Albania's flag is plain red with a black two-headed eagle in its centre. The design is believed to stem from the 15th-century hero Prince Skanderbeg who led a successful rebellion against the Ottoman Turks in 1443
Albanians do not call home Albania, instead, the name for the nation in its mother tongue is Shqiponje which means Land of the Eagles
The 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace winner Mother Teresa was ethnically Albanian. Born in modern-day North Macedonia to an ethnic Albanian in 1910, Mother Teresa was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016
Ottoman Turks invaded Albania in 1388 and Albania became part of the Ottoman Empire until it proclaimed independence in 1912