Albania plans to create its own Vatican. This one, however, will be Muslim. The New York Times reported that Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will announce plans for a sovereign microstate within its ...

Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within its borders run by a Sufi sect known for promoting "religious ...

Albania is planning to create the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order," a Muslim microstate along the lines of the Vatican ...

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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced plans to transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims into a sovereign state ...

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Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave ...

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