The Bektashi Order would be able to govern religious and administrative issues on their own, without Albania's involvement.

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave as a way of promoting religious tolerance.

The Bektashi Order would be able to govern religious and administrative issues on their own, without Albania's involvement.

Home Religion the explainer Inside Albania's planned Muslim microstate Proposal for 'Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order', a Vatican-style enclave, has sparked confusion, praise and heated debate ...

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi ...

Albania may soon create the world's smallest country, a sovereign state for the Bektashi Order.

Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood -- similar to the Vatican in Italy -- to a Muslim minority within the country.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Sunday his country would transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims, an Islamic Sufi order, into a sovereign state to promote moderation, tolerance and ...

The tiny enclave will serve as the political home for Bektashi Muslims - the fourth largest religious community in Albania after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Catholics. The order was ...

If all goes to plan, the so-called "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order" will become the world's smallest state, just a quarter of the size of Vatican City.

Reuters A drone view shows the Bektashi World Center where Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama plans to create a Vatican-style state for the Islamic Bektashi Order in Tirana, Albania January 25, 2025.