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| Albanian Australian |
  |
Notable Albanian Australians:
Taip Ramadani, Adem Yze |
| Total population |
|
Albanian
11,315 (by ancestry, 2006)[1]
2,014 (by birth, 2006).[2]
|
| Regions with significant populations |
| Sydney, Darwin, Western Australia, Blue Mountains, Newcastle |
| Languages |
| Albanian, Australian English |
| Religions |
| Predominately Muslim with sizeable Orthodox and Catholic minorities. |
Albanian Australians are residents of Australia who are of Albanian ancestry.
According to the 2006 Australian census 2,014 Australians were born in Albania[2] while 11,315 claimed Albanian ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.[1]
The Albanians began to settle in Australia from the early 1950s from Greece, Southern Italy and Kosovo, and from 1990s from Albania, Montenegro, and the Republic of Macedonia as refugees from the wars which ravaged the region in those years.
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