ABA was established in September 1998, by the Albanian-American Enterprise Fund (AAEF) a private investment fund established by the United States government under the SEED Act of 1989, to assist Albania in its transition to a market economy.
Qazim Baba also known as Kasim Baba of Kostur was a 15th-century holy man of Albanian or Greek Macedonian origin.
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Lulgjuraj entered the Albanian music industry in early 2010, participating in various TV shows and music festivals such as Top Fest.
In 2010 Agim Hushi recorded with Albanian soprano Inva Mula for EMI her new CD, Il Bel Sogno with operatic arias supported by Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.
From their positions on the Yugoslavian side of the border, the soldiers of the Yugoslav Army fired at least 10 shells on the town of Krumë, where hundreds of ethnic Albanian refugees and KLA insurgents were seeking refuge.
There was also an Albanian comic magazine published in Pristina, Kosovo during the nineties parallel governance, and it was called Strip Arti.
Among Albanians a related form of polyphonic singing is also found in northern Albania in the area of Peshkopi, the Albanian communities of Kačanik in Kosovo, the areas of Polog, Tetovo, Kičevo and Gostivar in Macedonia and the region of Malësia in northern Albania and southern Montenegro.
Of special importance in supporting this are: a baptizing formula (Unte paghesont premenit Atit et Birit et spertit senit) of 1462, written in Albanian within a text in Latin by the bishop of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli; a glossary with Albanian words of 1497 by Arnhold von Harff, a German who had travelled through Albania, and a 15th-century fragment from the Bible from the Gospel of Matthew, also in Albanian, but in Greek letters.
As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
When Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro and his army stepped foot on the Albanian land (which had been given to him by the Congress of Berlin) Baca Kurti heard gunshots from an extreme point in Malësia, and he and other men of Malësia organized a resistance against the Principality of Montenegro.
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Gjokaj was born around 1807 in the village of Milješ (Milesh) in Gruda near the town of Tuzi, to an Albanian Malësor family.
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He rebelled against the unjustified decision of the Congress of Berlin to hand over the northern Albanian regions of Hoti, Gruda, Ulcinj, Trieshi, Plav-Gusinje etc. to Montenegro.
The first match the football ever played took place in Mali i Robit, Golem against the Albanian-American Institute in a friendly.
Vasil Bollano (born 1958), Albanian politician, chairman of Omonoia
She notably had two public reactions against Serbia and Greece politicians: to Serbia after the Serbian government removed a memorial to the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac in Preševo, an Albanian-inhabited region of Serbia.
Communist Party in Sweden, KPS, a pro-Albanian, dissenter group from the former, formed in 1982 but dissolved in 1993,
In 1998-99, he raised $30 million from the Albanian community in the United States for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and smuggled hundreds of high-powered American sniper rifles to Kosovo for guerrillas, which were distributed by his extended family clan in the region.
In May 2012 Oketa with a group of Democratic Party create a new party in Albania the New Democratic Spirit (in Albanian: Fryma e Re Demokratike) called by Albanian media "The Party of President" referring to Bamir Topi.
Hekuran Xhambazi is an Albanian musician, predominantly known for his work with a Clarinet but specialises on different instruments, he is considered as a giant of the folklore music (Muzika Popullore) world of Albania.
After the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War, October 28, 1940, and the successful penetration of the Greek Army deep into Albanian territory, he served as commander of the 21B Mountain Artillery Corps positioned in Pogradec, southern Albania.
Irfan Hasan Hysenbelliu (born 1959) is an Albanian businessman and CEO of IHB Group, who own Birra Korça, Erjoni LTD and Panorama Group.
Along with Albanian-inhabited villages Hoti and Gruda, Koći is, from Albanian point of view, part of the wider Malësia-region (Malesija).
The newspaper “Politika Express “ played a leading role in efforts to describe Albanian patients as participants of a separatist plot but on 8 August 1990, it made a significant turning by admitting that the poisoning occurred in Kosovo and the poisons were found.
In 1946, he was the one to receive a delegation headed by Tuk Jakova in New Yorker Hotel, and the second meeting with Mihal Prifti, where Costa suggested that the Albanian government should find the way to connect with the Western powers, especially USA, and abolish the "friendly" relations with Yugoslavia of Tito, drawing parallels with King Zog-Nikola Pašić agreements.
He holds Albanian, Australian and Kosovar passports, making him eligible to represent Albania, Australia and the non FIFA-recognised Kosovo.
He is known for his work in theater, and has performed in plays by William Shakespeare (Othello, Hamlet) and Bertold Brecht (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui) in addition to works by Albanian dramatists such as Kolë Jakova and Ekrem Kryeziu.
There was also coalition made between the two major rival parties in Kičevo and Struga municipalities against the ethnic Albanian candidates Fatmir Dehari and Ramiz Merko of DUI.
Albanian-inhabited villages of Hoti, Gruda and Koći are, from Albanian point of view, part of the wider Malësia-region (Malesija).
His research interests lie in 19th century and 20th century Central-Eastern Europe; Almond has written a biography of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu, a study of Albanian migration, and a study of the Bosnian War in its historical context.
In addition, the Ottomans, after having managed to deprive southern Albania from its leaders, defeated the following year, in 1831, the Pashalik of Scutari, the last remaining Albanian pashalik giving signals of separatism.
The score for the film was composed by the renowned Kosovo-born, Albanian composer Rauf Dhomi.
After Ottoman forces under Skanderbeg's command suffered defeat in a battle near Niš in present-day Serbia in 1443, Skanderbeg rushed to Krujë and tricked a Turkish pasha into surrendering the Albanian fortress.
The Congress of Berlin ceded to Montenegro the cities of Bar and Podgorica and areas around the mountain villages of Gusinje and Plav, which Albanian leaders considered Albanian territory,and viewed this as a partition of Albanian-inhabited territories.
Ago is also father of the Albanian American movie Actor and Model, Erbi Ago.
In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.
As owner of the Jalifat Publishing company, he has published Kosova's Independence: Stabilising or Destabilising Factor by Hajredin Kuçi, Në rrugëtim me Kosovën: përpjetat dhe tatëpjetat by Faton Bislimi, Fan Noli's American Years: Notes on a Great Albanian American by Avni Spahiu, and the poetry collection Aty buzë liqenit by Nuhi Vinca.
Newborns, children or beautiful girls have been said to catch the evil eye more easily, so in some Albanian regions when meeting such a person, especially a newborn, for the first time, people might say "masha'allah" and touch the child's nose to show their benevolence and so that the evil eye would not catch the child.
Skender Hyka (born 6 September 1944 in Tirana) is a former Albanian who spent his entire career at his hometown club 17 Nëntori Tirana (present day KF Tirana) as a forward.
In the 2010-2011 academic year the school had 120 students and 30 teachers, and according to its principal, former notable player Sulejman Mema, is expected to have more in the future, given the endorsement of the Albanian government.
Gregory of Durrës, the archbishop of Dyrrhachium from 1768 to 1772, wrote there the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, the oldest work of Albanian Orthodox literature.
Apart from the Albanian stradioti, Greek and Italian ones were also deployed in the Battle of Fornovo.
In this sense, TKZ is joined by different supporters' associations throughout Albanian-speaking regions mainly in Kosovo (Plisat of Pristina, Torcida of Mitrovica, etc.), Republic of Macedonia (Ballistët of Tetovo, Ilirët of Kumanovo, Shvercerat of Skopje, etc.) and in Albania itself.
He composed the first Albanian ballet Halili dhe Hajria (Halili and Hajria) that premiered on 13 January 1963 and has since been showed more than 250 times at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, a record for the Albanian Theatre.
Kejsi Tola (born 1992), an Albanian singer and the winner of Albanian Idol 2007
After hearing about the overthrow of the governor Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha in 1803, Ali Pasha asked to be made the governor of Egypt, even though it appeared as though the Albanian troops had taken control of the province from the Ottomans.
Following establishing NATO control over the territory of Kosovo, the Albanian faculty gained control of the campus after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, while the Serbian faculty relocated first to central Serbia (from 1999 to 2001 the seat was in Kruševac) and two years later to the northern Kosovo (the seat is currently in Kosovska Mitrovica).
Veton Surroi in 1997 established one of the biggest Kosovo Albanian daily newspapers Koha Ditore and was the editor-in-chief for a number of years before deciding to enter politics in Kosovo.
At the beginning of 2012 he moved to FC Atyrau of Kazakhstan Premier League, and a year later, February 2013 he signed with Egri FC in Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I league, then moving to Albanian Partizani for the 2013-14 season.
It is one of the four geographical areas of Albania, the other being the Southern Mountain Range, Northern Mountain Range (the Albanian part of the Prokletije), and the Central Mountain Range.
Prince Wilhelm is portrayed in the 2008 Albanian film Time of the Comet, which takes place during his reign.