Editing History of Albania (section)

=== National Renaissance ===
{{Main|Albanian National Awakening}}

In the 1870s, the [[Sublime Porte]]'s reforms aimed at checking the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s disintegration had failed. The image of the "Turkish yoke" had become fixed in the nationalist mythologies and psyches of the empire's Balkan peoples and their march toward independence quickened. The [[Albanians]], because of the higher degree of Islamic influence, their internal social divisions, and the fear that they would lose their [[Albanian language|Albanian-speaking]] territories to the emerging [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]], [[Principality of Montenegro|Montenegro]], [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], and [[Greece]], were the last of the Balkan peoples to desire division from the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref name="Birth of Albania">{{cite book| editor1-first= Raymond|editor1-last= Zickel |editor2-first=Walter R.|editor2-last=Iwaskiw |year= 1994 | chapter= National Awakening and the Birth of Albania|chapter-url = http://countrystudies.us/albania/20.htm|title = Albania: A Country Study |publisher = US Library of Congress }}</ref> With the rise of the Albanian National Awakening, [[Albanians]] regained a sense of statehood and engaged in military resistance against the Ottoman Empire as well as instigating a massive literary revival. Albanian émigrés in Bulgaria, Egypt, Italy, Romania and the United States supported the writing and distribution of Albanian textbooks and writings.
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