Possible Clues:

• Outlaw with false name cut across country
• European country with a double-headed eagle on its flag
• Tirana is the capital of this republic
• Country where leks can be spent in Durres and Vlore
• Land in excellent nick, note, after journey skyward
• Nation east of Italy's "bootheel"
• One of the Balkans
• Country road to take, city having been rejected?
• Country regularly involved in an Ionian-Balkan uprising?
• Country with a double-headed eagle on its flag