ALBANIA CULTURE

ALBANIA CULTURE FOOD AND FESTIVALS 

NAME:	Albania
LOCATION:	Europe
GOVERNMENT:	Emerging Democracy
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE:	Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects are spoken as well.
MAJOR RELIGION(S):	Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS:	Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian. Where are Albanian people from? Southeast Europe. Approximately 7 million Albanians are to be found within the Balkan peninsula with about half this number residing in Albania and the other divided between Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and to a much smaller extent Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Slovenia. What do they eat in Albania? The main meal of the Albanians is lunch, which usually consists of gjellë (stew), the main dish of slowly cooked meat with various vegetables, and a salad of fresh vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, and olives. The salad is dressed with salt, olive oil, vinegar or lemon juice