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Obama family portrait, 2011. A person's biological parents are the persons from whom the individual inherits their genes.The term is generally only used if there is a need to distinguish an individual's parents from their biological parents, For example, an individual whose father has remarried may call the father's new wife their stepmother and continue to refer to their mother normally ...
[2] [1] The school building serves as a museum [2] and is located on the north side of Bulevardi Shën Gjergji (St. George Boulevard). The opening of the school was a result of the Albanian National Movement which aimed to create an independent Albania and to secure denied rights to Albanian people within the Ottoman Empire. Among others ...
The Kosovan forest flora is represented by 139 orders classified in 63 families, 35 genera and 20 species. [2] It has a significance for the Balkans as whole – although Kosovo represents only 2.3% of the region's area, in terms of vegetation it represents 25% of flora and about 18% of total European flora. [5]
Zana Nimani - Belgrade-based former singer, parents from Kosovo; Patrick Nuo - Swiss recording artist and actor, the father is an Albanian from Gjakova; Rita Ora - British singer-songwriter and actress, born in Pristina; Dua Lipa - British pop singer, parents are immigrants from Kosovo, fleeing during the war [7] [8] Ismet Peja - folk singer [9]
Has (Albanian definite form: Hasi) is a region in north eastern Albania and south western Kosovo.. Hasi is an ethno-geographic area with well-defined borders, surrounded by river Black Drin to its West and south west in Albania and by the White Drin river on its south, east and north east in Kosovo.
Between 1246 and 1255, Stefan Uroš I had reported Albanian toponyms in the Drenica valley. A chrysobull of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan that was given to the Monastery of Saint Mihail and Gavril in Prizren between the years of 1348–1353 states the presence of Albanians in the Plains of Dukagjin, the vicinity of Prizren and in the villages of Drenica.
The 2011 census recorded Kosovo (excluding North Kosovo) as having 1,739,825 inhabitants. [15] The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) has called "for caution when referring to the 2011 census", due to the boycott by Serb-majority municipalities in North Kosovo and the large boycott by Serbs and Roma in southern Kosovo. [16]
On 2 July, the vast majority of Albanian members of the Provincial Assembly returned to the Assembly, but it had been locked; so in the street outside they voted to declare Kosovo a Republic within the Yugoslav federation. [2] The Serbian government responded by dissolving the Assembly and the government of Kosovo, removing any remaining autonomy.