Post by mpuq on May 17, 2016 13:56:28 GMT -5
Patriotic music
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Gjergj Kastrioti(6 May 1405 – 17 January 1468), widely known as Skanderbeg, was a 15th-century Albanian lord.
He was appointed as the governor of the Sanjak of Dibra by the Ottoman Turks in 1440. In 1444, he initiated and organized the League of Lezhë, which proclaimed him Chief of the League of the Albanian people, and defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.
Skanderbeg's military skills presented a major obstacle to Ottoman expansion, and he was considered by many in western Europe to be a model of Christian resistance against the Ottoman Muslims.
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Queen Teuta was an Illyrian queen of the Ardiaei tribe who reigned approximately from 231 BC to 227 BC.
Despite her ongoing acts of piracy, she is revered for her resistance and free will against her persecutors.
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Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina, surnamed Aslan, "the Lion", or the "Lion of Yannina", (1740 - 24 January 1822) was an Ottoman Albanian ruler of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory which was also called Pashalik of Yanina.
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Shote Galica (1895 - 1927) was a warrior of çeta (guerrilla group, from the word Centuriae, military formation) of the Albanian insurgent national liberation with the goal of unification of all Albanian territories, and supporting a democratic national government in Albania.
Azem Galica, was an Albanian nationalist who fought for the unification of Kosovo with Albania.
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Mic Sokoli (1839 - 1881) was an Albanian nationalist figure.
He was a noted guerrilla leader during the years of the League of Prizren and took part in the fighting in Yakova against Mehmet Ali Pasha.
Mic Sokoli is remembered in particular for an act that has entered the chronicles of Albanian legendry as a deed of exemplary heroism. At the battle of Slivova against Ottoman forces in April 1881, he thrust himself against a Turkish cannon, his chest pressed against its mouth, and died heroically in battle.
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Pashko Vasa (1825, Shkodër, Albania, Ottoman Empire – June 29, 1892, Beirut, Lebanon, Ottoman Empire) also known as Vaso Pasha or Vaso Pashë Shkodrani, was an Albanian writer, poet and publicist of the Albanian National Awakening.
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Frasheri Brothers
Abdyl Frashëri (June 1, 1839 - October 23, 1892) was a prominent Hero of Albania.
Frasheri was an Albanian Statesman, diplomat, and politician in the Ottoman Empire.
He is one of the first Albanian political ideologues of the Albanian National Awakening, being an initiator and prominent Leader of Albanian League of Prizren.
Sami Frashëri (June 1, 1850 – June 18, 1904) was an Albanian writer, philosopher, playwright and a prominent figure of the National Renaissance movement of Albania, together with his two brothers Abdyl and Naim.
Naim Frashëri (25 May 1846 – 20 October 1900) was an Albanian poet and writer. He was one of the most prominent figures of the Albanian National Awakening of the 19th century, together with his two brothers Sami and Abdyl.
He is widely regarded as the national poet of Albania.
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Çerçiz Topulli (1880 - 15 July 1915) was a patriotic nationalist figure and guerrilla fighter.
He was known for fighting the Turks in 1907 and 1908 and then, after the Turks left, the Greeks, who invaded in 1913 and 1914.
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Hasan Prishtina originally known as Hasan Berisha (born 1873 in Vıçıtırın, Kosovo Province, Ottoman Empire – died 1933 in Thessaloniki, Greece) was an Albanian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Albania in December 1921.
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Isa Boletini (January 15, 1864 – January 23, 1916) was an Albanian nationalist figure and guerilla fighter, born in the village of Boletin near Mitroviça, Ottoman Empire. He was a freedom fighter in Kosovo and became a major figure of Albanian resistance against the Ottomans, Serbia and Montenegro.
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Theofan Stilian Noli, better known as Fan Noli (January 6, 1882 – March 13, 1965) was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution.
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Gjergj Fishta (October 23, 1871 – December 30, 1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, rilindas, and a translator.
Notably he was the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir, which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet.
In 1921 he became the Vice President of the Albanian parliament.
In 1937 he completed and published his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís, an epic poem written in Gheg dialect of Albanian. It contains 17,000 lines and is considered the "Albanian Iliad".
Gjergj Fishta was the first Albanian candidate for the The Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Adem Jashari (28 November 1955 – 7 March 1998) is considered to be one of the chief architects of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Jashari was a chief commander in the Drenica operation zone of the KLA.
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Ibrahim Rugova (2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was the first President of Kosovo, serving from 1992 to 2000 and again from 2002 to 2006, and a prominent Kosovo Albanian political leader, scholar, and writer.
He oversaw a popular struggle for independence, advocating a peaceful resistance to Yugoslav rule and lobbying for U.S. and European support, especially during the Kosovo War.
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Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)