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Mic Sokoli tower house in Bujan, northern Albania. Tower houses (singular: Albanian: kullë; Bosnian: odžak Bulgarian: кули, kuli; Serbian: кула, Romanian: culă) developed and were built since the Middle Ages in the Balkans, [1] particularly in Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, [2] but also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia, as well as in Oltenia ...
The Syle Rexha Tower House is a cultural heritage monument in Vranoc, Peja, Kosovo. It was built in the 18th century. It was built in the 18th century. The two-story building is made from river stone save for the carved stone corners and was designed by artisans from the Sanjak of Dibra as well as the family of the eponymous feudal lord.
After the end of the Kosovo Liberation War (1999), new circumstances emerged. In 2010, it was decided to rebuild the Tower of Azem Bejta in his birthplace, Galica, in the Vushtrri Municipality. The reconstruction work began on July 16, 2010, on the occasion of the 86th anniversary of Azem Bejtë's heroic death. [3]
During the 1999 conflict in Kosovo many buildings that represent this heritage were destroyed or damaged. [2] [3] In the Dukagjini region, at least 500 kullas were attacked, and most of them destroyed or otherwise damaged. [1] During the 1990s and thereafter, thousands of illegal buildings have been built in Kosovo.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
The tower house of Asllan Tupella lies in the eponymous Tupella neighborhood of Kçiq i Vogël in the municipality of Mitrovica. Ferhat Asllan Tupella (born in 1947) reports that Asllan's father Ahmet built the tower in the late 19th century.
With the support of health workers, the Princess of Wales' Centre for Early Childhood, which was founded in 2021 and is part of Prince William and Kate's Royal Foundation, is introducing a pilot ...
Serbia on Monday released three police officers from Kosovo who were detained near the disputed border between the Balkan foes earlier this month as tensions soared. A court in the central Serbian ...