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Butkë
Butkë is a community in the Korçë County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kolonjë. Notable people *Sali Butka, 19th and early 20th century freedom fighter * Gani Butka, 19th and early 20th century freedom fighter *Safet Butka, World War II freedom fighter *Qemal Butka Qemal is a masculine given name. It may refer to: * Qemal Butka (1907–1997), Albanian architect, painter, politician, and postage stamp engraver * Qemal Haxhihasani (1916–1991), Albanian historian and folklorist *Qemal Karaosmani (1875–1948) ..., mayor of Tirana References Populated places in Kolonjë, Korçë Villages in Korçë County {{Korçë-geo-stub ...
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Safet Butka
Safet Butka (10 August 190119 September 1943) was an Albanian professor, politician and nationalist. Son of famous patriot Sali Butka, he organized the student demonstrations in April 1939 during the Italian invasion and was interned in Ventotene. Upon his return he organized antifascist movements in his native region and was one of the founders of the nationalist organization Balli Kombëtar. Distressed by internal civil war in Albania, he killed himself in 1943. Early life Safet Butka was born in Butkë, Kolonjë District, southern Albania on August 10, 1901. He was the fifth child of Sali Butka, a 19th-century nationalist figure, kachak, poet, and one of the delegates of the city of Korçë to the Albanian National Congress of Lushnjë.Nikolaeva Todorova Marii︠a︡''Balkan identities: nation and memory.''C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2004. , pp. 108-109. After he finished the elementary school in his native village, he went for further studies in Linz, Austria, where he finished ...
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Sali Butka
Salih Butka (1852 – 24 October 1938), was an Albanian nationalist figure, kachak, poet, and one of the delegates of the city of Korçë to the Albanian National Congress of Lushnjë.Nikolaeva Todorova Marii︠a︡''Balkan identities: nation and memory.''C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2004. , pp. 108-109. Butka was born in village Butkë of Kolonjë District to one of branches of large Frashëri family and he was a Bektashi Muslim. He belonged to a generation of village men that became literate and joined guerilla bands through the literary efforts of the Albanian intelligentsia. Butka became the commander of various Albanian irregular bands and initiated armed guerrilla operations in 1906 in regions of modern southern Albani which were part of the Ottoman Empire that time by being against the rule of Sultan Abdylhamid. Having learned to read Albanian on his own, Butka during his guerrilla campaigns composed revolutionary poems that combined naturalistic texts with nationalist t ...
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Korçë County
Korçë County ( sq, Qarku Korçë, italic=unset), officially the County of Korçë ( sq, Qarku i Korçës, italic=unset), is a county in the Southern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the largest by area and the seventh most populous of the twelve counties, with more than 202,000 people within an area of . The county borders on North Macedonia to the northeast and Greece to the southeast, the counties of Elbasan to the northwest, Berat to the west and Gjirokastër to the southwest. It is divided into six municipalities, Korçë, Devoll, Kolonjë, Maliq, Pogradec and Pustec, with all of whom incorporate thirty-seven administrative units. Geography Protected areas The Ministry of Tourism and Environment manages numerous natural sites and protected areas in Korçë County. In conjunction with numerous national natural sites and areas, the National Agency of Protected Areas has the Fir of Drenovë National Park and Prespa National Park under its administration. The ...
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Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. Tirana is its capital and largest city, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania displays varied climatic, geological, hydrological, and morphological conditions, defined in an area of . It possesses significant diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps as well as the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains to the hot and sunny coasts of the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea along the Mediterranean Sea. Albania has been inhabited by different civilisations over time, such as the Illyrians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, and Ot ...
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Gani Butka
Gani is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Gani Bobi (1943–1995), Albanian philosopher and sociologist *Gani Fawehinmi (1938–2009), Nigerian writer *Gani Lawal (born 1988), Nigerian-American basketball player *Gani Mirzo (born 1968), Kurdish musician *Gani Zhailauov (born 1985), Kazakhstani boxer *Gani Desku (born 2004), famous baller and jazz player Surname *Adnan Kapau Gani (1905–1968), Indonesian politician *Lenin Gani (1967–2013), Bangladeshi journalist * R. A. Gani, Bangladeshi politician *Sakibul Gani Sakibul Gani (born 2 September 1999) is an Indian cricketer. In February 2022, he became the first cricketer to score a triple century on debut in a first-class match. He made his List A debut on 7 October 2019, for Bihar in the 2019–20 Vija ...
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Qemal Butka
Qemal is a masculine given name. It may refer to: * Qemal Butka (1907–1997), Albanian architect, painter, politician, and postage stamp engraver * Qemal Haxhihasani (1916–1991), Albanian historian and folklorist *Qemal Karaosmani (1875–1948), signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence, activist of Albanian education * Qemal Karosmani, Albanian politician and mayor of Elbasan in 1939 * Qemal Mullai, 19th-century Albanian politician * Qemal Mustafaraj (born 1995), Albanian professional footballer * Qemal Omari, Turkish former football player, manager and referee who was of Albanian heritage * Qemal Stafa (1920–1942), founding member of the Albanian Communist Party, and the leader of its youth section *Ismail Qemal bey Vlora (1844–1919), leader of the Albanian national movement * Qemal Vogli (1929–2004), Albanian footballer * Qemal Bey Vrioni (1885–1946), Albanian political figure of 1930s and 1940s See also *Qemal Stafa High School, high school, located in Ti ...
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Populated Places In Kolonjë, Korçë
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ...
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