''Rilindja'' (English: ''Renaissance'') was a

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newspaper and book publisher. It was the first newspaper in Albanian in

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

History

''Rilindja'' first came out on 12 February 1945, in

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, as the first newspaper in Albanian in

. It was initially printed at the State Printing Shop in Prizren for issues 1 to 60. From issue 61 onward, it was printed in

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's Regional Printing House of the

People's Front of Yugoslavia The Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SSRNJ), known before 1953 as the People's Front of Yugoslavia (NFJ), was the largest and most influential mass organization in SFR Yugoslavia from August 1945 through 1990. It succeeded the ...

.Gazeta Rilindja
/ref> In the beginning, it was published weekly until 27 June 1948. After that, it began to come out twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays. Then, from November 1958, it continued as a daily paper (except Fridays). By the year 1964, it appears every day. On 5 September 1990, the

Serbian government The government of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Governme ...

banned its publication. With the entry of

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forces, on 12 June 1999, it appeared again. It was one of the best sold newspapers in the Albanian sphere. Its maximum circulation reached up to 234,000 copies during the New Year holidays. In 2002, the premises were blocked by

UNMIK The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Привремена административна мисија Уједињених нација на Косову, Privremena administrativna misija Ujedinjenih na ...

administration and listed as a property of Kosovo Agency of Privatization, shutting it down abruptly.

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