ALBANIA'S top leaders and thousands of people have paid their last respect to the country's only post-independence monarch, King Ahmet Zog I, half a century after he died and was buried in exile.
The nation's television stations on Saturday broadcast live the burial ceremony in the capital, a day after Zog's remains were returned from France.
He was buried in the family's mausoleum, alongside his Hungarian wife, Queen Geraldina, his son Leka I and his wife, Susan.
Zog proclaimed himself Albania's monarch in 1928 and ruled until 1939 when he fled Albania after it was occupied by fascist Italy. Albania's post-World War II communist regime abolished the monarchy in 1946.
Albania remains a parliamentary republic after the fall of communism in 1990.
The royal family returned to Albania in 2002, leading a quiet life though never relinquishing the claim to the throne.
Prime Minister Sali Berisha said that Albanians honour Zog "for his historic contribution in building up this country".
Berisha was joined at the ceremony by President Bujar Nishani and Kosovo's President Ahtifete Jahjaga. The ceremony was ignored by the country's opposition parties.
Nishani said Zog "is one of the most important figures of the Albanian history".
After Albania's communist regime fell in 1990, Zog's son, Leka I Zog, made two disastrous attempts to return home - first in 1993 when Berisha's government then threw him out and in 1997, when he was charged with leading an armed uprising after failing to convince Albanians to vote for monarchy in a referendum.
Since then, the family has been given back some of its old royal properties and granted diplomatic passports. Zog's grandson, Leka II Zog, has since served as an adviser to several Albanian governments.
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