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Leka, Norway
Leka may refer to: People As a personal name * Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (1939–2011), also known as King Leka I, son of Zog I of Albania * Leka, Prince of Albania (born 1982), also known as King Leka II, grandson of Zog I of Albania and son of Leka I * Leka, 11th century Paulician leader * Leca of Cătun, 17th century military commander * Lekë Dukagjini, 15th century aristocrat, leader of the League of Lezhë * Lekë Matrënga, 17th century writer * Lekë Zaharia, 15th century aristocrat * Lekë Dushmani, 15th century aristocrat As a surname * Lecca in Romania and Moldova * Lekkas/Lekka (fem.) in Greece * Jeff Leka, American racing driver * Paul Leka (1943–2011), an American songwriter, record producer, and musician * Gazmend Leka is an Albanian painter and artistic director and scholar Places * Léka, a castle of the kingdom of Hungary * Léka, a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in the state of Burgenland in Austria * Leka, Ethiopia, a town in Ethio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka, Crown Prince Of Albania
Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (Leka Skënder Zogu; 5 April 193930 November 2011) was the only son of King Zog I and Queen Geraldine of Albania. He was called Crown Prince Skander at birth. After his father's death in 1961, Leka was the pretender to the Kingdom of Albania (1928–39), Albanian throne, and his supporters referred to him as ''King Leka I''. Biography Early life and education Leka was born on April 5, 1939, in the Presidential Palace, Tirana, Royal Palace of Tirana in the Kingdom of Albania (1928–39), Kingdom of Albania. He was named Crown Prince Skander and his birth was celebrated with a 101-gun salute and a military parade. Leka was the son of Zog of Albania, King Zog I of Albania and Geraldine of Albania, Queen Geraldine of Albania; and was also an eighth cousin of U.S. President Richard Nixon through his maternal grandmother, a New York socialite. Just two days after his birth, King Zog I was forced into exile after Benito Mussolini's army invaded the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Leka
Paul Leka (February 20, 1943 – October 12, 2011) was an American songwriter, record producer, pianist, arranger, and orchestrator, most notable for co-writing the 1960s hits "Green Tambourine" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", the latter of which has become a standard song at sporting events. Life and career Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Leka was one of four children of Theodore and Dhimitra Leka, immigrants from Albania. His father worked as a short-order cook. Soon after he started taking piano lessons, Paul was writing songs, and by age 16, his brother said, he was trying to sell them to music publishers in New York. Described as "one of those rare, genuinely prodigious musicians who was too talented to limit himself to actually being a member of one group or recording project",Bruce Eder, Biography of Paul Leka www.allmusic.com. Leka grew up in Connecticut and played piano as a child and later became a multi-instrumentalist. He played with a group called the Chatea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łęka (other)
Łęka may refer to: * Łęka, Gmina Łęczyca in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) * Łęka, Gmina Piątek in Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) * Łęka, Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) * Łęka, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland) * Łęka, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland) * Łęka, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland) *Łęka, Greater Poland Voivodeship Łęka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kościelec, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately southeast of Kościelec, south of Koło, and east of the regional capital P ... (west-central Poland) See also * Leka (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka Church
Leka Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Leka Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Leknes on the island of Leka. It is the church for the Leka parish which is part of the Namdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1867 by Knudt Grudt who used plans drawn up by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 200 people. History The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1589, but the church was not new that year. The first church was located at Skei on the southeast coast of the island and that church is traditionally said to have been built in the year 1020. At some point that church was torn down and a new church was built at Leknes around the year 1520. This church was located about to the northwest of the present church site. By the 1630s, the church had fallen into disrepair and in 1634 the church was tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka (island)
Leka is the main island in Leka Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The island makes up about half of the area of the municipality of Leka. The island is surrounded by dozens of smaller islands. The smaller island of Madsøya lies south of Leka, and it is connected to Leka by a short bridge. The larger island of Austra, Norway, Austra lies about east of Leka. There is a ferry connection between Leka and Austra, and Austra is connected to the mainland by a bridge. The village of Leknes, Trøndelag, Leknes is the administrative centre of Leka Municipality and it is located on the northeast part of the island. Leka Church is located on the island as well. The mountain Lekamøya lies on the southern part of the island. History The island has been inhabited for at least 10,000 years, as evidenced by Cave painting, cave drawings in the Solsem cave at the southwest tip of the island. Dated to the Viking Age, the burial mound Herlaugshaugen is one of the largest (in Norway) fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka Municipality
Leka is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Leknes, Trøndelag, Leknes on the Leka (island), island of Leka. Other villages in Leka include Sør-Gutvika and Madsøygrenda. The municipality is the 326th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Leka is the 349th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 604. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 8.6% over the previous 10-year period. The island municipality includes all of the island of Leka (island), Leka and part of the island of Austra, Norway, Austra as well as hundreds of smaller surrounding islands and skerries. Primarily a fishing and farming community, Leka is the northernmost municipality in Trøndelag county. The island of Leka has been inhabited for at least 10,000 y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka, Ethiopia
Lieka or Liekà was a former settlement in 19th and early 20th century Ethiopia, a major market town in the Oromo region southwest of Shoa. It was located on the Bilo plain, southwest of Sokota and retained a hereditary Oromo ruler upon its integration into the empire of Menelek II.Bulatovich, Alexander. From Entotto to the River Baro''. 1897. Translated by Richard Seltzer as ''Ethiopia through Russian Eyes''. Samizdat, 1993. Accessed 18 Mar 2014. It has since lost its importance as a regional market to nearby Nekemte Nekemte, also spelled as Neqemte (, Amharic: ነቀምት), is a market city and separate woreda in western Ethiopia. Located in the East Welega Zone of the Oromia Region, Nekemte has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2,088 mete .... The village at the former site is now spelled Leka. References Populated places in Ethiopia {{ethiopia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léka
Lockenhaus (; ) is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in the Austrian state of Burgenland. The town is well known for the annual Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival founded by violinist Gidon Kremer. History The town was (like the whole Burgenland until 1920/21) part of Hungary since the foundation of the kingdom in the year 1000. After World War I "Deutsch-Westungarn" (the Burgenland) became part of Austria when the Treaty of Trianon deprived Hungary of about 70% of the territory which it had held for more than nine centuries. The actor Ludwig Stossel was born in Lockenhaus in 1883 and after emigrating to America appeared in a number of Hollywood films including Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio .... Members of the Stossel family were part of a Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, 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. With an area of , it has a varied range of climatic, geological, hydrological and morphological conditions. Albania's landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains in the Accursed Mountains, Albanian Alps and the Korab, Central Mountain Range, Albania#Skanderbeg Mountains, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains extending from the Albanian Adriatic Sea Coast, Adriatic and Albanian Ionian Sea Coast, Ionian seacoasts. Tirana is the capital and largest city in the country, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania was inhabited by several List of Illyrian peoples and tribes, Illyrian tribes, among them the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazmend Leka
Gazmend Leka is an Albanian painter and artistic director and scholar. Biography He finished his high school studies at the artistic "Jordan Misja" school in Tirana. He finished studies for painting and graphics at the ILA (today's Academy of Arts). He was responsible for designing the interior of the "Gjergj Kastrioti-Skanderbeu" museum in Kruja. From 1982, for ten years he worked in the film studio "New Albania" ("Shqipëria e Re") as a painter and artistic director. He worked on two films and won an international award "Dea Fortunata" in Naples. Since 1992 he has been Professor at the Academy of Arts, Tirana. As a painter he has made around 140 major painting exhibitions inside and outside Albania. His artwork is typically in earthy tones such as brown or grey. Prizes * 1982 - Order of "Naim Frashëri", Third class, Tirana, Albania * 1983 - First prize at "The Fifth Festival of Animated Movies", Albania * 1983 - Prize of "Dea Fortunata" At International Festival of Anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Leka
Jeff Leka is an American racing driver who won the NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. It is considered to be one of the top ranked motorsports organizations in ... Weekly Series national championship in 1999.Schaefer, Paul. ''Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing''. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. . pp. 117-121. Driving a dirt Modified owned by Jim and John Livingston, Leka won 15 of the 18 races that he entered at Macon Speedway in Illinois. References NASCAR drivers American racing drivers Living people 20th-century American sportsmen Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{NASCAR-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leka, Prince Of Albania
Leka, Prince of Albania (Leka Anwar Zog Reza Baudouin Msiziwe Zogu, born 26 March 1982) is the current head of the House of Zogu, the former royal family of Albania. At the time of his birth on 26 March 1982, the South African government, by order of Prime Minister P. W. Botha, declared his maternity ward extraterritorial land, to ensure that Leka was born on Albanian soil. Leka is the only child of Leka, Crown Prince of Albania and his wife Susan, Crown Princess of Albania. He is the only grandchild of King Zog I of the Albanians, succeeding as head of the royal house upon the death of his father in 2011. He has worked as an official at the country's interior and foreign ministries. He also served as a political advisor to the Albanian President from 2012 to 2013. In May 2010, Leka became engaged to Elia Zaharia, an Albanian actress and singer. They married on 8 October 2016 in Tirana. In January 2024, they revealed they were getting a divorce. Early life Leka is the son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
