In the Middle Ages, the name Arberia began to be increasingly applied to the region now comprising the nation of Albania.

Beginning in the late-14th century, the Ottoman Turks expand their empire from Anatolia to the Balkans (Rumelia).

By the 15th century, the Ottomans rule most of the Balkan Peninsula.The Sanjak of Albania is a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire from 1385–1466, a subdivision of the Rumelia Eyalet.

Its territory stretches between the Mat River on the north and the Kalamas river to the south.