Albanophilia

Albanophilia is a non-Albanian person's expression of a strong interest in or appreciation for the Albanian language, Albanian culture, Albanian literature, Albanian history or the Albanian people.

Sweden
Johann Erich Thunmann in the 18th century supported the theory of the autochthony of the Albanians and also presented the Illyrian origin theory. Later on Gustav Meyer proved that Albanian language was part of the Indo-European family.

Germany
In 2001 during the Insurgency in Macedonia the German foreign minister Joschka Fischer declared, that the Albanian question in the Balkans is not solved. Around 1912 Germany and Austria supported an Independent Albania, including cities like Parga, Tetovo and Prishtina.

Montenegro
The Montenegrin Federalist Party was the only party in Montenegro which promoted common Illyrian theory with Albanians. The party's theoretician, Sekula Drljević, promoted ideas of a separate Montenegrin ethnicity (ideas that become more extreme throughout the 1930s), arguing that the Montenegrins were Illyrian. He wrote:"Races are communities of blood, whereas people are creatures of history. With their language, the Montenegrin people belong to the Slavic linguistic community. By their blood, however, they belong [to the Dinaric peoples]. According to the contemporary science of European races, [Dinaric] peoples are descended from the Illyrians. Hence, not just the kinship, but the identity of certain cultural forms among the Dinaric peoples, all the way from Albanians to South Tyroleans, who are Germanized Illyrians."

Notable Albanophiles

 * Nicolae Iorga - Romanian historian and anthropologist
 * Sekula Drljević – Montenegrin politician
 * Lord Byron – British traveller and Philhellene
 * Stipe Mesić – Croatian politician
 * Leo Freundlich – Austrian novelist and writer of Albania's Golgotha
 * Leon Trotski – Russian revolutionary and Marxist
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi – Italian revolutionary and writer
 * Mihai Viteazul – Wallachian king
 * Edith Durham – British artist and anthropologist
 * Milan Šufflay – Croatian historian and politician
 * Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás – Hungarian aristocrat

Pro-Albanian political parties

 * Besa Movement
 * Democratic Union for Integration
 * Democratic Party of Albanians
 * Alliance for Albanians
 * Party for Democratic Prosperity
 * Democratic Party
 * Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
 * Albanian Alternative
 * Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak
 * Party for Democratic Action
 * Liberal Democratic Party
 * Workers' Communist Party