Albanian Stamp I Just Cannot Find

Unable to find this one.

Hi, this is Scott# 933

It sure is! Thank you!

Albanian stamps wise... does anyone know much about this one?

Albania SG 251 / Sc. #230 from 1928.

The President declared himself king in 1928 and the overprint means "Kingdom of Albania".

This was King Zog.

Thank You, Sir

And speaking of Albanian stamps, I've never seen a country that had so many different ways of spelling the name. From the years 1913, when the first true Albanian stamps (not just foreign stamps cancelled in the country)to 1940 when my classic catalogue stops I count: Shqipenia, Shqiperie, Shqipetare, Shqypnis, Shqipenie, Shqiptare, Shqyptare, and Shqipni, and now, apparently on the more recent ones, as shown by Nicholas C, it's Shqiperia. (that's nine different ways!) Anyone here who speaks Albanian know why there are all these variants?

Hi Waddsbadds,

I don't know any Albanian at all but here's the results of a little idle diggging around while confined at home:

There are two main dialects of Albanian: Gheg (in the north) and Tosk (in the south)

Modern standard Albanian is based on the Tosk dialect.

In standard ALbanian, "Albania" is Shqipëri or Shqipëria.

In Gheg Albanian, "Albania" is Shqipni or Shqipnia or Shqypni or Shqypnia.

In standard Albanian, the adjective "Albanian" is shqiptar.

Albanian is an Indo-European language and like most of these it uses different forms of words for different grammatical purposes.

For example, the overprint on philatelycanada's stamp is:

Mbretëria e Shqipërisë (= Kingdom of Albania)

so here we have the possessive (genitive) form: Shqipërisë.

The Albanian name for the Albanian language is shqip.

My apologies to any Albanian speakers if any of this is wrong.