Sami Flamuri🇦🇺🇦🇱
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Author, Historian and Publicist proud Australian of Albanian heritage, dad to Valona & Ardita grandfather to Edan,and husband to Nusreta❤️humble
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Watching this 1971 Yugoslav census footage is fascinating. One of the most striking moments is how many Bosnian Slavs identify as “Muslim”not simply as a religion, but as a nationality. Under socialist Yugoslavia, “Muslim” (with a capital M) was officially recognized as a national category, despite the word itself referring to followers of Islam. For many rural, poorly educated villagers, the distinction between faith and ethnicity was far from clear. In the Qur’an, a Muslim is simply one who submits to God, regardless of ethnicity. Combined with the long-standing Serbian habit of calling Bosnian Muslims “Turks” because of their Ottoman-era faith, this blurred identities even further. Two decades later, Bosnia’s devastating war would expose how deeply questions of nation, ethnicity, and religion had become intertwined.
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The Albanian who resurrected Egypt without speaking a word of Arabic. Muhammad Ali Pasha, born of Albanian parents in Kavalla, arrived in Egypt in 1801 as a junior Ottoman officer. Within 4 years he was Viceroy. He abolished the Mameluke dynasty in a single night (1811), centralised power, modernised the army & laid the foundations of the modern Egyptian state. As Prof. Roy Casagranda notes this Albanian didn’t just govern Egypt; he recreated it from the ruins of Ottoman neglect and Napoleonic disruption. His dynasty ruled Egypt until 1952. His mosque still dominates Cairo’s skyline. 200 years on, his aura is inescapable. 🇦🇱 Albania gave Egypt its greatest builder. History rarely gets the credit right.
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Former Yugoslavia was a patchwork of nations held together only by Tito’s iron grip. Once he was gone, the seams burst. Fascinating how even kids’ videos now note Montenegrins aren’t Serbs—yet Albanians, the largest non-Slavic group, aren’t mentioned at all.
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A young Serbian girl in national attire sings a “patriotic” song degrading Turks and Albanians—while the crowd chants every word. As long as this kind of brainwashing thrives, Serbia will remain chained to its ghosts, with no future for a better life ahead.
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Kosova, 1987. The poorest and most underdeveloped region of Yugoslavia not by accident, but after decades of political and economic marginalization. A year later, the Trepça miners’ hunger strike would become a defining act of resistance, followed by Belgrade’s crackdown, the imprisonment of Kosovo’s leadership, including Azem Vllasi, and the dismantling of Kosovo’s autonomy. What followed helped set Yugoslavia on its path to collapse.
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In Peroj, Istria 🇭🇷, a small Montenegrin community keeps Montenegrin language, customs & identity alive. Proudly Orthodox, yet clear in distinguishing themselves from Serbian nationalism that hijacked the Church in Montenegro. Identity ≠ appropriation.
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“Australian PM Anthony Albanese proudly acknowledged his Albanian roots from Barletta, Puglia, in front of the Albanian Ambassador to Canberra and the Albanian-Australian community. A moment of shared heritage and connection! 🇦🇺🤝🇦🇱 #AlbanianRoots #AnthonyAlbanese”
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Today, the Albanian municipality of Tuz in Malësia, Montenegro, proudly unveiled a monument to our national hero, Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg. A timeless symbol of freedom and unity, now standing tall in the heart of Malësia! 🇦🇱 #Scanderbeg #AlbanianPride #Malësia
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In a 1986 video, an Ulqin seaman joked that Montenegro’s educated ended up in “the Montenegrin village” of Belgrade—while others insisted it was a town. His point: it’s unfair. My point: it was Montenegrins like Milošević who shaped a Serbia now on the cusp of its own existence.
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