May I instigate a discussion on the effects of the last update to the Albanian National Awakening?
The POD is 20 years before the onset of Albanian Nationalism. Albania is a diverse country: One can say that the two different dialects, tosk and gheg, separate the north and south. The tosk south is orthodox and bektashi while the gheg north catholic and sunni. An Albanian of Argyrokastro or Valona can hold a conversation with an Arvanite from Athens better than with an Albanian from Kosovo. The bektashi with some christian rituals, alcohol drinking and pork eating are not considered muslims by many sunnis. There was also veneration of some christian saints and in modern Albania bektashis intermarry with christians. The greek state will give some thought on the bektashis, as a lot of greek-speaking muslims belong to the denomination.
It is 1858 and the orthodox and bektashi Albanians will have greek public education, decades before the OTL opening of the first albanian school.
The POD is 20 years before the onset of Albanian Nationalism. Albania is a diverse country: One can say that the two different dialects, tosk and gheg, separate the north and south. The tosk south is orthodox and bektashi while the gheg north catholic and sunni. An Albanian of Argyrokastro or Valona can hold a conversation with an Arvanite from Athens better than with an Albanian from Kosovo. The bektashi with some christian rituals, alcohol drinking and pork eating are not considered muslims by many sunnis. There was also veneration of some christian saints and in modern Albania bektashis intermarry with christians. The greek state will give some thought on the bektashis, as a lot of greek-speaking muslims belong to the denomination.
It is 1858 and the orthodox and bektashi Albanians will have greek public education, decades before the OTL opening of the first albanian school.
File:Albania confessional map with regions circa 1900.PNG - Wikimedia Commons
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Albanian dialects - Wikipedia
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The Bektashis: A Sufi community that still stands for tolerance despit
The Bektashi Order is a Sufi Islamic creed with a long mystic tradition in Albania. Espoused by the Janissaries, the elite soldiers of the Ottoman Empire largely recruited from Christian areas of the Balkans. The Sufi faith does not force devotees to observe the basics of traditional Islam.
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