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Sadije (also spelled Sadijé, Sadiya or Khadija) was a member of the Toptani family.She was the daughter of Salah Bey Toptani (1843−1910) and his wife, Annije Hanem Toptani (1855−1899), both members by birth of the Toptani family.
The name "Albanians" (Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. [1] Linguists believe that the alb part in the root word originates from an Indo-European term for a type of mountainous topography, meaning "hill ...
Albanian names are names that are used by Albanians in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, or the diaspora.In Albania, a full name usually consists of a given name (Albanian: emri); the given name of the individual's father (patronymic, Albanian: atësia), which is seldom included except in official documents; and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname (Albanian ...
A sacred ritual called "funeral of the Sun's Mother" was dedicated to the Albanian mother goddess Nëna e Diellit. It consisted in burying a female figure that probably personified a seasonal phase of the mother goddess. Occurring at the end of May, it was the last festival of the spring cycle, coinciding with the feast of Pentecost (Rusica). [28]
Mother Albania. The partisan monument and graveyard on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania. Kristaq Rama (31 July 1932 – 11 April 1998) [1] was an Albanian sculptor, art educator and a member of the Communist Party in Albania under Enver Hoxha's rule. He had close ties to Hoxha's communist regime. [2]
In folk tales, myths and legends the sun appears as a male figure, and the moon as a female figure. In some traditions the sun and the moon are regarded as husband and wife, and in other traditions as brother and sister. In the case of E Bija e Hënës dhe e Diellit the sun is her father and the moon is her mother. [4] [5]
Parashqevi was born in Monastir (now Bitola, in the Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). [2] When she was only 11 she started to help her brother Gjerasim Qiriazi and sister Sevasti Qiriazi to teach written Albanian to girls in the first school for girls in Albania, the Girls' School (Albanian: Shkolla e Vashave), [5] which opened on 15 October 1891.
Tinka was married with Palok Kurti in 1951 until his death in 1997. [6] They had a son named Zef Kurti who died in March 6, 2018 at 65 from a heart attack. [7]After her son's death in January 2022, she published her biographical book called "Diary of a husband" [8]