Context: Albania (; ), officially the Republic of Albania, is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. It has a population of 3.03 million as of 2016. Tirana is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Durrës and Vlorë. Albania is located in the south-western part of the Balkan peninsula, bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south and southeast. The country has a coastline on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea to the west and the Ionian Sea to the southwest where the Albanian Riviera begins. Albania is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which connects the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea., A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone's name in certain contexts. It may signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may be inserted before a last name (for example, "Graf" in German, Cardinal in Catholic usage or clerical titles such as Archbishop). Some titles are hereditary., Gjin Progoni was an "archon" (or lord) of Kruja, located in present-day Albania, from c. 1200 until his death in 1208. He succeeded his father, Progon of Kruja, becoming the second ruler of the House of Progon. Gjin was succeeded by his younger brother Dhimitër Progoni., Dimitri Progoni was the third and the last "Prince of the Albanians" of the Progon family, reigning from 1208 to 1216. He ruled the mountain stronghold at Kruja (Arbanon), succeeding his older brother Gjin, and he managed to bring Arbanon to its maximum. Dimitri ruled in the alliances of the Republic of Ragusa, Venice and Serbian Kingdom; he married Komnena, the daughter of Stefan Nemanji. He was later turned against Venice., Golem (1250s) was an Albanian nobleman, specifically a local magnate from Arbanon, who married the daughter of "sebastos" Gregorios Kamonas and Komnena Nemanji, and was thus entitled the rule of his father-in-law, as lord of Krujë and Elbasan. Golem was through his marriage connected to the Serbian dynasty and Emperor John Vatatzes of Nicaea., The Republic of Ragusa was a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik ("" in Italian, German and Latin, "Raguse" in French) in Dalmatia (today in southernmost Croatia) that existed from 1358 to 1808. It reached its commercial peak in the 15th and the 16th centuries, before being conquered by Napoleon's French Empire and formally annexed by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1808. It had a population of about 30,000 people, out of whom 5,000 lived within the city walls. Its motto was """", which translated from Latin means "Liberty is not well sold for all the gold"., The Progon family established the first Albanian state, the Principality of Arbër, which fell under the influence of the Byzantine Empire, the Despotate of Epirus and the Kingdom of Serbia. Progon, the founder, held the title of "archon" (lord), while one of his sons, Dimitri, held the title of "panhypersebastos". The family had a considerable degree of autonomy., Tirana (regional Gheg Albanian: "Tirona") is the capital and largest city of Albania and as well the heart of Albania's cultural, economic and governmental activity. It is located on the western center of the country surrounded by hills with the Dajti Mountain on the east and a slight valley opening on the north-west overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance.
The city is located some north of Athens, west of Skopje, south-east of Pristina and south of Podgorica., Elbasan (Albanian: "Elbasan" or "Elbasani") is a city and a municipality in Elbasan County, central Albania. One of the largest cities in Albania, it is located on the Shkumbin River in the District of Elbasan and the County of Elbasan. The present municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Bradashesh, Elbasan, Funarë, Gjergjan, Gjinar, Gracen, Labinot-Fushë, Labinot-Mal, Papër, Shirgjan, Shushicë, Tregan and Zavalinë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the city Elbasan. The total population is 141,714 (2011 census), in a total area of 872.03 km. The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 78,703., Archon (Gr. , pl. ) is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem -, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as "monarch" and "hierarchy"., The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium). It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. Both "Byzantine Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" are historiographical terms created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the "Roman Empire" (tr. ), or "Romania", and to themselves as "Romans"., An honorific is a title that conveys esteem or respect when used in addressing or referring to a person. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense to refer to an honorary academic title. It is also often conflated with systems of honorific speech in linguistics, which are grammatical or morphological ways of encoding the relative social status of speakers., Sebastokratr (Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic: ; both pronounced "sevastokrator") was a senior court title in the late Byzantine Empire. It was also used by other rulers whose states bordered the Empire or were within its sphere of influence (Bulgarian Empire, Serbian Empire). The word is a compound of ""sebastos"" ("venerable", the Greek equivalent of the Latin "Augustus") and ""kratr"" ("ruler", the same element as is found in ""autokratr"", "emperor"). The wife of a "sebastokratr" was named sebastokratorissa (Greek: ) in Greek or sevastokratitsa (Cyrillic: ) in Serbian and Bulgarian., Sebastos ("venerable one", pl. , "sebastoi") was an honorific used by the ancient Greeks to render the Roman imperial title of "Augustus". The female form of the title was sebast (). From the late 11th century on, during the Komnenian period, it and variants derived from it, like "sebastokrator", "protosebastos", "panhypersebastos", and "sebastohypertatos", formed the basis of a new system of court titles for the Byzantine Empire., Krujë is a town and a municipality in north central Albania. Located between Mount Krujë and the Ishëm River, the city is only 20 km north from the capital of Albania, Tirana., Gregorios Kamonas ( fl . c. 1215 ) was a Greek Lord or Prince ( archon ) of Krujë ( Arbanon ) in ca . 1215 . Demetrios Chomatenos ( 1216 -- 1236 ) mentioned him as having the title of sebastos . He first married the daughter of Gjin Progoni , then married Serbian princess Komnena Nemanji , the daughter of King Stefan Nemanji and widow of Dimitri Progoni , thus inheriting the rule of Arbanon . He strengthened ties with Serbia and secured Arbanon through an Orthodox alliance . He had a daughter together with Komnena , who married Golem of Kruja the later lord of Kruje ., Subject: gregory kamonas, Relation: country_of_citizenship, Options: (A) academic (B) albania (C) byzantine empire (D) croatia (E) epirus (F) french empire (G) italy (H) kingdom of italy (I) montenegro (J) realm (K) republic of ragusa (L) roman empire (M) serbia (N) venice
Output: albania