Albania

the name given to a region of West European Turkey be- 6 tween the Adriatic Sea, Greece, Macedonia, and Monte negro. The inhabitants form a peculiar people, the Albanians, called by the Turks Arnauts, and by themselves Skipetar. The Albanians are half civilized mountaineers, frank to a _ friend, vindictive to an enemy. They are constantly under arms, and are more) devoted to robbery than to cattle rearing and agriculture. They live in perpetual anarchy, every village being at war with its neighbor. Many of them serve as mercenaries, in other countries, and they form the best soldiers of the Turkish army. At one time the Albanians were all Christians; but after the death of their last chief, the hero Skanderbeg, in 1467, and their subjugation by the Turks, a large part became Mohammedans. They have taken a terrible part in the ma acres in Macedonia of September, 1903.