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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 (Albanian: atësia), which is seldom included except in official documents; and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname (Albanian: mbiemri).
Flag of Kosovo (flamuri i Republikës së Kosovës) This is a list of historical and living notable Kosovar Albanians (ethnic Albanian people from Kosovo or people of full or partial Kosovar Albanian ancestry), sorted by occupation and name:
In the 1485 defter, which covered the Gjakova region of Western Kosovo, half of the villages had Albanian names or a mixture of Slavic-Albanian names. [23] During Stefan Dusan's reign, Albanian Catholics in Kosovo were forcibly converted into Orthodoxy, many others were expelled, and Catholic churches were converted into Orthodox ones. [24] [25 ...
Dafina Zeqiri was born on 14 April 1989 into an Albanian family from Kosovo in the city of Varberg, Sweden. [1] [2] Her siblings are Tringa Zeqiri and Besa Tafari née Zeqiri.[3] [4] [5] Dafina's father, Nebih Bajraktari, left her family at a very early age and was absent since then.
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 ...
The name Kosovo is of South Slavic origin. Kosovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Косово) is the Serbian neuter possessive adjective of kos (кос), 'blackbird', [20] [21] an ellipsis for Kosovo Polje, 'Blackbird Field', the name of a karst field situated in the eastern half of today's Kosovo and the site of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Field. [22]
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Voksh (Albanian: Vokshi or Voksh) is a village and tribal region situated in western Kosovo, which is inhabited by 570 people, all of whom are Albanians. [1] The village of Voksh is also home to the Vokshi tribe which is part of the larger polyphyletic Thaçi tribe .