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Capital punishment in Albania was abolished for murder on 1 October 2000, but was still retained for treason and military offences. The reason for the abolition of the death penalty in Albania as well as in other European nations is the signing of Protocol No. 6 to the ECHR. Under communism, Albania highly used capital punishment from 1941 to 1985.
The eagle of the flag of Albania is depicted on the reverse of the Albanian five lekë coin, issued in 1995 and 2000. [15] Beginning in 1969, the flag of Albania was widely unofficially flown in Kosovo by the country's ethnic Albanian population. [16] The flag was the symbol of the self-declared proto-state Republic of Kosova during the 1990s.
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Date: 1 April 2021: Source (1)Cover page of the weekly Albanian language newspaper Zer' i Popullit, published in New York City on December 17, 1912; (2)Cover page of the 16th issue of the second annual edition of Perlindja e Shqipëniës newspaper published on March 7, 1914.
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Albanian flag flown to the Moon (1971) In 1971, the Apollo 15 mission set sail to the Moon and on board were placed 32 small flags from around the world. [50] The Albanian flag was among those included thanks to the initiative of Wilson Kokalari, one of the top NASA engineers at the time, of Albanian origin from Gjirokastër. After completing ...
Independent Albania was proclaimed on 28 November 1912. This chapter of Albanian history was shrouded in controversy and conflict as the larger part of the self-proclaimed region had found itself controlled by the Balkan League states: Serbia, Montenegro and Greece from the time of the declaration until the period of recognition when Albania ...