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Maqellarë
Maqellarë (/''Makelari'' or Макеларе/''Makelare'') is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër. The population at the 2011 census was 10,662.2011 census results Demographics Maqellarë is recorded in the Ottoman '''' of 1467 as a settlement in the of Dibra (within the |
Xhelil Gjoni
Xhelil Gjoni (born November 3, 1938) is a former Albanian politician of the Albanian Workers' Party (PPSh) and journalist. Life Gjoni was born on 3 November 1938 in Maqellarë, Dibër District. He took his first studies in his home town, and during 1952-1956 followed the Pedagogical School in Peshkopi. During 1956-1961 he resided in the Soviet Union, where he studied philosophy in Moscow and Leningrad. After returning to Albania in 1961, he started working for the '' Zëri i Popullit'' newspaper. He would remain there for 17 years, transgressing from a journalist, to manager-editor, later vice editor-in-chief, and finally Chief Editor.In 1975, he served as Secretary of the Party for Propaganda in Tirana. In December 1984, he took over as First Secretary of the Party for Krujë District. He would follow a similar position in his native Dibër District during 1987–1990. In August 1990, he would reach the top of his political career. Gjoni took over as Secretary of the Central Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dibër County
Dibër County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with the capital in Peshkopi. The county borders on the counties of Durrës, Elbasan, Kukës, Lezhë, Tirana and the country of North Macedonia. It is divided into the four municipalities of Bulqizë, Dibër, Klos and Mat. The municipalities are further subdivided into 290 towns and villages in total. Topographically, the county is dominated by mountainous and high terrain, with a great variety of natural features including valleys, canyons, gorges, rivers, glacial lakes and dense forests. Various mountains ranging between meters above sea level run the length of the county from north to south, including the Korab mountains in the east with Mali i Gramës and Korab at an altitude of being the highest mountain in the county and as well as in Albania. The Dejë mountain rises in the center, while in the east the county is dominated by the Lura mountains. The Skanderbeg mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbana Osmani
Arbana Osmani (born 7 May 1983) is an Albanian author and former television presenter, who hosted '' Big Brother Albania'' and its celebrity version ''Big Brother VIP'' from February 2008 to May 2023. Career She started her career in 2000 as a journalist for the ''Intervista'' magazine. Later she started working for Top Albania Radio, first as a radio presenter for shows like ''Top Select'' in 2002. Later she went on to work in television at Top Channel, she presented for four seasons the popular show '' Top Fest'', together with other TV presenters such as Ledion Liço, Xhemi Shehu, Alban Dudushi and Evis Mula. She has also presented other shows like , , , an entertainment children's show and other shows. For 7 editions in a row, from 2008 until 2014, Osmani presented Albania's most watched reality show, '' Big Brother Albania''. In 2013, she confirmed that ''Big Brother'' would go on hiatus for a year. She was then working on her cooking book. However, ''Big Brother'' retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlado Makelarski
Vlado Makelarski (; 1919–1993) was a Macedonian Partisan in World War II. Life Makelarski was born in the village of Maqellarë, Albania in 1919 and completed schooling in nearby Debar, Yugoslavia, where he also worked as a waiter. In 1936, he moved with his parents to Skopje where, with his brother's influence, he joined the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. His and his brother's apartment was used as a place for illegal communist meetings. In 1943, the apartment was raided with several arrested, while Makelarski was sentenced to death in absentia by the occupying Bulgarian authorities. Following the war, he became director of the ceramics factory "Yug" in Skopje. After the Tito-Stalin split, Makelarski took the side of the Comintern and was subsequently jailed at Goli Otok. Makelarski died on 29 January 1993. He was a recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941 The Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941 (Macedonian language, Macedonian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balli Kombëtar
The Balli Kombëtar (literally ''National Front'') was an Albanian nationalist, Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, collaborationist, and anti-communist resistance movement during the Second World War. It was led by Ali Këlcyra and by Mid'hat Frashëri, Midhat Frashëri. The movement was formed by members from the landowning elite, liberal nationalists opposed to communism, and other sectors of society in Albania.... The motto of the Balli Kombëtar was: ' (Albania to the Albanians, Death to the Traitors). Eventually, the Balli Kombëtar joined the Nazi Germany-established puppet government as part of the German occupation of Albania and fought as an ally against communist guerrilla groups. The Balli Kombëtar engaged in significant acts of terror culminating in atrocities committed against Serb and Greek civilians. History Although Këlcyra and Frashëri had initiated opposition actions against the Italian authorities almost from the beginning of Italian protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiqiri Dine
Colonel Fiqri Dine (5 May 1897 or 3 August 1897 – 26 November 1960) was Prime Minister of Albania under Nazi Germany's military occupation. He was the chieftain of the Dine clan from Debar.Albania's national liberation struggle: the bitter victory By Reginald Hibbert Page 9 Biography Fiqiri Dine was born on 5 May 1897 in Dibër County, Dibra, Ottoman Empire (now Albania), the only son of Dine Maqellara an Albanian tribesman and patriot. His father was active during the Albanian revolt of 1910. He finished elementary school at Debar “Shehër”. Afterwards, he went to a military academy in Wels Austria-Hungary at 1914 until 1919 when he returned in Albania as lieutenant in Shkodër. Prime minister Despite being chosen as the Prime minister of Albania, Dine was mainly influenced by Mehdi Frashëri and Abaz Kupi. Frashëri, using Dine's connection to the Legaliteti, requested that Kupi join the government. Kupi agreed after the Albanian partisans began attacking Kupi's territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Municipalities In Dibër County
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gollobordë
Gollobordë ( sq-definite, Golloborda or Kalabardha; ; ) refers to a geographical area of traditionally 24 villages of which 18 are situated primarily in eastern Albania, with a small portion consisting of six villages lying within North Macedonia. This region is located within the Dibër and Elbasan counties which contain both Macedonian and Albanian villages. This region, like neighboring regions, has historically been economically linked to the city of Debar, which was traditionally referred to by inhabitants as simply "the City" or "Shehr". History Ottoman period The Islamization process is held to have occurred in Golloborda relatively late in Ottoman times.Toncheva, Veselka (2013). "The Slavonic Community from the Golo Bardo Region, Republic of Albania: Traditions, Music, Identity". ''Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture''. Volume 2. Pages 40–42 In 1519, the region was still entirely Christian.Limanoski Niyazi (1993), Islamizatsijata i e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Exarchate
The Bulgarian Exarchate (; ) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953. The Exarchate (a de facto autocephaly) was unilaterally (without the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch) decreed by the Ottoman Empire on , in the Bulgarian church in Constantinople in pursuance of the firman of Sultan Abdulaziz. The foundation of the Exarchate was the direct result of the actions of the most extreme Bulgarian nationalists under leadership of Dragan Tsankov, himself a Catholic, against the authority of the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople in the 1850s and 1860s. In 1872, the Patriarchate was forced to declare that the Exarchate introduced ''ethno-national'' characteristics in the religious organization of the Orthodox Church, and the secession from the Patriarchate was officially condemned by the Council in Constantinople in September 1872 as schism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halveti Order
The Khalwati order (also known as Khalwatiyya, Khalwatiya, or Halveti, as it is known in Turkey and Albania) is an Islamic Sufi brotherhood (''tariqa''). Along with the Naqshbandi, Qadiri, and Shadhili orders, it is among the most famous Sufi orders. The order takes its name from the Arabic word '' khalwa'', meaning “method of withdrawal or isolation from the world for mystical purposes.” It is most widespread in Egypt, Albania, Bosnia, Turkey, and to a lesser extent, Azerbaijan. The order emerged out of the Safavi-Bektashi millieu and underwent Sunnification under the Ottomans. It was founded by Muhammad-Nur al-Khalwati, and his son Umar al-Khalwati, around the city of Herat in medieval Khorasan (now located in western Afghanistan). It was Umar's disciple, Yahya Shirvani however, who founded the “Khalwati Way” as a practice. Yahya Shirvani wrote Wird al-Sattar, a devotional text read by the members of nearly all the branches of Khalwatiyya. The Khalwati order is kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albanian Language
Albanian (Endonym and exonym, endonym: , , or ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid, Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan languages, Paleo-Balkan group. It is the native language of the Albanian people. Standard Albanian is the official language of Albania and Kosovo, and a co-official language in North Macedonia and Montenegro, where it is the primary language of significant Albanian minority communities. Albanian is recognized as a minority language in Italy, Croatia, Romania, and Serbia. It is also spoken in Greece and by the Albanian diaspora, which is generally concentrated in the Americas, Europe and Oceania. Albanian is estimated to have as many as 7.5 million native speakers. Albanian and other Paleo-Balkan languages had their formative core in the Balkans after the Indo-European migrations in the region. Albanian in antiquity is often thought to have been an Illyrian language for ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
