This article is about Albanians who live in Central Serbia and Vojvodina. For the Albanians who live in Kosovo, see Kosovo Albanians.
Albanians in Serbia
Албанци у Србији Shqiptarët në Serbi
Unofficial flag of Serbian Albanians
Total population
61,687 (2022 census) 0.93% of Serbia's population (2022)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Preševo
31,340 (93.69%)[2]
Bujanovac
25,465 (62.01%)[2]
Languages
Albanian, Serbian
Religion
Islam, Christianity
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Albanians in Serbia (Serbian: Албанци у Србији, romanized: Albanci u Srbiji; Albanian: Shqiptarët në Serbi) are a recognized national minority in Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the population of ethnic Albanians in Serbia is 61,687, constituting 0.93% of the total population. The vast majority of them live in the southern part of the country that borders Kosovo and North Macedonia, called the Preševo Valley. Their cultural center is located in Preševo.
AlbaniansinSerbia (Serbian: Албанци у Србији, romanized: Albanci u Srbiji; Albanian: Shqiptarët në Serbi) are a recognized national minority in Serbia...
The Albanians of Kosovo (Albanian: Shqiptarët e Kosovës, pronounced [ʃcipˈtaɾət ɛ kɔˈsɔvəs]), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovan Albanians or...
of notable AlbaniansinSerbia, ethnic Albanians who were born in, lived, or trace their origins to the territory that is present-day Serbia. Tahir Efendi...
The Albanians (/ælˈbeɪniənz, ɔːl-/ a(w)l-BAY-nee-ənz; Albanian: Shqiptarët, pronounced [ʃcipˈtaɾət]) are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula...
The massacres of Albaniansin the Balkan Wars were perpetrated on several occasions by the Serbian and Montenegrin armies and paramilitaries during the...
are Albanians (mostly Kosovar Albanians and to a lesser extent Albanians from North Macedonia and Albanians from Serbia). Taken as a single group, people...
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Albanians (20 families) and Serbs–Montenegrins (6 families) Grilë (Grilj), majority of Serbs–Montenegrins (76 households) and minority of Albanians (9...
The Albanian diaspora (Albanian: Mërgata Shqiptare or Diaspora Shqiptare) are the ethnic Albanians and their descendants living outside of Albania, Kosovo...
expelled (Expulsion of the Albanians 1877–1878), settling mainly in Kosovo. These events marked the beginning of the Serbian-Albanian conflict. The Serbo-Bulgarian...
considered that only Muslims could only be Albanians. As more Albanians became part of the Serbian and Greek states, Albanian scholars with nationalistic perspectives...
the three centuries of Ottoman rule. The Muslims in Serbia are mostly ethnic Bosniaks, Albanians and significant part of Muslim Roma as well as members...
west. In 1971, total population of the Socialist Republic of Serbia numbered 8,446,590 people, including: Serbs = 6,142,070 (72.7%) Albanians = 984,761...
controlled Albania. Kosovo Albanians sought to redress the past policies of colonisation and Slavization and power relations between Albanians and Serbs were...
ethnobiology in the Western Balkans: medical ethnobotany and ethnozoology among Albanians and Serbsin the Pešter Plateau, Sandžak, southwestern Serbia." Human...
balance in the region, to decrease the Albanian population and replace them with Montenegrins and Serbs. Albanians formed the ethnic majority in the region...
Serb/Yugoslav officials and one Albanian commander for war crimes. The modern Albanian-Serbian conflict has its roots in the expulsion of Albanians in...
Serbia. In May 1901, Albanians set Sjenica, Novi Pazar and Pristina on fire. The Albanians went on a rampage massacring Serbsin Pristina. Ibarski Kolašin...
Turkey. They consist of Albanians who arrived during the Ottoman period, Kosovar/Macedonian and Tosk Cham Albanians fleeing from Serbian and Greek persecution[citation...
massacres of Albaniansin World War I were a series of war crimes committed by Serbian, Montenegrin, Greek and Bulgarian troops against the Albanian civil population...
geographic spread of the Albanians. It is likely that Albanians took refuge in the mountainous areas of northern and central Albania, eastern Montenegro,...