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The language is spoken by approximately 6 million people in the Balkans, primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece. [1] However, due to old communities in Italy and the large Albanian diaspora, the worldwide total of speakers is much higher than in Southern Europe and numbers approximately 7.5 million.
Bajram Rexhepi - Prime Minister of Kosovo 2002-2004 [18] Ibrahim Rugova - first president of Kosovo (1992–2000) and (2002–2006) [19] Fatmir Sejdiu - first president of the Republic of Kosovo (2006–2010) [20] Hashim Thaçi - former Prime Minister and President of Kosovo [20] Azem Vllasi - senior politician and lawyer [3]
Romani people in Kosovo (Albanian: Romët në Kosovë) are part of the wider Romani people community, the biggest minority group in Europe. Kosovo Roma speak the Balkan Romani language in most cases, but also the languages that surround them, such as Serbian and Albanian. In 2011 there were 36,694 Romani, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians living in ...
Albin Kurti is the current prime minister of Kosovo. His government, approved by the assembly and installed on March 22, 2021, consists of Albanians, as well as ministers from Kosovo's ethnic minorities, which include Bosniaks, Romani, Turks and Serbs. Although the government includes representatives of ethnic minorities, it is dominated by the ...
According to the 2011 census, almost 95% of the citizens speak Albanian as their native language, followed by South Slavic languages and Turkish. Due to North Kosovo's boycott of the census, Bosnian came in as the second-largest language after Albanian. However, Serbian is in reality the second-most spoken language in Kosovo.
Map of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Косово и Метохиja, romanized: Kosovo i Metohija; Albanian: Kosova dhe Metohia), commonly known as Kosovo (Serbian: Косово; Albanian: Kosova) and abbreviated to Kosmet (from Kosovo and Metohija; Serbian: Космет) or KiM (Serbian: КиМ), is an autonomous ...
Local elections were held in Kosovo on 17 October 2021. [1] Only 17 municipalities elected a mayor in the first round, and 21 will vote again on 14 November 2021. [2] In Hani i Elezit, the election was seriously hampered by election fraud, and a second ballot planned to be held in October/November 2021. [3]
Critics have said the party has considerably abandoned their traditional, Kosovo-Albanian nationalist policies and policies of their founder Ibrahim Rugova. Since August 2014, it has been attacked by Vetevendosje on that front. The Democratic League of Kosovo has been described as centrist, [8] centre-right [9] [10] and right-wing. [11]