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The First Albanian School in Pristina is a cultural heritage monument in Pristina, Kosovo, and one of the oldest intact buildings in the entire city. [ 1 ] History and description
There is a fairly high number of books that are published mainly from Kosovar, Albanian, Macedonian and Montenegrin publishers and some foreign publishers (German, French, English etc.). [ 14 ] In 2010, at the 12th annual Book Fair, there were around 100 publishers, mostly Albanian language publishers and there were around 1500 new books being ...
Pristina Municipality (Albanian: Komuna e Prishtinës; Serbian: Opstina Pristina, is a municipality in the district of Priština in Kosovo. The municipality has a population of 198,897 people within an area of 523.13 km 2 (201.98 sq mi). [1] [2]
During the 17th century, citizens of Pristina led by the Albanian priest Pjeter Bogdani vowed loyalty to the Austrian army and its troops. [10] A communist decision to make Pristina the capital of Kosovo happened in 1947 during a period of a rapid development and structural despair. [10]
The Prishtina International Film Festival (PriFilmFest), also known as the Pristina Film Festival, is a film festival held annually in Prishtina, Kosovo, that screens prominent international cinema productions in the Balkan region, and draws attention to the Kosovar film industry. It was created after the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.
Kosovo is the subject of a long-running political and territorial dispute between the Serbian (and previously, the Yugoslav) government versus Kosovo's largely ethnic-Albanian population. Resolution 1244 permitted the United Nations to establish and oversee the development of "provisional, democratic self-governing institutions" in Kosovo.
The origin of the name of the city is unknown. Eric P. Hamp connected the word with an Indo-European derivative *pṛ-tu-(ford) + *stein (cognate to English stone) which in Proto-Albanian, spoken in the region before the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan (1st–2nd century CE) produced Pristina. [9]
Pristina (Albanian: Prishtinë; Serbian: Приштина, Priština; Turkish: Priştine) is the capital city of Kosovo. In the preliminary results of the 2011 census the population of Pristina was around 198,000. [1] The majority of the population is Albanian, but there are also smaller communities including Bosniaks, Serbs, Romani and