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Azili politik, si mund te merret ne Itali

Marrja e azilit politik tanime ka kaluar ne procedura te reja ne Bashkimin Evropian (BE), ku ben pjese dhe Italia. Renia e shteteve totalitare ka bere qe shtetet BE-se, te vene kushte te reja ne lidhje me marrjen e ski tij statusi i cili i siguron personit qe e posedon disa te mira. Keshtu per te marre statusin e "azilantit politik", ne Itali, duhet te plotesohen disa kushte te cilat jane te panegociueshme...

Lakes in Albania

Lake Scutari (Albanian: Liqeni i Shkodrës), also called Skadar Lake, is a lake on the border of Montenegro with Albania, the largest lake in the Balkan Peninsula. It is named after the city Shkodra in northern Albania (Shkodër in Albanian, Scutari in Italian...

Geography of Albania

Albania has a total area of 28,750 square kilometers. It shares a 287-kilometre border with Serbia and Montenegro to the north, a 151-kilometre border with the Republic of Macedonia to the north and east, and a 282-kilometre border with Greece to the south and southeast. Its coastline is 362...

Illyria

Illyria (Albanian Iliria; Latin Illyria (see also Illyricum) was in Classical antiquity a region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula, founded by the tribes and clans of Illyrians, an ancient people who spoke the Illyrian languages. In Greek mythology, Illyrius was the...

History of Albania (1919-1939)

Albania's political confusion continued in the wake of World War I. The country lacked a single recognized government, and Albanians feared, with justification, that Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece would succeed in extinguishing Albania's independence and carve up the country. Italian forces...

National awakening and the birth of Albania

The Rise of Albanian Nationalism first sparked with the Battle of Deçiq on April 6, 1911, which was located in the town of Tuzi, Malësi e Madhe. The battle was fought between the Catholic Malësor Albanians lead by Ded Gjo Luli, against the forces of the Ottoman...

History of Ottoman Albania

The expanding Ottoman Empire overpowered the Balkan Peninsula in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. At first, the feuding Albanian clans proved no match for the armies of the sultan. In the fifteenth century, however, Skanderbeg united the Albanian tribes in a defensive alliance that held up...

Late Middle Ages

The first historical mention of Albania and the Albanians as such appears in an account of the resistance by a Byzantine emperor, Alexius I Comnenus, to an offensive by the Vatican-backed Normans from southern Italy into the Albanian-populated lands in 1081. In the same year, the...

Barbarian invasions and Early Middle Ages

The fall of the Western Roman Empire and the age of great migrations brought radical changes to the Balkan Peninsula and the Illyrian people. Barbarian tribesmen overran many rich Roman cities, destroying the existing social and economic order and leaving the great Roman aqueducts, coliseums...

Christianity

Christianity came to Illyrian-populated lands in the first century A.D. Saint Paul wrote that he preached in the Roman province of Illyricum, and tradition holds that he visited Durrës. In 379, under emperor Theodosius I, as part of the Prefecture of Illyricum Orientale, the southern region was...

Roman period

In the Illyrian Wars of 229 and 219 B.C., Rome overran the Illyrian settlements in the Neretva River valley. The Romans made new gains in 168 B.C., with Roman forces capturing Illyria's King Gentius at Shkodër, which they called Scodra, and bringing him to Rome in 165 B.C. A century later, Julius...

Ancient Illyria

The Illyrians were Indo-European tribesmen who appeared in the western portion of the Balkan Peninsula about 1000 B.C., a period coinciding with the end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age. They inhabited much of the area for at least the next millennium. Archaeologists associate...

Ethnic origins

Some scholars consider that Albanians are direct descendants of an Illyrian tribe that was named "Albanoi," which was located in modern-day Albania. Others scholars dispute this, while others claim that Albanians and Illyrians are descendants of the ancient Pelasgians, making their history go back at...

Timeline of Albanian history to 1993

1225 BC Earliest known Illyrian King, Hylli (Hyllus), dies. 358 BC Illyrians defeated by Philip II of Macedonia. 312 BC King Glaucius of Illyria seized Epidamnos(Durres). 229 BC and 219 BC Romanat Shkodër. 1st century AD Christianity comes to Illyrian populated areas...

Origin of the Albanians

The origin of the Albanians has been for some time a matter of dispute among historians. Albanians are people who speak Albanian, an Indo-European language. Though the vocabulary contains some Greek, Latin, Slavic and Turkish words, the language per se has no other close living relative, making...

Alarm, fëmijët disiplinohen nëpërmjet formave të dhunës

Institucionet shkollore janë vatrat e disiplinimit të fëmijëve duke përdorur në masë elementet dhe format e ndryshme të dhunës, siç është dhuna fizike dhe ajo psikologjike. Ndërkohë që kategoritë më të rrezikuara janë ato të zonave rurale...

Pushtues, kultura, udhëheqës dhe tragjedi

Për shkak të pozitës së tij gjeografike bregdeti shqiptar i Adriatikut ka pësuar shumë pushtime, të cilat i kanë dhënë kësaj zone atë trashëgimi të pasur etnike dhe kulturore që shohim sot. Grekët e lashtë, romakët, vandalët, sllavët, turqit, normanët, venedikasit, francezët, italianët dhe gjermanët...

Kisha Shqiptare në Boston, mesh për popullsinë çame

Në Tiranë mbajtja e një meshe për gjenocidin e popullsisë çame u cilësua nga kisha ortodokse si një çështje politike. Por e njëjta gjë duket se nuk vlen për Kishën Shqiptare në Amerikë. At Artuar Liolini, drejtuesi shpirtëror i besimtarëve ortodoks në SHBA, mbajti dje një meshë në përkujtim të viktimave të gjenocidit çam. Larg dogmave politike dhe larg meshave...

Kane shkruar per Shqiperine

Heroditi rreth 490-425 p.e.r. Historian i greqise se lashte, i quajtur babai i historise. Njihet si autori i pare, i cili ze ne goje emrin e ilireve. Ne vepren e tij gjenden te dhena te rendesishme edhe per pellazget...

Ariel Sharon, “buldozer”, por njeri i paqes

Ariel Sharon, i lindur më 26 shkurt të vitit 1928 në Kfar Malal pranë Jaffas në Palestinë, ka qenë një gjeneral dhe politikan izraelit. Ai ka qenë kryeministër i Izraelit nga 17 shkurti i vitit 2001 deri më 14 prill të vitit të kaluar. Ishte një ndër themeluesit e Partisë Likud dhe është i njohur në fushën ushtarake gjatë luftërave izraelo-arabe të vitit 1948-‘49, të Suezit...