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 is the seventh largest city of Kosovo and seat of Gjakova Municipality and Gjakova District. The city has 40,827 inhabitants, while the municipality...
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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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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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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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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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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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Mic Sokoli (category Heroes of Albania)
from the Highlands of Gjakova. He was a noted guerrilla leader during the years of the League of Prizren and took part in the fighting in Gjakova against...
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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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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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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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Bujan (category Administrative units of Tropojë)
subdivision of the municipality Tropojë. The population at the 2011 census was 2,550. It is part of the Highlands of Gjakova, an ethnographic region of Albanian...
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Sulejman Aga Batusha (category Activists of the Albanian National Awakening)
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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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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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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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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Botushë (category Villages in Gjakova)
municipality of Gjakova, District of Gjakova, southwest Kosovo. It is located near the border with Albania and is part of the Highlands of Gjakova. It is inhabited...
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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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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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Balkan sworn virgins (category Culture of Albania)
burrnesha) are people who are assigned female at birth and who take a vow of chastity and live as men in patriarchal northern Albanian society, Kosovo...
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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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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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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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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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Besa (Albanian culture) (category Culture of Albania)
institution of besa that emphasises aiding and protecting people in moments of need. In Montenegro, an event "Beslidhja e Malësisë" (Pledge of the Highlands) took...
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Mirdita (redirect from Kapetainate of Mirdita)
the north; the Lezha highlands (Vela, Bulgëri, Manatia, Kryeziu) in the west and southwest; the northern Albanian coastal plain of Lezha and Zadrima between...
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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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Arianiti family (category League of Lezhë)
placenames of the areas of their domains that were named after them derive. Arianiti, a rare form from the first definite documentations of the family...
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Shkreli (tribe) (category Tribes of Albania)
surrounding villages. Kosovo: Gjakova, Mitrovica, Peja and Pristina. Serbia: Belgrade, Novi Pazar (also in the villages of Požega and Rajčinoviće), Sjenica...
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