The Republic of Albania, (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, IPA ) is a Balkan country in southeastern Europe. It borders Montenegro in the northwest, Serbia in the north, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south; it has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ionian Sea in the southwest. Despite having a troubled history, since the 1990s the country has been classified as an emerging democracy.

History

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The earlier inhabitants were part of the population that occupied the coastline of most parts of the Mediterranean. Their physical remains are scarce though, and concentrated on the coastal region. Shortly after, the first inhabitants were overrun by the Proto-Hellenic tribes that gradually occupied modern-day Greece. The southern parts of this region are now the Republic of Macedonia and the south of present-day Albania. This process was completed over the second millennium BCE and did not really affect northern or central Albania, an area that at the time presented the image of a political vacuum (in essence a historical paradox).

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