Të dhënat statistikore për shqiptarët nga mesi i shekullit XIX deri në fund të luftërave ballkanike
Statistical data about Albanians since middle of XIX century until the Balkan Wars

Summary/Abstract: Many researchers as for instance: Hahn, Spencer, Ubiçin, Buxton, Bue etc. offer important data about the number of Albanians and their broad compact territory in which they have been living. Contrary to them, scientists and researchers from neighbouring countries have made many efforts to deny the origin and number of Albanians by minimizing their real number. Being in service of actual hegemonic policy, they called Albanians of Muslim confession Turks, those of Orthodox confession Greek and Albanian Catholics they called Latin in service of Austria-Hungary and Italy. In the second half of XIX century foreign authors estimated that Albanians were the most numerous population in the Balkans. In the territories inhabited by Albanians, it was evidenced only an unimportant minority of neighbouring population, whose number did not pass 10-12%out of overall number of population in four Albanian vilayets. A disputable question relies on the fact that number of Albanians from the second half of XIX century, in fact despite a high natality, they even remain in almost the same number at the end of XIX century and at the beginning of XX century. In 1913 the number was estimated to be 1.900.000 inhabitants (out of this number 1.000.000 remained under Serbia and Montenegro, and their number on the verge of the Second World War was decreased for around 400.000 Albanians). If we refer to Ami Bues (that Albanians were twice bigger than the Serbs and equal with the Greeks – it is believed that in the number of the Greek were counted Orthodox Albanians as well- S. R.) we have to solve the dilemma and answer the question: where remained Albanians since the Serbs were estimated to number of 900.000 inhabitants according to Ami Bues (on the basis of census of the Serbian state in 1834 there were only 678.492 inhabitants) on the threshold of Balkans wars the number increased to 2.911.701, while after 1913 to 4.393.315 inhabitants. It is obvious that this negative disproportion of the Albanians is the result of partition of Albanian territories by predatory neighbours and their continuous efforts of expulsion of Muslim Albanians to Turkey, forceful assimilation of the Orthodox, or their genocide exerted in continuity.

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