Petrit Zeqiri
Petrit () is an Albanian masculine given name and can refer to: * Petrit Ago, General Director of Customs of Albania *Petrit Bushati (1948–2014), Albanian ambassador * Petrit Çeku (born 1985), Kosovar classical guitarist * Petrit Dibra (born 1953), Albanian footballer * Petrit Dume (1920–1975), Albanian general and politician * Petrit Fejzula (born 1951), Yugoslav handball player * Petrit Frrokaj (born 1985), Swiss footballer *Petrit Halilaj Petrit Halilaj (born 1986) is a Kosovar visual artist living and working among Germany, Kosovo, and Italy. The name " Petrit" literally means "Falcon". His work is based on documents, stories, and memories related to the history of Kosovo. Wit ... (born 1986), Kosovar visual artist * Petrit Hoxhaj (born 1990), Kosovar-Dutch footballer * Petrit Selimi (born 1979), Kosovar politician * Petrit Vasili (born 1958), Albanian politician * Petrit Zhubi (born 1988). Swedish footballer References {{given name Albanian masculine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. With an area of , it has a varied range of climatic, geological, hydrological and morphological conditions. Albania's landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains in the Accursed Mountains, Albanian Alps and the Korab, Central Mountain Range, Albania#Skanderbeg Mountains, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains extending from the Albanian Adriatic Sea Coast, Adriatic and Albanian Ionian Sea Coast, Ionian seacoasts. Tirana is the capital and largest city in the country, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania was inhabited by several List of Illyrian peoples and tribes, Illyrian tribes, among them the A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Fejzula
Petrit Fejzula (; ; born 16 December 1951) is a Yugoslav former handball manager and player. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national handball team. Fejzula was part of the team at the 1978 and 1982 World Men's Handball Championship. He is the brother of former politician and engineer Kaqusha Jashari. Honours ;Barcelona *Copa del Rey: 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85 *Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winne ...: 1983–84, 1984–85 References External links * 1951 births Living people Sportspeople from Pristina Yugoslav male handball players Expatriate handball players in Spain Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Spain Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Spain RK Crvena zvezda players Liga ASOBAL players FC Barcelona Handbol players Yugo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Zhubi
Petrit Zhubi (born 8 May 1988) is a Swedish footballer of Kosovar Albanian descent who last played for Västra Frölunda IF as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t .... His older brother, Mentor Zhubi, is a former footballer. References External links * * * *Petrit Zhubiat Fotbolltransfers 1988 births Living people Swedish people of Albanian descent Men's association football midfielders Swedish men's footballers Ettan Fotboll players Superettan players Allsvenskan players Norwegian First Division players IK Oddevold players FC Trollhättan players Åtvidabergs FF players GAIS players Nest-Sotra Fotball players Lysekloster IL players IFK Uddevalla players Västra Frölunda IF players Swedish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Vasili
Petrit Vasili is an Albanian politician. He was the chairman of Socialist Movement for Integration party and minister of health in the cabinet of Sali Berisha. Early life Vasili was born on 4 June 1958 in Tirana. Vasili graduated from the University of Tirana in medicine and completed a postgraduate specialization in Tirana (1984 – 1985) and a doctorate at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome (1988 – 1991). Political career Vasili together with Ilir Meta would go on to create LSI on 6 September 2004. Following the disagreements between Ilir Meta and Fatos Nano Fatos Thanas Nano (; born 16 September 1952) is an Albanian socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of Albania in 1991, from 1997 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2005. He was the first leader and founder of the Socialist Party of Albania and .... Vasili would become Deputy chair of LSI. Following the 2009 parliamentary elections the LSI would form a coalition with the PD, where he became the Minister ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Selimi
Petrit Selimi (born 1 May 1979 in Pristina, Kosovo) is a former Kosovar Albanian politician, who has served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo. He's now a private entrepreneur and an author. He initially served in the position of a Deputy Foreign Minister during two consecutive mandates, under Prime Ministers Hashim Thaci (2011–2014) and Isa Mustafa (2014-2017). After the election of the former Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci as a President of Kosovo, Selimi was named the country's Foreign Minister. Selimi has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Foundation Kosovo, (2017-2023) Kosovo's biggest foundation, responsible for implementing the programs financed by the US federal agency Millennium Challenge Corporation. He is also a Fellow at German Marshall Fund of United States and a recipient of the Chevening Scholarship of Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCO). In his previous job as country's Foreign Minister and Deputy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Hoxhaj
Petrit Hoxhaj (born 5 February 1990) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for PKC '83 in the Dutch Eerste Klasse. Career In 1994, Hoxhaj's family fled from Kosovo to the Netherlands. He played in youth at amateur club FC Grootegast and since 2002 at FC Groningen. In 2003 his family was threatened with deportation. In 2009, he exchanged the youth academy of Groningen for SC Veendam. Hoxhaj made his debut on 12 March 2010 against Volendam, coming on as a substitute in the 82nd minute for Lars Lambooij. A year later, on 4 March 2011, the midfielder scored his first goal for Veendam in a 4–1 win against Fortuna Sittard. Hoxhaj played in the lower tiers of Dutch football, after leaving Veendam in 2012. First, he played one season for WKE, before moving to Be Quick 1887. He then joined Pelikaan-S who had recently been promoted to the ninth-tier Vierde Klasse in March 2014. There, he would play alongside former professional players such as FC Groningen legend Martin Dr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Halilaj
Petrit Halilaj (born 1986) is a Kosovar visual artist living and working among Germany, Kosovo, and Italy. The name " Petrit" literally means "Falcon". His work is based on documents, stories, and memories related to the history of Kosovo. With his husband Alvaro Urbano, Halilaj is a joint tutor at Beaux-Arts de Paris, in Paris, France. Early life Born in SFR Yugoslavia, now Kosovo, Halilaj left the country at the age of 13 with his family during the Yugoslav Wars of 1991–2001. At a refugee camp in Albania, a team of Italian psychologists, hoping to help the children process the trauma of the war, gave Halilaj felt-tip markers, with which he began to make drawings about his experiences. Settled in Italy, Halilaj studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Career During the 6th Berlin Biennale in 2010, Halilaj exhibited a sculptural reconstruction of a house built by his parents, to replace the family home that was levelled by bombing during the 1998–1999 Kosovo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Frrokaj
Petrit Frrokaj (born 16 January 1985) is a Swiss footballer of Albanian descent. He plays for BSC Old Boys Basler Sportclub Old Boys, commonly known as BSC Old Boys, Old Boys Basel or simply Old Boys or when written just OB, is a Swiss sports club based in Basel, Switzerland. The club is mainly known for its football but it also has track, swimming .... External links * Swiss men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Swiss people of Albanian descent Sportspeople of Albanian descent 1985 births Living people FC Baden players FC Locarno players BSC Old Boys players 21st-century Swiss sportsmen Footballers from Gjakova {{Switzerland-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Dume
Petrit Dume (20 May 1920 – 5 December 1975) was an Albanian general and politician of the Albanian Party of Labour (PPSh). Life Dume was born in 1920 in Starje, a village in Kolonjë District. During the Second World War (1942–44) he participated as a partisan of the communist and anti-fascist National Liberation Movement. He was the last commander of the partisan battalion "Hakmarrja" (Revenge). After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania on 11 January 1946, he joined the Albanian People's Army and increased his influence over time as commander of a brigade and then as division commander. Between 1948 and 1974, he served as representative of Ersekë in the National Assembly. At the same time he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party. Dume, who graduated from the General Staff Academy named after "Marshal Kliment Voroshilov" in Moscow, was finally appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in 1953. Between 1957 and 1974, he was Major ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast. It covers an area of and has a population of approximately 1.6 million. Kosovo has a varied terrain, with high plains along with rolling hills and List of mountains in Kosovo, mountains, some of which have an altitude over . Its climate is mainly Continental climate, continental with some Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean and Alpine climate, alpine influences. Kosovo's capital and List of cities and towns in Kosovo#List, most populous city is Pristina; other major cities and urban areas include Prizren, Ferizaj, Gjilan and Peja. Kosovo formed the core territory of the Dardani, an ancient Paleo-Balkanic languages, Paleo-Balkanic people attested in classical sources from the 4th cent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Dibra
Petrit Dibra (born 15 September 1953 in Tiranë) is an Albanian former footballer who spent his entire career at his hometown club 17 Nëntori Tirana (present day KF Tirana) as a forward. Club career Early career Dibra was born in Tiranë into an intellectual family as the only brother among three sisters, and attended the Alqi Kondi School before enrolling at the Qemal Stafa High School. While at the Alqi Kondi School he was a successful athlete, competing in the 60m and 100m where he was schoolboy champion at the time. He began playing football near his home where former 17 Nëntori Tirana player Aurel Verria would train youngsters. He was also a member of the Pallati i Pionerëve team that won the Durrës pioneers tournament under the guidance of coach Osman Reçi. At the age of 15 he rejoined 17 Nëntori Tirana's youth team, where the coach Xhavit Demneri recognised Dibra's pace and played him on the right wing and up front. 17 Nëntori Dibra first joined the senior side in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petrit Çeku
Petrit Çeku (born 2 June 1985) is a Kosovar classical guitarist. Biography Born in Prizren, Serbia (now Kosovo), Çeku was inspired to play guitar by his father from the age of six. He attended the Lorenc Antoni music school from age 9 to 17, where he took lessons in classical guitar from Luan Sapunxhiu. In 2002, Çeku was invited by Xhevdet Sahatxhija to study in Zagreb, Croatia, at the Pavao Markovac school of music. In 2008, Çeku graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Music in the class of Darko Petrinjak. From 2009–13 he went on to study with Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliated with Johns Hopkins in 1977. History Philanthropist and ... in Baltimore, USA. Çeku has performed many recitals throughout Europe and the Americas and was a soloist with orchestras such as Baltimo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |