Why is Albania Muslim?

♦ Albania is a European country with a Muslim majority. But it did not start that way. For most of the Middle Ages, it was Christian, split between Catholics in the north and Orthodox in the south. What changed ?

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00:00 A Christian Country That Became Muslim
01:03 The Ottomans Arrive
02:19 Nobles Who Invited Them In
03:35 Raids, Slavery, and a Broken Population
05:19 Rebellion and Skanderbeg
07:53 Twenty-Five Years of Resistance
09:27 Life Under Ottoman Rule
11:47 Muslim in Public, Christian at Home
12:32 The Mountains That Held Out
15:07 Why It Took Three Centuries

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