Maloku

Maloku
Language(s)	Albanian
Origin
Word/Name	malok
Meaning	highlander [1]
Other names
Variant(s)	Pamalioti

Last updated April 21, 2019

Maloku is an Albanian language surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Elvir Maloku (born 1996), Croatian footballer
Enver Maloku (1954–1999), Kosovan journalist
Naim Maloku (born 1958), Kosovan journalist

Elvir Mehdi Maloku is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Gimnàstic de Tarragona and the Albania national under-21 football team.

Enver Maloku was a Kosovar Albanian journalist and writer and head of the Kosovo Information Centre. He was killed in Pristina on 11 January 1999 by the Yugoslav forces during the Kosovo War.

Naim Maloku is a Kosovar Albanian politician and former officer of the Kosovo Liberation Army. He is a member of the Assembly of Kosovo under the banner of the AAK party. In the 2008 presidential election, he was proposed by his party as a candidate for President of Kosovo, and subsequently supported by some other minor parties. He obtained 37 out of 81 required votes in the first round of elections, while his opponent, the president in demise, Fatmir Sejdiu, gained 62 votes. Maloku finally lost his bid to Sejdiu, who received 68 votes in the third round.

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References

↑ Pipa, Arshi (1978). Albanian literature: social perspectives. R. Trofenik. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-87828-106-1. He observes that one of the names by which the Albanians called themselves in the middle Ages is malok « mountaineer » (corrupted to Pamaliot by Venetian writers)

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[Pipa1978-1] Pipa, Arshi (1978). Albanian literature: social perspectives. R. Trofenik. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-87828-106-1. He observes that one of the names by which the Albanians called themselves in the middle Ages is malok « mountaineer » (corrupted to Pamaliot by Venetian writers)