Albania proposes plans to create a new, Vatican-like state Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood -- similar to the Vatican in Italy -- to a Muslim minority within the country.

Reuters. A drone view shows the Bektashi World Center where Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama plans to create a Vatican-style state for the Islamic Bektashi Order in Tirana, Albania January 25, 2025.

His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks, ...

In Albania's capital, Baba Mondi envisions a Vatican-like state for his Bektashi faith on a tiny scrap of land that would ...

TIRANA - Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime ...

ALBAWABA - A Muslim Albanian religious leader made an unexpected suggestion yesterday igniting wide debate on social media, he said that he wanted to form a Vatican-like state for Muslims.

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi ...

Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood -- similar to the Vatican in Italy -- to a Muslim minority within the country.

TIRANA, (Reuters) - Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to. Submit. Subscribe for just 30¢ a day; ...

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