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In 2004, the Bank of Albania issued a coin celebrating Albanian antiquity, depicting the Beauty of Durrës and decorative elements from it on both the obverse and the reverse. This is a serrated white-metal coin with a face value of 50 Lekë, 24.25 millimetres (0.955 in) in diameter and weighing 5.50 grams, and some 200,000 of the coins were ...
Durrës (/ ˈ d ʊr ə s / DUURR-əs, [8] [9] Albanian:; Albanian definite form: Durrësi) is the second-most-populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality. It is one of Albania's oldest continuously inhabited cities, [10] with roughly 2,500 years of recorded history.
Prince Wilhelm of Wied arrived in Albania at his capital of Durrës on March 7, 1914, along with the Royal Family. Wilhelm, who reigned as 'Vilhelm, Prince of Albania', moved into the building five months later and used it as his palace for his six month reign, when furnishing and a modest bevy of servants were brought from Germany .
The ruins of St. Anthony Church (Albanian: Kisha e Shën Ndojt) is located at Rodon Cape (alternatively known as Skanderbeg Cape) in Durrës County, is a Cultural Monument of Albania. It became a Cultural Monument in 1963. [ 1 ]
The building of the theatre dates from the 1950s. It officially opened on 11 January 1953. [1] His first show was the comedy "The Girl from the village" (Albanian: Vajza nga fshati) the writer Fatmir Gjata, staged by director Pandi Stillu.
Floriana Garo (born 15 February 1987) is an Albanian television personality and former Miss Albania.. She represented Albania in the Miss World 2012 beauty pageant. [1]Garo was the first host of the entertainment show Jo Vetem Mode on TV Klan as well as the first weather presenter on Albania's ABC News.
A distraught model allegedly fatally shot her husband before turning the gun on herself in an apparent murder-suicide inside their luxury Florida high-rise that left his family “shattered.”
During Communist Albania, many communist leaders from Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev to the Cambodian prince Samde Norodom Sihanuk have been guests in the building. Former US President Jimmy Carter also has been one of its guests in the 1990s. [1] [2] The interior of the villa was vandalized during the 1997 unrest in Albania.