence.

Still, Bosnians and Albanians know that it is only a matter of time before they too qualify for visa-free travel.

Albanians in the Balkans on the ancient inhabitants were descendants of Ilya. 4 century AD, was a part of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Some 90% of the population consists of ethnic Albanians who demand nothing less than independence.

For a start, it asserted that the Albanians were relative newcomers to the territory, settling it only in the 16th century.

Now Albanians are chuckling at headlines that have them dancing in the mouth of the crocodile (the European Union).

Before, we were somehow like shock absorbers between Serbs and Albanians, but now we have our backs to the walls.

Danes in Sweden or Albanians in Greece have little trouble integrating into the relatively familiar societies next door.

And if Serbia and Croatia can hand out passports in Bosnia, why should not Albania issue passports to Kosovar Albanians?

The heroin was being bought in Turkey and smuggled into the Czech Republic by Kosovo Albanians, say police.

Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo's police force are no longer working together in northern and eastern Kosovo.

And, at least on paper, the Kosovan Albanians have accepted the price.

Kosovo's ethnic Albanians have been demanding independence for some time.

Remittances from the quarter to a third of Albanians who live abroad have dropped sharply.

But plenty of Macedonians and Slovenes understand the language, as do older Kosovo Albanians.

The latest clashes came after a Serb teenager was reportedly hurt by two knife-wielding Albanians on Tuesday, who were later detained.

Democratic Action Party: formed by members of Democratic Coalition of Muslims and Albanians in Montenegro.

Eurocrats scoff that the Albanians cannot even hold a local election without its going wrong.

Macedonia's Muslim Albanians, a quarter of the population, are also griping.

But some 90% of its population are ethnic Albanians who have long demanded full separation from Serbia.

Violent disputes between Kosovar Serbs and Albanians have increased since July.

Almost all the bakers of the old Yugoslavia were Albanians , from one small corner of Kosovo.

The Kosovan Albanians have taken an important stride towards self-government.

His business is thriving, though: Albanians short of cash are desperate to sell things.

Kosovar Albanians are pushing hard for independence from Serbia.

Many Albanians crossed the border into Greece with little more than the clothes on their backs.

The rest of Kosovo is dominated by Albanians.

Perhaps this was why Albanians liked him.

Some 90% of its 2m people are ethnic Albanians (Kosovars) who want independence.

Deep in Kosovo, surrounded by often-hostile ethnic Albanians, the 24 monks just get on with life.

This is not because Albanians are having fewer children, but because so many women of child-bearing age have emigrated.

This has incurred much enmity from Kosovo's Albanians.

Twenty years ago Greeks welcomed more than 600, 000 Albanians who walked over the border to start a new life.

A quarter of the population are ethnic Albanians, almost all of them Muslim, who vote for their own parties.

Kosovo is revered historically by Orthodox Christian Serbs but also is claimed as separate and distinct by its ethnic Muslim Albanians.

Nearly 99 percent of Albanians are literate.

But a rule of thumb is that some 90% of the province's 2m people are Albanians.

Kosovo has about 2m people, of whom 90% are ethnic Albanians.

Kosovo has a population of some 2m, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians.

On November 17th Kosovo Albanians go to the polls.

Gun down cold Serbs and Albanians can live together in peace;