There has been some amount of intermarriage with the surrounding Albanian community.
Leaders of both the Macedonian and ethnic Albanian communities here have called for restraint.
During this time, tension between the Albanian and Serbian communities continued to escalate.
In more recent years, a sizable Albanian community has moved in.
It was great for the Albanian community in the tristate area.
In 1893, the Albanian community in Romania numbered around 30,000 persons.
Within a century, the Muslim Albanian community was the largest religious community in the country.
In May the group called for a general meeting of representatives from all the areas that existed Albanian communities that time.
Doing so could drain support from the guerrillas, who still represent a relatively small group within the ethnic Albanian community.
It is unclear how many locally will volunteer to fight, but people in the Albanian community said the number could reach a few hundred.