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Show The Country of Albania. Albania lies ISO miles on the Adriatic Adri-atic sea and Is b0 to 100 miles wide. It was formed originally, says William Jackson Armstrong In hla "Heroes of Defeat," from part of llyris, all of Eplrus and part of Macedonia In the eleventh century. From this territory sprung Pyrrhus, who defeated the Roman Ro-man Invader; Philip and Alexander ol Macedon, the Conquerors; Perseus, whose fame as a soldier covered the world 60 years after Christ, and Skanderberg, who for 40 years defeated de-feated armies sent against him by the Turk. Ancient Albania lay in Asia, Just east of the Caucasus. |