TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Turkey’s president traveled Thursday to Albania’s capital to inaugurate a Turkish-funded mosque with 50-meter-high (160-foot-high) minarets as part of a trip to boost ...

For the uninitiated, Tirana has all the ingredients for the perfect European getaway: a curious history that tips its hat at ...

Drivers often signal to others with their lights to warn of speed traps in Tirana, a chaotic but clean city of 1 million where the sound of the call to prayer from the Et’hem Bey mosque is heard ...

Erdogan will inaugurate the Great Mosque of Tirana, the largest mosque in the Balkans, which has been paid for by Turkey. Some 600 Turkish companies employ more than 15,000 people in Albania ...

The mosque of Melbourne's Albanian community was one of the most significant community centres of the newly arriving Turks half a century ago. Albanian Australian Islamic Society Mosque in Carton ...

but it’s the only mosque to have survived Communism in Tirana and has been restored beautifully. You’re right around the corner from Byzantine-era Tirana Castle (also known as the Fortress of ...