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2 unusual facts about Gračanica, Kosovo


Kosovo–Serbia relations

However they were never paid, so staged a continued a blockade of the Coordination Center in Gračanica.

Zyrafete Gashi

The role she got her pseudonym from was Zyra, an Albanian old-woman with old traditions, Zet’hanja, a police woman, Tetka Dragica, a Serbian Kosovar old-woman from Graçanica complaining about living with Albanians, and many others.


1981 protests in Kosovo

In March and April 1981, a student protest in Priština, the capital of the Yugoslav and Serbian province of Kosovo, led to widespread protests by the Kosovo Albanians demanding more autonomy within the Yugoslav federation.

4th Land Force Brigade

It is covering the territory of southern Serbia, from the border with the Republic of Macedonia in the south to the border with Bulgaria in the east and the administrative border with Kosovo in the west to the area around the city of Leskovac in the north.

Afërdita Dreshaj

Afërdita Dreshaj (born July 19, 1986) is an Albanian public figure best known for being crowned Miss Universe Kosovo 2011 and representing the Republic of Kosovo in Miss Universe 2011.

Albanian comics

There was also an Albanian comic magazine published in Pristina, Kosovo during the nineties parallel governance, and it was called Strip Arti.

Albanian iso-polyphony

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.

Atifete Jahjaga

Her pictures with U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit to the FBI National Academy and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Kosovo were among the few distributed through the internet before she was placed on the national spotlight as a presidential candidate.

Battle of Kumanovo

Third Army, under Božidar Janković, composed of four infantry divisions and one infantry brigade (76,000 men), deployed in two groups, the first one at Toplica and the second one at Medveđa, was assigned to the westernmost attack, with the task to take Kosovo and then move south to attack the left flank of the enemy.

Biagio Abrate

After other staff duties he led Alpine Brigade Taurinense from 1998 to 2000, from July to November 2000 he led Multinational Brigade West in Kosovo.

Bill Clinton Boulevard

There are also several cities in Kosovo, including Prizren, with streets named after American President Woodrow Wilson.

Danko Grlić

He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,but in 1931 together with his family he has moved to Zagreb.

Elections in Kosovo

The Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija is a local government created by the Serbian minority in the Kosovo city of Mitrovica in response to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.

Elia Zaharia

Her father originates from the settlement Kosova (not to be confused with Kosovo) in Qendër Piskovë, Përmet District, southern Albania; he claims descent from the Albanian Lords of Dagnum (Danjë).

Emigration from Kosovo

As the population of Kosovo mainly consisted of Kosovar Albanians, emigrant population was of a corresponding composition, with about 90% Albanians besides smaller numbers of Kosovo Serbs, Bosniaks, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, Turks etc.

FK Teteks

They won the Macedonian Republic League on four occasions and along with Vardar, was the only other Macedonian club to have won the Federal EasternYugoslav Second League containing only the teams from 3 federal Republics:Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia Kosovo and Voivodinship.

Florin Krasniqi

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.

Global Business Assist

The focus of the micro-development is in several countries including Sudan (especially the Darfur region, Uganda, India, Kenya, and Kosovo.

Indira Naidoo

In 1997, Naidoo was headhunted to present SBS News' inaugural Late News, which she hosted for three years, during which she covered the independence struggle in East Timor, the coups in Fiji and the Balkans war in Kosovo.

Julian T. Pinder

Apart from producing television and directing feature documentaries, his extensive work in various film genres also includes directing commercial spots, MTV's Rock the Vote campaign pieces, music videos starring actress Amanda Seyfried, and experimental art-house documentary shorts in Bosnia and wartime Kosovo.

Justin Popović

During the early part of World War I, in autumn of 1914, Blagoje served as a student nurse primarily in South Serbia - Shkodër, Niš, Kosovo, etc.

Kosovo Campaign Medal

The Air Campaign refers to any flight operations which are performed in the land area and air space of Serbia (including Kosovo), Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia, as well as the waters and air space of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, provided such flight operations are in direct support of Kosovo peacekeeping actions.

Kosovo je Srbija

In March 2008, American-born Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić won the European championship in the 50m butterfly, setting the new European record, a result briefly quashed when the European Swimming Federation (LEN) disqualified the swimmer for wearing a T-shirt at the medals ceremony that read “Kosovo is Serbia” in Cyrillic.

Kosovo Myth

The Kosovo Myth or Kosovo Testament is a traditional belief of the Serbian people asserting that the Battle of Kosovo symbolizes a martyrdom of the Serbian nation in defense of their honor and Christendom against Turks (non-believers).

Kosovo Polje

In April 1987 it became the scene of a famous incident when Slobodan Milošević–at the time chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia–was sent to Kosovo Polje's Hall of Culture (town hall) to calm a crowd of angry Serbs protesting at what they saw as anti-Serb discrimination by the Albanian-dominated Kosovo administration.

Kosovo Serb enclaves

Three of those new municipalities have an ethnic Serb majority: Gračanica, Klokot-Vrbovac and Ranilug.

Kosovo student poisoning

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.

Kosovo–Serbia relations

The Serbian Government promised suspended Serb prison workers from Lipljan money if they were to leave the Kosovo institutions, which they were working in, so they did.

Labinot Haliti

He holds Albanian, Australian and Kosovar passports, making him eligible to represent Albania, Australia and the non FIFA-recognised Kosovo.

Mc Kresha

He is one of the most popular music artists in Kosovo who rose to fame after releasing "Lyrical Warfare" and "Lej Flleshat", both of which has had over two million views on YouTube.

Mimoza Kusari Lila

Her leadership skills and managerial were tested while she worked as project manager at the American University in Kosovo Foundation education plan for Kosovo and the establishment of the institution.

Music of Kosovo

During parallel governance (1989–1999) and after the 1999 war in Kosovo several new bands emerged, among which most famous are Diadema, KEK ("Kreativ e jo Komercial" = Crative and not commercial), 7me7, The Hithat, Cute Babulja, Por-no, Gre3n, Retrovizorja.

Njeriu prej Dheut

The score for the film was composed by the renowned Kosovo-born, Albanian composer Rauf Dhomi.

Pavle Orlović

There exists documents in the archive of Dubrovnik which mention that Kosovo hero and barjaktar (flag bearer) Pavle Orlović lived below the sheer mount of Orlin in the end of a village below which the neighbouring village of Čarađe lied.

Pieter Feith

Pieter Cornelis Feith (born 9 February 1945) is a Dutch diplomat, formerly serving as the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) and as the International Civilian Representative in Kosovo.

Pisg

Provisional Institutions of Self-Government established in Kosovo by the United Nations in 2003.

Radio Television of Kosovo

While Radio Pristina started transmission immediately after the World War II in Prizren 1945 (later to be transferred to Pristina) and it was founded by Parlament of Kosovo province, television transmission started on 26 November 1975 RTP was part of JRT and had its building in Kosovo's capital Pristina (then a Yugoslav Autonomous Province).

Ramush Haradinaj

The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) during this time, Søren Jessen-Petersen, welcomed the decision Haradinaj to face the tribunal voluntarily, praised his work and described Haradinaj as a "close partner and friend", regardless Western intelligence reports that Haradinaj was a key figure in the range between organized crime and politics.

Regimental Reconnaissance Company

On 24 November 2000 the 75th Ranger Regiment deployed Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment Team 2 and a command and control element to Kosovo in support of Task Force Falcon.

Roland Benedikter

"Social Care and Education" of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the same University 2006-2011 (two terms); and as External Examiner and Advisor of the International Study Programme on Preschool Peace Education of the Government of Kosovo at the University of Kosovo in Pristina, Prizren and Glogovac (2009).

Shkodran Metaj

Shkodran Metaj (Serbo-Croat: Škodran Metaj) (born 5 February 1988 in Studenica, Peć, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Dutch footballer of Kosovan descent.

Shpend Ahmeti

Shpend A. Ahmeti was the leader of the New Spirit Party, actual vice-chairman of Vetëvendosje! and an important figure in the politics of Kosovo.

Skoplje Football Subassociation

By the time of its formation it included the clubs from the districts of Skopje, Bregalnica, Bitola, Kosovo and Vranje.

Society for Threatened Peoples

In Kosovo the STP-Germany paid for a team that, under the direction of the human rights worker Paul Polansky, worked for the interests of the Roma.

Tifozat Kuq e Zi

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.

University of Pristina

Universiteti i Prishtinës - the institution under Kosovo administration (located in Pristina)

Univerzitet u Prištini

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

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.


see also

Gračanica

Gračanica monastery, the famous church in Gračanica, Kosovo, built in the 14th century

Station Viciano

The city of Ugljare is in the southeastern section of the municipality of Gračanica, Kosovo.