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List Of Kosovars
This is a list of historical and living notable Kosovar Albanians (ethnic Albanian people from Kosovo or people of full or partial Kosovar Albanian ancestry), sorted by occupation and name: Military personnel *Idriz Seferi - nationalist guerrilla fighter *Azem Galica - nationalist resistance fighter *Isa Boletini - nationalist guerrilla fighter * Asim Vokshi - volunteer in Spanish Civil War *Sulejman Vokshi - military leader and commander of the League of Prizren *Haxhi Zeka - nationalist leader *Bislim Bajgora - nationalist leader *Shote Galica - nationalist guerrilla fighter who was declared as the People's Heroine of Albania *Mic Sokoli - nationalist figure and guerrilla fighter *Shaban Polluzha - military leader * Idriz Gjilani - KLA commander * Zahir Pajaziti - KLA commander *Adem Jashari - KLA commander *Agim Ramadani - KLA commander *Njazi Azemi - KLA commander Academics *Anton Berisha - scholar and folklorist *Flora Brovina - poet, pediatrician and women's rights activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Kosovo
Flag of the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Flamuri i Republikës së Kosovës, sr, Застава Републике Косово/Zastava Republike Kosovo) was adopted by the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo immediately following the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo of 17 February 2008. The flag design emerged from an international competition, organized by the United Nations-backed Kosovo Unity Team, which attracted almost one thousand entries. The winning design was proposed by Muhamer Ibrahimi. It shows six white stars in an arc above a golden map of Kosovo, all on a blue field., ''Kosovapress'', Priština, 17 February 2008. The stars symbolize Kosovo's six major ethnic groups: Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Turks, Romani, and Gorani. Before the declaration of independence, Kosovo had come under the administration of the United Nations and used the UN flag for official purposes. The Serb and Albanian populations had used their own national flags since the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Njazi Azemi
Nijazi Azemi (16 June 1970 – 26 March 2001) was an Albanian soldier of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and later Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB), best known for his support in the Kosovo war. During the war, he had the nickname "Komandant Mjekrra" (''Commander Beard'' in English). He was part of Brigade 115 "Karadaku", which was later renamed Brigade 115 "Njazi Azemi" following his death. Early life Nijazi Azemi was born on June 16, 1970, in the village of Mogillë in Viti. His father, Ramush Azemi, was the grandson of Fazli Tërpeza, a rebel who died in 1945 in the Battle of Slakovc against Yugoslav forces. During his youth, Nijazi Azemi was a good student, but he did not continue his education due to the conditions at that time. Later he began to deal with special constructions with wood carving, quickly shaping the profession. He soon started making wood art in his free time. Azemi had taken part in various demonstrations organized by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna's Silence
''Lorna's Silence'' (french: Le Silence de Lorna) is a 2008 drama film by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. It was the winner of the 2008 LUX Prize, as well as the Best Screenplay Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, is in a sham marriage with a drug addict named Claudy. She dreams of owning a snack bar with her boyfriend, Sokol, and agrees to have another fake marriage with a Russian man to earn the money for it. Fabio, a petty criminal who orchestrated the whole plan, pressures Lorna to kill Claudy via an overdose. Moved by Claudy's determination to stay clean, Lorna pleads Fabio to hold off with the plan. In order to obtain a quick divorce, Lorna decides to hurt herself and make it look like Claudy abused her. After a second attempt where she enlists a nurse at a drug rehabilitation clinic to act as the witness, she receives approval for the divorce, while Claudy gets out of the hospital. She asks Fabio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arta Dobroshi
Arta Dobroshi (born 2 October 1980) is a Kosovo-Albanian actress and producer. Dobroshi is the first Kosovan actress to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival and be nominated for the European Film Award. Dobroshi is a former refugee and now a UN Champion and Goodwill Ambassador. Early life Arta Dobroshi was born in Pristina, to Kosovo Albanian parents. She has been studying the performing arts since elementary school and attended the Academy of Arts acting and drama course in Pristina for four years. She starred in many short films and theatre plays whilst a student there. When Arta was fifteen, she went on a student exchange program to North Carolina, where she starred in drama plays. Dobroshi has a strong work ethic, known to rehearse for a role eight hours or more a day. After her first year at the academy, the Kosovo War escalated and Dobroshi's grandparents were imprisoned by Serbian authoritie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 101 member states of the United Nations. It is bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Dukagjini and Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Pristina. In classical antiquity, the central tribe which emerged in the territory of Kosovo were Dardani, who formed an independent polity known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Biberi
James Biberi (born July 28, 1965 in Gjakova) is an Albanian-American actor. In 2013, he starred as Ilir in the neo-noir crime thriller ''Dead Man Down ''Dead Man Down'' is a 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller film written by J.H. Wyman and directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev. The film stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, and Terrence Howard, and was released on March ...''. Filmography Film Television Videogames References External links * * 1965 births Yugoslav emigrants to the United States American male film actors American people of Albanian descent American male television actors Living people {{US-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faruk Begolli
Faruk Begolli (14 February 1944 – 23 August 2007), was a prominent Kosovo Albanian actor.Historical Dictionary of Kosovo, Robert Elsie, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press Inc. 2011, He attended high school in Pristina and graduated from the Academy of Film in Belgrade (1966). Begolli played in more than 60 films, starting with Veljko Bulajić's ''Pogled u zenicu Sunca'' (1966). He cooperated with director Puriša Đorđević in his films ''Podne'' (Noon), ''Jutro'' (The Morning), and ''San'' (The Dream), and his notable roles include ''Bitka na Neretvi'', ''Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu'' and ''Derviš i Smrt'' (The Dervish and Death). In the late 1980s, Begolli returned from Belgrade to Kosovo, where he worked as a professor at the Faculty of Drama of the University of Pristina . His last major lead role was in Ekrem Kryeziu's ''Dashuria e Bjeshkëve të Nemuna'' (The Love of the Accursed Mountains, 1997), and his work was ''Etjet e Kosovës'' (Kosovo's Thirsts, 2006), for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muharrem Qena
Muharrem Qena (22 June 1930 – 25 September 2006) was a Kosovo Albanian actor, director, writer and singer. He went to high school in Prishtina, and he completed film school in Belgrade. He is among the noted directors who staged their works at the National Theatre of Kosovo. He was born in Mitrovica, Kosovo (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in 1930 and was one of the founders of the theatrical scene in Kosovo and of Albanian light music. He immersed his great talent of a theatre director, actor, writer and singer/songwriter into becoming one of the most fruitful artistic creators. Qena directed over 200 plays, several of which were awarded in the former Yugoslavia, including ‘Bashkëshortet’, ''The Lady of the Camellias'', '' Erveheja'', ''Men of Broken Hopes'', ''Enemy of the People'', ''Ambrosio'', etc. He remains one of the most awarded Kosovo artists. His production of ''Erveheja'' received five most renowned awards at the national meeting of theatres in 1967, in Novi Sad. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Podrimja
Ali Podrimja (28 August 1942 – 21 July 2012) was an Albanian poet. He was born in Gjakova, at the time part of Italian-controlled Albania under Italy (present day Kosovo). After a difficult childhood due to the death of his parents, he studied Albanian language and literature in Pristina until 1966. Author of over a dozen volumes of cogent and assertive verse since 1961, he was recognized both in Kosovo and in 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 ... itself as a leading and innovative poet. Indeed, he was considered by many to be the most typical representative of modern Albanian verse in Kosovo and was certainly the Kosovo poet with the widest international reputation. Podrimja's first collection of elegiac verse, ''Thirrje'' ("The calls", Pristina, 1961), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjakova
Gjakova, ) and Đakovica ( sr-Cyrl, Ђаковица, ) is the seventh largest city of Kosovo and seat of Gjakova Municipality and Gjakova District. The city has 40,827 inhabitants, while the municipality has 94,556 inhabitants. Geographically, it is located in the south-western part of Kosovo, about halfway between the cities of Peja and Prizren. It is approximately inland from the Adriatic Sea. The city is situated some north-east of Tirana, north-west of Skopje, west of the capital Pristina, south of Belgrade and east of Podgorica. The city of Gjakova has been populated since the prehistoric era. During the Ottoman period, Gjakova served as a trading centre on the route between Shkodra and Constantinople. It was also one of the most developed trade centres at that time in the Balkans. Name The Albanian name for the city is ''Gjakova'', while the Serbian name is ''Đakovica'' with the common ''-ica'' diminutive placename suffix. There are several theories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Din Mehmeti
Din Mehmeti (1932 – 12 November 2010) was an Albanian poet from Kosovo. He was among the best-known classical representatives of contemporary verse in Kosovo. Career He was born in 1932 in the village of Gjocaj, Junik, near Gjakova, Kosovo. He studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Belgrade. He later lectured at the teacher training college in Gjakova. Although he has published some prose, literary criticism and a play, he is known primarily for his figurative poetry which has appeared in fifteen volumes between 1961 and 1999. Mehmeti's verse is one of indigenous sensitivity. He relies on many of the figures, metaphors and symbols of northern Albanian popular verse to imbue and stabilize his restless lyrics with the stoic vision of the mountain tribes. Despite the light breeze of romanticism which wafts through his verse, as critic Rexhep Qosja once put it, this creative assimilation of folklore remains strongly fused with a realist current, at times ironi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prishtina
Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians and speakers of the Albanian language. Inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the area of Pristina was home to several Illyrian peoples. King Bardyllis of the Dardanians brought various tribes together in the 4th century BC and established the Dardanian Kingdom.''The Cambridge Ancient History: The fourth century B.C.'' Volume 6 of The Cambridge Ancient History Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, , , Authors: D. M. Lewis, John Boardman, Editors: D. M. Lewis, John Boardman, Second Edition, Cambridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
