Introduction: Who Are the Albanians? --1. Archeological Reconstruction of Prehistoric Life in Albania --2. Linguistic Ancestry of the Albanian Language and People --3. Traditions About Albania in Our Earliest Chronicles --4. The Early Historical Kingdoms in Albania (1280-323 B.C.) --5. Dissolution of the Albanian Kingdoms and Their Subjugation by Rome (323-168 B.C.) --6. The Roman Period (168 B.C.-A.D. 395) --7. The Byzantine Period (395-489) --8. Occupation of Albania by the Goths (489-535) --9. Byzantine Rule Once Again (535-861) --10. The Bulgarian Period (861-1014) --11. Byzantine Rule Yet Again (1014-1204) --12. Norman Rule in Albania (1081-1204) --13. Quarreling Feudal Families Vulnerable to the Ottoman Turks --14. The Ottoman Turkish Threat --15. Gradual Capitulation of Feudal Families to the Ottoman Turks --16. Temporary Successes of Skanderberg (1443-1468) --17. Final Capitulation of Albania to the Turks (1503) --18. Albania's Peculiar Handicaps in Facing Turkish Occupation --19. The Turkish Government of Occupied Albania --20. Reasons for the Adoption of Islam by Albanian Christians --21. Revolutionary and Diplomatic Efforts for Albanian Independence --22. Albania's Nonviolent Revolution: Its Cultural Renaissance --23. Declaration of Albanian Independence at Vlora (28 November 1912) --24. Grounds for Confidence in Albania's Eventual Nationhood --25. The Fourteen Successive Ineffective Governments (1912-1925) --26. The Fourteen-Year National Government of Ahmet Zogu (1925-1939) --27. The Fascist Occupation and the Rise of Marxism (1939-1944) --28. The Stalinist Government of Enver Hoxha (1944-1985) --