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Constantine the Great

Flavius Valerius Constantinus

-Roman Emperor of Illyrian Origin
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Gaius Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus[1] (February 27, 272–May 22, 337), commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or (among Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic[2] Christians) Saint Constantine, was a Roman Emperor, proclaimed Augustus by his troops on July 25, 306 and who ruled an ever-growing portion of the Roman Empire until his death.

Constantine is best remembered in modern times for the Edict of Milan in 313, which fully legalized Christianity in the Empire, for the first time, and the Council of Nicaea in 325; these actions are considered major factors in the spreading of the Christian religion. His reputation as the "first Christian Emperor" has been promulgated by historians from Lactantius and Eusebius of Caesarea to the present day; although there has been debate over the veracity of his faith because he was baptized only on his death bed.[3]

Early life
Bronze statue of Constantine I in York, England, near the spot where he was proclaimed Emperor in 306 Constantine was born at Naissus (modern Niš, Serbia, ancient Illyria) in the province of Moesia Superior on 27 February 272 or 273, to Roman general, Constantius Chlorus, and his first wife Helena, an innkeeper's daughter who at the time was only sixteen years old. His father left his mother around 292 to marry Flavia Maximiana Theodora, daughter or step-daughter of the Western Roman Emperor Maximian. Theodora would give birth to six half-siblings of Constantine, including Julius Constantius.

Young Constantine served at the court of Diocletian in Nicomedia, after the appointment of his father as one of the two caesares (junior emperors) of the Tetrarchy in 293. In 305, both augusti (senior emperors), Diocletian and Maximian, abdicated, and Constantius succeeded to Maximian's position of western augustus. Although two legitimate sons of emperors were available (Constantine and Maxentius, the son of Maximian), both of them were ignored in the transition of power. Instead, Severus and Maximinus Daia were made caesares. Constantine subsequently left Nicomedia to join his father in Roman Gaul. However, Constantius fell sick during an expedition against the Picts of Caledonia, and died on July 25, 306 in Eboracum (York). The general Chrocus, of Alamannic descent, and the troops loyal to Constantius' memory immediately proclaimed Constantine an augustus.

Under the Tetrarchy, Constantine's succession was of dubious legitimacy. While Constantius as senior emperor could "create" a new caesar, Constantine's (or, his troops') claim to the title of augustus ignored the system of succession established in 305. Accordingly, Constantine asked Galerius, the eastern augustus, to be recognized as heir to his father's throne. Galerius granted him the title of caesar, confirming Constantine's rule over his father's territories, and promoted Severus to augustus of the West.

Ruler of the West
Constantine's share of the empire comprised of Britain, Gaul, the Germanic provinces, and Spain. He therefore commanded one of the largest Roman armies, stationed along the important Rhine frontier. While Gaul was one of the richer regions of the empire, it had suffered much during the Crisis of the Third Century. Many areas were depopulated, the cities ruined. During his years in Gaul, from 306 to 316, Constantine continued his father's efforts to secure the Rhine frontier and rebuild the Gallic provinces. His main residence during that time was Trier.

Immediately after his promotion to emperor, Constantine abandoned his father's British campaign and returned to Gaul to quell an uprising by Franks. Another expedition against Frankish tribes followed in 308. After this victory, he began to build a bridge across the Rhine at Cologne to establish a permanent stronghold on the right bank of the river. A new campaign in 310 had to be abandoned because of Maximian's rebellion (below). The last of Constantine's wars on the Rhine frontier took place in 313, after his return from Italy, and saw him again victorious. Constantine's main goal was stability, and he tried to achieve that by immediate, often brutal punitive expeditions against rebellious tribes, demonstrating his military power by conquering the enemies on their own side of the Rhine frontier, and slaughtering many prisoners during games in the arena. The strategy proved successful, as the Rhine frontier remained relatively quiet during the rest of Constantine's reign.

In the interior conflicts of the Tetrarchy, Constantine tried to remain neutral. In 307, the senior emperor Maximian (recently returned to the political scene after his abdication in 305) visited Constantine to get his support in the war of Maxentius against Severus and Galerius. Constantine married Maximian's daughter Fausta to seal the alliance and was promoted to Augustus by Maximian. He didn't interfere on Maxentius' behalf, though. Maximian returned to Gaul in 308 after he had failed to depose his son. At the conference of Carnuntum, where Diocletian, Galerius and Maximian met later that year, Maximian was forced to abdicate again and Constantine reduced to caesar. In 309, Maximian rebelled against his son-in-law while Constantine was campaigning against the Franks. The rebellion was quickly quelled, and Maximian was killed or forced to commit suicide. Both Constantine and Maximinus Daia were disappointed over their relegation to caesar and Licinius' appointment, and subsequently defied that ruling and styled themselves Augustus, which was granted to them by Galerius in 310, thus officially creating four Augusti. With Galerius' death in 311, the last ruler with enough authority interested in continuing the tetrarchy left the stage, and the system rapidly declined. In the struggle for power that ensued, Constantine allied himself with Licinius, while Maximinus approached Maxentius, who was still officially regarded as an usurper.

312-324
Early in 312, Constantine crossed the Alps with his army and attacked Maxentius. He quickly conquered Northern Italy in the battles of Turin and Verona and then moved on to Rome. There he defeated Maxentius in the Battle of Milvian Bridge, which resulted in his becoming Western Augustus, or ruler of the entire Western Roman Empire. During the next years, he gradually consolidated his military superiority over his rivals in the crumbling Tetrarchy.

In 313, he met Licinius in Milan to secure their alliance by the marriage of Licinius and Constantine's half-sister Constantia. During this meeting, the emperors agreed on the so-called Edict of Milan, officially granting full tolerance to all religions in the empire, especially Christianity. The conference was cut short, however, when news reached Licinius that his rival Maximinus Daia had crossed the Bosporus and invaded Licinian territory. Licinius departed and eventually defeated Maximinus, gaining control over the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire. Relations between the two remaining emperors declined, though, and either in 314 or 316, Constantine and Licinius fought gainst one another in the war of Cibalae, with Constantine being victorious. They clashed again in the Battle of Campus Ardiensis in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and Constantine II, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars.

In the year 320, Licinius reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and began another persecution of the Christians. It became a challenge to Constantine in the west, climaxing in the great civil war of 324. Licinius, aided by Goth mercenaries, represented the past and the ancient faith of Paganism. Constantine and his Franks marched under the Christian standard of the labarum, and both sides saw the battle in religious terms. Supposedly outnumbered, but fired by their zeal, Constantine's army emerged victorious in the battles of Adrianople, the Hellespont, and at Chrysopolis. With the defeat and death of Licinius a year later (he was accused of plotting against Constantine and executed), Constantine then became the sole emperor of the entire Roman Empire.[4]

Justinian I
Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus
-The Greatest Byzantine Emperor of All Times is of Illyrian Origin-
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Justinian Family Data: An Illyrian, Justinian was born Petrus Sabbatius in A.D. 483 in Tauresium, Dardania Near Shkup. Justinian's childless uncle became the Roman Emperor Justin I in A.D. 518 and adopted Justinian.
Death : Justinian died on November 14, 565, in Constantinople.

Justinian's Claims to Fame: Justinian is known for his reorganization of the government of the Roman Empire and his codification of the laws, the Codex Justinianus in A.D. 534.

Skanderbeg
Gjergj Kastrioti

-The Greatest Albanian National Hero-
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The Builder of the Albanian identity!

Skanderbeg , c.1404-1468, Albanian national hero. His original name was Gjergj Kastrioti, but the Ottomans called him Iskender Bey with an inference to Alexander the Great, and this was corrupted into Skenderbe. The son of a prince of Northern Albania, he was educated in the Muslim faith as a hostage at the court of Sultan Murad II . The sultan showered favors on him and gave him the title bey and an army command. In 1443, when the Ottomans indicated they would attack Albania, Skenderbe escaped to his homeland, abjured Islam, and formed a league of princes among the Albanian chieftains. He proclaimed himself prince of Albania. To resist the Ottomans under Sultan Muhammad II , Scanderbeg received aid at various times from Venice, Naples, Hungary, and the pope. He had success in these wars partly because of the rugged Albanian terrain and partly because he employed a mobile defense force using guerrilla methods. He withstood repeated attacks and forced the sultan to conclude a 10-year truce in 1461 and never lost a battle. Skenderbe broke the truce in 1463 when Pope Pius II called for a new crusade. The pope's death (1464) forced abandonment of the crusade; Skenderbe, left without allies, had to retreat to his fortress of Kroia. After his death the league dissolved, resistance collapsed, and Albania fell to the Ottomans. Skenderbe's life is the source of many Albanian tales. He created a nation that captured the imagination of the world.

Pope Clement XI
Giovanni Francesco Albani
-Albanian Pope in the Vatican-
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Pope Clement XI (July 23, 1649 – March 19, 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 to 1721. He was from an eminent family of Urbino that had estabilished itself there from northern Albania in the 15th century.

Francesco Crispi
-Italian/Arberesh Politician-
Francesco Crispi (October 4, 1819–August 12, 1901) was a 19th century Italian politician. He was instrumental in the formation of the united country and was its Premier from 1887 until 1891 and again from 1893 until 1896.

Crispi's family came originally from the small agricultural community of Palazzo Adriano, in south-western Sicily. It had been founded in later fifteenth century by Eastern Orthodox Albanians (later Arbëreshë) fleeing from the Turks.[1] Crispi himself was born in Ribera, Sicily and baptized in the Byzantine Rite. He assumed an active role in the Sicilian uprising against the rule of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies at Palermo in 1848. The uprising ended in failure and the government was restored in May 1849. Unlike many, Crispi was not granted amnesty and was forced to flee the country. He lived next in Piedmont where he worked as a journalist. He was implicated in the Mazzini conspiracy at Milan in 1853 and was expelled from Piedmont. He took refuge first on Malta, then in Paris and, even he had not done so before, met up with Giuseppe Mazzini in London.

In 1860 he, alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi, led the "expedition of the thousand" which disembarked on Sicily on 11 May 1860. On the 13th, Crispi drew up the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. After the fall of Palermo, Crispi was appointed minister of the interior and of finance in the Sicilian provisional government, but was shortly afterwards obliged to resign on account of the struggle between Garibaldi and the emissaries of Count Camillo Benso di Cavour on the question of timing of the annexation of Sicily by Italy.

Appointed secretary to Garibaldi, Crispi secured the resignation of Agostino Depretis, whom Garibaldi had appointed pro-dictator, and would have continued his fierce opposition to Cavour at Naples, where he had been placed by Garibaldi in the foreign office, had not the advent of the Italian regular troops and the annexation of the Two Sicilies to Italy brought about Garibaldi's withdrawal to Caprera and Crispi's own resignation.

Pavlos Kountouriotis
-First President of Greece-
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Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis (1855-1935) (Greek: Παύλος Κουντουριώτης) was a Greek naval hero of Arvanite origin, and twice President of Greece.

Pavlos Kountouriotis was a member of the historical Kountouriotis family which originated from the island of Hydra, Saronic Islands; many members of the family took part in the Greek War of Independence. The original family name was Zervas but was changed to Kountouriotis, since one of their ancestors lived for a while in the village of Kountoura, Megarida.

He joined the navy in 1875, being promoted to Rear Admiral in 1912, on the outbreak of the First Balkan War. During the Balkan Wars, he led the Greek Navy scoring major victories against the Turkish fleet in December, 1912 (Battle of Elli) and in January 1913 (Battle of Limnos), liberating most of the Aegean islands. His victories, due in large part to his daring but successful tactics, earned him the status of a national hero.

In 1916, he became a minister in the Stephanos Skouloudis government, but, in disagreement with the pro-German feelings of King Constantine I of Greece, he followed Eleftherios Venizelos to Thessaloniki were he was assigned the ministry of Naval Affairs in Venizelos' National Defence government. He subsequently retired from the navy, and when King Alexander I of Greece died in 1920, he became Regent of Greece until the elections that took place in November 1920 and brought King Constantine back.

In March 1924, after King George II of Greece was deposed, he was elected as the first President of the Second Hellenic Republic, but resigned the post in March, 1926 in opposition to General Pangalos' dictatorship. He was reelected president in May 1929, but due to serious health complications he resigned in December of the same year. He died in 1935.

William G. Gregory
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DETAILS: Albanian American Women Organization (AAWO) organized this event to honor mothers and their contribution to our community. A special guest at this event was the first Albanian astronaut, William Gregory.
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Muhammad Ali Pasha
-Builder of Modern Egypt-
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The Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo, Egypt.
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Mother Theresa
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
-The Most Famous Catholic Nun in the World-
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Mother Theresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.

“By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus. ”Small of stature, rocklike in faith, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was entrusted with the mission of proclaiming God’s thirsting love for humanity, especially for the poorest of the poor. “God still loves the world and He sends you and me to be His love and His compassion to the poor.” She was a soul filled with the light of Christ, on fire with love for Him and burning with one desire: “to quench His thirst for love and for souls.”

Vasile Lupu
-Ruler of the Romanian Province of Moldavia in 1634-1653-
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Basil the Wolf , Romanian Vasile Lupu ambitious and enterprising prince of Moldavia (1634–53) who introduced the first written laws and printing press to his principality. Albanian in origin, Basil acceded to the throne of Moldavia in the spring of 1634. He intrigued throughout his reign to acquire the Walachian throne as well, and in 1637 and 1639 led unsuccessful expeditions against the ruling prince…
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Diocletian
Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus
-Roman Emperor of Illyrian Origin-
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Diocletian, Roman emperor 284-305 AD, is said to have been born at Dioclea, near Salona, in Dalmatia. His original name was Diocles. Of humble Illyrian origin, he served with high distinction and held important military commands under the emperors Probus and Aurelian, and accompanied Carus to the Persian War. After the death of Numerian he was chosen emperor by the troops at Chalcedon, on the 17th of September 284, and slew with his own hands Arrius Aper, the praefect of the praetorians. He thus fulfilled the prediction of a druidess of Gaul, that he would mount a throne as soon as he had slain a wild boar (aper). Having been installed at Nicomedia, he received general acknowledgment after the murder of Carinus. In consequence of the rising of the Bagaudae in Gaul, and the threatening attitude of the German peoples on the Rhine, he appointed Maximian Augustus in 286; and, in view of further dangers and disturbances in the empire, proclaimed Constantius Chlorus and Galerius Caesars in 293. Each of the four rulers was placed at a separate capital -- Nicomedia, Mediolanum (Milan), Augusta Trevirorum (Trier), Sirmium. This amounted to an entirely new organization of the empire, on a plan commensurate with the work of government which it now had to carry on. At the age of fifty-nine, exhausted with labor, Diocletian abdicated his sovereignty on the 1st of May 305, and retired to Salona, where he died eight years afterwards (others give 316 as the year of his death). The end of his reign was memorable for the persecution of the Christians. In defense of this it may be urged that he hoped to strengthen the empire by reviving the old religion, and that the church as an independent state over whose inner life at least he possessed no influence, appeared to be a standing menace to his authority. Under Diocictian the senate became a political nonentity, the last traces of republican institutions disappeared, and were replaced by an absolute monarchy approaching to despotism. He wore the royal diadem, assumed the title of lord, and introduced a complicated system of ceremonial and etiquette, borrowed from the East, in order to surround the monarchy and its representative with mysterious sanctity. But at the same time he devoted his energies to the improvement of the administration of the empire; he reformed the standard of coinage, fixed the price of provisions and other necessaries of daily life, remitted the tax upon inheritances and manumissions, abolished various monopolies, repressed corruption and encouraged trade. In addition, he adorned the city with numerous buildings, such as the thermae, of which extensive remains are still standing.

Aurelian
Lucius Domitius Aurelianus
-One of the Greatest Roman Emperors of Illyrian Origin-
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One of the greatest of the Roman soldier emperors, born at Sirmium in Pannonia between AD 212-14. He was of humble Illyrian origin, but nothing definite is known of his family. He had always shown great enthusiasm for a military career, and so distinguished himself in the campaigns in which he took part that on one occasion he received a public vote of thanks. At the same time he was proclaimed consul elect, and adopted by Ulpius Crinitus, military governor of Illyria and Thrace. On the death of the emperor Claudius II Gothicus (270), Aurelian was proclaimed his successor with the universal approval of the soldiers. His first task was to continue the war which had been begun by Claudius against the Goths. He drove them out of Moesia across the Danube, where he left them in possession of Dacia, which he did not think himself able to retain; the name was transferred to Moesia, which was then called Dacia Aureliani. The chronology, however, of Aurelian's reign is very confused, and the abandonment of Dacia is placed by some authorities towards its close. He next entered upon campaigns against the Juthungi, Alamanni, and other Germanic tribes, over whom, after a severe defeat which was said to have imperilled the very existence of the empire, he at length obtained a complete victory. Having thus secured the Rhine and Danube frontiers, he turned his energies towards the east, and in 271 set out on his expedition against Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. At the same time he crushed two pretenders to the throne -- Firmus and Tetricus. Firmus, a wealthy merchant of Seleucia, had proclaimed himself emperor of Egypt. Aurelian, who was at the time in Mesopotamia, hastened to Egypt, and ordered him to be seized and put to death. Tetricus, who had been proclaimed emperor in the west after the death of Gallienus, and left undisturbed by Claudius II, still ruled over Gaul, Spain and Britain. A decisive battle was fought near the modern Châlons, in which Tetricus was defeated. The restoration of the unity of the empire was thus complete. In 294 a brilliant triumph, adorned by the persons of Zenobia and Tetricus, was celebrated at Rome.

Aurelian now turned his attention to the internal affairs of the empire. He introduced sumptuary laws; relieved the poor by distributions of bread and meat, proceeded with great severity against informers and embezzlers; began the construction of various public works and buildings; and proclaimed a general amnesty for political crimes. The restoration and enlargement of the walls of Rome, commenced by him, was not completed until the reign of Probus. An attempt to restore the standard of the coinage is said to have caused a revolt of the workmen and officials connected with the mint, which was only put down with the loss of 7000 soldiers. It has been suggested that this was really an attempt at revolution incited by the senate and praetorian guards, the opportunity being found in disturbances resulting from opposition to the attempted reform, which by themselves could hardly have assumed such serious proportions. Aurelian's restless spirit was not long able to endure a life of inaction in the city. Towards the end of 274, he started on an expedition against the Persians, halting in Thrace by the way. While on the march between Heracleia and Byzantium, at the beginning of the following year, he was assassinated through the treachery of his secretary Eros, who, in order to escape the discovery of his own irregularities, incited certain officers against the emperor by showing them a forged list, on which their names appeared as marked out for death.

Aurelian well deserved the title of restorer of the empire, and it must be remembered that he lived in an age when severity was absolutely necessary. He was a great soldier and a rigid but just disciplinarian. In more favorable circumstances he would have been a great administrator. He displayed a fondness for pomp and show on public occasions; he was the first Roman emperor to wear the diadem, and assumed the title of Lord and God on medals.

Probus
Marcus Aurelius Probus
-Roman Emperor of Illyrian Origin-
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Marcus Aurelius PROBUS (b. 232), an Illyrian, was saluted by the eastern armies (276). He repelled from Gaul the Franks and Alamanni and other peoples, who had inflicted great devastation. He also strengthened the Danube frontier, quieted Asia Minor, and suppressed pretenders in Gaul. When the praetorian prefect Carus was proclaimed emperor by the troops in Raetia, Probus was murdered in Pannonia.

Claudius II Gothicus
Marcus Aurelius Valerius Claudius II Gothicus
-Roman Emperor of Illyrian Origin-
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Claudius II, Roman emperor from 268 to 270 AD, belonged to an obscure Illyrian family. On account of his military ability he was placed in command of an army by Decius; and Valerian appointed him general on the Illyrian frontier, and ruler of the provinces of the lower Danube. During the reign of Gallienus, he was called to Italy in order to crush Aureolus; and on the death of the emperor (268) he was chosen as his successor, in accordance, it was said, with his express desire. Shortly after his accession he routed the Alamanni on the Lacus Benacus (some doubt is thrown upon this); in 269 a great victory over the Goths at Naissus in Moesia gained him the title of Gothicus. In the following year he died of the plague at Sirmium, in his fifty-sixth year. He enjoyed great popularity, and appears to have been a man of ability and character

Carus
Marcus Aurelius Carus
-Roman Emperor of Illyrian Origin-
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Marcus Aurelius Carus, Roman emperor from 282 to 283 AD, was born probably at Narbona (more correctly, Narona) in Illyria, but was educated at Rome. He was a senator, and had filled various civil and military posts before he was appointed prefect of the praetorian guards by the emperor Probus, after whose murder at Sirmium he was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers. Although Carus severely avenged the death of Probus, he was himself suspected of having been an accessory to the deed. He does not seem to have returned to Rome after his accession, but contented himself with an announcement of the fact to the senate. Bestowing the title of Caesar upon his sons Carinus and Numerianus, he left Carinus in charge of the western portion of the empire, and took Numerianus with him on the expedition against the Persians which had been contemplated by Probus. Having defeated the Quadi and Sarmatians on the Danube, Carus proceeded through Thrace and Asia Minor, conquered Mesopotamia, pressed on to Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and carried his arms beyond the Tigris. But his hopes of further conquest were cut short by his death. One day, after a violent storm, it was announced that he was dead. His death was variously attributed to disease, the effects of lightning, or a wound received in a campaign against the Huns; but it seems more probable that he was murdered by the soldiers, who were averse from further campaigns against Persia, at the instigation of Arrius Aper, prefect of the praetorian guard. Carus seems to have belied the hopes entertained of him on his accession, and to have developed into a morose and suspicious tyrant.

Numerianus
Marcus Aurelius Numerianus
-Roman Emperor of Illyrian Origin-
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Marcus Aurelius Numerianus (d. November, 284), known in English as Numerian, was a Roman Emperor (December 283 – November, 284)

Numerian was the son of the Roman Emperor Carus and brother of Emperor Carinus, and was proclaimed caesar in Fall 282, short after his father's accession.

After marrying the daughter of the prefect of the Praetorian Guard, Lucius Flavius Aper, Numerian and his father-in-law followed Carus on his expedition against the Sassanid Empire (Carinus had been proclaimed Augustus in Gaul). When Carus suddenly died in December 283, Numerian, proclaimed Augustus, had to bring the army back to its bases.

In March 284, the year of his consulship, Numerian was in Emesa. He fell ill, and Aper told the Emperor he had an inflammation to his eyes, and needed to travel in a closed coach. When, several days later, the guards sensed a bad smell coming from the coach and opened it, they found the dead body of the young emperor.

It was probable that Numerian had died naturally, and that the officers wanted to keep his death secret to avoid a turmoil in the army. The commander of the imperial bodyguard, Valerius Diocles, accused Aper of the death of the Emperor, and killed him; Diocles was acclaimed emperor by the army, and took the power with the name of Diocletian.

According to Historia Augusta, Numerian was a man of considerable literary attainments, of remarkably amiable character, and known as a great orator and poet. However, no other sources, apart the unreliable Historia, report anything about his personality.

Leka Dukagjini
-Princ of Arbëria-
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Leka Dukagjini (1410-1481) is an Albanian historical figure, contemporary of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, who fought against the Turks and is known for the code of law instituted in northern Albania and still applied today in some remote areas known as Kanuni.

Leka is though to have been born in Ulpiana near modern Prizren, Kosova in 1410. The County of Dukagjini had its center in Lezhë, and included Zadrima, the areas North and East-north Shkodra, and expanded far north up to the territories of what today constitutes Serbia, having as the second center the town of Ulpiana. Until he took over the ruling of his county from his father Pal in 1446, Leka Dukagjini had gained an overall knowledge, inspired by the European Renaissance humanism, in towns such as Venice, Raguza and Shkodër; meanwhile Skenderbeg had done a very rapid and excellent military career in the court of Sultan Murad II.

Leka was an Albanian prince that inherited his father's, Pal Dukagjini, princedom when he died in 1446. His lands stretched in the north and northeast of Shkodër, with Lezhë as its capital. They included lands in present-day Kosova, such as Zadrima and Ulpiana.

Leka was educated in Venice and Shkodër. He led the League of Lezha in 1444. He fought side-by-side Skanderbeg against the Turks, but they also fought against each other at times. However Lekë continued to fight against the Ottoman Empire until his death in 1481, sometimes besides the Venetians with the blessing of the papacy.

Overshadowed by Skanderbeg, Lekë Dukagjini is most well known for the set of laws ruling the highlands of northern Albania, known as the Kanuni. While identifying Skenderbg as the dragon prince who dared to fight and always win against any foe; cronicles portrayed Leka Dukagjini as the angel prince who, with dignity and wisdom, ensured the continuity of the Albanian identity. The set of laws was active in practice for a long time, but it was not gathered and codified until the late 19th century by Shtjefën Gjeçov. The most infamous laws of Kanuni are those regulating blood feuds. Blood feuds have started once again in lawless northern Albania after the fall of communism in the early 1990s, having been outlawed for many years during the regime.

Joseph DioGuardi
Former U.S. Congressman, and President of AACL-
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Joseph J. DioGuardi (b. September 20, 1940) is an American Republican politician of Arberesh origin from the state of New York.
Born in the Bronx, New York, Joseph J. DioGuardi moved to Westchester County with his immigrant parents, brother, and sister in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham Preparatory School, and in 1962 he graduated with honors from Fordham University. His parents were of Arbëreshë origin.
DioGuardi served for twenty-two years, twelve of them as a tax partner, with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., one of the first public advocates of governmental fiscal responsibility. In November 1984, he brought his extensive professional and volunteer experience to Congress, when he became the first practicing certified public accountant ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected in 1986, and served in Congress in 1985-89.
In Congress, DioGuardi authored the Chief Financial Officer's Act, a later version was passed by Congress and into law signed by President George Bush in 1990 -- two years after DioGuardi left office -- which mandated the assignment of a CFO to each major department and agency of the U.S. government.
DioGuardi founded and cochaired the Congressional Long Island Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which secured increases in federal support for those waterways. In 1986, with the late Democratic Congressman Mickey Leland, DioGuardi initiated legislation to confer Congressional Medals of Honor on Black World War I and World War II military heroes. More recently, he cofounded with Congressman Jerrold Nadler the New York Task Force for Port, Rail, and Industrial Development in order to restore lost jobs to New York's manufacturing and transportation industries.
DioGuardi was defeated for re-election in 1988. In the years that followed, DioGuardi made a series of failed campaigns to return to Congress. DioGuardi won the Republican primary in 1992 but then lost in the general election. He performed even worse in later races, losing Republican primaries for Congress in 1994 and 1996. After losing the 1994 GOP primary, DioGuardi continued his campaign for the seat as the nominee of the Conservative Party and the Right-to-Life Party. In 1996, DioGuardi also lost the Conservative Party primary for Congress. He was the unsuccessful Right-to-Life Party nominee for Congress in 1996 and 1998. He briefly flirted with running again in 2000, but decided against entering the race. In December 2006, DioGuardi expressed an interest in running for Congress in 2008 against newly-elected Congressman John Hall (D). Source: Office of the Clerk, US House.
DioGuardi is an advocate for the human rights and self-determination of oppressed peoples in the Balkans. After leaving Congress in 1989, he has made fifteen trips to the region. As president of the Albanian American Civic League, he and Congressman Tom Lantos made the first official trip to Albania in fifty years, and he helped open the doors to democracy in this former Communist dictatorship. In August 1990, DioGuardi persuaded Bob Dole and six other U.S. Senators to visit the two million Albanians in Kosovo. In September 1996, he returned to Albania with Congressman Benjamin Gilman, chairman of the Committee on International Relations, to meet with President Sali Berisha to discuss Albanian national security and minority rights for the ethnic Greeks in southern Albania. In June 1997, DioGuardi led a delegation to monitor the national elections in Albania and in August, 1998 he traveled to northern Albania to assess the humanitarian crisis emanating from the war in Kosovo, at the request of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. In March 2007, he and his wife Shirley Cloyes went to The Hague to stand by Ramush Haradinaj as his war crimes trial begins at the ICTY.
Since leaving Congress in 1989, DioGuardi has established a nonpartisan foundation, Truth In Government, through which he continues his crusade for federal fiscal reforms. The author of Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn't Add Up, DioGuardi is a frequent speaker on fiscal responsibility and public accountability. In August 1994, as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American Accounting Association, DioGuardi persuaded professors of accounting to play an active role in federal budgeting and financial management. In May 1996, he returned to Washington as a keynote speaker on federal financial management reforms before the Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National Association of Accountants). In April 1997, the Texas Society of CPAs published an article by DioGuardi in Today's CPA on the real magnitude of the national debt.
DioGuardi is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including investiture as a Knight of Malta in 1979, the International Humanitarian Award The Boys Towns of Italy in 1986, the Outstanding CPA in Government Award from the New York State Society of CPAs in 1986, the Torch of Liberty Award from the New York State Conservative Party in 1987, the Outstanding Public Service Award from the Westchester County Republican Committee in 1987, the Westchester Irish Committee's Dedication to Peace and Justice Award in 1988, the Paul Harris Fellow Award of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International in 1988, and the Annual Achievement Award of the Association of Government Accountants, Boston Chapter, in 1992.
He has a daughter, Kara DioGuardi, a songwriter, record producer, and singer; and is married to Shirley Cloyes DioGiardi, Balkan Affairs Advisor and his co-founder of the Albanian American Civic League.

The Official Web-Site of the Albanian-American Civic League (AACL)
http://blog.aacl.com/

Milosevic Vs. DioGuardi - A 15 year battle
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Ali Pasha Tepelena
-Lion of Janina-
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Ali Pasha Tepelena was born in 1740 at Tepelenë in southern Albania, and in his youth was a leader of brigands. Later he entered the service of the Sultan and managed to achieve his ambitions: he created the largest pashaluk (a territory ruled over by a Pasha) in the Ottoman empire. His ambitions were to amass a great fortune, to avenge himself on his private enemies, and to become the independent ruler of Albania and part of Greece. Ali Pasha established and maintained contacts with all the great powers of Europe at that time. He maintained contacts with Napolean, the English Admiral Lord Nelson, and the Russian Tsar. He also gave support to the Greek struggle for liberation from Turkish rule. His pashaluks harboured organizations dedicated to winning independence from Greece. He would also have liked to secede from the Ottoman empire.
Ali Pasha's ruthlessness, cunning, and diplomatic skills earned him the title "Lion of Janina", and his court was visited by many Europeans, including in 1809 Lord Byron, who was thus inspired to devote a canto of Childe Harold to Albania and the Albanians.*
Rival feudal lords, both Albanian and Turkish, whom Ali Pasha had ousted from their holdings in Albania, Epirus, and Thessaly, as well as the Greek patriots fighting for their own liberation, put pressure on the (Turkish) Porte to get rid of Ali Pasha. Turkish forces attackled Janina, and Ali Pasha found himself deserted by his sons and allies. He fought to the bitter end and was killed in 1822. His head was sent to Constantinople and publicly displayed.
Under Ali Pasha, Janina was the most advanced centre in the Western Ottoman empire. Although the great powers did not recognize the Janina and Shkodër pashaluks as independent principalities, they treated them as separate states as relations with the Porte deteriorated.
The great pashaluks created the conditions for a faster economic development of the Albanian regions. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, the Ottoman empire entered a new phase of decline. Its downfall came from within and not from without, through the successful struggle of the subjugated peoples in the European part of the empire -- a struggle in which the Albanians played a prominent part. A strong national independence movement took root in Albania which was not satisfied with concessions such as the creation of semi-autonomous pashaluks, but which demanded full national and cultural rights. It soon became a well-organized movement. PP 18 and 19, Albania and the Albanians, Ramadan Marmullaku, C. Hurst & Company, London, 1975
(Ali Pasha) was rather soft and mild in appearance. He spoke both Albanian and Greek, plus a little Turkish, but was illiterate. Short in stature (about five feet five inches), an excellent shot and fearless, he remained active, ambitious, and vigorous until old age. He ruled over both Greeks and Albanians, but his main power rested with the latter (although his worst vengeance was also directed against the Albanians). He carried out considerable construction in both Epirus and Albania, including road building and the draining of marshes, while the merciless punishments curtailed crime. Despite repellent traits of behavior and the violence and ruthlessness of his rule, in official historiography he is regarded as a patriot and a fighter for Albanian independence. It is remarked, too, that Ali's death was the immediate precursor to the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence. PP 21 and 22, Historical Dictionary of Albania, Raymond Hutchins, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD and London, 1996

Pashko Vasa
-Governor of Lebanon, and Albanian Nationalist-
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In the 19th century, the Ottoman dominion of Mount Lebanon, i.e. the later country of Lebanon, which had a large Christian population, was divided and governed by Christian Maronites and Druzes, the latter being members of an esoteric religion derived from Shia Islam. In 1861, the Ottomans agreed to a reunification of the country under a non-Lebanese Christian governor. How could this take place if Muslim-Christian relations were uniformly oppressive? One of the most famous governors of Lebanon was an Albanian Catholic, Pashko Vasa Shkodrani.

Para se t'hupet keshtu Shqypnia,
Me pushke n'dore le t'dese trimnia!
Coniu, shqyptare,prej gjumit coniu,
Te gjithe si vllazen n'nji bese shterngoniu,
E mos shikoni kisha e xhamia:
Feja e shqyptarit asht shqyptaria!

Giorgio Basta
-Austrian Army General-
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Giorgio Basta (1544-1607), was an Austrian Army general of Albanian descent, sent to command Habsburg forces in the Long War (1591-1606) and later to administer Transylvania as an Austrian vassal. On his orders, his ally Michael of Wallachia, who unified Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia was murdered days after a joint victory at Goroszló (now Gurãslãu, Hereclean commune, Sãlaj county) in 1601.

Hungarian and Romanian historians alike portray him as a treacherous, licentious and violent man, motivated by pathological hatred of Magyars. During his intermittent control over Transylvania at the beginning of the 17th century, the principality descended into chaos. In the anarchic terror imposed by his marauding, lawless armies of mercenaries and bandits, Transylvania lost a third of its population, including most of the nobility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Basta

Girolamo De Rada
-Arbëresh Writer and Italo-Arberesh Nationalist-
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Girolamo De Rada (1814-1903), known in Albanian as Jeronim De Rada, is not only the best known writer of Italo-Albanian literature but also the foremost figure of the Albanian nationalist movement in nineteenth-century Italy.

Born the son of a parish priest of Greek rite in Macchia Albanese (Alb. Maqi) in the mountains of Cosenza, De Rada attended the college of Saint Adrian in San Demetrio Corone. Already imbued with a passion for his Albanian lineage, he began collecting folklore material at an early age. In October of 1834, in accordance with his father’s wishes, he registered at the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples, but the main focus of his interests remained folklore and literature. It was in Naples in 1836 that De Rada published the first edition of his best known Albanian-language poem, the ‘Songs of Milosao,’ under the Italian title Poesie albanesi del secolo XV. Canti di Milosao, figlio del despota di Scutari (Albanian poetry from the 15th century. Songs of Milosao, son of the despot of Shkodra). He was soon forced to abandon his studies due to a cholera epidemic in Naples and returned home to Calabria. His second work, Canti storici albanesi di Serafina Thopia, moglie del principe Nicola Ducagino, Naples 1839 (Albanian historical songs of Serafina Thopia, wife of prince Nicholas Dukagjini), was seized by the Bourbon authorities because of De Rada’s alleged affiliation with conspiratorial groups during the Italian Risorgimento. The work was republished under the title Canti di Serafina Thopia, principessa di Zadrina nel secolo XV, Naples 1843 (Songs of Serafina Thopia, princess of Zadrina in the 15th century) and in later years in a third version as Specchio di umano transito, vita di Serafina Thopia, Principessa di Ducagino, Naples 1897 (Mirror of human transience, life of Serafina Thopia, princess of Dukagjin). His Italian-language historical tragedy I Numidi, Naples 1846 (The Numidians), elaborated half a century later as Sofonisba, dramma storico, Naples 1892 (Sofonisba, historical drama), enjoyed only modest public response. In the revolutionary year 1848, De Rada founded the newspaper L’Albanese d’Italia (The Albanian of Italy) which included articles in Albanian. This bilingual ‘political, moral and literary journal’ with a final circulation of 3,200 copies was the first Albanian-language periodical anywhere.

James Belushi
-US Actor-
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US Hollywood Actor

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Belushi

Regis Philbin
-Half Arberesh / Half Irish-
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Emmy Award-winning American television personality
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Eliza Dushku
- US Actress -
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Tie Domi
-Hockey Player-
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Luan Krasniqi
Boxing Heavyweight European Champion-
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Elvir Muriqi
"Kosova Kid"
-Boxer-
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Justin I
Flavius Iustinus
-Byzantine Emperor of Illyrian Origin-
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Byzantine emperor (from 518) who was a champion of Christian orthodoxy; he was the uncle and predecessor of the great emperor Justinian. Born of Illyrian peasant stock, Justin was a swineherd in his youth. At about the age of 20 he went to Constantinople, where he entered the palace guard and rose to be a patrician. Under the Byzantine emperor…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_I

Angelin Preljocaj
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French Choregraph and Artistic Director.
http://www.preljocaj.org/

Lutfi Kolgjini
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Swedish horse riding champion
http://www.kolgjini.se/

Ismail Kadare
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Writer
Ismail Kadare named as the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Kadare

Ferid Murad

A Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine.
One application of the mechanism for controlling blood vessels discovered by Murad et al.
was in the development of the male erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferid_Murad

Donald Suxho
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Donald Suxho, one of USC's greatest players,
is in his first year as an assistant men's volleyball coach at his alma mater.

Born in Albania, Suxho emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1996 and became a naturalized citizen in 2001. A former starting setter on the Albania national team, Suxho has not returned to Albania since he left. His hometown is about half an hour from the Greek border, and Suxho expects many of his cousins and old volleyball friends will come watch him in Athens.
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Stan Dragoti
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Born: octobre 4, 1932 in New York City, NY

Lorik Cana
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Albanian footballer playing for Olympique de Marseille.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorik_Cana

Mirela Manjani
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Albanian Athlete, javelin thrower.
http://wwnet.fi/users/veijone/manjani.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirela_Manjani

Richard Lukaj
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The wizard of Wall Street
http://www.islandconnections.com/edit/lukaj.htm

Emina Cunmulaj
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-Top Model-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emina_Cunmulaj

Donald Lambro
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American Journalist

A woldwide famous American-journalist of ALBANIAN descent
Donald J. Lambro: Very busy as a columnist for United Feature Syndicate; chief political correspondent, the Washington Times.

Personal: Born in Wellesley, Mass., July 14, 1940. Wife, Jacquelyn Mae; one son. Albanian Orthodox.

Education: B.S., Boston University, 1963

Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times. His twice-weekly column, which he has written since 1980, appears in newspapers nationwide. One of the most frequently quoted political reporters in Washington, Lambro has interviewed most of the major political leaders of our time and has covered numerous presidential campaigns. He has written widely about the government, the economy and social issues, and won the 1995 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. Economic analyst and CNBC commentator Lawrence Kudlow has called Lambro "the best political economic reporter in Washington today." Lambro earned a national reputation for his investigations into federal spending programs. The author of five books on government and economics, Lambro wrote Land of Opportunity (Little Brown and Co.), an examination of economic growth and entrepreneurs in the 1980s. His FAT CITY: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes won national acclaim and the attention of President Reagan, who quoted from it during his 1980 presidential campaign and gave copies of the book to every member of his Cabinet....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Lambro

James Biberi
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US Hollywood Actor, Writer, Producer

Azem Maksutaj
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Kickboxer Champion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azem_Maksutaj

Tania Doko
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Australian Singer

Mirela Tafaj
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Soprano
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Inva Mula
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Soprano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inva_Mula-Tchako

Masiela Lusha
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US Hollywood Actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masiela_Lusha

Ilir Shaqiri
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Dancer(Italy)
http://www.ilir.it/

Kledi Kadiu
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Dancer and Model (Italy)

Ernesto Sabato
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The eminent Argentin Writer is Albanian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Sabato

Peter/Pjeter Malota (Lulgjuraj)
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here besides Van Damme in The Quest
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US Hollywood Actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Malota

Anthony Athanas
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Iconic restaurateur
http://www.naac.org/index.php?cid=1,3,47

Carl Ritter von Ghega
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Designer of the Semmering Railway, the first mountain railway in Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ritter_von_Ghega

Kristina, O'Donnelly
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Famous Writer, Editor, Publisher
http://www.ladyliterature.com/

Antonio Gramsci
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Writer and Politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci
http://www.internationalgramscisociety.org/

Tedi Papavrami
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Violonist and Actor
http://www.tedi-papavrami.com/

Behgjet Pacolli
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Businessman, president of Mabetex
Richest Albanian in the World

Ana Oxa
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Famous singer in Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Oxa

Erald Dervishi
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Chess Champion
One of the youngest champions of World Chess History!
He was born in Durres on November 10th, 1979
and he gained at 19 y.o. the highest FIDE title of
INTERNATIONAL GRAND MASTER

Shpresa Perlleshi
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Fitness Entrepreneur
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Mirsa Adami
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World Concert Artist
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Leonard Ajkun
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Ballet Dancer

Saimir Pirgu
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Tenor

Bekim Fehmiu
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Actor
Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270443/

Nate Dushku
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US Hollywood Actor

Timo Flloko
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US Hollywood Actor

Liria Begeja
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French Film Maker
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Dora D'Istria / Helena Gjika
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Romantic Writer and Feminist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_d%27Istria

Eda Zari
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Singer (Germany)

Elsa Lila
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Singer (Italy)

Mariela Cingo
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Pianist

Eftimiu Viktor
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writter(Romania)
Eftimiu Viktor, 1889 - 1972, Romanian writer of Albanian origin. Distinguished personality of Romanian culture and world culture. Academician Eftimiu was born in village Boboshtice of Korca, andemigrated in the first years of his life in Bucharest of Romania. Among the most outstanding works of Eftimiu is the novel "Man who saw death with his own eyes", "The Black @#%$", "Prometheus","Dr.Faust" etc. , any many creative writings with Albanianmotives such as "Portraits and Memoirs", "Two crosses", the short poem "Scanderbeg", the essay "Albanian Folklore", etc. During his life, he kept links with the birthplace. At the beginning of the20s, he was the chairman of a patriotic association which workedfor the protection of the rights of Albania as an independentstate.
http://www.agonia.ro/index.php/author/0013493/index.html#bio

Aleksander Moisiu
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Actor (Switzerland)

Anri Sala
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Film maker, Artist photograph (France)

Shpend Abazi
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Boxer Champion (Denmark)

Afrim Latifi
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National and International Karate Champion (Germany)

Thomas Simaku
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Famous International Musician

Gjon Mili
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Famous Albanian-American Photographer

Fadil Berisha
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Famous Photographer

Ibrahim Rugova
-( December 2, 1944 – January 21, 2006 )-


Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader of Kosovo's Albanians, was born in 1944. The years that followed were to shape his whole outlook on life. Just after the war his father and grandfather were executed by Yugoslav communists who were recapturing the province from the then retreating Germans. Rugova grew up during years of harsh repression. Following the war, Kosovo was run by mostly Serb communists who ran the province on a tight leash.

Nevertheless Ibrahim Rugova was able to prosper and he eventually went to Paris where he studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. He then became a professor of Albanian literature and a writer.
Like almost every single other leader in the former Yugoslavia, Rugova was a member of its old communist party. He was expelled after joining others in demanding changes to Serbia's constitution.
Building a political movement
With the formal end of one party rule in Serbia Rugova was elected to head the first non-communist party in Kosovo, the Democratic League of Kosova ( *see notes below), the LDK.
The LDK was founded just after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had abolished Kosovo's autonomy and at a time of great political ferment. Over the next few years though the Yugoslav crisis, which had begun in Kosovo was to shift northwards. By 1991 the war which was to destroy the old federal republic had begun.
Change of strategy
At this point the LDK, which had until then been demanding that Kosovo become a full Yugoslav republic now opted for independence. At that point there were believed to be some 1.7 million Albanians in Kosovo as against 200,000 Serbs.
As the Croats and then Bosnia's Muslims took on the Serbs, some Kosovo Albanians argued that they should "open a southern front" to win their own freedom.
Rugova argued that this would be an appalling mistake. After hundreds of thousands of people had been driven from their homes in Croatia and Bosnia, he feared the same could happen to Kosovo's Albanian population.
Parallel administration
Under Rugova's guidance then, the LDK and other Kosovo Albanian parties pioneered a unique experiment. They declared independence and began setting up parallel structures of government, health care and education.
Rugova was elected president in semi-underground elections while a "government-in-exile" shuttled between Germany, Switzerland, Albania and Macedonia.

The main purpose of this government was to raise taxes amongst the large Kosovo Albanian community working abroad and to use this money to finance education and other services.
Teachers, doctors and others were available in large numbers ever since they had been sacked or resigned from their jobs after Mr Milosevic's clampdown in 1989.
It is widely believed that the Serbs more or less permitted Mr Rugova's activities as he was immensely popular and if Albanians did not have him to look to for guidance then they would search for leadership amongst other more hardline candidates.
Dayton accord shatters consensus
Albanians who had followed Rugova through the difficult years of repression and harassment were shocked that the 1995 accord, which ended the war in Bosnia, did not deal with Kosovo. It became increasingly clear that western countries would not support its demand for independence.
From that time on Rugova's position came under increasing scrutiny. Some began to argue that their leader's pacifism was tantamount to passivity. Quarrels with the government-in-exile lead to a cut off of funds from abroad.
Leadership threatened
When the Kosovo Liberation Army began to emerge some two years ago Rugova argued that it was a Serbian police trick designed to discredit his policies.
The increasing prominence of the KLA showed this was not the case.
Mr Rugova's trademark is a silk scarf that he wears wherever he goes.
With the launch of the Nato air campaign and the mass exodus of Kosovo Albanians it is now unclear just how popular he remains.
Some analysts believe that if Mr Rugova could make a compromise deal with the Serbs, the vast majority of Albanians who are now armed would lay down their guns and follow his lead.
However he lost support when he was shown on Serbian television holding talks with President Slobodan Milosevic after the Nato bombing campaign began.
He also signed an agreement with Belgrade at the end of March paving the way for more peace talks on the province.
With his release by the Yugoslav authorities and arrival in Italy he clearly intends to play a role in the search for peace in Kosovo.
Whether it is a significant one remains to be seen.
Notes
(*1) Kosova is the Albanian name for the province. The word 'League' was chosen specifically to make reference to the League of Prizren, the first Albanian nationalist movement which was founded in 1878.

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Fawzia
-Queen of Iran-
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One of the most beautiful ladies of the last century was of Albanian stock. She had some French and Circassian blood too, but her ancestry was predominantly Albanian. Her name was Fawzia; she was the sister of the last king of Egypt, King Farouk.

Her paternal ancestor was, as I wrote above, the Albanian warrior Mehmed Ali Pascha who established the Egyptian independence and became its leader. He was born in Kavala, Greece, but was originally from Zemblak, Korca. This same man spoke only Albanian it was said, possible Turkish too. His son was Ibrahim Pascha; his son was Ismail, who had another son called Fuat. Fuat's daughter was Fewzia, and his son and heir, Farouk(he had other children as well). Her mother, called Nazli Sabri, was the daughter of Abdu'r-Rahman Pasha Sabri, who former minister of Agriculture and mayor of Cairo; he was of Albanian ancestry as well. His wife was Tefika Kahnum, who was mixed French-Albanian.

Fawzia was later married to the Shah of Iran; Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He dirvorced her later, however, due to her not giving birth to any son. Nevertheless, she reached great fame in the world through her beauty and acquired the nick-name "Asian Venus" -- that is what Cecil Beaton calls her, saying also that she had "a perfect heart-shaped face and strangely pale but piercing blue eyes".

Rahim Ademi
-Croatian Army General of Kosovo-Albanian Origin-
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Born and raised in the village of Karač, Vushtri muncipality of Kosovo, Rahim Ademi finished the Yugoslav military academy in Belgrade in 1976 and was assigned to a station in Rogoznica near Å*ibenik in Croatia, where he got married and had two children.

In 1986, the Military Court in Sarajevo convicted him of counterrevolutionary acts and Albanian irredentism, but after serving a year and a half in jail, the Supreme Military Court agreed with his appeal and acquitted him. He would spend the next years serving as an officer in Sinj until 1990 when the war in Croatia was starting and he deserted from the Yugoslav People's Army in order to help create Croatian army formations in that part of the country.
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Rahim_Ademi

Artim Shaqiri
-soccer player-
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Artim Shaqiri is the captain of the Macedonian National Team in soccer. He was one of the heros in the Macedonia - England soccer game which ended 2-2. Shakiri stuned the goalman David Seaman when he scored from a corner kick.
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England are left stunned as Macedonia's Artim Sakiri scores straight from a corner in the 11th minute.

Theodoros Pangalos
-Second President of Greece-
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Theodoros Pangalos (Greek Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος) (Born 1878, Salamina, Greece; died 1952, Athens, Greece) was a Greek general of Arvanite origin who briefly ruled the country in 1925 and 1926.

Early career

Pangalos graduated first in his class from the Hellenic Army Officer Cadet Academy, (Greek: Σχολή Ευελπίδων, Scholi Evelpidon) in 1900 and continued his studies in Paris, France. In 1916 he supported Eleftherios Venizelos in his struggle against Constantine I of Greece, and was rewarded with a senior position in the War Ministry. He participated in the Asia Minor Campaign from senior staff positions, but was demoted after Constantine returned to power in 1920; in 1923 Pangalos supported the coup d'etat by Nikolaos Plastiras which abolished the monarchy and declared the Second Hellenic Republic. His first job was to prosecute a number of prominent pro-monarchists in a kangaroo court that resulted in 6 executions; he then rushed to Thessaloniki, from where he successfully reorganized the Greek army in Macedonia and Thrace, as the war with Turkey was not over, and an attack in the region was feared to be imminent. The reorganization was so successful, that the Greek High Command prepared for a possible advance into Eastern Thrace in the face of the Turkish demands in the Lausanne peace talks. A sudden reversal of the Turks in April preempted the new war, and the Treaty of Lausanne was signed.

A staunch nationalist, Pangalos objected to the terms of the treaty, and declared that his troops would attack Turkey nonetheless in order to block the deal. He was forced to resign, but his stance made him popular with the many segments of Greek society that objected to the treaty. During the period of political instability that followed, Pangalos jumped into the fray, gaining and losing a number of ministerial positions as governments came and went.

In Power

On June 24, 1925, officers loyal to Pangalos, fearing that the political instability was putting the country at risk, overthrew the government in a coup. Pangalos immediately abolished the young republic and began to prosecute anyone who could possibly challenge his authority, including his old boss, Plastiras. Freedom of the press was abolished, and a number of repressive laws were enacted (including a law dictating the length of women's skirts - no more than 30cm above the ground), while Pangalos awarded himself the Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer. His political and diplomatic inability however became soon apparent. He conceded too many rights to Yugoslav commerce in Thessaloniki, but worse of all, he embroiled Greece in the so-called War of the Stray Dog, harming Greece's already strained international relations.

Soon, many of the officers that had helped him come to power decided that he had to be removed. On 24 August 1926, a counter-coup deposed him and Pavlos Kountouriotis returned as President.

After his rule

Pangalos remained in prison for 2 years and was released during a period when a number of amnesties were given by Venizelos. He never regained the popular support he had before the coup, and never again played a role in Greek politics. He unsuccessfully run for parliament in 1950 and died 2 years later.

His grandson, also named Theodoros Pangalos, is currently a member of the Greek parliament and a former minister of Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the PASOK socialist party.

Tom Perrotta
-Writer-
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Good to Know
Some fun factoids from our interview with Perrotta:

"My mother is Albanian."

"I don't eat eggs."

"My dog lived to the ripe old age of 18."

Valon Behrami
-Switzerland football player-
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Valon Behrami (born 19 April 1985 in Mitrovicë, Kosovë) is a Swiss midfielder currently playing professional football for S.S. Lazio of Italian Serie A.

Of Kosovo-Albanian origin, Behrami moved to Stabio, a village in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, due to war when he was only a child, and he then obtained the Swiss nationality.

Behrami started playing football in Swiss sides FC Stabio, FC Chiasso and FC Lugano. After a number of impressive appearances with FC Lugano, Behrami was jointly signed by Italian teams Genoa and Udinese, and played the Serie B championship with Genoa in 2003. In 2004, Udinese sold its rights on Behrami to Hellas Verona, and therefore Behrami moved to the gialloblu side, again in Serie B. After an impressive season played with Hellas Verona, Lazio signed him in the summer of 2005. He is used to wear the #85 jersey, as he does for Lazio. He has made € 6 000 000 so far in his professional career.

Nick Tosches
-Famous US Writer = half Albanian, Half Italian-
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Saimir Strati
-Artist/Guiness Book recordman-
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Saimir Strati speaks in front of the portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci, which he created with industrial nails, at the International Centre of Culture in Tirana, September 4, 2006. REUTERS/Arben Celi

World's largest nail mosaic hammered out

By Benet Koleka

TIRANA (Reuters) - Albanian artist Saimir Strati has hammered tens of thousands of nails into a wooden board over the past 24 days to create a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the world's biggest nail mosaic.

"I can officially confirm that we have a new record for the largest nail mosaic of eight square metres," Guinness World Records adjudicator Scott Christie said late on Monday.

The mosaic stood in the main hall of Tirana's pyramid-shaped culture centre, exactly where a larger-than-life sculpture of the late Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha used to stand.

Large-headed nails shone in the light falling on the sides of Da Vinci's flowing grey beard. Smaller black tapestry nails created shadow below his eyes and chin. Three rows of yellow nails framed the portrait.

"I have lost count of the nails, but I think it was around 400 kilos (880 pounds) of nails. I have used different nails. The condition was they should be industrial nails and they are," Strati said.

"My technique resembles (digital) camera pixels. I have used a nail for each pixel," he told Reuters.

A video record of the feat showed him nailing away for up to 12 hours a day.

"This is something quite unique and quite spectacular," Christie told Reuters, adding the mosaic is "a completely new category" for Guinness.

"We did not know quite what to expect before we came, but we are amazed and truly astounded at the fantastic work he has done, days and nights and hour upon hour," he added.

"Someone will have to try to beat that, but I do not think it will be beaten for some time."

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Gedeon Burkhard
-German Actor (Kommissar Rex)-

He is the great-grandson of Aleksander Moisiu
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Great-grandson of famous Albanian actor Alexander Moissi..
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121972/bio

Tefta Tashko
-Egyptian Soprano-
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Soprano Tefta Tashko (1910-1947) was born in Fayoum, Egypt, where her parents had emigrated from the end of the 19th century. In 1921 the family moved to Korça«, and in 1927 Tefta left for Montpellier to learn singing. Between 1932 and 1936 she studied at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation in Paris. When she returned to Albania permanently in 1936, apart from her programmes of operatic and chamber music, she also dedicated a great deal of effort to concentrating on learning and performing the Albanian urban lyric songs. She recorded twice for Columbia in Italy, in 1937 and 1942, a selection of the classical vocal repertoire and 45 Albanian urban lyric songs. Tefta was esteemed by national and foreign critics as “a lyric soprano of an excellent training, with a clear and healthy tone, with a cristaline intonation, brilliant vocal technique, discreet gestures and delightful phrasingâ€� (Gllas, Beograd, 14 November 1945). Nearly five years before her death, Tefta and her husband, Kristo, had a son named Eno.

Bash Dibra (Bashkim)
the most famous animal trainer in USA -
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Bash Dibra is a big, ebullient man with a warm smile, a gentle manner, and a lifelong affinity for dogs. When he was only three years old and fled with his family from Albania to a refugee camp in Yugoslavia, he made friends with the attack dogs that guarded the compound. Later, as the family traveled through Europe, Bash was able to work with master dog trainers, and he continued his work when he came to the United States. Then came the opportunity to raise and train a wolf, and through this experience Bash developed his unique methods of dog training.
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George Tames
-Half Greek/Half Albo - American Photographer for the New York Times -
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My next introduction to the Hill was the introduction of a long love affair, that began in 1940--
maybe 1939, because by 1940 I was pretty well established. In 1939, when I was a copyboy for Time
and Life in Washington, it was my job to be a gopher, and I would go up and pick up bills, and
handouts, and releases, and whenever there was an assignment up there for one of the Time and Life
photographers to photograph any personality, invariably I would ask to come along and hold their gear,
and write their captions, and so forth. I became fascinated with a camera, and also realized that being the son of a Greek-Albanian immigrants, a first generation American who couldn't speak English when
he went to school, that my schooling was minimal. In fact, I dropped out of high school in the tenth
grade, I had to go to work, there just wasn't any money. Being the oldest, I ...

Emonela Jaho
-Soprano-
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Steve Makaj
-US Actor-
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Playing the colonel in Stargate

Actor:

* 2000s
* 1990s
* 1980s

1. "Masters of Horror" (1 episode, 2006)
- The Screwfly Solution (2006) TV Episode
2. Two for the Money (2005) .... Coach
3. Edison (2005) .... Executive #1
... aka Edison Force (USA: DVD title)
4. "Cold Squad" .... Sheriff (1 episode, 2005)
- Borders (2005) TV Episode .... Sheriff
5. "Smallville" .... Gary Burgen - Metro Motors (1 episode, 2005)
... aka Smallville Beginnings (USA: rerun title)
... aka Smallville: Superman the Early Years (UK: promotional title)
- Recruit (2005) TV Episode .... Gary Burgen - Metro Motors
6. "Touching Evil" .... Adam Wolansky (1 episode, 2004)
- Attachment (2004) TV Episode .... Adam Wolansky
7. The Perfect Score (2004) .... Kyle's Father
... aka Voll gepunktet (Germany)
8. "Jake 2.0" .... Ethan Fulton (1 episode, 2003)
- Jerry 2.0 (2003) TV Episode .... Ethan Fulton
9. "Andromeda" .... Cross (1 episode, 2003)
... aka Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (USA: complete title)
- Answers Given to Questions Never Asked (2003) TV Episode .... Cross
10. "Peacemakers" .... Cody Young (1 episode, 2003)
- Pilot (2003) TV Episode .... Cody Young
11. "Taken" (2002) TV Series .... Sweatshirt Guy (unknown episodes)
... aka Steven Spielberg Presents Taken (USA: complete title)
12. "The Twilight Zone" .... Guard (1 episode, 2002)
- Evergreen (2002) TV Episode .... Guard
etc etc...

Valon Behrami
-Switzerland football player-
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Valon Behrami (born 19 April 1985 in Mitrovicë, Kosovë) is a Swiss midfielder currently playing professional football for S.S. Lazio of Italian Serie A.

Of Kosovo-Albanian origin, Behrami moved to Stabio, a village in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, due to war when he was only a child, and he then obtained the Swiss nationality.

Behrami started playing football in Swiss sides FC Stabio, FC Chiasso and FC Lugano. After a number of impressive appearances with FC Lugano, Behrami was jointly signed by Italian teams Genoa and Udinese, and played the Serie B championship with Genoa in 2003. In 2004, Udinese sold its rights on Behrami to Hellas Verona, and therefore Behrami moved to the gialloblu side, again in Serie B. After an impressive season played with Hellas Verona, Lazio signed him in the summer of 2005. He is used to wear the #85 jersey, as he does for Lazio. He has made € 6 000 000 so far in his professional career.

Artim Shaqiri
-soccer player-
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Artim Shaqiri is the captain of the Macedonian National Team in soccer. He was one of the heros in the Macedonia - England soccer game which ended 2-2. Shakiri stuned the goalman David Seaman when he scored from a corner kick.
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England are left stunned as Macedonia's Artim Sakiri scores straight from a corner in the 11th minute.

Te pakten vendos ketu futbollishte shqiptare si Igli Tare, Erion Bogdani, Rudi Vata, Bledar Kola, Besnik Hasi, etj. qe luajne dhe kane luajtur per Shqiperine e jo keta qe luajne per vende te tjera! Njesoj me boksin: Kemi Kreshnik Qaton (puro shqiptar qe bokson per Shqiperine), dhe s'ka nevoj te fusesh ketu boksiere si Krasniqi ose Abazi qe boksojne per vende te tjera!

IBRAHIM KODRA
Painter
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Click Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Kodra

ADRIAN PAÇI
Contemporary Visual Artist
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Interesting thread, didnt knew that many were Albanian :cheers:

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JAN KUKUZELI or JOHN KUKUZELI
born in Durres
medieval composer,singer and reformer of Eastern Orthodox church music.
click wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kukuzelis

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RIZA LUSHTA
was an Albanian football (soccer) striker that play for Juventus.
Click Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riza_Lushta

Quotes from Famous Albanians in Gjirokastër Castle
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Arnaut Rami
-Corsair and the hostage-taker of Cervantes-
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I replied that I was a slave of the Arnaut Mami (for I knew as a certainty that he was a very great friend of his),
and that I wanted some herbs to make a salad. He asked e then whether I were on ransom or not, and what my master demanded for me.
source:http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/45/
Miguel Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. He was captured by the pirate Arnaut Mami in September of 1575, and the Trinitarian responsible for his release five years later in 1580 was Juan Gil.(6) It is thought that Cervantes was buried in a Trinitarian habit.(7)

El corsario albanés que condujo a Cervantes a la prisión de Argel

Convertido ya en El manco de Lepanto -por las heridas sufridas en la famosa batalla- y tras extender su carrera militar por Corfú y Túnez, el 26 de septiembre de 1575 Miguel de Cervantes decide regresar a España a bordo de la galera El sol . A la altura de la localidad catalana de Cadaqués, la nave es atacada por la del corsario Arnaut Mami ( Mami El Albanés ), que
conduce al escritor a Argel para convertirlo en esclavo.
source:http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/especiales/2005/quijote/noticia.jsp?CAT=106&TEXTO=3417527

Laura Mersini
-theoretical physicist , Famous Cosmologist-
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Early and Late Times Universe, Dark Energy, Observational Constraints on Theoretical Models in Cosmology, Phenomenological Implications of String Theory, Transplanckian Physics, Extra Dimensional Scenarios and Brane-Worlds in Cosmological Issues
http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2004/soar_02.html

Gjergj Fishta
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Albania's Greatest Poet
The author of the national epic of the Albanian people, Lahuta e Malcis, The Highland Lute, tells of the brave struggles of the Northern Albanians with their Montenegrin and Turkish enemies. He was one to lead the intelligentsia in the fight against communism

Luigj Gurakuqi
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Luigj Gurakuqi (February 19, 1879 – March 2, 1925) was an important figure of the Albanian national movement. Born in Shkodër on February 19, 1879, Gurakuqi started his studies there, and he finished them at the University of Naples in Italy, where he was also a student of Jeronim De Rada. He was also a poet and published under the pen name Cakin Shkodra and Lekë Gruda. He published articles in Albania, Drita, Kalendari-kombëtar, Liria e Shqipërisë, and La Nazione Albanese.

In 1908, Gurakuqi returned to Albania and took an important role in the Albanian movement for independence. He took part at the Congress of Manastir, was the first principal of Shkolla Normale in Elbasan, and was the right-hand man of Ismail Qemali in the declaration of independence in 1912, and one of the leaders of the northern uprisings of 1911-1912.

Gurakuqi associated himself with Fan S. Noli, and against the forces of Ahmet Zogu. Gurakuqi was assassinated in Bari, Italy on March 2, 1925 by his cousin, Baltjon Stambolla, on behalf of the Zogu regime.

Luigj Gurakuqi was given the titles Hero i Popullit (Hero of the People) and Mësues i Popullit (Teacher of the People). There is also a university named after him in his hometown of Shkoder, Luigj Gurakuqi University of Shkodra.

Naim Frasheri
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Famous Poet

Naim Frashëri (May 25, 1846 Frashër, south Albania – October 20, 1900) was an Albanian romantic poet and a prominent figure of the Rilindja Kombëtare, the national renaissance of Albania, together with his two brothers Sami and Abdyl.

His father was an impoverished Bej from Frashër, District of Përmet. A Bektashi by religion, he became an Ottoman official in Sarandë, Berat, and Ioannina. In 1882, Frashëri was the head of the censorship department in Istanbul.

He took part in the Albanian people's freedom movement, and often had to sign his writings using his initials, as otherwise he would have placed himself in danger in front of Ottoman officials. His works had to be smuggled into Albania.

Early on, he started writing poetry. The very first pieces Frashëri wrote were in Persian. In all, he authored twenty-two major works: four in Turkish, one in Persian, two in Greek and fifteen in Albanian. The patriotic poems and highly popular lyric poetry, were at first strongly influenced by Persian literature, and later also French poetry. He also translated several fables of Jean de la Fontaine.

Naim Frashëri's poem Herds and Tillage depicts the activities of the shepherd and the tiller, alongside his personal reflections on the beauty of Albanian landscapes and expressions of longing after his homeland. The epic poem Skanderbeg’s Story retells the life of national hero Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, while intertwining it with imaginary episodes.

He also translated Homer’s Iliad, and wrote articles on didactics.

Through all of his writings, Frashëri exerted a strong influenced on the later Albanian literature and society. The independent Albanian state created an order of merit that bears his name, awarded to, amongst others, Mother Teresa; a publishing house in Tirana was named Naim Frashëri.
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Queen Teuta
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-Famous Illyrian Queen-
Queen Teuta (also Queen Tefta) , was an Illyrian queen and regent who reigned approximately from 231 BC to 228 BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuta

Isa Boletini
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-Famous Albanian Patriot-

Isa Boletini (1864-1916), Hero of Kosovo, was a prominent Albanian patriot, strategist, military leader, visionary and believer in fair pacifism who fought for the remaining of Kosovo within Albania. Isa was born in Boletin, a village in the Mitrovica region, his real name was Isa Shala. Isa joined the Albanian Prizren League forces when he was only 17, and fought in the battle of Slivova against Ottoman forces. Later, Boletini became a major figure of Albanian resistance against Ottoman Empire,Serbia and Montenegro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_Boletini

KING ZOG
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-King of Albania-

Zog I, Skanderbeg III of the Albanians (born Ahmet Zogolli, later changed to Ahmet Zogu) (October 8, 1895 – April 9, 1961) was King of Albania from 1928 to 1939. He was previously Prime Minister of Albania (1922 - 1924) and President of Albania (1925 - 1928).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zog_of_Albania

Fan.S.Noli
http://zemrashqiptare.net/images/articles/2007_12/111/u1_fan-noli.jpg
http://www.forumishqiptar.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16484&stc=1&d=1050578665
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hu/thumb/c/c9/Fan_Noli_2.jpg/225px-Fan_Noli_2.jpg

Theofan (Fan) Stilian Noli (January 6, 1882 - March 13, 1965) was an Albanian politician, writer and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924.

Fan Noli is venerated in Albania as a champion of literature, history, religion, diplomacy, music and national unity. He also contributed to the English-language literature with a number of publications on Scanderbeg, Shakespeare, Beethoven, religious texts and translations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_S._Noli

Faik Konica
http://zemrashqiptare.net/images/articles/2008_06/3517/u2_FaikKonica.jpg

Faik Konitza ( Faik Konica, March 15, 1875 – December 15, 1942), was one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Pre war Albanian minister to Washington, his literary review, "Albania", became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroad. Faik Konitza wrote little in the way of literature, but as a stylist, critic, publicist and political figure he had a tremendous impact on Albanian writing and on Albanian culture at the time.Born in Konica(now in Greece)

Loro Borici
http://zemrashqiptare.net/images/articles/2008_03/2579/u1_loro_borici_kampion.jpg

http://zemrashqiptare.net/images/articles/2008_03/2781/u1_LoroBorici.jpg

Legjenda Shqiptare Loro Borici (http://www.zemrashqiptare.net/article/Sporti/LegjendaShqiptare/4464/)

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loro_Bori%C3%A7i)

Sllave Llambi
http://zemrashqiptare.net/images/articles/2008_03/2781/u1_SllaveLlambi.jpg

Football player, played for SK Tirana, Bologna, won albanian Championship with Tirana, the italian championship with Bologna and the Balkan Championship with Albania! Beside Loro Borici and Panajot Pano one of the best albanian football players ever!

Gedeon Burkhard
-German Actor (Kommissar Rex)-

He is the great-grandson of Aleksander Moisiu
http://www.beepworld2.de/memberdateien/members7/lauri87/gedeon_4.jpg
Great-grandson of famous Albanian actor Alexander Moissi..
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121972/bio

Kaq jam dhe une Malazez,...:)

George Tenet
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/George_Tenet_portrait_headshot.jpg/383px-George_Tenet_portrait_headshot.jpgEx Director of CIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tenet

Marko Boçari
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MarkosBotsaris.jpgUdhëheqës Arvanit që çoi në Pavarësinë e Greqisë.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Botsaris

John Belushi
http://elwoodb.free.fr/Video/Blues/pics/JohnBelushi.jpg
American comedian, actor and musician (of Albanian origin).

Guys you forgot Alexander the Great......:cheers:
yeah....as it is half Illyrian ..................
Alexander the Great

-The Greatest Military Leader in History-
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/9705/alexander9mq.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9851/lekaimadhshqipni0ko8ct.gif
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2679/lekaimadhshqipni11hv6pv.gif
http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/976/tarn3kz.jpg

Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn, of the British Academy, regarded worldwide as having written the definitive work on Alexander the Great, states in the opening paragraph of his book Alexander the Great that "Alexander certainly had from his father (Philip II) and probably from his mother (Olymbia) Illyrian, i.e. Albanian, blood!"*

source:http://www.frosina.org/about/infobits.asp?id=139

More Research about his Albanian ancestry...
http://alexanderthegreat.wordpress.com/

ISMAIL QEMALI
http://www.km.gov.al/UserFiles/Image/kryeminNeVite/Ismail%20Qemali.jpg
was a distinguished leader of the Albanian national movement, founder of the modern Albanian state and its first head of state and government.
Click Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Qemali

Whoa, didn't knew many of these personalities were Albanian. Nice thread!

NAIM KRYEZIU
http://zemrashqiptare.net/images/articles/2008_03/2781/u1_NaimKryeziu.jpg
is an Albanian former football player famous in Italy in 1940s and 1950s
Click Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naim_Krieziu

Miriam Cani
-Pop singer (Germany)-
http://www.prosieben.de/imperia/md/images/music_und_cd/specials/preluders/400_225/03_preluders_miriam_400_225_ben_wolf_Polydor.jpg

ELISABETA KARABOLLI
-The first European Champion of Albanian Sport (September 28th, 1979)-
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/albo2/karabolli.bmp
Gold Medal P 30+30
XVII EC of Shooting 1979
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

YMER PAMPURI

http://foreignaffairs.tripod.com/armillotta/Ymer_Pampuri.JPG
Albanian World Champion Weightlifting – Featherweight (up to 60 kg) – Press (Forcë)
XX Olympic Games – XLVI World Championship
(Munich, August 29th, 1972: also Olympic Recordman: 127,5 kg)
http://foreignaffairs.tripod.com/armillotta/pampuri.html

Igli Tare
-football player-
http://www.lucadedonno.it/pic/giocatori/tare.jpg
NAME: Igli TARE
POSITION: Forward
HEIGHT: 191 cm
WEIGHT: 87 kg
BIRTHDATE: July 25, 1973
NATIONALITY: Albanian
HOMETOWN:Vlora, Albania

Kreshnik Qato
-Albanian World Champion Boxer-
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7684/kreshnikqato8zp.jpg
http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/5431/qato8ub.jpg
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3624/kreshnikqato0do.jpg

Farouk of Egypt
King of Egypt (ethnic Albanian)-
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7619/200pxfarouk10bs.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_of_Egypt

Fuad I of Egypt
King of Egypt (Ethnic Albanian)-
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8204/250pxfuad1ofegypt4fy.jpg
Ahmed Fuad was born in Giza Palace in Cairo, the seventh son of Isma'il Pasha. He was a member of the Muhammad Ali dynasty, a family of largely Albanian ancestry and came to prominence in Egypt under the Ottoman Empire. His mother was Farial Kadin. He succeeded his elder brother Husayn Kamil as sultan, after the latter's brief three-year reign.

http://www.answers.com/topic/fuad-i-of-egypt

Pal Engjelli
-Arbëreshë-
http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/9099/49065tnpalengjeli6cs.jpg

Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I
-Orthodox Priest-
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c303/ilirian1/Famous%20Albanians/EcumenicalPatriarchAthenagoras.jpg
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/118/athenagoras6ae.jpg

Ambeta Toromani
-Famous in Albania&Italy-
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1692/ambetatoromani3xq.png

Kaq jam dhe une Malazez,...:)
Ti je Shqiptar i Malit të Zi?

Whoa, didn't knew many of these personalities were Albanian. Nice thread!

Don't worry, a lot them have nothing to do with Albania and those who are dead would be spinning in their graves at the thought.
Welcome to the Balkans, this is normal behavior.

Marko Boçari
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MarkosBotsaris.jpgUdhëheqës Arvanit që çoi në Pavarësinë e Greqisë.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Botsaris

ky koka famous mut

Adem Yze

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/albo2/adem.jpg

Adem Yze (born 21 September 1977)[3] is an Australian rules footballer of Albanian descent. He has made the third highest number of appearances in the history of the Melbourne Football Club.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adem_Yze

Ti je Shqiptar i Malit të Zi?

Yeah,...:cheers:

Before two nights i saw on Playlist in Al-Jazeera TV the guest was Arta Dobroshi. I was so proud on her, she is so smart and has such a good stile. She was giving answers to people on one Cinema Hall. Before her the guest on program was Leonardo De Caprio.

I found the link of Arta Dobroshi presentation in Al Jazeera...

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/fps/2008/11/20081129112657428932.html

Stefi Gjine
-Teniss Player-

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/albo2/stefi.jpg

Her career records 124 trophy.

Aris Golemi
http://www.aris-dance.com/5/A&J%20LasVegasMarch07%20045%20B.JPG

(Ballet maestro,choreograph)

He have been choreograph of some parts of N’SYNC.

kto te fundit jane me shume te suksesshem se sa te famshem!

^^ Se mos 2/3 e atyre te tjereve me pare jane vertet te famshem.

une s'e kuptoj pse duhet kjo teme ketu. ky eshte forum arkitekture apo jo? pervec von gheges dhe sinan pashes asnje nga keto njerez ka vend ketu.

ky koka famous mut

Amon mjaft mer, qepe!

Edhe une mendoj, qe kjo tema ne pergjithesi nuk eshte e domosdoshme ne kete forum.

S'ka mut pa ushqime,grasshopper...

Mic Sokoli
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sq/thumb/6/6d/Mic_Sokoli.jpg/180px-Mic_Sokoli.jpg
Mic Sokoli(1839-1881-Eshte turp qe eshte harruar te permendet kjo figure e shquar hisotrike ne "Figura te shquara shqpetare".
U lind ne Fang te Bujanit(Tropoj) me 1839 ne nje familje patriotesh.Babai i tij dhe gjagjai i babait (Sokol Rama dhe Binak Alia) udhehoqen mijra kryengrites kunder reformave te tanzimatit.Ne moshen 7 vjecare Micit iu vra i ati(nga caush Faruku),ngjarje pas se ciles Mici mori nje lengate te gjate.Mic Sokoli eshte sternipi i figures legjendare kreshnikut Dash Sokoli i Sokolajve,qe mendohet te kete jetuar shek e XVIII,dhe rrugen per tu bere si stergjyshi ia dha gjyshja e tij lokemadhja e cila me tregimet per Dash Sokolin dhe trimat e tjere te cilat mund te percilleshin me lahut apo qifteli,krijoi tek Mici nje karakter te forte e luftarak,nje krenari dhe seder te rende.Perleshja e pare me turqit ishte ne moshen 15 vjecare kur ai tentoi te vriste caush Farukun,vrasesin e babait te tij.Kishte lidhje te perhershme me Sef Kosharen i cili me komiten e tij ateher endej neper Malsin e Gjakoves(Malsia e Madhe).Beteja e pare ne te cilen mori pjese ishte ajo e vitit 1855 ne moshen 16 vjecare i cili arriti te merrte flamrin(kush kishte flamurin udheheqte luften)dhe nxorri nga rrethimi luftetaret malsore duke shpartalluar forcat malazeze me kete rast i fali gjakun Ali Ibres(prijesit te gashit) gjest qe shtoi inatin e parise se Krasnices,e cila i dha nje denim mjaft te rende Micit,largimin nga Malsia.Ai u vendos ne fshatin dardan te poshtem te ravecit(mendohet te jete krusha e vogel)ku edhe ishte varri i te parit Dash Sokolit.Me pas kaloi ne Prizren ku u morr nen mbrojtjen e Ymer Prizrenit,dhe pasi vrau nje tuxhar shume te pasur u zhvendos ne Pej ne shtepine e Haxhi Zekes,dhe pasi i beri edhe disa vrasje te tjera te funksionarve e ushtarve turq detyrimisht u largua ne mal ne moshen 18 vjecare,ne komiten e Gjete Bukoshit,ku e morri Sylejman Vokshi.Atje mesoi per artin ushtarak dhe jeten ne mal por edhe u shqua si trim i rral dhe udheheqs i miri ne beteja te shumta,deri kur nje ushtri e madhe turke ndeshkuse e shpartalloi komiten e Gjete Bukoshit ne gryken e Kacanikut.Mici u kthye ne malsi ku pritet si hero,ndersa ty kryetaret e parise se Krasnices kishin vdekur njeri nga merzia pasi kishte degjuar bemat e micit,ndersa tjetri kishte lene koken ne beteje duke luftuar pa u ruajtur.Pati rol te madh ne lidhjen e Prizrenit,udhehoqi njesi te medha ushtarake dhe kishte nam per kapjen e spihuneve qe ishte bere tmerri i spiuneve dhe te derguarve te cilet dilnin nga konsullatat e fuqive te medha dhe i benin deme lidhjes,ishte komandant i gardes se lidhjes qe perbehej nga 3000 malsore kalores,kishte graden kapedan(Gjeneral).Mori pjese ne betejen ne Gjakove kunder Mehmet Ali Pashes,pastaj u dergua ne kufirin verior te shqiperise(veri te Kosoves,Tregu i Ri etj)ku ndaloi bandat serbe per te hyre ne territorin e Kosoves.Me pas u dergua ne Malsin e madhe per ta mbrojtur,jashtezakonisht u shqua ne betejen e Nokshiqit kunder Agresorve Malazez.Mori pjese ne lufterat ne Plave e Guci,Hot,Grude,Tuz,Gjakove,Prizren,Prishtine(me rastin e clirimit te prishtines nga turqit,Mic Sokoli me 3000 nalsor sulmoi ne befasi duke depertuar nga malet e Germise) ,Gjilan,Shkup(ku u plagos),Ferizaj.
Ne betejen e Slivoves prill te vitit 1881,kur pa se luftetareve te lidhjes po u bombardohej shtegu i fshehte permes te cilit sulmonin kampin e forcave te Dervish Pashes,kreu nje akt trimerie te rralle pasi qe pa se nuk kishte mundesi i vetem te vriste luftetaret qe operonin topin,ateher i vuri gjoksin ku morri 7 plag dhe nuk ra para topit,Mici si div dhe tere muskuj i kishte tmerruar turqit kur kishte filluar te shtynte topin drejt gremines,ateher tuqit nga frika shkrepen topin,ku ra heroikisht Mic Sokoli,dragoi i malsis,dhe la te vdekur gjithe turqit qe ishin perreth.Shum kenge i ngriti populli Mic Sokolit,dhe figura e vepra e tij ndez gjakrat dhe kujton kohet e lavdishme te lidhjes shqiptare.

Mic Sokoli n'dy tagana
rruga e mar i ka than nana
te luftosh bir per shqipni
nkoft nevoja me ty vi
mos le t'huj ti ktu me hi
Mic Sokoli ni fjal po e flet
po i thot nanes ti mir mbec
Pa u fari malsia krejt
nuk hyn ktu as krajl as mbret

VENDOSNI SA ME SHUME FOTO TE KOMUNITEVE SHQIPTARE NE TE GJITHE BOTEN ..KUDO QE JANE ....

ELITA DEMIRI ....topmodele Shqiptare nga Gostivari ne AustraliA
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs026.snc4/33681_153243238044743_137660989602968_241446_3926375_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1183.snc4/150541_155358367843851_100001090668871_257882_3806283_n.jpg

Kledi Kadiu ...balerin i famshem shqiptar ne Itali
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v255/33/79/17273742427/n17273742427_668290_5453.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v255/33/79/17273742427/n17273742427_668356_7409.jpg

Rimi Cerloj ...balerin Durresak ne Itali
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs786.snc4/66636_132052536845482_100001222104939_175416_1248763_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs939.snc4/73252_137608656289870_100001222104939_206428_1131653_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs443.ash2/71667_136585629725506_100001222104939_198910_286928_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs049.ash2/35824_107687295948673_100001222104939_53294_2430368_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs653.snc4/61307_125591924158210_100001222104939_145456_5104451_n.jpg

Angela Martini
born in Shkodër, lives in New York City.


http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs068.snc4/34763_104103476310657_102344073153264_28691_5793275_n.jpg

Patrick Nuo.
He is of Albanian and Swiss origin.
http://www.celebblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/patrick1.jpg

Angela Martini
born in Shkodër, lives in New York City.


http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs068.snc4/34763_104103476310657_102344073153264_28691_5793275_n.jpg

I hate this bitch and I don´t know why. :bash:

ju lutem lejini ofendimet

I hate this bitch and I don´t know why. :bash:

haha

Eliza Dushku

From USA

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Eliza_Dushku_2009.jpg/400px-Eliza_Dushku_2009.jpg

Gabriella Cilmi - australian singer of arbëresh origin

ZXRSZc9ZHGg

Tie Domi - albanian-canadian hockey player, known as one of the best fighters of his generation. Involved here in one of the most memorable moments in hockey history:

OcgivAeVlI4

Kristine Elezaj

From USA

http://bd.img.v4.skyrock.net/bde/duffyezeqiriritaora/pics/2866915332_1.jpg

James Belushi is an American actor, comedian and musician.
http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/images/profiles/jim-belushi.jpg

Gabriella Cilmi - australian singer of arbëresh origin

ZXRSZc9ZHGg

wow.

wow now i know the reason of why i was (stil am) atracted to her and i cant bealive shes only 19

Wow, interesting thread, i didn't know that there are so many famous albanians.

ynQtkNU_q9U
Robert De Niro
he is an arberesh
he has albanian-italian roots

^^discussed and not true

Nje nder krytaret historik dhe me te sukses?shem te Izmirit ishte Kosovari Ahmet Prishtina. Izmiri ka mbi 3 milion banor

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Piri%C5%9Ftina

Gjithashtu edhe Hymnin e Turqis e shkruajti nje Kosovare Mehmet Akif Ersoji

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_%C3%82kif_Ersoy

^^discussed and not true

:bash: he says: im albanian-italian 0:11
there is a big arberesh community in sicily so its not imposible that he is an arberesh


there is nothing to discuss :lol:

Po ashtu nje nder figurat me te medha ne boten Islame esht shkodrani Nasirudin Al-Albani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Nasiruddin_al-Albani

:bash: he says: im albanian-italian 0:11
there is a big arberesh community in sicily so its not imposible that he is an arberesh


there is nothing to discuss :lol:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=619548&page=88

"you have blond Sicilians, ......you have Albanians...Italins....."

Mos i keqinterpretoni gjerat.

Po ashtu nje nder figurat me te medha ne boten Islame esht shkodrani Nasirudin Al-Albani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Nasiruddin_al-Albani

Ngjan ma shume nje turko-arabi, nuk sho gje shqiptare ketu, baba emrin arab studjoi ne Istanbul etj...

Ngjan ma shume nje turko-arabi, nuk sho gje shqiptare ketu, baba emrin arab studjoi ne Istanbul etj...

Sikurse disa Vladimira Antona Anastasa Milorada Strazimira te Krishter Shqiptare edhe ky e ka emrin sipas besimit te tije Islame.edhe mos u mundo mej banalizue gjanat

Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I
-Orthodox Priest-
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c303/ilirian1/Famous%20Albanians/EcumenicalPatriarchAthenagoras.jpg
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/118/athenagoras6ae.jpg

Edhe ketu asgje nuk po me tingllone Shqiptare?

"you have blond Sicilians, ......you have Albanians...Italins....."

Mos i keqinterpretoni gjerat.

:lol: qfar thua
he has albanian-arberesh roots

:lol: qfar thua
he has albanian-arberesh roots

How come we haven't heard of this prior to that video? I mean this guy is pretty huge, people know when and how he takes a shit let alone something about him being arbresh.

How come we haven't heard of this prior to that video? I mean this guy is pretty huge, people know when and how he takes a shit let alone something about him being arbresh.

i dont care about your opinion
i just said he has arberesh roots like alot of italians who imigrated to the usa and that is true
so whats your problem

i dont care about your opinion
i just said he has arberesh roots like alot of italians who imigrated to the usa and that is true
so whats your problem

:bash:

Sikurse disa Vladimira Antona Anastasa Milorada Strazimira te Krishter Shqiptare edhe ky e ka emrin sipas besimit te tije Islame.edhe mos u mundo mej banalizue gjanat

Normal qe jo as ata skan gje shqiptare, ter jeta ju shkon ne Vatikan, Rom a ku ta di une duke u ber ma prift se prifit...

Nuk o qe p'ja maj anen katolikve, po asnjonve. Dikujna qe i shkon jeta tu e msu kuranin ose biblen dhe tu u bo ma hoxh se hoxha dhe ma prift se prifti per mu nuk o shqiptar...

Per ty Obama qe e ban betimin ne Bibel nuk qenka njeri....mos filozofo shum o Nolt se vetem shkijet edhe Greket e lidhin fene me kombe e edhe ti po mundohesh vetem qe ata thojn kush a ortodoks a serb e grek e ti po thu kush beson ne zot nuk a njeri.

Je shum i vogel me i gjyku ti njerzit per zgjedhjen dhe jeten e tyre private.

Per ty Obama qe e ban betimin ne Bibel nuk qenka njeri....mos filozofo shum o Nolt se vetem shkijet edhe Greket e lidhin fene me kombe e edhe ti po mundohesh vetem qe ata thojn kush a ortodoks a serb e grek e ti po thu kush beson ne zot nuk a njeri.

Je shum i vogel me i gjyku ti njerzit per zgjedhjen dhe jeten e tyre private.

lol kush po thot qe sbesoj nzot?

a e din kuptimin e sarkazmit "ma hoxh se hoxha dhe ma prift se prifti"? Prsh do shqiptar te Kosoves te cilet kan qen ne Egjipt e Libij kan shku atje me msu fije per peni kuranin thu ti ka me na dha perparim te madh neve. Bile bile njeri dul ne TV dhe ne dhom i kish pas nja 20, 30 libra arabisht, me mjekerr etj...

Te gjith jemi te bashkuar pran zotit por prap s'duhet me tepru si do tipa.

Eh qka na hupi ajo fryma e viteve '90 kur ishim te bashkuar rreth nje ceshtje e tash kemi nis mu radikalizu mas fejes...

lol kush po thot qe sbesoj nzot?

a e din kuptimin e sarkazmit "ma hoxh se hoxha dhe ma prift se prifti"? Prsh do shqiptar te Kosoves te cilet kan qen ne Egjipt e Libij kan shku atje me msu fije per peni kuranin thu ti ka me na dha perparim te madh neve. Bile bile njeri dul ne TV dhe ne dhom i kish pas nja 20, 30 libra arabisht, me mjekerr etj...

Te gjith jemi te bashkuar pran zotit por prap s'duhet me tepru si do tipa.

Eh qka na hupi ajo fryma e viteve '90 kur ishim te bashkuar rreth nje ceshtje e tash kemi nis mu radikalizu mas fejes...

Pajtohem me ket mendim nuk duhet lejuar me dominue ekstremizmi fetar ne shtetet dhe trojet Shqiptare ne edhe ashtu si kombe jemi te rrethuar prej armiqve dhe po hyri edhe perqarja fetare ne mes Shqiptarve ky do te jet fundi i kombit Shqiptare.

Mirpo nuk duhet harruar se ekstremizem fetare ka nga te dyja anet si nga te Krishteret ashtu edhe nga Muslimanet Shqiptare bile bile Shqiptaret ortodokse kane arritur deri ne ate pike sa ta mohojne edhe kombesin shqiptare per hir te kryqit te athines

Pajtohem me ket mendim nuk duhet lejuar me dominue ekstremizmi fetar ne shtetet dhe trojet Shqiptare ne edhe ashtu si kombe jemi te rrethuar prej armiqve dhe po hyri edhe perqarja fetare ne mes Shqiptarve ky do te jet fundi i kombit Shqiptare.

Mirpo nuk duhet harruar se ekstremizem fetare ka nga te dyja anet si nga te Krishteret ashtu edhe nga Muslimanet Shqiptare bile bile Shqiptaret ortodokse kane arritur deri ne ate pike sa ta mohojne edhe kombesin shqiptare per hir te kryqit te athines


Kjo nuk eshte fare per arsye fetare . Disa nga ju duhet te kuptoni se kush behet grek ketu , nuk behet per hir te kryqit . Po per arsye ekonomiko-sociale .Ka pastaj edhe minoritaret grek , qe shkojne ne greqi edhe behin pashaportizimin .

Une e di me mire kete ceshtje se ju . Duke qene nje person qe jeton ne greqi gati 20 vjet ... Dmthne qe 3 vjec .

Pra do ishte mire te mos ngateroni minoritaret me shqiptaret ortodoks .Po te dinit historine e shqiperise do kuptonit se shume e shume atdhetare te medhenji shqiptar i perkisnin fes ortodokse .

Ka musliman shqiptar sa te duash ne greqi , qe nuk flasin ketu e 20 vjet as nje fjale shqiptare ... Pra eshte mire qe kurre flisni te flisni me fakte .

Nja 2-3 vite me para ishin edhe disa kosovare ketu afer lagjes . Te te them te verteten , ata benin me keq se c do te krishter shqiptar qe kam pare ketu ne greqi ......

bile bile Shqiptaret ortodokse kane arritur deri ne ate pike sa ta mohojne edhe kombesin shqiptare per hir te kryqit te athines

Ne postin e larte kujtoja se kishte thene disa shqiptare ortodoks . Po tani pashe qe ke etiketuar tere komunitetin ortodoks shqiptar . Pra e ke me shume propagande sesa opinion ...

Kush ti thote keto ? Hoxha ? Po te ishte per muslimanet tani shqiperia do ishte nje cope vendi si afghanistani , pa identitet qe do sokeliste allahu ekber tere diten .

Ju muslimanet po e deformoni indetitetin shqiptar edhe po akuzoni te tjeret ? Eshte pak sa ironike ...

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Degjoje tani hoxhen tend sesi shan skenderbeun , nene terezen , e pjeter bogdanit etc .

A lahet muti me shurre ?

Per ty Obama qe e ban betimin ne Bibel nuk qenka njeri....mos filozofo shum o Nolt se vetem shkijet edhe Greket e lidhin fene me kombe e edhe ti po mundohesh vetem qe ata thojn kush a ortodoks a serb e grek e ti po thu kush beson ne zot nuk a njeri.

Je shum i vogel me i gjyku ti njerzit per zgjedhjen dhe jeten e tyre private.

Me te vertet ? Une kujtoja qe ishte e tere bota qe e lidhte kombin me fene . Po si duket kapaciteti tim intelektual nuk e percepton dot boten si ti .

A di ti shume shtete qe pervec bosnjes edhe shqiperise , nuk jan homogjene ne fe ?

A mund te me numrosh me shume se 10 ne tere boten ?! Ose me shume se 2 shtete ne europe ?!!!

Shqiptaret ortodokse kane arritur deri ne ate pike sa ta mohojne edhe kombesin shqiptare per hir te kryqit te athines


e kam degjuar shume here kte budallik nga kosovaret ne pergjithesi...nga i gjeni kto informacione ju? pse egziston kjo pikepamje ne kosove, greket urrehen ne jug te shqiperise me shume se kudo tjeter, per kete duhet te jesh i bindur. me perjashtim te disa personave qe jetojne rreth zonave minoritare, te cilet kane nderruar kombesine per shkak se mernin pensione si minoritar, nuk di ndonje ortodoks shqiptar shqeto qe te ket nderruar kombesine, duhet te informohesh me shume dhe mos fol per gjera qe nuk e ke idene.

kisha ortodokse shqiptare eshte autoqefale, dmth, jashte influences greke teknikisht, te pakten ne statut. fatkeqesia me e madhe eshte ai gjarpri grek ne kishen e nolit, por cti besh i do qir nena politikes bashke me sali kurven qe e lejoi grekun e qelbur ne krye te kishes ortodokse edhe pse statuti qartesisht kerkon nje njeri me kombesi dhe te lindur shqiptar.

e kam degjuar shume here kte budallik nga kosovaret ne pergjithesi...nga i gjeni kto informacione ju? pse egziston kjo pikepamje ne kosove, greket urrehen ne jug te shqiperise me shume se kudo tjeter, per kete duhet te jesh i bindur. me perjashtim te disa personave qe jetojne rreth zonave minoritare, te cilet kane nderruar kombesine per shkak se mernin pensione si minoritar, nuk di ndonje ortodoks shqiptar shqeto qe te ket nderruar kombesine, duhet te informohesh me shume dhe mos fol per gjera qe nuk e ke idene.

kisha ortodokse shqiptare eshte autoqefale, dmth, jashte influences greke teknikisht, te pakten ne statut. fatkeqesia me e madhe eshte ai gjarpri grek ne kishen e nolit, por cti besh i do qir nena politikes bashke me sali kurven qe e lejoi grekun e qelbur ne krye te kishes ortodokse edhe pse statuti qartesisht kerkon nje njeri me kombesi dhe te lindur shqiptar.


Tani edhe na thua qe Kisha ortodokse Shqiptare eshte e pamvarur edhe nuk eshte e me gjarprinje mbrenda!!!!??
Une di qe Kisha Ortodokse Shqiptare drejtohet nga nje qelbsire dhe ne faqen e saje zyrtare ne internet ke edhe gjuhen greke ndersa te ajo greke nuk ke as kryepeshkop shqiptare e as gjuhe shqiptare ne faqen e saje te internetit.

Une nuk them qe ortodokset shqiptare jan grek ose behen grek por them qe Kisha ortodokse Shqiptare egziston vetem ne leter dhe status,ajo dirigjohet dhe punon kunder interesave kombetare shqiptare siq ishte rasti i aksidentit automobilistik ne Himare veren e kaluar,siq eshte rasti i zhvarrosjes se eshtrave shqiptare per ti varrosur si greke,kthimi i statujave dhe monumenteve te komunizmit ne kryqe gjigande qe nuk jane gje tjeter veqese nje ndotje ambientale dhe shprehje e shovinizmit grek.

Me te vertet ? Une kujtoja qe ishte e tere bota qe e lidhte kombin me fene . Po si duket kapaciteti tim intelektual nuk e percepton dot boten si ti .

A di ti shume shtete qe pervec bosnjes edhe shqiperise , nuk jan homogjene ne fe ?

A mund te me numrosh me shume se 10 ne tere boten ?! Ose me shume se 2 shtete ne europe ?!!!

Ahahhaha...ne fakt te kam then njeher se nuk merrem me sherbetore te Janullatosit dhe me grekofile ose siq i quani ju HEMOGJENE.

Ka shume kombe qe nuk jan Hemogjen ne kuptimin fetare,marre shembull Kinen me 1.336 Miliard banore po qe kjo ka pak rendesi per mua SHqiperia eshte Homogjene ne strukturen e saje kombetare dhe madje edhe fetare.

Shqiperia Etnike eshte mbi 90% muslimane dhe ajo zyrtare mbi 70% e besimit musliman.

Te vetmit qe nuk jane homogjen dhe qe ne fakt nuk jan ate per te cilet mbahen por gjithe historin e kane te vjedhur jane greket dhe ti si nje parazit i rritur ne mesin e tyre ke perfituar shpejt traditen e te vjedhurit te historise dhe te promovimit te Ortodoksizmit "grek".

Hap syte dhe mos u merr me muslimanet shqiptare se po te mos ishin ata sot nuk do te egzistonte kjo qe quhet Shqiperi dhe kjo eshte fakt historik i pakundershtushem.

Shembullin me te mire e ke çamerin, ata shqiptare qe ishin muslimane u debuan, u masakruan , e shqiptaret ortodokse nuk u debuan por u asimiluan nga kisha greke sepse sipas saje po qe ortodoks je grek dhe nuk munde te jet ndryshe per sa kohe jeton ne gre-qi.

Sa e forte ka qen Kisha greke tregon fakti qe sot kur jemi shtet i pamvarur akoma politika e qelbur shqiptare i puth bythen Janullatosit,se qka ka bere kjo Kishe 200 vitet e fundit besoj se ska nevoje te shkruaj por e di qe çdo veprime i saje ka qen kunder ketij kombi dhe shteti qe kem ne sot perjashto keto kishen nen drejtimin e FAN NOLIT.

Ne konferencen e fundit te Komuniteti musliman Shqiptare lidhur me projektin e Xhamise mbrapa zedhensit te ketij komuniteti kishe Flamurin Shqiptare dhe vargjet e Naimit.

Sa e forte ka qen Kisha greke tregon fakti qe sot kur jemi shtet i pamvarur akoma politika e qelbur shqiptare i puth bythen Janullatosit,

Ti je i semure ore, je ne lufte me trurin tend. Ajo politika qe i puth bythen janullatosit eshte e njejta te ciles i puth pythen ti. :lol:

^^Nuk kame votuar ndonjeher as ne Kosove dhe as ne Shqiperi...nuk jam ne lufte me trurin dhe as me logjiken.:)

E dini ca eshte interesante : shkoni te faqja e KQZ dhe shikoni se ku ka marre me shume vota PBDNJ , shikojeni komunat me rradhe dhe mos u habisni kur te shikoni shembuj te tille:

http://result.cec.org.al/?q=11&r=29&l=313

Ku PBDNJ eshte forca e dyte politike ne Koplik te Malesisa se Madhe. Shikojeni me rradhe gjithe komunat ne veri dhe ne jug te Shqiperise e pastaj flisni.

Ne Martanesh te qarkut Diber , PBDNJ forca e pare politike ne keshillin bashkiak:

http://result.cec.org.al/?q=5&r=3&l=56

Ban-ki Moon. Jugokorean me prejardhje arbereshe nga fshati Corleone ne Itali.

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Ahahhaha...ne fakt te kam then njeher se nuk merrem me sherbetore te Janullatosit dhe me grekofile ose siq i quani ju HEMOGJENE.

Ka shume kombe qe nuk jan Hemogjen ne kuptimin fetare,marre shembull Kinen me 1.336 Miliard banore po qe kjo ka pak rendesi per mua SHqiperia eshte Homogjene ne strukturen e saje kombetare dhe madje edhe fetare.

Shqiperia Etnike eshte mbi 90% muslimane dhe ajo zyrtare mbi 70% e besimit musliman.

Te vetmit qe nuk jane homogjen dhe qe ne fakt nuk jan ate per te cilet mbahen por gjithe historin e kane te vjedhur jane greket dhe ti si nje parazit i rritur ne mesin e tyre ke perfituar shpejt traditen e te vjedhurit te historise dhe te promovimit te Ortodoksizmit "grek".

Hap syte dhe mos u merr me muslimanet shqiptare se po te mos ishin ata sot nuk do te egzistonte kjo qe quhet Shqiperi dhe kjo eshte fakt historik i pakundershtushem.

Shembullin me te mire e ke çamerin, ata shqiptare qe ishin muslimane u debuan, u masakruan , e shqiptaret ortodokse nuk u debuan por u asimiluan nga kisha greke sepse sipas saje po qe ortodoks je grek dhe nuk munde te jet ndryshe per sa kohe jeton ne gre-qi.

Sa e forte ka qen Kisha greke tregon fakti qe sot kur jemi shtet i pamvarur akoma politika e qelbur shqiptare i puth bythen Janullatosit,se qka ka bere kjo Kishe 200 vitet e fundit besoj se ska nevoje te shkruaj por e di qe çdo veprime i saje ka qen kunder ketij kombi dhe shteti qe kem ne sot perjashto keto kishen nen drejtimin e FAN NOLIT.

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Blah , blah , blah po pyetjes time nuk ju pergije . Do te paraljmeroja te ndalosh me ofendimet , po sidoqoft nuk me intereson edhe aq shume se c thua ti . Se e kam mesuar me kohe sa arabofil je , gje qe te trullos trurin tend njeqelizor .

A ke pare ti ndonje katolik,agnostik,ortodoks nga shqiperia etc. etc. te mirret me muslimanet e kosoves ?

Pra ju c fare mutin doni qe mireni me te tjeret ?! Une te them te verteten kete nuk kam kuptuar .

Me vjen keq , po ta them me plote bindje , shqiperia nuk ka per tu bere kurre ne shumice muslimane . Mire ishte ju turkofilet e kosoves ta pranonit kete , e mos te na canit derrasat sa here .

A nuk ishe ti qe fillove te etikosh grupin fetar e shqiperise , pa patur as nje provokim nga ana e ndo nje personi qe i perket atij komuniteti ?

E pra c fare **** do ? C te duhet ti ? Shiko fen tende , ne fshatin tend edhe aq .

Ju muslimanet e kosoves keni shume komplexe , per zotin .


Edhe sa i perket asaj qe me quan sherbetor te janullatosit . Une them te qifsha genin e turkut ne familjen tende , te qifsha ty edhe janullatosin bashke .

Blah , blah , blah po pyetjes time nuk ju pergije . Do te paraljmeroja te ndalosh me ofendimet , po sidoqoft nuk me intereson edhe aq shume se c thua ti . Se e kam mesuar me kohe sa arabofil je , gje qe te trullos trurin tend njeqelizor .

A ke pare ti ndonje katolik,agnostik,ortodoks nga shqiperia etc. etc. te mirret me muslimanet e kosoves ?

Pra ju c fare mutin doni qe mireni me te tjeret ?! Une te them te verteten kete nuk kam kuptuar .

Me vjen keq , po ta them me plote bindje , shqiperia nuk ka per tu bere kurre ne shumice muslimane . Mire ishte ju turkofilet e kosoves ta pranonit kete , e mos te na canit derrasat sa here .

A nuk ishe ti qe fillove te etikosh grupin fetar e shqiperise , pa patur as nje provokim nga ana e ndo nje personi qe i perket atij komuniteti ?

E pra c fare **** do ? C te duhet ti ? Shiko fen tende , ne fshatin tend edhe aq .

Ju muslimanet e kosoves keni shume komplexe , per zotin .


Edhe sa i perket asaj qe me quan sherbetor te janullatosit . Une them te qifsha genin e turkut ne familjen tende , te qifsha ty edhe janullatosin bashke .


Tani si bythqir qe qenke verteton se je grek muti dhe jam i sigurt se Janullatosi si bythqir qe eshte do ta plotson deshiren dhe une them qiju me te dhe bythqiret tjere grek , une nuk jam HOMO dhe as grek keshtu qe nuk mundem ta plotsoje deshiren.

Nuk ka pasur e as sdo ket gene turke ne familjen time,po mos harro se per tju qire nenn grekve ju ka qire turku keshtu qe mos u kruaj as me turk se del i lagur.

Kosovaret nuk mirren me ortodokset,katolik apo tjere, ne merremi me grekofilet dhe mbeturinat e tyre...ik mbushu dhe mos mu drejto me sepse neqoftese truri ime ka nje qeliz ai i joti eshte bosh, vetem ajer ke asgje me shume.

Sa kot ziheni per pune feje ju ! Ne qoft se vazhdoni ashtu atehere thirini te gjithe muslimanet Shqiptar Turk ose Arab , ortodokset thirini Grek dhe katoliket Italian :nuts:
Cdo feje ka historine dhe vleren e saj ne kombin Shqiptar dhe duhet rujtur ajo gjeja nga te rallat qe na karakterizon per mire si komb; Harmonia Fetare !

Blah , blah , blah po pyetjes time nuk ju pergije . Do te paraljmeroja te ndalosh me ofendimet , po sidoqoft nuk me intereson edhe aq shume se c thua ti . Se e kam mesuar me kohe sa arabofil je , gje qe te trullos trurin tend njeqelizor .

A ke pare ti ndonje katolik,agnostik,ortodoks nga shqiperia etc. etc. te mirret me muslimanet e kosoves ?

Pra ju c fare mutin doni qe mireni me te tjeret ?! Une te them te verteten kete nuk kam kuptuar .

Me vjen keq , po ta them me plote bindje , shqiperia nuk ka per tu bere kurre ne shumice muslimane . Mire ishte ju turkofilet e kosoves ta pranonit kete , e mos te na canit derrasat sa here .

A nuk ishe ti qe fillove te etikosh grupin fetar e shqiperise , pa patur as nje provokim nga ana e ndo nje personi qe i perket atij komuniteti ?

E pra c fare **** do ? C te duhet ti ? Shiko fen tende , ne fshatin tend edhe aq .

Ju muslimanet e kosoves keni shume komplexe , per zotin .


Edhe sa i perket asaj qe me quan sherbetor te janullatosit . Une them te qifsha genin e turkut ne familjen tende , te qifsha ty edhe janullatosin bashke .


A ke pare ti ndonje katolik,agnostik,ortodoks nga shqiperia etc. etc. te mirret me muslimanet e kosoves ?


Ti munde te flasesh vetem per Ortodokset e jo edhe per Katoliket Shqiptare edhe leje mos na shite pordha ketu se ti je pinjolle i Janullatit dhe ekstremist Ortodokse te kam pare edhe disa her atje te "Forumishqiptare" se qfare urrejtje ke ndaje Shqiptarev Muslimane dhe te te them te drejten jame befasuar nga disa shkrime te shqiptarve Ortodose te aje "Forumishqiptare" i cili Financohet nga janullati dhe ku shqiptaret Ortodose ne unanim Serbet i quajne Vlezer.

e kam degjuar shume here kte budallik nga kosovaret ne pergjithesi...nga i gjeni kto informacione ju? pse egziston kjo pikepamje ne kosove, greket urrehen ne jug te shqiperise me shume se kudo tjeter, per kete duhet te jesh i bindur. me perjashtim te disa personave qe jetojne rreth zonave minoritare, te cilet kane nderruar kombesine per shkak se mernin pensione si minoritar, nuk di ndonje ortodoks shqiptar shqeto qe te ket nderruar kombesine, duhet te informohesh me shume dhe mos fol per gjera qe nuk e ke idene.

kisha ortodokse shqiptare eshte autoqefale, dmth, jashte influences greke teknikisht, te pakten ne statut. fatkeqesia me e madhe eshte ai gjarpri grek ne kishen e nolit, por cti besh i do qir nena politikes bashke me sali kurven qe e lejoi grekun e qelbur ne krye te kishes ortodokse edhe pse statuti qartesisht kerkon nje njeri me kombesi dhe te lindur shqiptar.


e kam degjuar shume here kte budallik nga kosovaret ne pergjithesi...

Nuke esht budallake ky jo shoki te te perkujtoje se ku koincidone ky budallaku ?

Fatose Nano ,Ortodokse kryminister i shqiperis ne momentet me te veshtira per Kosoven deklaroje ne Athine se kryeqyteti i Kosovarve esht Beligradi dhe gjate ter qeverisjes se tije udh?hoqi nje politike shume anti-Kosove

Edvin Rma,Ortodokse kryetare i kryeqytetit te Shqiperis dhe lider i Opozites Shqiptare Dekoroje me Qelsin e tiranes Bregovicin kompozitorin e kengeve ne tingujt e te cilave Ushtria Serbe Marshoje ne Kosove ku Masakroje Femi Grae e Pleqe. dhe po ashtu ky Edvin Rama qe nga fillimi ka ndjekur nje politike anti-Kosove

Popi Ortodokse nga Berati gjate vizites se tije ne manastirin e Deqanit Deklaroje se Kosova esht Jerusalem i Serbise ky Prifte Oficiel perfaqsone Shqiptaret Ortodokse.

Janullati ky gjarper i shqiperis dhe kombit shqiptare nje anti-Shqiptare dhe Anti-Kosovare i perbetuar ndersa ndodhet ne krye te kishes Autoqefale Ortodokse Shqiptare me vullnetin e shqiptarve Ortodokse pa te cilin vullnet ky nuk mund te qendroje ase edhe nje dite.

Pa permendur ketu faktin se pothuaj se te gjithe Analistet Opinjonistet e Gazetaret Ortodokse ne Shqiperi jane Anti-Kosove .

:nuts:

Tani si bythqir qe qenke verteton se je grek muti dhe jam i sigurt se Janullatosi si bythqir qe eshte do ta plotson deshiren dhe une them qiju me te dhe bythqiret tjere grek , une nuk jam HOMO dhe as grek keshtu qe nuk mundem ta plotsoje deshiren.

Nuk ka pasur e as sdo ket gene turke ne familjen time,po mos harro se per tju qire nenn grekve ju ka qire turku keshtu qe mos u kruaj as me turk se del i lagur.

Kosovaret nuk mirren me ortodokset,katolik apo tjere, ne merremi me grekofilet dhe mbeturinat e tyre...ik mbushu dhe mos mu drejto me sepse neqoftese truri ime ka nje qeliz ai i joti eshte bosh, vetem ajer ke asgje me shume.

Prape se prape ky truri ime bosh te dominon ty . Aq me mjafton mua .

Edhe grekofil te kete , nuk te takon ty te meresh me ata . Ti e ke shtetin e vet me probelemet e veta , kurre ti zgjedhesh ato pastaj ajde flasim .

Apo mos kujton se je ne xhihad apo indifanda ?! Ta them sinqerisht , ta ka fut hoxha .Islami tend , apo shteti tend , nuk eshte ne pozite per te mbrojtur as gje . Po te ishte do ta kishte bere kohe me para .

P.S NQS i quan homo te gjithe ata qe te kan thene qifsha , i bie qe tere kosova edhe shqiperia po edhe disa nga pjestaret e familjes tende te jene homo .

Nuke esht budallake ky jo shoki te te perkujtoje se ku koincidone ky budallaku ?

Fatose Nano ,Ortodokse kryminister i shqiperis ne momentet me te veshtira per Kosoven deklaroje ne Athine se kryeqyteti i Kosovarve esht Beligradi dhe gjate ter qeverisjes se tije udh?hoqi nje politike shume anti-Kosove

Edvin Rma,Ortodokse kryetare i kryeqytetit te Shqiperis dhe lider i Opozites Shqiptare Dekoroje me Qelsin e tiranes Bregovicin kompozitorin e kengeve ne tingujt e te cilave Ushtria Serbe Marshoje ne Kosove ku Masakroje Femi Grae e Pleqe. dhe po ashtu ky Edvin Rama qe nga fillimi ka ndjekur nje politike anti-Kosove

Popi Ortodokse nga Berati gjate vizites se tije ne manastirin e Deqanit Deklaroje se Kosova esht Jerusalem i Serbise ky Prifte Oficiel perfaqsone Shqiptaret Ortodokse.

Janullati ky gjarper i shqiperis dhe kombit shqiptare nje anti-Shqiptare dhe Anti-Kosovare i perbetuar ndersa ndodhet ne krye te kishes Autoqefale Ortodokse Shqiptare me vullnetin e shqiptarve Ortodokse pa te cilin vullnet ky nuk mund te qendroje ase edhe nje dite.

Pa permendur ketu faktin se pothuaj se te gjithe Analistet Opinjonistet e Gazetaret Ortodokse ne Shqiperi jane Anti-Kosove .

ti qenke ekstemist mo vlla, nuk u beka muhabet me ty, ti i trajton ceshtjet 'NE' dhe 'JU', nga i gjete gjith kto pallavra, dmth ti e ben fakt te kryer qe ortodokset jane antiatdhetare, anti-kosovare, grekofila dhe duan ndarjen prej shqiperise...kjo eshte llogjika jote apo jo? habitem nga dalin gjith kto karrlliqe, injoranca pjell konflikt, une te keshilloj te mireinformohesh, te hapesh mendjen, te edukohesh te lexosh dhe te njihesh me sa me shume shqiptar ortodoks dhe te ti pyesesh e jo te masturbohesh me doktrina wahabiste te jane perhapur ne ksove kohet e fundit,

une nuk e di se ca ndodh andej nga ju ne kosove por ne ktej nga anet tona nuk kemi bere ndonjehere dallime as edhe nuk kemi ndarje ne baza fetare, njerez si ti jan tipa shume te rrezikshem dhe eshte e veshtire te bisedosh, vazhdo gri sallate ti.

ti qenke ekstemist mo vlla, nuk u beka muhabet me ty, ti i trajton ceshtjet 'NE' dhe 'JU'

une nuk e di se ca ndodh andej nga ju ne kosove por ne ktej nga anet tona

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Ahahhaha...ne fakt te kam then njeher se nuk merrem me sherbetore te Janullatosit dhe me grekofile ose siq i quani ju HEMOGJENE.

Ka shume kombe qe nuk jan Hemogjen ne kuptimin fetare,marre shembull Kinen me 1.336 Miliard banore po qe kjo ka pak rendesi per mua SHqiperia eshte Homogjene ne strukturen e saje kombetare dhe madje edhe fetare.

Shqiperia Etnike eshte mbi 90% muslimane dhe ajo zyrtare mbi 70% e besimit musliman.

Te vetmit qe nuk jane homogjen dhe qe ne fakt nuk jan ate per te cilet mbahen por gjithe historin e kane te vjedhur jane greket dhe ti si nje parazit i rritur ne mesin e tyre ke perfituar shpejt traditen e te vjedhurit te historise dhe te promovimit te Ortodoksizmit "grek".

Hap syte dhe mos u merr me muslimanet shqiptare se po te mos ishin ata sot nuk do te egzistonte kjo qe quhet Shqiperi dhe kjo eshte fakt historik i pakundershtushem.

Shembullin me te mire e ke çamerin, ata shqiptare qe ishin muslimane u debuan, u masakruan , e shqiptaret ortodokse nuk u debuan por u asimiluan nga kisha greke sepse sipas saje po qe ortodoks je grek dhe nuk munde te jet ndryshe per sa kohe jeton ne gre-qi.

Sa e forte ka qen Kisha greke tregon fakti qe sot kur jemi shtet i pamvarur akoma politika e qelbur shqiptare i puth bythen Janullatosit,se qka ka bere kjo Kishe 200 vitet e fundit besoj se ska nevoje te shkruaj por e di qe çdo veprime i saje ka qen kunder ketij kombi dhe shteti qe kem ne sot perjashto keto kishen nen drejtimin e FAN NOLIT.

Ne konferencen e fundit te Komuniteti musliman Shqiptare lidhur me projektin e Xhamise mbrapa zedhensit te ketij komuniteti kishe Flamurin Shqiptare dhe vargjet e Naimit.

ore fol hapur ti er bab te marim vesh ne c'fare do te thuash, kur thua 'NE muslimanet' ca nenkupton ti se spo te mar vesh une, ne ortodokset jemi vari karin ne? ku je rri ti njehere te mar vesh une? brenda territorit te shqiperi apo je kontigjent etnik? se ne nga shqiperia nuk e kemi per zakon te fillojme fjalite me 'ne muslimanet' apo 'ne katoliket', fol hapur ku te te dalesh hiqi fare dorashket, si flet me kaq kompetenca njehere, ortodokset na paskerkan qene antiatdhetar keshtu? noli, negovani, grameno, kristoforidhi etj, kta per c'fare luftuan, si ta ze goja nje gje te tille nuk ke turp, boll ere trap se jemi nje komb, ca do fillosh te urresh dhe skenderbeun tani se vuri kurore ne ardenice? qe luftoi per krishterimin? ca jane kto budalliqe, nga dalin gjith kto karlliqe, po mire po sikur te ngrihen te krishteret tani dhe te thone qe ju muslimanet tentuat te krijoni struktura paralele kunder lidhjes se prizrenit dhe kerkuat nej shtet sharia? po hoxhallaret dhe yzmeqaret e osmave qe dolin te perdornin fjalorin arab ne kongresin e manastirit? po tani 'NE' tju 'etikojme' ju si arab apo turq apo antiatdhetar? ca jane kto karrlliqe me oke, boll ore me kto muhabete kot se nuk ka ortodoks shqiptar qe gjen ngrohtesi ne greqi apo te ket ndjenja simpatie rreth grekeve, boll ore se na semuret me kto karrlliqe, te kishin dashur ortodokset te bashkoheshim me greqine do kishte ndodhur por nje gje e tille nuk ndodhi sepse gjithmone kemi dashur te dallojme nga ata bythqira sepse shqiptaret kurr nuk e kane bere corbe identitetin kombetar me perkatesine fetare, ka shume patriote qe kan derdh gjak per kete, prandaj dhe noli i madh bashke me negovanin luftuan per ta ndare kishen, prandaj boll me kto karrlliqe se jemi vllezer.

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he shoku si e ke hallin.....nuk e perdora pa qellim une ate

ty te shqetesoi sarkazma ime keshtu?

me ate qe tha i cituari nuk pe ndonje problem ti dmth?

FERID MURAD is an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferid_Murad

He is the second albanian to have win a Nobel Prize, except Mother Teresa.

Nje liste me njeres te famshem te kombit shqiptar nga kohet ilire deri me sot
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Bekim Fehmiu

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/3981/bekimfehmiu001400.jpg

Nje nga aktoret me te njohur Shqiptar. Aktori i pare nga Europa Lindore qe mere pjese ne Hollywood

Aktori i pare nga Europa Lindore qe mere pjese ne Hollywood

Kjo nuk eshte e sakte. Ka patur disa aktore sovjetike qe kane luajtur role ne filma te ndryshem ne Hollivud duke filluar qe nga epoka e filmave pa ze e deri me vone. Me i famshmi nga te gjithe ka qene Yul Brynner.

^^ Kete te fundit ne TV e kam degjuar :dunno:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekim_Fehmiu

He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.

Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/7877965/Bekim-Fehmiu.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Azem_Bejta.jpg
Azem Galica


Luftëtar i shquar popullor për çlirim e bashkim kombëtar, për një regjim shtetëror demokratik në Shqipëri, organizator i lëvizjes së armatosur në Kosovë kundër pushtuesve të ndryshëm gjatë viteve 1912 - 1924.

Veprimtarinë e tij patriotike e filloi në vitet 1910-1912, kur mori pjesë në kryengritjet antiosmane. Pas shpalljes së Pavarësisë luftoi në fillim, më 1912-1915 kundër pushtuesve serbë, dhe më pas, më 1915-1918 kundër pushtuesve austriakë e bullgarë. Gjatë Luftës së Parë Botërore drejtoi luftën e çetave kundër rivendosjes në Kosovë të pushtetit të borgjezisë serbomadhe. Pati përkrah tij deri në fund gruan e vet Shote Galica. Sipas direktivave të Komitetit "Mbrojtja Kombëtare e Kosovës", në vitin 1919 mori pjesë në organizimin dhe drejtimin e Kryengritjes së Rrafshit të Dukagjinit, më 1921-1923 mbrojti Zonën Neutrale të Junikut, që shërbente si bazë e kryengritësve të Kosovës e të Malësisë dhe përkrahu kryengritjen e malësorëve të Shqipërisë së Veriut kundër regjimit reaksionar feudo-borgjez. Në vitin 1924 Azem Galica dërgoi luftëtarë për të marrë pjesë në Revolucionin demokratikborgjez të Qershorit. Vdiq nga plagët që mori në luftimet e përgjakshme të korrikut 1924, për mbrojtjen e zonës së lirë të Drenicës, "Arbanisë së vogël".

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So after reading through the last 10 pages it's pretty safe to assume (with the exception of Mother Theresa) that there are no world famous Albanians?

So after reading through the last 10 pages it's pretty safe to assume (with the exception of Mother Theresa) that there are no world famous Albanians?

We do have them ofcourse, but the topic here was more about history, but also the last 3-4 pages were off-topic bickering among some members here. Not to mention the fact that this topic isnt an very active one on here.

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O robo,po ja fusni rikes kot.Sjane te famshem keta qe po postoni ju ktu.Heronj jane...jo te famshem.

O robo,po ja fusni rikes kot.Sjane te famshem keta qe po postoni ju ktu.Heronj jane...jo te famshem.

for historicans there are famous so

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So after reading through the last 10 pages it's pretty safe to assume (with the exception of Mother Theresa) that there are no world famous Albanians?

people like robert de niro and james belushi are of albanian orgin is that not famous enough for you?

qa mendoni ju per jon cena shum her kam ni se origjinen e ka shqiptare
a ekziston mbiemri cena ne shqipri ?

Arnel Taci
actor in Germany

http://www.future-image.de/watermark.php?i=11511

http://www.nordsee-zeitung.de/cms_media/teleschau/telebase/images/201004/1/201004_227637_3_012.jpg

qa mendoni ju per jon cena shum her kam ni se origjinen e ka shqiptare
a ekziston mbiemri cena ne shqipri ?

Ekziston mbiemri Cenaj , bile shume i perhapur..po gjithsesi se besoj qe John Cena te kete ndonje lidhje me shqiptaret

Ekziston mbiemri Cenaj , bile shume i perhapur..po gjithsesi se besoj qe John Cena te kete ndonje lidhje me shqiptaret

ne googel e gjeta kta:
Italian and possibly of Albanian origin
http://ethnicelebs.com/john-cena

dhe ne shum faqe tjera thojn se esht arberesh
that could be possible

edit:
e kerkove edhe per emrin cena po ky emer esht shqiptar
pershembul kjo ariana cena

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Eliza Dushku mbërrin në Tiranë, promovon turizmin



TIRANË- Aktorja e njohur shqiptare e Hollivudit, Eliza Dushku, mbërriti sot në Shqipëri, në kuadër të një dokumentari që do të zhvillojë për të promovuar vlerat artistike, kulturore dhe turistike të Shqipërisë.

Ajo u prit sot në Aeroportin Ndërkombëtar "Nënë Tereza" në Rinas nga nënkryetarja e bashkisë së Tiranës, Jorida Tabaku, e cila theksoi se aktorja ka ardhur për të promovuar vlerat social-kulturore të Shqipërisë, për të parë disa nga qytetet kryesore për rreth 10 ditë.
Tabaku tha se "aktorja Eliza Dushku do të takohet nesër me kryebashkiakun e Tiranës, Lulzim Basha, do të vizitojë disa nga qendrat tregtare të Tiranës e më pas do të ketë një udhëtim turistik në Durrës, Berat, Korçë, Krujë e Vlorë për të bërë një promovim sa më të mirë të Shqipërisë".

"Po bashkëpunojmë me producentë nga "Lonely Planet” apo "Travel Channel", sepse duam të përgatisim diçka që të tregojë se sa e mahnitshme është Shqipëria. Gjithashtu s’kam pasur kurrë mundësi të shkoj në Korçë, nga e cila është babai im", tha Dushku.
Dushku firmosi gjatë mbërritjes në aeroport kërkesën e saj për të pasur pasaportë shqiptare, duke qenë kështu edhe zyrtarisht një shtetase shqiptare.

Dushku u bë e njohur me rolin Faith në TV në serinë “Buffy” dhe nga TV seria Angel.
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Posts transferred to the thread History of Albanians. You may continue the discusssion there.

qa mendoni ju per jon cena shum her kam ni se origjinen e ka shqiptare
a ekziston mbiemri cena ne shqipri ?

Ne Rahovec mbiemri Cena eshte goxha i perhapur.

Presidenti Topi firmos nënshtetësinë shqiptare për Eliza Dushkun

Presidenti i Republikës, Prof. Dr. Bamir Topi priti sot aktoren e mirënjohur shqiptare të Hollivudit, Eliza Dushku, e cila prej disa ditësh po zhvillon një vizitë në vendin tonë në përpjekje të promovimit të turizmit shqiptar. Të pranishëm në takim ishin, gjithashtu, fotografi me famë botërore, Fadil Berisha dhe aktori Blerim Destani.
Gjatë bisedës së zhvilluar në një atmosferë të ngrohtë e miqësore, Presidenti Topi vlerësoi lart veprimtarinë artistike të Eliza Dushkut si një ndër aktoret e reja të spikatura të kinematografisë botërore. Në këtë kontekst, Kryetari i Shtetit Shqiptar vuri në dukje se vizita e zonjës Dushku në Shqipëri është pjesë e atij mesazhi pozitiv që flet për Shqipërinë dhe shqiptarët si një popull vital, me tradita të hershme e kulturë të lashtë, me dëshirën dhe përkushtimin për të ecur përpara me vendosmëri e dinjitet. “Ju jeni tashmë imazhi i mirë shqiptarëve që punoni për Shqipërinë”, – iu drejtua Presidenti Topi të pranishmëve në këtë takim. “Janë pikërisht këto arsye”, – u shpreh Presidenti, – “që me t’u informuar për kërkesën e zonjës Dushku për marrjen e shtetësisë shqiptare, në përmbushje të një detyrimi institucional, por në radhë të parë, të një frymëzimi personal, nënshkrova dekretin për dhënien e shtetësisë shqiptare Eliza Dushkut”.
Në vijim, Presidenti i Republikës i dorëzoi dekretin presidencial aktores së mirënjohur shqiptare të Hollivudit, e cila nga ana e saj shprehu falënderim dhe mirënjohje për pritjen nga Presidenti Topi dhe në mënyrë të veçantë nënvizoi kënaqësinë e veçantë për këtë nderimin nga ana e Kryetarit të Shtetit Shqiptar.

http://www.lajmifundit.com/wp/2011/08/09/presidenti-topi-firmos-nenshtetesine-shqiptare-per-eliza-dushkun/

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Ka ndonje medalje më per te dhene topja?

^^
Ka ndonje medalje më per te dhene topja?

Ka. Do ti nje? Per pune shembullore ne forum :lol:

Sedefhar Mehmet Ağa from Elbasan,architect of "Blue Mosque" in Istanbul.

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Diku kam lexuar se pasi arkitekti projektoi kete xhami..Sulltani dha urdher qe ti priten te dyja duart ne menyre qe mos te bej nje te dyte si ajo xhami.

Ka. Do ti nje? Per pune shembullore ne forum :lol:

Me thene te drejten ...e meritoj nje medalje per kontributin ndaj atdheut me 15.400 postimet e mia.:)

Une shof 7,330. I bie te jene zhdukur 8,070 postime. Do i kete marre ujku:shifty:

Moderatoret ujq te uritur jane.

^^
:ohno:

FAMILJET E MËDHA: BUSHATLINJTË


http://www.shkoder.net/al/bushatlinjte1.htm

Sisters making films: The Zenelajes


Albania is beautiful, but for decades it was cut off from the rest of the world by a communist dictator. "There were no foreign clothes, which was a big thing for us," Vilma Zenelaj says, drawing a deep laugh out of her older sister Greta, a dark-haired beauty often mistaken for Demi Moore.

Albania's communist regime collapsed soon after the Berlin Wall fell. Vilma left first, arriving in Oregon as a high school exchange student in 1996. Greta stayed in Albania to finish her degree in journalism, even as civil war broke out. Luckily, Mom and Dad, both doctors, won the visa lottery and emigrated to Michigan. Best friends, the sisters in 2003 packed everything into a red Volkswagen Beetle and headed to L.A.

They lived together and worked at a bunch of unglamorous jobs, saving every penny. Dipping into their nest egg, they proceeded to make two features in 21/2 years. "What Do I Do Now?" won best comedy at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in 2009. Their second film, a thriller called "In the Woods," is making the festival rounds, and Greta is winning awards for her dramatic performance.

Ten-day shoots with only a handful of crew meant everybody had to wear different hats. "We had to hold sandbags and do cooking," says Greta, who starred in both films. She also ran the makeup and wardrobe departments. Vilma writes and directs. "Everybody became a grip, basically, between sets," Vilma adds.

The Zenelaj sisters are both beautiful and determined, but Greta has a big sister's friendly way of taking charge, and Vilma, despite being the duo's director, lets her. Another advantage to their partnership is having someone to turn to when people they meet in the industry patronize them. "You schedule a meeting with somebody," Greta says, "then you walk in dressed a certain way or you're a certain age or you've done your makeup nicely or whatever and they're like … ."

"Another pretty face," Vilma finishes the sentence for her. "I have a feeling they expect you to have a mustache, be overweight," she adds. "That's what they expect if you're a female director. It's a little bit annoying."

It seems paradoxical, even absurd, that people in Hollywood would cause a pair of Eastern European sisters to feel oppressed for being too pretty or too young. "We have each other," Greta says. "So a lot of the time it's like, 'Can you believe that person said that?'"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sisters-zenelajes,0,6773752.story

Shqiptarët me aq sa po shoh këtu kanë bërë gjithë boten por vetëm Shqipërine akoma jo , atëherë lind pyetja çfarë shqiptarësh na qenkan këto ?

"Gratë e shquara shqiptare", në gjuhën malazeze

TIRANE- Eshtë botuar në gjuhën malazeze libri i Sanije Gashit, "Gratë e shquara shqiptare". Redaktor i librit në edicionin malazez është Sabri Halili, ndërsa është përkthyer nga Jovan Nikolaidis. Botimin e këtij libri e ka mundësuar rrjeti letrar "Traduki". Libri "Gratë e shquara shqiptare" në origjinal ka pasur dy botime. Botimin e parë në vitin 2000, ndërsa të dytin në vitin 2003, me botues revistën "Teuta" të Prishtinës. Libri ka përfshirë figura të ndritura të grave shqiptare që kanë kontribuar në fushën e shkencës, të edukimit, të historisë e kulturës. Nga Rozafa, mbretëresha Teutë, te Nënë Tereza e gra të tjera që kanë lënë gjurmë të thella, jepen të dhëna të verifikuara për këto figura të ndritura të kombit shqiptar.

Autorja ka përdorur si kriter kontributin e grave në fushat e përmendura, të kenë mbushur moshën 70 vjeç, apo ato që fizikisht nuk janë më në mesin e të gjallëve. Në botimin malazez, janë përfshirë edhe gjashtë figura të reja të shkencës e kulturës: Kleopatra, Olimpia, Angelica Palli, Eugjeni Thanasi, Hamide Stringa dhe Melihate Ajeti. Qëllimi i botimit të këtij libri është inkurajimi i grave shqiptare në punën dhe aktivitetet e tyre. Botimi i librit në gjuhë të tjera, sipas autores, ka për synim të njoftojë opinionin ndërkombëtar për të arriturat e gruas shqiptare. Të kujtojmë këtu thënien e famshme të Margerit Jursenar, "Për nënë, do të doja të kisha një shqiptare". Autorja e librit është gazetare, publiciste dhe luftëtare për emancipimin e gruas. Është ndër të parat gazetare shqiptare dhe më e njohura, që bën gazetari aktive plot 45 vjet, e cila arriti të bëhej emër me konsideratë përmes shkrimeve që kishin për qëllim ngritjen e gruas shqiptare në çdo pikëpamje. Është bashkëthemeluese dhe themeluese e dy revistave, "Kosovarja" dhe "Teuta".

U lind në Prishtinë, ku dhe kreu të gjitha nivelet e arsimimit, tetëvjeçaren, "Normalen", shkollën e lartë pedagogjike, si dhe studioi në Fakultetin Filologjik të Universitetit të Prishtinës. Profesionin e gazetarisë e nisi në shtator të vitit 1965, në revistën "Zëri i Rinisë". Në nëntor të vitit 1971 emërohet redaktore në revistën "Kosovarja", që doli në dritë po atë vit, kurse më 1975-ën emërohet kryeredaktore e saj. Këtë revistë e drejtoi plot 18 vjet. Në maj të vitit 1994, tashmë gazetare me përvojë, themeloi revistën e parë të pavarur për gruan dhe familjen, "Teuta", e vetmja e këtij profili jo vetëm në Kosovë.
(m.a/GSH/BalkanWeb)

Shqiptarët me aq sa po shoh këtu kanë bërë gjithë boten por vetëm Shqipërine akoma jo , atëherë lind pyetja çfarë shqiptarësh na qenkan këto ?

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Nënë Tereza, 8 vjet nga Lumturimi

19/10/2011 09:45

Shënohen sot 8 vjet nga Lumturimi i Nënë Terezës. Më 19 tetor 2003, Nënë Tereza, emri i vërtetë i së cilës është Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, u lumturua nga Papa Gjon Pali II.

Humanistja shqiptare ka fituar edhe çmimin Nobel për Paqen në vitin 1979 falë punës së saj humanitare në Kalkuta të Indisë në ndihmë të njerëzve të varfër, të sëmurë dhe fëmijëve jetimë.

Nënë Tereza lindi në Shkup në 26 gusht 1910 nga prindër shkodranë. Në moshën 12-vjeçare ajo vendosi t’i hynte botës fetare dhe në moshën 18-vjeçare u bashkua me Motrat e Loretos si misionare.

Nënë Tereza ndërroi jetë në 5 shtator 1997 në moshën 87-vjeçare, pas një gjysmë shekulli shërbim ndaj të braktisurve në Indi dhe jo vetëm.

19 Tetori, dita e Lumturimit të shenjtores shqiptare, është shpallur festë kombëtare nga qeveria shqiptare.

http://www.top-channel.tv/artikull.php?id=220882

Sa gjynah, si qenka katandisur Met Bega :ohno:

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Beri nje here turne ne Itali dhe erdhi edhe ne qytetin ku banoj une...dukej me keq ne skene.

Met Bega ka qene i modh:okay:
Nga Sh.Mesme e rendis te dytin pas Rrem Hoxhes. Talent i gjalle.

Suksesi i radhës për Armando Kllogjerin

2011-11-21

Vepra “Rigoletto” e Verdit mbylli sezonin lirik 2011 të Fondacionit Arena në Teatrin Filarmonik të Veronës. Një nga rolet kryesore, Duka i Mantovës, i është besuar tenorit shqiptar Armando Kllogjerit, rol që ai e kishte interpretuar edhe në sezonin 2009-2010 ne Teatrin Carlo Felice të Xhenovës. Publiku dhe kritika, që e mirëpritën në këtë rol tanimë të konsoliduar për të, kanë vlerësuar talentin, por edhe përgatitjen e lartë profesionale të Kllogjerit. Ai ka studiuar në Akademinë e Arteve të Bukura në Tiranë dhe më pas ka perfeksionuar teknikën nën drejtimin e Burhan Spahiut dhe të sopranos Katia Riçiarelli. 
I drejtuar nga regjisorë si Massimo Ranieri apo dirigjentë si Andrè Bernard, tenori shqiptar ka arritur të alternojë aktivitetin e tij në Shqipëri dhe jashtë saj me role të rëndësishme tek “Traviata” apo “Tosca”. Rigoletto, ajo që Verdi e konsideronte veprën e tij më të mirë, u vu në skenë në Teatrin Filarmonik të Veronës me një frymë moderne dhe me dëshirën për të afruar me operën edhe një publik të rinjsh.
http://gazeta-shqip.com/kulture/41f6eed7e2561684f1472522c94916a4.html

Ismail Kadare propozohet për çmimin Nobel


TIRANE - Shkrimtari i njohur shqiptar, me famë botërore, Ismail Kadare propozohet si kandidat për çmimin Nobel në letërsi për vitin 2012.

Propozimi ka ardhur nga Akademia e Shkencave Shqiptare. Kryetari i saj, akademiku Gudar Beqiraj ka propozuar shkrimtarin e shquar dhe anëtarin e Akademisë Ismail Kadare, si kandidat për çmimin Nobel në njohje të veprave të tij, tashmë të përkthyera në shumë gjuhë të botës si dhe të vlerave si përfaqësues i artit dhe kulturës.

Propozimi i është bërë Komitetit për çmimin Nobel pranë Akademisë Suedeze, me kërkesën e saj për një kandidaturë.

Ismail Kadare ka qenë disa herë kandidat për çmimin Nobel, por pa mundur ta fitojë atë. Ndërkohë, Kadare mban titullin “Princi i Asturias” për letërsinë në vitin 2009.

(er.nu/BalkanWeb)
http://www.balkanweb.com/kultur%C3%AB/2691/ismail-kadare-propozohet-per-cmimin-nobel-76585.html

Cilët janë 33 artistët më të famshëm shqiptarë ose ata me origjinë shqiptare

Ata ia kanë dalë të fitojnë një emër në Shqipëri. Më pas ia kanë dalë që nëpërmjet këtij emri të përcjellin vlerat e kombit tonë në mbarë botën. Në të gjitha kohërat ka pasur shumë shqiptarë që kanë shërbyer si ambasadorë të kulturës dhe vlerave shqiptare në botë. Dhe në këtë kohë, ja cilët janë shqiptarët fama e të cilëve shkoi përtej kufijve të vendit tonë.


1. Robert De Niro, aktor

Kemi dëgjuar për mjaft personazhe të famshëm për të cilët spekulohet se kanë në venat e tyre gjak shqiptari, por që kjo të ndodhte për të famshmin Robert de Niro, nuk na kishte shkuar mendja.

Natën e parafundit të festivalit të 61-të italian të këngës, “Sanremo”, i ftuari special, Robert de Niro, e pohoi me gojën e tij në “Rai 1”, se origjinën e ka të përzier mes Siçilisë dhe Shqipëri. De Niro, që pa hamendje mund të thuash se është aktori më i mirë në botë, edhe në faqen zyrtare të “Wikipedias” në biografinë e De Niros, shkruhet se babai i tij ka qenë shqiptar.

2. Ana Oxa – këngëtare, Itali

Këngëtarja e njohur italiane ka pranuar se babai i saj ka mbërritur në Itali nga Shqipëria dhe pikërisht nga Kruja.

3. Sandra Bullock, aktore SHBA

Është bërë e ditur se babai i Sandra Bullock është me origjinë shqiptare.

4. James Belushi – aktor, SHBA

Aktori i famshëm amerikan, James Belushi, dhe vëllai i të ndjerit John Belushi, është me origjinë shqiptare.

5. Angjelin Prelocaj

Balet-maestro i Parisit, Angjelin Prelocaj, është fitues i një sërë çmimesh ndërkombëtare.

6. Eliza Dushku – aktore, SHBA

Aktorja e cila luajti përkrah Robert de Niros dhe Leonardo Di Caprio-s në filmin “Historia e një djali”, është me origjinë shqiptare.

7. Agim Kaba – aktor, SHBA

Shumë pak e dinë se djaloshi simpatik që ka luajtur në telenovelën “Ndërsa bota rrotullohet”, është me origjinë shqiptare.

8. Stan Dragoti – regjisor, SHBA

Regjisori dhe producenti hollivudian e bëri të ditur para disa vjetësh kur mbërriti në Shqipëri, prejardhjen e tij shqiptare.

9. Emina Cunmulaj – modele, SHBA

Supermodelja me origjinë shqiptare, Emina Cunmulaj, është shpallur ylli i ri i revistës së famshme te fotomodeleve “Elite” dhe “Vogue” në SHBA.

10. James Biberi – aktor, SHBA

Aktor në Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës, ndërkohë që prindërit e tij janë shqiptarë.

11. Kristine Elezaj - këngëtare

E njohur si "Kebe" tek fansat e saj, është një këngëtare shqiptaro-amerikane. Ajo është bërë mjaft e famshme në SHBA. Kristina e lancoi këngën e parë "Let You know" një vit më pare e ndjekur nga "Souvenirs". Elezaj para ca ditësh doli e 53-ta në çmimet “Grammy”.

12.Laureta Meci – aktore, SHBA

Laureta Meci, e lindur në Kuçovë, ka përfunduar shkollën prestigjioze të aktrimit “Stella Adler” në Nju-Jork dhe po avancon me karrierën e saj.

13. Ilir Shaqiri – balerin, Itali

Balerin i famshëm shqiptar në Itali, u bë i njohur nga programi televiziv “Amici”.

14. Kledi Kadiu – balerin, Itali

Balerin shqiptar me famë të madhe në Itali, pas pjesëmarrjes dhe suksesit të tij në programin televiziv “Amici”.

15. Leon Cino – balerin, Itali

Si shumë balerinë të tjerë shqiptarë, edhe Leon Cino u bë i njohur shumë shpejt në Itali.

16. Klajdi Selimi – balerin, Itali

Sërish një balerin shqiptar që u bë shumë shpejt protagonist i programit “Amici”.

17. Donald Llambro – gazetar

Ai është një nga gazetarët më të njohur në SHBA. Aktualisht është shef i korrespodencës politike në gazetën “The Washinton Times”. Ai është lindur më 14 korrik 1940 në Masacusets nga prindër shqiptarë. Është i martuar dhe ka një djalë. Një nga artikujt e tij më të spikatur është zbulimi i disa kundërthënieve në debatin presidencial mes Xhon Kerri dhe Xhorxh Bush.

18.Tedi Papavrami – violinist, Francë

I lindur në Tiranë, ai studioi në konservatorin kombëtar “Superieur de Musique” në Paris. Ai ka interpretuar në shumë skena të botës.

19. Saimir Pirgu – tenor

Pavarësisht se në moshë të re, Saimir Pirgu u bë shumë shpejt i njohur si tenor, duke fituar një sërë çmimesh në Itali.

20.Fadil Berisha-fotograf

Cilësohet si fotografi më i madh në botë. Fadil Berisha është shqiptar. Disa nga personalitet që janë klientë të studios janë emra të tillë si: Halle Berry, Placido Domingo, Snoop Dog, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, etj.

21.Hila Popaj – ish-aktor, SHBA (Chinatown)

Ata që kanë parë seritë e filmit “Ninja” duhet ta kenë parë pa e ditur se ai është shqiptar. Ai gjithashtu ka luajtur edhe në “Chinatown”.

22. Liria Begeja – regjisore, Francë

Liria Begeja është regjisorja e njohur franko-shqiptare.

23.Elsa Lila – këngëtare, Itali

Pasi korri mjaft sukses me çmimet e saj të para në Festivalin Kombëtar Shqiptar, ajo u bë e njohur edhe në Itali, ku mori pjesë në festivalin e “Sanremos”.

24. Nik Xhelilaj, aktor

I lindur në Tiranë në vitin 1983, debutimin në ekranin e kinemasë e ka në vitin 2008 me filmin “Trishtimi i Zonjës Shnajder”. Por filmi dramatik mbi plagët e emigracionit, me titullin “Shqiptari”, të regjisorit Johanes Naber, ku Xhelilaj është dhe protagonist, e solli atë në “Shooting Star”, duke qenë dhe aktori i parë shqiptar që arrin këtë sukses. Para ca ditësh ai u shpall një nga 10 aktorët e rinj më të mirë europianë të momentit.

25.Miriam Cani – këngëtare, Gjermani

Vajza e grupit “Preluders”, Miriam Cani, tashmë e njohur në Gjermani dhe në vende të tjera evropiane, është nga Elbasani.

26. Ambeta Toromani – balerinë, Itali

Si shumë balerinë të tjerë shqiptarë edhe Ambeta Toromani u bë shumë shpejt e njohur në Itali.

27.Oni Pustina – model, Itali

I shfaqur në reklama të ndryshme, Oni Pustina është modeli i famshëm shqiptar që luan rolin e postierit në emisionin “Ce posta per te”.

28. Valbona Çoba – modele, aktore, SHBA

Ajo u bë e njohur fillimisht në Shqipëri, më pas në Greqi si një modele e famshme, ndërsa tani është modele dhe aktore në SHBA.

29. Aris Golemi – balet maestro, koreograf

I diplomuar në Shkollën e Baletit në Tiranë, ai ka performuar live me këngëtarin e muzikës kauntri, Dwight Yoakam, dhe gjithashtu ka qenë koreograf i disa pjesëve të grupit N’SYNC.

30. Eda Zari - këngëtare, Gjermani

Lindur në Tiranë, Eda Zari jeton prej vitesh në Gjermani, ku është një këngëtare, producente dhe kompozitore mjaft e famshme. Ajo është gjithashtu ambasadore e kulturës së Shqipërisë.

31. Aleksandër Moisiu - aktor

Moisiu sot adhurohet dhe respektohet në botë, por sidomos në Shqipëri si një ndër aktorët më të mëdhenj të vendit, edhe pse ai që nga rinia e tij më nuk e vizitoi Shqipërinë. Aleksandër Moisiu është stërgjyshi i aktorit Gedeon Burkhard, ndër të tjera i njohur me rolin e tij kryesor në serinë “Komisar Re”

32. Laura Mersini Houghton, shkencëtare

Ajo është kozmologe dhe është shqiptare, si dhe një nga femrat e pakta në botë që merren me këtë shkencë.

33. Andamion Murataj – kineast

Ështe kineast shqiptar i cili ka punuar si skenarist dhe kineast ne New York gjate 12- vjetëve të fundit. Ai është diplomuar ne Universitetin Amerikan (Washington DC). Si kineast ai ka xhiruar shumë filma dhe dokumentare midis të cilëve dhe dokumentarin

(Shqipëria.com)

http://www.zeri.info/artikulli/4/22/40417/cilet-jane-33-artistet-me-te-famshem-shqiptare-ose-ata-me-origjine-shqiptare/

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Kan harru me e fute ne kete liste edhe Bruce Lee-ne, Eddie Murphie-n dhe Barack Obamen. :ohno:

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Kan harru me e fute ne kete liste edhe Bruce Lee-ne, Eddie Murphie-n dhe Barack Obamen. :ohno:

Pervec Robert De Niro dhe ndoshta Sandra Bullock (ka thashetheme per te , por asgje te vertetuar) pjesa tjeter jane ne menyre te padiskutueshme shqiptare..per ke ke dyshime psh?

p.s. biles trecereku i tyre kane pasaporte shqiptare

Pervec Robert De Niro dhe ndoshta Sandra Bullock (ka thashetheme per te , por asgje te vertetuar) pjesa tjeter jane ne menyre te padiskutueshme shqiptare..per ke ke dyshime psh?

p.s. biles trecereku i tyre kane pasaporte shqiptare

Per keta dyte edhe e pata fjalen. Me te famshmit jane, bindshem, ne kete liste. Po dojme me u bo horre.

Bill Kovach (Albanian: Bill Kovaçi) is a US journalist, former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and co-author of the popular book, The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect.

Born in 1932 in East Tennessee of Albanian parents, Kovach planned after college to go to graduate school in marine biology. After four years in the U.S. Navy, a summer job at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Johnson City, Tennessee persuaded him to go into journalism.

He retired from Harvard in 2001 and returned to Washington, where he is senior counselor to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
He also serves on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism.

Awards

In 2000, Kovach received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from Boston University.

He founded the Committee of Concerned Journalists, which works to increase the quality of journalism.

Besides The Elements of Journalism, Kovach is a co-author of Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media and Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload, all with Tom Rosenstiel.

In 2002, when it was discovered that USA Today reporter Jack Kelley had fabricated some of his stories, USA Today turned to Kovach, along with veteran editors Bill Hilliard and John Seigenthaler Sr., to monitor the investigation.[1]