Full name | Gradski stadion Gusinje |
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Location | Gusinje, Montenegro |
Coordinates | 42°34′03″N19°50′04″E / 42.567514°N 19.834500°E |
Owner | Gusinje Municipality |
Operator | Gusinje |
Capacity | 2,000 |
Field size | 110 m × 70 m (360 ft × 230 ft) |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Built | 1994 |
Opened | 1996 |
Tenants | |
FK Gusinje (1975–present) |
City Stadium is a football stadium in Gusinje in Montenegro, and is the home ground of FK Gusinje.
The stadium was built from 1994 to 1996, as a part of a Sports center, following the promotion of FK Gusinje to the Montenegrin Republic League. [1] Stadium has one stand with 2,000 seats.
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Ali Pasha Shabanagaj, was an Albanian Muslim military commander and one of the leaders of the League of Prizren. He governed, as an Ottoman kaymakam (sub-governor), an area in what is today eastern Montenegro around Plav and Gusinje. He was commonly known as Ali Pasha of Gusinje. He was the leader of the Albanian irregular troops of the League of Prizren against the Principality of Montenegro at the Battle of Novšiće. He was governor of the area of Plav and Gusinje located in a valley between steep mountains.
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Jakup Ferri was an Albanian fighter from Plav-Gusinje who served as a local leader in the League of Prizren's resistance during the Principality of Montenegro's attempt to subjugate his homeland in 1879. He was distinguished in the Battle of Novšiće, where he died.
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Avram Cemović nicknamed Avro (1864–1914) was a member of notable Serb family Cemović from Vasojevići who is best known as one of the commanders of rebels against Ottoman Empire in the Lower Vasojevići region and military officer in the Army of Montenegro during the First Balkan War.
Ismail Nikoçi (1876-1919) was an Albanian political activist from Gucia in present-day Montenegro and mayor of that town. He played a significant role in the defense of the national rights of the Albanian ethnic community in Plava-Gucia in the period from its annexation to Montenegro in the Balkans Wars to its final annexation to Yugoslavia in 1919.
Agan Koja (1892-1929) was an Albanian Muslim cleric and political activist from Plav, present-day Montenegro. He was a member of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo and fought as kachak against Yugoslav border troops after 1919 when his home region became part of Yugoslavia. He was killed by Yugoslav agents in Tropojë in 1929. In 1992, on the 80th anniversary of the declaration of independence of Albania he was honored with the Order of Freedom of Albania.