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Pjetër
Pjetër or Për is an Albanian male given name, which is a cognate of Peter, derived ultimately from the Greek word ''petros'', meaning "stone" or "rock".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Pjetër" Retrieved on 22 January 2016. The name may refer to: *Pjetër Arbnori (1936–2006), Albanian politician *Pjetër Bogdani (1627–1689), Albanian writer * Pjetër Budi (1566–1622), Albanian writer *Pjetër Dungu (1908–1989), Albanian musician *Pjetër Gaci (1931–1995), Albanian composer *Pjetër Gjoka (1912–1982), Albanian actor * Pjetër Losha (died 1374), Albanian nobleman *Pjetër Malota (born 1959), Albanian actor *Pjetër Mazreku (1584–1634), Albanian bishop *Pjetër Poga (1860–1944), Albanian politician * Pjetër Shpani (died 1457), Albanian nobleman *Pjetër Zaharia (died 1414), Albanian bishop *Pjetër Zarishi Pjetër Zarishi or Dom Pjeter Xarishi (1806 in Blinisht, Zadrima – 1866 in Kallmet, Lezhë) was an Albanian Mirditë Catholic priest and poet who establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Bogdani
Pjetër Bogdani (; 1627 – 6 December 1689) was the most original writer of Old Albanian literature. He was author of the Cuneus Prophetarum (''The Band of the Prophets''), 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in (Gheg) Albanian (i.e. not a translation). He organized a resistance against the Ottomans and a pro-Austrian movement in Kosovo in 1689 that included Muslim and Christian Albanians. Life and work He was born in the village of Gur in the area of Has, near Prizren in 1627. Its exact location is unknown, but Robert Elsie has proposed two modern day villages of Gjonaj and Breg Drini in Prizren area. Bogdani was educated in the traditions of the Catholic Church. His uncle Andrea Bogdani (c. 1600–1683) was Archbishop of Skopje and author of a Latin-Albanian grammar, now lost. His families surname Bogdani is an Albanian surname meaning 'son of Bogdan ‘. It is of Slavic origin and Bogdan in Slavic means "God-given". Bogdani is said to have rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Arbnori
Pjetër Filip Arbnori (18 January 1935 – 8 July 2006) was an Albanian politician and dissident of the communist regime in Albania. He was dubbed "the Mandela of the Balkans" by Albanian statesmen because of the length of his 28-year internment. He was born in Durrës, on the Adriatic coast. President Topi bestowed the Nation's Honor Order upon Pjetër Arbnori (post mortem). Biography Arbnori was orphaned at the age of seven when his father was killed while fighting against Enver Hoxha's partisans during the civil war that underlay World War II. Although he earned a gold medal when he graduated from high school at the age of 18, this did not suffice to earn him the right to go on to college, because of his early affiliation, while still a boy, with the resistance fighters struggling against the communist regime, together with his mother and two older sisters. After graduating, Arbnori found a job as a teacher. However, in a matter of a year, he was fired for political rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Gaci
Pjetër Gaci (; 27 March 193127 March 1995) was an Albanian musician, composer and music teacher. He participated numerous times in Festivali i Këngës as composer and lyricist, winning 2 first prizes in 1966 and 1972. Life and career Gaci was born in Shirq, a village near Shkodër, but grew up in Shirokë. His father was a known rhapsodist, so from a young age Gaci learned to play multiple instruments, among them guitar, violin, mandolin and accordion. After finishing elementary school in Shkodër, he studied violin at the Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum in Tirana from 1948 to 1952. He would continue higher studies in Russia, at Moscow Conservatory from 1953 to 1956. After returning to Albania he worked as a violin teacher at the Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum in Tirana. In 1970 he became a full-time solo composer and in 1976 moved permanently from Tiranë to Shkodër. There, he again taught violin lessons at the ''Prenk Jakova Artistic Lyceum''. Gaci created the first violin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Budi
Pjetër Budi (1566 – December 1622), was an Albanian Catholic bishop and a prominent Old Albanian author. He is known for his first work ''"Doktrina e Kërshtenë"'' (The Christian Doctrine), an Albanian translation of the catechism of Robert Bellarmine, which was published in Rome in 1618. In 1599 Pjetër Budi was appointed Vicar General of the Catholic Church in Serbia, a position he held for seventeen years. Later he was appointed bishop of Diocese of Sapë and Sarda. Life Budi was born in Gur i Bardhë in the Mat region, and is a noted and respected figure in Albanian cultural history. In addition to his political and religious activities, he published four books in Albanian, a rarity at the time, and was the first Albanian writer to publish a substantial amount of poetry in Albanian, some 3,300 lines of it. He trained for the priesthood at the so-called Illyrian College of Loretto, south of Ancona in Italy, where many Albanians and Dalmatians of renown went to study. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Zarishi
Pjetër Zarishi or Dom Pjeter Xarishi (1806 in Blinisht, Zadrima – 1866 in Kallmet, Lezhë) was an Albanian Mirditë Catholic priest and poet who established a tradition of the 19th century Catholic literature in northern Albania. He is also noted for his literary contribution to the Albanian National Awakening. His poems were primarily religious and in less extent secular. Life Zarishi was born on February 16, 1806, in Blinisht, a village in Zadrima, back then part of Ottoman Empire. He was educated at the training college of the Propaganda Fide. He was first appointed as a secretary of the Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë in Nënshat, in the Shkoder Archdiocese who was transferred to Orosh and appointed as abbot of the remote Abbey of Orosh after one disagreement with bishop of Sapa. Zarishi and Dotmaze from Shkoder were assistants of Karlo Krasnik, a Catholic priest. In Orosh Zarishi initially maintained a close cooperation with local Mirdite le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Gjoka
Pjetër Gjoka (3 August 1912 – 12 May 1982) was an Albanian film and theatre actor. He started his theatre activity with the amateur groups in Shkodër in 1929. In 1947 he started to work as a full-time actor in the National Theatre of Albania after his debut in the Army Theatre. His first role was in Molière's Tartuffe. He acted in around 90 roles during his career and he was active for around 52 years, acting even when he was almost completely blind. Some of his most acclaimed roles were those of Kharitonov, Shpend Gjeta, The Old Man (''Plaku''), MacDonald, Miller, Zabeliku, Klaudi, King Lear ''The Tragedy of King Lear'', often shortened to ''King Lear'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his ..., Gjini and Ali Pasha of Gucia. In 1961 he was one of the first four actors who was given the title of People's Artist of Albania. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Spani (League Of Lezhë)
Peter Spani (; 1430–1457) was an Albanian nobleman and Venetian pronoetes in the first half of the 15th century. His family's domains included territories around Shkodër (Scutari), Drisht (Drivasto) and western Kosovo.. He ruled over Shala, Shosh, Nikaj-Mërtur (Lekbibaj) and Pult; the whole region under the Ottomans took his name, Petrişpan-ili (literally, 'dominions of Pjetër Shpani'). Between 1444 and 1455, Peter was a member of the League of Lezhë and after his death, the League took his territories. Family The Spani family appears for the first time in Shkodër, c. 1322. They were involved in trade in the city and gradually became a major landowning family. Peter Spani appears in 1401 in archival documents as one of the pro-Venetian notables in the medieval city of Drivasto. The Spani seem to have been involved in a dispute with the Jonima family who during the time the Balšić family controlled it acquired lands which previously belonged to the Spani. Neverthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Losha
Pjetër Losha was an Albanian clan leader in medieval Epirus. He belonged to the Losha ''fis'' (clan or tribe) and was the leader of a combined force of his own clan and the ''fis'' of Mazaraki and Malakasi. In 1360, he became Despot of Arta, Rogoi and the area of Amphilochia. He died in 1374 and was succeeded by his close ally, Gjin Bua Shpata. The '' Chronicle of the Tocco'' is an important primary source for his life and the Albanians in medieval Epirus in general. Life Losha's genealogy or birth date is unknown. He belonged to the Losha clan, which according to Aristidh Kola, was a branch of Bua tribe. Presumably he was born in Epirus as his tribe was from there as well. The word ''lios'' means "pockmark" in Albanian. He was part of the Albanian attacks in the remnants of Byzantine Epirus. In 1358–59, Albanian clans overran the regional feudal rulers and established themselves under Gjin Bua Shpata and Pjetër Losha. In 1358 the Albanians overran Epirus, Acarnania an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Malota
Peter Malota (born Pjetër Malota Lulgjuraj; 4 July 1959 in Lofka, Malësia, Montenegro ) is an Albanian film actor, he is best known for his appearances in films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. He has over 40 years Tae Kwon Do/Hapkido Hapkido ( , , ), also spelled ''hap ki do'' or ''hapki-do'' is a Korean martial art. It is a hybrid form of self-defense that employs joint locks, grappling, chokeholds, throwing techniques, kicks, punches, and other striking attacks. ... experience. In 1984, Malota made his film debut in a small role in ''Furious'' and then played a member of a syndicate gang in the action movie '' Ninja Turf''. In 1991, Malota began to work with Van Damme, playing an assassin with kicking skills with knives in his shoes in '' Double Impact''. In '' Nowhere to Run'', he is seen playing the convict Van Damme tries to free, but is killed. In 1996's '' The Quest'', Malota put his kicking skills to use again playing the Spanish fighter who fights Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Mazreku
Pjetër Mazreku (1584– 27 November 1634) (, ) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote documents on the state of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and a short 33 word Albanian etymological dictionary, preserved as a manuscript. Life Mazreku was born in Prizren, most likely in the village of Mazrek, into an Albanian family from the Mazreku tribe, which spoke in the Gheg dialect of Albanian. He served as the Archbishop of Bar from 1624 to 1634, while in 1631 he became the apostolic visitor of Hungary, Serbia and Slavonia. In 1634 he was ordained as the apostolic administrator of Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem = () , image_map = , map_caption = Location of Serbia (gree .... Until his death around 1638 he served as Bishop of Prizren. Mazreku knew many languages, and wrote an etymolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Zaharia
Pjetër Zaharia (13?? – 3 July 1422) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Pjetër Zaharia was born in the mid 14th century in northern Albania. He came from the noble Albanian family of Zaharia. Most historians attribute the establishment of relations between Pope Boniface IX and the Zakaria family to him. In 1390 Zakaria became bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë and Dagnum Dagnum (, , ) was a town, bishopric and important medieval fortress located on the territory of present-day Albania, which has been under Albanian, Serbian, Venetian and Ottoman control and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It is close to t .... References Pjeter 1414 deaths 14th-century Albanian Roman Catholic bishops Year of birth unknown Roman Catholic bishops of Sapë 14th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Albania {{Europe-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pjetër Dungu
Pjetër Dungu (1908–1989) was an Albanian piano accompanist and composer-arranger of urban folk music. He is known in the history of the music of Albania as the first compiler of Albanian folk songs. Dungu was born in Shkodër, where he took music lessons from composer Martin Gjoka. He played oboe and trumpet, while studying piano and harmony. In the 1930s, Dungu gained a reputation as a piano accompanist for urban lyric song, reaching a height around the end of the decade. In 1940, Dungu published ''Lyra Shqiptare'' (Albanian Lyra), the first collection of 50 folk melodies. The compilation was published by Instituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara, in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... This volume, with the preface by Prof. Kristaq Antoniu, contains; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
