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unusual facts about Albanian Language



Aida Baraku

Together with her husband, they ran the first seasons of "E Diell" (It's Sunday), a Sunday-show at Top Channel which was one the most watched shows in the Albanian-speaking territories during that time.

Antonio Milošoski

He became foreign minister on 28 August 2006 (replacing Ilinka Mitreva) and commands four foreign languages - Albanian, English, German and Serbian.

Avni Klinaku


Since 2007, he has served as the leader of the Movement for Unification (Albanian: Lëvizja për Bashkim, LB), a nationalist party in Kosovo, opposing the Ahtisaari Plan and seeking reunification with Albania; he is currently in his second term.

Basarab I of Wallachia

The linguist Sorin Paliga suggests that - despite many opposite hypotheses - his name may be one of the Thracian anthroponomical relics in Romanian, since the root bas-, bes- is well attested in Thracian (cf. Albanian besë ‘creed, faith’).

Bashtovë Castle

Bashtovë Castle (Albanian:Kalaja e Bashtovës) is a castle situated in the locality of Vilë-Bashtovë, an administrative part of Gosë Commune, Kavajë District, Albania.

Clitic doubling

Clitic doubling is found in many languages, including Albanian, Arumanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Degema, Greek, Persian, Romanian, Somali, Italian, and Spanish.

Demographics of the Bronx

Other languages or groups of languages spoken at home by more than 0.25% of the population of the Bronx include Italian (1.36%), Kru, Ibo, or Yoruba (3.07%), French/French Creole (2.72%), and Albanian (2.54%).

Gazmend Oketa

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.

KF Besiana

Klubi Futbollistik Besiana (KF Besiana) is a football club based in Podujevo (known in Albanian as Besiana), Kosovo.

Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac

The Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit, UÇPMB) was a separatist militant group fighting for independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the three municipalities: Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa, home to most of the ethnic Albanians of Central Serbia, adjacent to Kosovo.

Naim Kryeziu

Born in Đakovica (known in Albanian as Gjakova), back then part of Kingdom of Serbia, Kryeziu was a particularly quick right wing able to run 100 m in 11 seconds.

Radio Bulgaria

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.

This puts a new product on the World Wide Web – information in text, sound and image from and about Bulgaria in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Albanian as well as Arabic.

Shishtavec

Shishtavec (Albanian) is a village of Kukës District, northeastern Albania, and house of the municipality with the same name.


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Blendi Fevziu

Fevziu graduated in literature and Albanian language at the University of Tirana in 1991.

Cham issue

In January 2000, the current Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha, then head of the opposition demanded more rights for the Cham minority in Greece, which includes cultural rights for Albanians living in Greece, such as the opening of an Albanian-language school in the town of Filiates.

Dukagjin highlands

Edith Durham described Theth as a "bariak" of some 180 houses and also observed that it was almost free from the tradition of blood feud (known in the Albanian language as Gjakmarrja) which so blighted other parts of the Albanian highlands.

Fehim Zavalani

He started in 1940 the BBC Radio service in the Albanian language where he was the speaker for 26 years until his death in 1966.

Parashqevi Simaku

In 2006 she signed a contract with Sony and BMG for her new Albanian language CD entitled Echoes from Iliria (Jehonë nga Iliria).