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The Albanian word besa is an Indo-European cognate and shares similarities with the Classical Latin word fides.In Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, Latin fides took on the Christian meaning of 'faith' or '(religious) belief,' a sense that persists in modern Romance languages and was borrowed into Albanian as feja.
Besa Kokëdhima (Albanian pronunciation: [ˈbɛsa kɔk(ə)ˈðima]; born 29 May 1986), also known mononymously as Besa, is an Albanian singer. In 2013, she won the 15th edition of Kënga Magjike . She represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song " Titan ".
The besa was used to regulate tribal affairs both between and within tribes. [41] The Ottoman government used the besa as a way to co-opt Albanian tribes into supporting state policies or to seal agreements. [41] During the Ottoman period, the besa would be cited in government reports of Albanian unrest, especially in the tribes. [46]
The following year, the club was renamed "Besa Kavajë", also known as "Besa Sport Klub", derived from the name Besa, the Albanian cultural precept meaning "to keep the promise" and "word of honour". During World War II , many members of the club lost their lives as soldiers, including Mehmet Babamusta, Adil Alushi, Sami Karriqi and Millan ...
Constantin and Doruntine (Albanian: Kostandini dhe Doruntina), or Constantin's Besa (Albanian: Besa e Kostandinit), is an Albanian ballad and legend. It is also narrated in a prose version [1] The legend has been narrated also: As a novel written by Ismail Kadare named in Albanian Who brought Doruntine back? (Albanian: Kush e solli Doruntinën?
Graffiti in the Republic of Macedonia reading "Death for Shiptars" (Macedonian: Смрт за Шиптари, romanized: Smrt za Šiptari). The term Shiptar (Serbo-Croatian Latin and Slovene: Šiptar; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Шиптар) used in Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian is an ethnic slur, and it is also considered derogatory by Albanians when used by South Slavic ...
Besa (singer) (born 1986), Albanian singer and songwriter; Besa machine gun, a British version of the Czechoslovak ZB-53 air-cooled, belt-fed machine gun; Besa River, a waterway in northern British Columbia, Canada; Besa, a 1 ⁄ 100 denomination of the Italian Somaliland rupia; Besa, a genus of algae in the order Gigartinales
Football Club Besa Peja (Albanian: Klubi Futbollistik Besa Peja) is a football club based in Peja, Kosovo. Their home ground is Shahin Haxhiislami and they compete in the Second Football League of Kosovo. The club went defunct after having lots of financial problems and not being able to climb up the Kosovo football league system, but were ...