Azem is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Kachaks is a term used for the Albanian rebels active in the late 19th and early 20th century in northern Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia, and later as a term for the militias of Albanian revolutionary organizations against the Kingdom of Serbia (1910–18) Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–24), called the "Kaçak movement".
Azem Vllasi is a Kosovo Albanian politician and lawyer. He served as the president of the presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo (LKK) from 29 April 1986 to 27 April 1988. A critic of Slobodan Milošević, Vllasi was removed from power amidst the anti-bureaucratic revolution. He later became a lawyer and political consultant.
Drenica, also known as the Drenica Valley, is a hilly region in central Kosovo, covering roughly around 700 square kilometres (270 sq mi) of Kosovo's total area (6%). It consists of two municipalities, Drenas and Skenderaj, and several villages in Klina, Zubin Potok, Mitrovica and Vushtrri. It is located west of the capital, Pristina.
Kaqusha Jashari is a Kosovo Albanian politician and engineer by profession. She has been a member of the Assembly of Kosovo on the Democratic Party of Kosovo list since 2007.
Azem Bejta, commonly known as Azem Galica, was an Albanian nationalist, resistance fighter and rebel who fought for the unification of Kosovo with Albania. He is known for leading the Kachak Movement against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Agim is an Albanian masculine given name with the meaning "dawn". It is also a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Aliu is a surname and given name. If fully capitalized (ALIU), it is also an acronym.
Shote Galica, born as Qerime Radisheva, was a Kachak Albanian insurgent. She has been declared a People's Heroine of Albania.
The Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo was an Albanian organization founded in Shkodër on 1 May 1918. It mainly consisted of the political exiles from Kosovo and was led by Hoxha Kadri from Pristina. It existed in looser form since May 1915.
The literature of Kosovo is composed of literary texts written in Albanian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Turkish, specifically by authors of Kosovo. Kosovo produced several prominent writers in the Ottoman era. However, Ottoman authorities banned the written use of the Albanian language until 1912. This policy continued during Serb rule until the outbreak of World War II.
The League of Communists of Kosovo was the Kosovo branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990.
Krasniqi is an Albanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The following lists events that happened during 1998 in Republic of Albania.
Besnik is an Albanian masculine given name, which means loyal or faithful. People named Besnik include:
Fatmir is an Albanian masculine given name, a compound of the Albanian fat(e) (luck) from the Latin “fati” and mirë (good) also from the Latin “miraculum”. Notable people with the name include:
Azem Shkreli was an Albanian writer, poet, director and producer of Albanian ethnicity. He was head of the Kosovo Writers' Association, president of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia, manager of the National Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina and founder and manager of Kosovafilm, a film production, distribution and screening company.
Hajdini is an Albanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Kachak Movement was a series of Albanian uprisings in Albanian-populated territories in Kosovo, Macedonia and Sanxhak from 1919 to 1927. The uprisings began after the end of the First World War when Kosovo became part of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Parts of the Albanian population which resisted Yugoslav rule formed the Kachak guerrilla movement under the leadership of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo and conducted military operations and guerrilla-style attacks against Yugoslav soldiers and administrative establishments.
Azem Hajdini was an Albanian writer and lawyer from Kosovo. Hajdini was one of the surviving witnesses from the "Massacre of Tivar" (Montenegro) where on March 31, 1945, 4,310 Albanians were massacred by Serbs and Montenegrins.