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25 unusual facts about Priština


Akil Koci Prize

It is named in honor of the Kosovar composer, Akil Mark Koci and presented by him every April at the Red Hall, Pristina.

Albanian comics

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

There is a cafe-bar in Pristina called Strip Depot that has a collection of comic books where people can read and buy.

Asgjë Sikur Dielli

1 is the bands debut album produced by Enis Presheva and recorded at the "Unique Sound" in Pristina.

Avances Magazine

Zone-H.org reports the organization’s base of operations to be out of Pristina, Serbia.

Christopher Dell

In 2000-2001, he served as the Chief of Mission of the U.S. Office in Pristina, Kosovo.

Girls' Night In

Later that year, sufficient funds had been raised to help War Child build the first Girls' Night In safe play area in the Dardania neighbourhood of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.

Iain Hook

Hook supervised the reconstruction of a hospital complex in Pristina, Kosovo, in 1999, and also worked on projects in East Timor, Afghanistan, and Serbia.

Kaljaja

Kaljaja (Teneš Do) is an archaeological site, which is located in Teneš Do on the hill Kaljaja (Pristina municipality).

Kosova Airlines

The airline however continues to work with other airline companies flying into Pristina, such as Germanwings, LTU, Air Berlin and a few others.

Kujtesa

Kujtesa is an Internet Services and Cable TV provider located in Pristina, Kosovo.

Lutfi Haziri

Haziri was part of the students' leadership structures within the University of Pristina during the 1990s.

In 1997, Haziri was elected as Deputy President of the LDK branch in Gnjilane as well as member of the General Council of LDK in Pristina.

Michael C. Flowers

Flowers' prior assignment was as the chief of staff, NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR), Pristina, Kosovo, from July 2004 until June 2005.

Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora

Leaving behind his career as a corporate lawyer in Spain, Miguel became a freelance war correspondent in Sarajevo and later in Kosovo, where he was one of the few Western cameraman to stay in Pristina during the Nato air campaign.

Onufri Publishing House

Onufri Publishing House is an independent Albanian publishing house with its center in Tirana, Albania and a branch office in Pristina.

Pristina film festival

The Prishtina International Film Festival (PriFilmFest), also known as the Pristina Film Festival, is a film festival held annually in Pristina, Kosovo, that screens prominent international cinema productions in the Balkan region, and draws attention to the Kosovar film industry.

Reno L. Harnish

He took up his post as Chief of Mission at the U.S. Office in Pristina, on August 30, 2002.

Sehadete Mekuli

After the opening of the University of Pristina Mekuli was elected primarius of the School of Medicine which opened in 1970.

Terese Capucilli

Capucilli was invited by Vanessa Redgrave to perform in UNICEF’s The Return festival in art-starved Pristina, Kosovo, in 1999.

Tim Marshall

When the Nato troops entered Pristina, Marshall was there to greet them as they arrived.

Tingulli 3nt

The group includes Getoar Selimi (born 3 July 1982 in Prishtina, Kosovo , also known as Ghetto Gold, Geti and Getoari, an ethnic Albanian Kosovar rapper who is also CEO of Baba Records.

Tsar Lazar Guard

In mid-November 2007, the group said that war in Kosovo was inevitable, and likened the future bombing of Pristina to the Serb bombing of Zagreb, Croatia in the 1990s.

University of Pristina

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

VFA-41

VF-41’s first strike was against an ammunition storage facility in Pristina, Kosovo on April 6.


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.

Aero Flight

Aero Flight operated services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Adana, Alicante, Ankara, Cairo, Catania, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Istanbul, Luxor, Munich, Pristina, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sarajevo, Saint Petersburg, Stuttgart and Tivat.

Air Adriatic

Air Adriatic announced plans for 2007 to launch schedule services from Zagreb to Berlin, Düsseldorf, Malmö, Moscow, Pristina, Skopje and Zürich and to replace its McDonnell Douglas MD-82s with Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Bill Clinton Boulevard

Elsewhere in Pristina, Kosovo has also named a central street after American President George W. Bush.

Hero City

The Communist Yugoslavian government awarded the Order of the National Hero to eight separate Hero Cities of Yugoslavia (grad heroj in Serbian/Croatian): Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Prilep, Pristina, Titov Drvar, Cetinje.

History of legal education in Serbia

During the 20th century, all the law schools that later emerged in Serbia (Subotica, Novi Sad, Priština, Niš, Kragujevac), Montenegro (Podgorica), and in other parts of the former Yugoslavia (Sarajevo, Skoplje) were formed from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law as a core.

Incident at Pristina airport

The Incident at Pristina airport was a confrontation between the NATO forces and Russian forces over the Pristina International Airport on 12 June 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War.

Lala Meredith-Vula

In 1995, she set up the first photography department at the University of Tirana, Albania, and in 2000 a photography department at Priština University.

Likoshane massacre

Nataša Kandić of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Center, accused Danica Marinković, formerly investigating judge of the Priština District Court, for the murders of the Ahmeti family.

Mirko Gashi

He studied journalism at the University of Belgrade and worked subsequently as a reporter for the newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit (Flame of Brotherhood) in Skopje and for Radio Pristina.

Mujahideen

In April 2000, official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug published a story from Priština, Kosovo about Osama bin Laden and Abu Hassan being in Kosovo in order to "carry out terrorist acts in Kosovo", and the story was carried by the AFP wire service.

Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina

RTVBiH (and consequently BHRT) grew out of RTV Sarajevo in 1992, one of eight principal broadcasting centers of former Yugoslavia, others being RTV Ljubljana, RTV Zagreb, RTV Beograd, RTV Novi Sad, RTV Titograd, RTV Pristina, and RTV Skopje.

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).

Radivoje

Radivoje Papović, Rector of the University of Pristina, Kosovoin 1991–1998 and 2004–2006

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).

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.

United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

Meanwhile in Pristina, UNMIK arrested and detained the demonstration organiser, Albin Kurti of VETËVENDOSJE! (Albanian for self-determination).

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Skopje, Novi Sad, Titograd, Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana and Pristina).

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Pristina, Ljubljana, Skopje, Beograd, Zagreb and Titograd

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Pristina and Novi Sad).

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Priština and Novi Sad).

ZaMirNET

Marina Škrabalo's research says: "In February/March 1994, ZaMir servers were installed in Ljubljana and besieged Sarajevo, followed by the set up of the Priština server ZANA, administered by the independent newspaper Koha in October 1994. The network was considerably improved in spring 1995, when the Zagreb, Sarajevo and Belgrade servers were enlarged and a new server, with direct international telephone access was installed in Tuzla".