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Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It has a D 25 isophotal diameter of 29.44 kiloparsecs (96,000 light-years ).
The Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo (Albanian: Komiteti "Mbrojtja Kombëtare e Kosovës" abbrev. KMKK) was an Albanian organization founded in Shkodër on 1 May 1918. [1] It mainly consisted of the political exiles from Kosovo and was led by Hoxha Kadri from Pristina. [2] It had existed in looser form since May 1915.
He was shot in the back in 1918 at the age of 65 by Austro-Hungarian forces in Qafa e Markofqes, in the mountain of Gjarpri in today's Kukës County. [11] [12] [13] He was a close friend and related to Isa Boletini. He is a venerated figure in Albania and Kosovo. [14] He also helped Bajram Curri open up a school in Krasniqe. [15]
During the late 1980s, nationalism was on the rise throughout the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.Since 1974 the province of Kosovo, although part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, was a self-governed entity over which the Serbian parliament had almost no factual control (see Political status of Kosovo).
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Rexh Xhakli (August 8, 1938 – April 5, 2020) was an Albanian American businessman, political activist and philanthropist. He was an important figure of the Albanian-American community, who has had a prominent personal role in the historical lobbying for Kosovo’s fight for independence. [1]
Kosova – sfida shqiptare në historinë e një shekulli (Kosovo – the Albanian challenge in the history of a century), Tirana: Botimpex, 2007. ISBN 9789994380138. Lidhja Shqiptare e Prizrenit në dokumentet austro-hungareze (Albanian League of Prizren from the Austro-Hungarian documents), as editor, Tirana: Albanica, 2008. ISBN 9789951873529.
On 14-05-1999, most of the LPK membership would support the creation of Party for Democratic Progress of Kosovo (Partia për Progres Demokratik e Kosovës) as a political wing of the Kosovo Liberation Army after the war, renamed on 21 May 2000 as Democratic Party of Kosovo (Albanian: Partia Demokratike e Kosovës, PDK) led by Hashim Thaçi. [21]