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Line 1: '''Albanisation of names''' or '''lexical cleansing'''<ref>{{cite web\|title=Lexical cleansing: Slavic toponyms in Albania (or out of?)\|url=http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Regions-and-countries/Albania/Lexical-cleansing-Slavic-toponyms-in-Albania-or-out-of-47472\|publisher=[[Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso]]\|accessdate=16 December 2013\|author=Marjola Rukaj\|year=2009\|quote=Lexical cleansing}}</ref> is [[Albanisation]] of non-Albanian personal names and toponyms in [[Albania]], [[Kosovo]] and [[Western Macedonia]]. Right after the Second World War Albanian communist authorities required the substantial Greek population in the southern Albania and other non-Albanians to Albanize their names. In 1966 the [[Albanian Communist Party]] issued a decree aimed to [[Ethnic cleansing\|wipe out]] "traces of the non-Albanian population" in places where significant Slavic minorities still lived. In 1968 one of the demands of Albanian nationalistic demonstration on Kosovo was to remove Serbian Orthodox name Metohija from the name of the province. In 1975 the Albanian Communist Party issued a decree on the Albanization of all place-names and personal names which ordered citizens to give "modern revolutionary (Illyrian) names" to their children, while non-Albanian toponyms or ones that had religious connotations all over the country were Albanized to better suit the "state ideology".