What is History of Albania?
[[File:Amphitheatre of durres albania 2016.jpg|179px|thumb|right|The [[Durrës Amphitheatre]] is one of the largest amphitheatres in the Balkan peninsula.]] [[File:Gjergj Kastrioti.jpg|thumb|179px|right|[[Skanderbeg|Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg]], the National Hero of the Albanians successfully rebelled against the Ottomans for 25 years.]] The '''history of Albania''' forms a part of the history of Europe. During [[Classical Antiquity]], several [[Illyria|Illyrian]] tribes lived in Albania. They were the Ardiaei, Albanoi, Amantini, Enchele and Taulantii. There were also [[Thracians|Thracian]] and [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] tribes, as well as several Greek colonies established on the Illyrian coast. In the 3rd century BC, [[Roman Empire|Rome]] conquered the area. It became part of the [[Roman province|Roman provinces]] of Dalmatia, Macedonia and Moesia Superior. The territory remained under Roman and Byzantine control until the Slavic migrations of the 7th century. The Bulgarian Empire conquered it in the 9th century. [[File:Krujë-KrujaAlbania 2016.jpg|thumb|179px|left|[[Krujë]] became the capital of the first [[Principality of Arbanon|autonomous Albanian state]] in the [[middle ages]], the [[Principality of Arbër]].]] The [[Principality of Arbër]] and a Sicilian union known as the medieval Kingdom of Albania were established in the Middle Ages. Some areas became part of the Venetian and later Serbian Empire. Between the mid-14th and the late 15th centuries, most of modern-day Albania was dominated by Albanian principalities. They fell to the rapid invasion of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. Albania remained under Ottoman control as part of the province of Rumelia until 1912. After a short occupation by the Kingdom of Serbia, the first independent Albanian state was founded by the Albanian Declaration of Independence. An Albanian national consciousness was formed in the later 19th century. It is part of the larger phenomenon of the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire. The short-lived Principality of Albania (1