Aleksandër Stavre Drenova,commonly known by the pen name Asdreni,was an Albanian poet,rilindas,translator,writer and the author of the poem which later became the national anthem of Albania. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century and composed most of his Albanian Renaissance-inspired known works during that period.
Essad Toptani was an Albanian politician who served as the third prime minister of Albania from 1914 to 1916. He previously established the Republic of Central Albania based in Durrës. An Ottoman army officer,he served as the Albanian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament and later cooperated with the Balkan League after the Balkan Wars.
The prime minister of Albania,officially the prime minister of the Republic of Albania,is the head of government of Albania. The office of the prime minister is a core institution in the politics of Albania formed after the Albanian declaration of independence on 28 November 1912. Since that time,the nation has navigated a dynamic political evolution spanning distinct periods,encompassing a monarchy,a communist regime and the eventual democratic order. In 1912,Ismail Qemali was inaugurated as the first prime minister of Albania,guiding the nation toward sovereignty amidst the complex conditions in the Balkans. In 1944,Enver Hoxha implemented a radical change in government,transforming Albania into an authoritarian and isolationist communist regime. In 1991,the nation transitioned into a democracy that marked a notable shift,when Fatos Nano emerged as the first post-communist prime minister of Albania.
Elbasan is the fourth most populous city of Albania and seat of Elbasan County and Elbasan Municipality. It lies to the north of the river Shkumbin between the Skanderbeg Mountains and the Myzeqe Plain in central Albania.
Klubi i Futbollit Teuta,commonly referred to as Teuta,is an Albanian professional football club based in Durrës. The club competes in the Kategoria Superiore,the top tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is the Niko Dovana Stadium.
Counterfeit money is currency produced outside of the legal sanction of a state or government,usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery,and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world. The business of counterfeiting money is nearly as old as money itself:plated copies have been found of Lydian coins,which are thought to be among the first Western coins. Before the introduction of paper money,the most prevalent method of counterfeiting involved mixing base metals with pure gold or silver. Another form of counterfeiting is the production of documents by legitimate printers in response to fraudulent instructions. During World War II,the Nazis forged British pounds and American dollars. Today,some of the finest counterfeit banknotes are called Superdollars because of their high quality and imitation of the real US dollar. There has been significant counterfeiting of Euro banknotes and coins since the launch of the currency in 2002,but considerably less than that of the US dollar.
The Freedom Party,formerly known as the Socialist Movement for Integration,is a social democratic political party in Albania. The party was formed on 6 September 2004,when Ilir Meta defected from the Socialist Party of Albania (PS). A proposal to change its logo,name and other symbols was unanimously approved at the party's National Convention (Congress) on 25 July 2022. The party is seen as more socially conservative than the Socialist Party of Albania.
Robert Elsie was a Canadian-born German scholar who specialized in Albanian literature and folklore.
The Elbasan alphabet is a mid 18th-century alphabetic script created for the Albanian language Elbasan Gospel Manuscript,also known as the Anonimi i Elbasanit,which is the only document written in it. The document was created at St. Jovan Vladimir's Church in central Albania,but is preserved today at the National Archives of Albania in Tirana. The alphabet,like the manuscript,is named after the city of Elbasan,where it was invented,and although the manuscript isn't the oldest document written in Albanian,Elbasan is the oldest out of seven known original alphabets created for Albanian. Its 59 pages contain Biblical content written in a script of 40 letters,of which 35 frequently recur and 5 are rare.
Klubi i Futbollit Laçi is an Albanian professional football club based in Laç. The club competes in the Abissnet Superiore,the top tier of Albanian football. Their home ground is Laçi Stadium,which has a seating capacity of 2,271.
Džemijet was a political party of the Muslim population in the Kingdom of Serbs,Croats,and Slovenes. It represented Albanians,Slavic Muslims and Turks in what was then "Southern Serbia". It was formed in August 1918 and officially constituted in Skopje in late 1919. The party participated in the 1920 and 1923 elections,in which it elected 8 and 14 representatives respectively. In January 1925 the party's leader Ferhat Draga,an Albanian nationalist who had previously served as mayor of Mitrovica,was arrested and soon after the party was disbanded.
Bilal Xhaferi,often referred to as Bilal Xhaferri,was an Albanian writer and political dissident against the Albanian communist regime. He is seen as the representative poet of the Albanian Chameria.
Albania–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral relations between Albania and the United Kingdom. Albania has an embassy in London,and the United Kingdom has an embassy in Tirana.
The Tekke of Frashër or NasibîTâhir Baba Tekke is a Bektashi shrine and Albanian Bektashi tekke founded in 1781 and registered Cultural Monument of Albania,located in Frashër,Gjirokastër County in southern Albania. The tekke was crucial to the Albanian National Awakening,particularly in the nationalist movements of the late 19th century,and it was one of the wealthiest and revered tekkes in Albania.
Albanian epic poetry is a form of epic poetry created by the Albanian people. It consists of a longstanding oral tradition still very much alive. A good number of Albanian epic singers can be found today in Kosovo and northern Albania,and some also in Montenegro. The Albanian traditional singing of epic verse from memory is one of the last survivors of its kind in modern Europe,and the last survivor of the Balkan traditions.
The International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency is a 1929 League of Nations treaty whereby states agree to criminalize acts of currency counterfeiting. It remains the principal international agreement on currency counterfeiting.
The alleged illicit activities of the North Korean state include manufacture and sale of illegal drugs,the manufacture and sale of counterfeit consumer goods,human trafficking,arms trafficking,wildlife trafficking,counterfeiting currency,terrorism,and other areas. It is alleged many of these activities are undertaken at the direction and under the control of the North Korean government and the ruling Workers' Party of Korea,with their proceeds going towards advancing the country's nuclear and conventional arms production,funding the lifestyles of the country's elite,and propping up the North Korean economy.
The Albanian revolt of 1845,known Revolt of 1845 between Albanians was one of the 19th-century uprisings in Ottoman Albania directed against the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms.
Natasha Lako is an Albanian poet and novelist. She belongs to the country's first generation of women writers.
The Franc affair was a plot by Hungarian nationalists to forge French bank notes. In the aftermath of World War I,Hungary lost a large part of its territory and population in a series of treaties its people considered unjust. This led many Hungarians to turn towards nationalism and revanchism. In 1922,Prince Lajos Windischgraetz was approached by Gyula Mészáros who presented him with a plan to counterfeit the French franc. Windischgraetz sought to damage the French economy while simultaneously raising funds for an internal coup in Hungary and irredentist activities. The plan came to halt when the notes produced by Mészáros were judged to be too primitive. In the summer of 1923,Windischgraetz met with German nationalist and retired Prussian Army General Erich Ludendorff who prompted him to utilize the forging equipment left from a similar unrealized German conspiracy.
