It was in Kosovo, in 1878, that discontent, unrest and revolt coagulated into the League of Prizren. But it is wrong to attribute to it the birth of the delirium of a Greater Albania. The League sought an administrative solution - not a political one. All they wanted was to create an Albanian zone - but, crucially,within the Ottoman empire. They were more focussed on benign, less threatening things like culture, art, literature and education.
History moves in quirkily agonizing twists and turns.
The Albanian language was indeed suffused by nationalism, immersed in unfulfilled dreams and aspirations. Its reawakening signalled the reawakening of Albanianism. In 1912, Turkey granted the Albanians their wishes. The Greek, Serb and Montenegrin armies then conquered Albania and divided it amongst themselves. This trauma of division is a recurring trauma in the Albanian psyche.