''Rilindja'' (English: ''Renaissance'') was a Kosovo Albanian newspaper and book publisher. It was the first newspaper in Albanian in

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

History

''Rilindja'' first came out on 12 February 1945, in

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, as the first newspaper in Albanian in

. It was initially printed at the State Printing Shop in Prizren for issues 1 to 60. From issue 61 onward, it was printed in

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 ...

's Regional Printing House of the People's Front of Yugoslavia.Gazeta Rilindja
/ref> In the beginning, it was published weekly until 27 June 1948. After that, it began to come out twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays. Then, from November 1958, it continued as a daily paper (except Fridays). By the year 1964, it appears every day. On 5 September 1990, the

Serbian government The Government of Serbia ( sr, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Government ( sr, � ...

banned its publication. With the entry of

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forces, on 12 June 1999, it appeared again. It was one of the best sold newspapers in the Albanian sphere. Its maximum circulation reached up to 234,000 copies during the New Year holidays. In 2002, the premises were blocked by UNMIK administration and listed as a property of Kosovo Agency of Privatization, shutting it down abruptly.

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* {{Kosovo-newspaper-stub Newspapers published in Kosovo Newspapers published in Yugoslavia Newspapers established in 1945 1945 establishments in Yugoslavia Defunct daily newspapers Publications disestablished in 2002