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Sali Çekaj
Sali Çekaj (22 June 1956 – 19 April 1999) was a Kosovo Albanian political activist and commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (FARK) and of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who was killed during the Battle of Kosharë. Early life Sali Çekaj was born on 22 June 1956, in the village of Broliq, Deçan. Raised in a family that valued patriotism, he pursued legal studies and graduated as a lawyer. His education and contacts with prominent figures worldwide shaped his strong sense of justice and national identity. His early legal career involved political activism, where he advocated for the rights of Albanians under Serbian administration. Political activism Çekaj's political activism began in the 1980s during the mass demonstrations in Kosovo in 1981. He was a vocal opponent of the oppressive policies of the Yugoslav government and became a key leader in his community. By the early 1990s, he played a significant role in organizing protests in support of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deçan
Deçan (, ; , ) is a town and municipality in the district of Gjakova, Kosovo. The municipality has an area of and it includes the town and 37 smaller settlements. According to the last census of 2024, the municipality has a population of 27,758. History Antiquity Historical records and archaeological evidence indicate that Deçan has been inhabited since ancient times, with organized life established by the Illyrian tribes, particularly the Dardani, who lived in the area. Remnants of this history can be seen in Deçan, where over seven Catholic churches, Illyrian burial mounds, decorative items, stelae, and other artifacts, remain as traces of its past. Middle Ages Deçan was first recorded in 1330 in the decrees known as the Dečani chrysobulls as being a village with a population of 89 households, consisting of 623 people. The village was one of many feudal holdings of the Visoki Dečani monastery. As part of their feudal obligations, the local population of Deçan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fehmi Lladrovci
Fehmi Lladrovci (15 May 1956 – 22 September 1998) was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Alongside his wife, Xhevë Krasniqi-Lladrovci, he was killed in battle against the Serbian forces. Early life He completed primary school in Dobrashec and secondary school at the technical school "19 Nëntori" in Pristina, specializing in machinery. During his early years, Lladrovci was influenced by patriotic ideas, largely shaped by his teacher, Fazli Greiçeci, a noted nationalist. His activism led to surveillance by the Yugoslav secret police during his high school years. After excelling in secondary school, Lladrovci continued his studies in Zagreb, where he connected with fellow patriots and coordinated with underground groups. In the early 1980s, he and his wife, Xhevë Krasniqi, became active members of the People's Movement of Kosovo (Albanian: LPK ), working towards the mobilization of Kosovo Albanians and others under Yugoslav rule for national liberation. Military ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metohija
Metohija (), also known in Albanian as Dukagjini, (, ) is a large drainage basin, basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo. The region covers 35% (3,891 km2) of Kosovo's total area. According to the 2024 census, the population of the region is 570,147. Names The name ''Metohija'' derives from the Greek language, Greek word (''metóchia''; singular , ''metochion, metóchion''), meaning "monastic estates" – a reference to the large number of villages and estates in the region that were owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox monasteries and Mount Athos during the Serbia in the Middle Ages, Middle Ages. In Albanian language, Albanian the area is called ''Rrafshi i Dukagjinit'' and means "the plateau of Dukagjin", as the toponym (in Albanian) took the name of the Dukagjini family who ruled a large part of Dukagjini during the 14th-15th centuries. According to Jahja Drançolli, a professor at the University of Pristina, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropojë
Tropojë (; sq-definite, Tropoja) is a municipality in Kukës County, northeastern Albania, within the historical ethnographic region of the Gjakova Highlands. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Bajram Curri, Bujan, Bytyç, Fierzë, Lekbibaj, Llugaj, Margegaj and Tropojë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town Bajram Curri. As of the Institute of Statistics 2023 census, there were 2,560 people residing in the municipal unit Tropojë and 14,189 in the municipality. Etymology Tropojë's old name was ''Trebopolje'' and is recorded in Serbian medieval charters and Ottoman registers. The word itself comes from the old Slavic ''trebiti'', ‘to clean’, and ''polje'', ‘field’, i.e. ‘clean field’. History The region was inhabited by Illyrian tribes. Archaeological evidence found in the area, such as castles or tumuli, shows that the area has been populated since the ancient time. The region lies in the geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiz Alia
Ramiz Alia (; 18 October 1925 – 7 October 2011) was an Albanian politician serving as the second and last leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1985 to 1991, serving as First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He was also the country's head of state from 1982 to 1992. He had been seen as a successor by Enver Hoxha and took power after Hoxha died. Early life and politics Alia was born on October 18, 1925, in Shkodër to Gheg Albanian parents who were Muslim. They fled persecution in Yugoslavia. He grew up and spent his childhood in Tirana. In the early part of World War II, Alia was a member of a fascist youth organisation known as the Fascist Lictor Youth Organisation but joined the underground Albanian Communist Youth Organisation in 1941.J.F. BrownBackground Notes to Albania's Party Congress – Special Report, Blinken Open Society Archives, 2 February 1961. In 1943, he became a member of the Albanian Communist Party. He had risen rapidly unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilaz Kodra
Ilaz Kodra (3 May 1966 – 30 April 1999) was one of the founders and early commanders of Kosovo Liberation Army, who died during the Battle of Shtuticë, he is regarded as one of the most prominent leaders of the KLA and the "right hand of Adem Jashari". Early life Ilaz Kodra was born on May 3, 1966, in Prekaz i Epërm, Kosovo. He completed his primary education in his hometown, followed by eight years of schooling and secondary education in Skënderaj. After high school, he enrolled in the Higher Commercial School in Pejë and fulfilled his mandatory military service in the Yugoslav People's Army in Slovenia. Kodra was deeply influenced by the patriotic and revolutionary spirit that permeated the youth of Prekaz, particularly following the resistance of Tahir and Nebih Meha on May 13, 1981, against Yugoslav police forces. This event had a profound impact on Kodra, who, like the Jashari brothers, Adem and Hamëz, saw the need for armed resistance against the occupying forces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahir Pajaziti
Zahir Pajaziti (1 November 1962 – 31 January 1997) was one of the founders and early commanders of Kosovo Liberation Army. He was the first Commander of the KLA, known as "First Gun of Freedom". Early life Zahir Pajaziti was born in the village of Turuçicë in Podujevë. He originally hailed from the village of Orllan in the Llap region, where he also grew up. His father, Qerimi, and mother, Fatimja, both Albanian, had raised their five sons and two daughters with great difficulty, also enabling their education. He completed primary school in his hometown. In the 1976-1977 school year, he enrolled in the Police High School in Vushtrri. In the second year of teaching, the principal expelled him from the school on the pretext that he had not respected the school's disciplinary order. He completed the second year of secondary schooling in Orllan, while the last two years he finished at the educational center "8 Nëntori" in Podujevë. In the summer of 1980, together wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adem Jashari
Adem Shaban Jashari (born Fazli Jashari; 28 November 1955 – 7 March 1998) was one of the founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a Kosovo Albanian separatist militia which fought for the secession of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Beginning in 1991, Jashari participated in attacks against the Serbian police before travelling to Albania to receive military training. Arrested in 1993, he was released at the behest of the Albanian Army and later returned to Kosovo, where he continued launching attacks against the Yugoslav establishment. In July 1997, he was convicted of terrorism ''in absentia'' by a Yugoslav court; the trial was subsequently criticized by Human Rights Watch. After several unsuccessful attempts to capture or kill him, Serbian police launched an attack against Jashari's home in Prekaz in March 1998. The battle that followed resulted in the deaths of 57 members of Jashari's family, including that of Jashari, his wife, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Kosova
The Republic of Kosova (), also known as the First Republic of Kosovo (), was a self-declared proto-state in Southeast Europe established in 1991. During its peak, it tried to establish its own parallel political institutions in opposition to the institutions of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija held by Yugoslavia's Republic of Serbia. History Proclamation Late in June 1990, Ethnic Albanian members of the provincial assembly proposed a vote on whether to form a republic; the ethnic Serb president of the assembly immediately shut it down and promised to reopen the assembly on 2 July, which was later postponed. On 2 July, the vast majority of Ethnic Albanian members of the provincial assembly returned to the assembly building, but it had been locked; so in the street outside they voted to declare Kosovo a Republic within the Yugoslav federation. The Serbian government responded by dissolving the assembly and the government of Kosovo, removing any remaining autonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Kosovo Miners' Strike
The 1989 Kosovo miners' strike was a hunger strike initiated by the workers of the Trepča Mines on 20 February 1989 against the abolition of the autonomy of the Province of Kosovo by the Socialist Republic of Serbia. The strike quickly gained support in Slovenia and Croatia, while in Belgrade protests were held against the Slovenian, Albanian and Croatian leaderships. It eventually ended after the hospitalization of 180 miners and the resignation of the leaders of the League of Communists of Kosovo Rahman Morina, Ali Shukriu and Husamedin Azemi. Background SFR Yugoslavia was a federal republic consisting of republics including SR Serbia, which in turn had two autonomous provinces, SAP Vojvodina and SAP Kosovo. Kosovo was inhabited mostly by Kosovo Albanians and the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution gave Kosovo a then-unprecedented level of autonomy, but after Josip Broz Tito's death in 1980, Kosovo's autonomy began to be questioned by Serbian politicians. Following the 1981 riot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
