Side by side

Albania and Kosovo compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇦🇱Albania

28 November 1912Independent Albania is proclaimed at Vlorë

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🇽🇰Kosovo

17 February 2008Kosovo declares independence from Serbia

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Shared indicators
24
Domains
9
Crossed events
2
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1912-13

    Conference of London and the borders

    The Great Powers recognised an autonomous Albania but, pressed by its neighbours, drew borders leaving about half the Albanian-populated lands, including Kosovo, outside the state, creating the Albanian national question.

    Politics & Power · from the Albania chronicle · Independence, the Conference of London and the Albanian Question · Treaties of London, Ismail Qemali Leads Albania to Independence, November 1912, History of Albania

  2. 17 Feb 2008

    Kosovo declares independence

    Kosovo, whose population is overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian and which was left outside Albania in 1913, declared independence on 17 February 2008, recognised the next day by the United States.

    Independence · from the Albania chronicle · Transition, the 1997 Crisis, NATO and Europe · A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: Kosovo, Kosovo