STAMFORD — Forty red-and-black Albanian flags lined Summer Street this week for Albanian Independence Day, celebrated annually on Nov. 28 to mark the date Albania declared sovereignty from the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Have you noticed red flags with a black, double-headed eagle hanging alongside our Star Spangled Banner along Hylan Boulevard? In honor of Albanian Independence Day on Nov ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If you noticed dozens of red flags adorned with a black two-headed eagle hanging alongside American flags on Hylan Boulevard Saturday and wondered their significance, you ...

But on Nov. 28, 1912, following a groundswell of nationalism, Albania declared its independence. During World War II however, Albania was occupied by Italy then Germany. Decades of Communism followed.

Plans by Macedonian Albanians to celebrate Albanian flag day on November 28 are drawing questions from the country's main opposition party.