The Highlands of Gjakova or Gjakova Highlands (Albanian: Malësia e Gjakovës), known colloquially as Tropoja, refers to the mountainous ethnographic region...
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Gjakova or Đakovica is the sixth largest city of Kosovo and seat of the Gjakova Municipality and the Gjakova District. According to the last census of...
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Bytyqi (category Tribes of Albania)
Bitiçi refers to an Albanian tribe or fis centred in the southeastern Highlands of Gjakova. The surname derived from the tribe is found throughout Albania and...
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and the name of one of the major historical tribes of northern Albania. It is a historical tribal region situated in the Highlands of Gjakova. The Gashi...
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Krasniqi (category Geography of Kukës County)
District and is part of a wider area between Albania and Kosovo that is historically known as Gjakova highlands (Highlands of Gjakova). Krasniqi stretches...
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Mërturi (category Tribes of Albania)
tribe (fis) and region in the Highlands of Gjakova of north Albania. The Mërturi tribe is a traditional fis in the sense of being a community that claims...
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Mic Sokoli (category Heroes of Albania)
from the Highlands of Gjakova. He fought in the Battle of Nokshiq (near Grudë) against the Montenegrins, and was a notable fighter of the League of Prizren...
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Morina (tribe) (category Tribes of Albania)
Morinë or fisi Marin) is a small tribe and historical region of the Highlands of Gjakova in Kosovo. The border post between Albania and Kosovo called...
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Nikaj (category Tribes of Albania)
tribe (fis) and region in the Highlands of Gjakova of north Albania. The Nikaj tribe is a traditional fis in the sense of being a community that claims...
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Binak Alia (category Activists of the Albanian National Awakening)
an Albanian leader from the Highlands of Gjakova. He is remembered mainly for his participation in the Albanian Revolt of 1845, and as a wise old man...
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Kosovo (redirect from State of Kosova)
Highlands of Gjakova, Llap, Llapusha and Rugova. Kosovo's hydrological resources are relatively small; there are few lakes in Kosovo, the largest of which...
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variant of the Kanun. Its implementation extends from these tribal regions around Shkodër to the Highlands of Gjakova. Former communist leader of Albania...
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Albanian uprisings in the Ottoman Empire (category Military history of Albania)
following Reşid Pasha's outloawing of arm bearing, 2000 people from the Gjakova region, and the Highlands of Gjakova tribes of Krasniqi, Gashi, Bytyçi rose...
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Albanian tribes (redirect from List of clans of Albania)
Dukagjin Highlands includes the following tribes: Bobi Shala Shoshi Shllaku Mavriqi Mazreku Dushmani Toplana Prekali There are six tribes of the Gjakova Highlands...
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Bujan Conference (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from December 2021)
Highlands of Gjakova. It was attended by 49 delegates from the Communist Party of Albania and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The organization of the...
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the town of Bujan within the Highlands of Gjakova, Albania on 25 May 1964. During the Kosovo War, he was the commander of the Paštrik Operational Zone...
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Krushë e Madhe (redirect from Women of Krusha e Madhe)
activist from the Highlands of Gjakova was born in Krushë e Madhe while his family was being transferred by the Ottoman authorities from Gjakova to the prison...
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Sulejman Aga Batusha (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
resistance fighter and revolutionary leader from the Highlands of Gjakova and the wider Gjakova region who participated in the Albanian National Awakening...
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Bujan (category Administrative units of Tropojë)
subdivision of the municipality Tropojë. The population at the 2023 census was 1,738. It is part of the Highlands of Gjakova, an ethnographic region of Albanian...
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Bajram Curri (category Military personnel from Gjakova)
1866. His family originated in Krasniqi (present Tropojë), in the Highlands of Gjakova. At his birth, the Curri family was led to the Ottoman prison in...
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Kanun (Albania) (redirect from Code of Leke)
variant of the Kanun. Its implementation extends from these tribal regions around Shkodër to the Highlands of Gjakova. Former communist leader of Albania...
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Albanian blood feud (category Culture of Albania)
effects of an ancestral blood feud between two landowning families, in the highlands of north Albania in the 1930s. The New York Times, reviewing it, wrote:...
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Mazreku (Epirus) (category Tribes of Albania)
records as one of the Albanian tribes which raided and invaded Thessaly after 1318 and throughout the 14th century were active in the struggles of the Albanian...
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Shkodrës 1485. Academy of Sciences of Albania. p. 397. Verli, Marenglen (2014). "The role of Hoti in the uprising of the Great Highlands". Studime Historike...
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Additionally, Kosovo consists of multiple geographic and ethnographic regions, such as Drenica, Dushkaja, Gollak, Has, Highlands of Gjakova, Llap, Llapusha and...
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Albanian traditional tattooing (category Culture of Albania)
of the western Balkans. Traditional tattooing has also been practiced by Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dalmatia (Sicanje), and by women of some...
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administrative unit of Lekbibaj in Kukës County, Albania. It is situated in the ethnographic region known as the Highlands of Gjakova. Brisë is a settlement...
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District of Gjakova, Kosovo. It is located within the historical ethnographic region of the Gjakova Highlands. Košare was the sight of the 1999 Battle of Košare...
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lower course of the Erenik river to the south and the province of Reka to the west, which in itself extends to the Highlands of Gjakova. According to...
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Pukë (redirect from List of mayors of Pukë)
reform by the merger of the former municipalities Gjegjan, Pukë, Qelëz, Qerret and Rrapë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is...
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