Abstract:
After the Treaty of Berlin, there was a considerable change in the political status ofthe Balkans. Especially in Albania, the political and cultural studies of neighboring countries started to operate. Italy, with the aim of expanding its colonies throughthe weakening Ottoman Empire and by depending on its old heritage, started torealize certain plans in Albania. In our study, Italy's enhancement of cultural oppression on Albania between the years 1878 and 1918 by cultural means will be revealed by probing the newspapers and archival documents of that period.Attention will be drawn on the significant impact of educational and cultural interaction on political relations such as the demand to adopt the Latin alphabet in Albania and increase of schooling, by emphasizing oppression of cultural transformation besides political interaction while creating this effect.
