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  Bajram Curri, Albania
Bajram Curri is a town in Northern Albania on the border with Kosovo.
In a remote, mostly mountainous region, water from the mountains flow into the waters of the Valbona River, famous for reported having the clearest river water in Albania.
The town is named after Bajram Curri, a national hero of the early 20th century.
www.creekin.net /c1081-n2-bajram-curri-albania.html   (70 words)

  
  Trips and tourism in Bajram Curri (Albania)
Bajram Curri is a town in Northern Albania on the border with Kosovo.
In a remote, mostly mountainous region, water from the mountains flow into the waters of the Valbona River, famous for reported having the clearest river water in Albania.
The town is named after Bajram Curri, a national hero of the early 20th century.
www.tripstw.com /city/Bajram_Curri-1131.htm   (56 words)

  
 Albania during the First World War (1914-1920)
Bajram Curri (1862-1925) was born in the village of Koganaj, located in the region of Tropoja (north of Albania).
Curri entranched himself in the valley of Krasniqe, in Tropoja, and was killed in 1925 in the cave of Drogobi by Zogu's troops.
In 1952, the city of Kolgeçaj was made the capital city of the district of Tropoja and renamed Bajram Curri.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/al_w1914.html   (1295 words)

  
 At high risk, aid workers deliver. - Concern USA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BAJRAM CURRI, Albania - Imagine sticking thousands of sick people, feeble elderly, and children in the middle of the OK Corral at high noon -- with two feuding and heavily armed cowboys at either end of the town.
This is the situation in the lawless, northern Albanian mountain town of Bajram Curri, where the risk of getting shot or robbed is so high that no humanitarian aid organization, save one, has the courage to go there to feed the 3,200 Kosovar Albanian refugees who are virtually imprisoned by local bandits.
On Thursday, as Serb shells fell on Bajram Curri, two Albanians in a car clearly marked as an OSCE vehicle were shot dead, and one was injured, as they drove out of town.
www.concernusa.org /news/item.asp?nid=46&bid=0   (539 words)

  
 From Decani to Bajram Curri
Since Bajram Curri has been declared off-bounds the refugee families trapped in the area have been left without food and clothing.
She refuses to get treatment until the refugee children that need special medical care are transported from Bajram Curri to a safer area.
In her mid-thirties, she is a local to Bajram Curri.
www.geocities.com /bikem71/Kukes.html   (1802 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bajram Curri
Bajram Curri (1862 – March 29, 1925) was an ethnic Albanian nationalist from Kosovo.
Curri was born in Đakovica, in the Rumelia Province of the Ottoman Empire.
The place where he died, Dragobi in Tropojë District, is today called Bajram Curri, as the Albanian communists revered him as a freedom fighter and nationalist.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bajram_Curri   (234 words)

  
  Albania during the First World War (1914-1920)
The flag was probably in use from September 1914 to 1916, and was further used by Curri until 1918.
Bajram Curri (1862-1925) was born in the village of Koganaj, located in the region of Tropoja (north of Albania).
Curri entranched himself in the valley of Krasniqe, in Tropoja, and was killed in 1925 in the cave of Drogobi by Zogu's troops.
www.fotw.net /flags/al_w1914.html   (1322 words)

  
 refugee crisis
Bajram Curri, AL -- When a free moment, Mushkeli Kuhala, Suriyete's father gets out of the small apartment to stare out in the distance where the Dinars stretch.
After their villages were razed with bulldozers and all their belongings looted, Mushkele Kuhele had to take her newborn daughter and took refuge in the mountains with the rest of his family.
All 12 members of this family share the same space as they wait for the day when they can return to their villages in Kosovo.
www.geocities.com /bikem71/refugee.html   (330 words)

  
 Bajram curri - <nettime> Corriere della Sera: D'Avanzo on Kosovo
Bajram Curri, a member of the Committee, went so far as to assemble a few thousand warriors in the region of Kukes, and sent them to fight the government.
Bajram Curri, Albania - sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk times for the whole year in a graph, day length and changes in lengths in a table.
Their destination is Bajram Curri, but they must take the ferry across Lake Komani in order to get there.
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 Albania
Cut into the fields and on the sides of the slopes were trenches and scattered across the landscape were bunkers and I knew that I was in the extreme north of Albania and very near the boarders with Kosovo and Serbia and Montenegro.
Bajram Curri (1862 – March 29, 1925) was an Albanian national hero from Kosovo.
The place where he died, Dragobi in Tropojë District, is today called Bajram Curri, as the Albanian communists revered him as a freedom fighter and nationalist.
www.sadelson.com /Albania/albania.htm   (1256 words)

  
 Julian Borger@Bajram Curri | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
But in Bajram Curri, the family arsenal often takes up a whole room and typically includes anti-tank mines, hand grenades and rocket launchers.
It is through this highland settlement that the KLA must bring weapons and recruits en route to Kosovo and the war against the Serbs.
Mr Haklaj is Bajram Curri's most powerful man. Not only is he the godfather of the clan responsible for the most daring acts of highway robbery, he is also head of the police "rapid deployment unit".
www.guardian.co.uk /Kosovo/Story/0,,207327,00.html   (618 words)

  
 Bajram Curri - Albanian Tourism - Official Website
Bajram Curri is the only alpine town in Albania and at the same time the northernmost town within the political borders of the Republic of Albania.
It received its present name in 1952 in honour of Bajram Curri, a well known nationalist that lived in the area and was killed in the Dragobia Cave, on the Valbona River.
Natural attractions in North Eastern Albania accessible from Bajram Curri include Valbona River Valley and National Park, the Korabi Mountain, the Koman lake, and Liqeni i Zi.
www.albaniantourism.com /display/content/107?a=457&l=1   (265 words)

  
 Albanian Alps travel guide - Wikitravel
The main city of the area is Bajram Curri.
In the summer there are various vehicles continuing to Theth and it's possible to hitch a ride, or else to walk the 25 km to Thethi, a long and difficult hike over a 1600m pass, with little water.
There are minibuses from Bajram Curri to Valbonë, and almost to the last village in the valley, Rrogami.
wikitravel.org /en/Albanian_Alps   (786 words)

  
 BAJRAM CURRI HOTELS
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 The Refugees: A City's Exiles Recall How Good They Had It
Bajram Curri was the kind of place people moved to when they were confident about the future.
Of all the people in Bajram Curri, Shala, 35, may have had the most to fear from the police.
But his wife still prepares for him the sweet Turkish coffee he had in Bajram Curri, and, after eating, when he lights a cigarette and sips his coffee, he sometimes thinks about the antique two-string lyre he used to play when he sang at weddings.
partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/052399kosovo-prizen.html   (1863 words)

  
 Indian Express: Burials without tears for young Kosovo guerrillas   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bajram Curri (Albania), april 16: An honour guard of 10 guerrilla fighters in camouflage uniforms stood at attention, automatic rifles clutched across chests.
Such funerals have been common this week in Bajram Curri, a decrepit northern Albanian city near a border region where the KLA is fighting Yugoslav and Serb forces in Kosovo to keep open a traditional supply line.
Pier Gonggrijp, head of the Bajram Curri office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said several Albanian villages were targeted from across the border, and that shelling continued into the night.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990417/ige17088p.html   (594 words)

  
 Bajram Curri at AllExperts
Bajram Curri (1862 &ndash; March 29, 1925) was an Albanian national hero from Kosovo.
At the time when Albania and Kosovo were part of the Ottoman Empire, Curri represented the interests of the Albanians.
The place where he died, Dragobi in Tropojë District, is today called Bajram Curri, as the Albanian communists revered him as a freedom fighter and nationalist.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/bajram_curri.htm   (242 words)

  
 Der Revolver sitzt locker / Bajram Curri und die umliegende Provinz sind in... : Textarchiv : Berliner Zeitung
Heute haben sie in Bajram Curri einen guten Mann begraben: Sali Ceku, den stellvertretenden Kommandeur der 134.
Bajram Curri ist auf den ersten Blick weit weg von der großen Politik eine Kleinstadt aus sechsstökkigen Ziegelhäusern, gebaut an einen Hang der prachtvollen albanischen Alpen und umgeben von einer bukolischen Landschaft mit Olivenbäumen und Bruchsteinmauern.
Was fern in Tirana noch wie ein politischer Dissens zwischen Parteien aussieht, ist hier in Bajram Curri ein brutaler Machtkampf.
www.berlinonline.de /berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1999/0427/blickpunkt/0254/index.html   (1563 words)

  
 Bajram Curri, la ciudad del más fuerte
BAJRAM CURRI (ALBANIA).- El flujo de refugiados de Kosovo hacia Albania no se interrumpe.
Mohamed se refugió hace dos semanas en Bajram Curri, una pequeña ciudad situada en el norte de Albania, a pocos kilómetros de la frontera con Yugoslavia.
"Bajram Curri es el lugar más peligroso que he visto en toda mi vida", afirma Otto Sorenson.
www.elmundo.es /elmundo/1998/septiembre/03/internacional/03N0044.html   (515 words)

  
 Situation Reports: Balkans, UN Inter-Agency Update on Kosovo Situation Report 44
The security situation in northern Albania remains a key issue particularly around the areas of Tropoje and Bajram Curri, where a large concentration of UCK fighters continues to be evident.
This week, UNHCR Bajram Curri assisted the first family which was asked to leave the house of a host family.
THW has identified three firms for the rehabilitation of the military hospital in Bajram Curri and is in the process of selecting the most appropriate one.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/vLCE/4072A67FEFCFC5A1852566500067DA64?OpenDocument&StartKey=Balkans&ExpandView   (2158 words)

  
 Clans, KLA rule north Albania
BAJRAM CURRI (ALBANIA), MAY 23: In Bajram Curri, economics revolve around demand and supply.
But there are no armed bands in Bajram Curri,'' said the optimistic Isa Koliqi, administrative head of the district, Tropoje.
Bajram Curri's real local dignitaries are to be found in the bar of the town's Best Hotel, knocking back shots of the alcoholically lethal `raki at sunrise, sunset and most hours in between.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990524/ige24036.html   (493 words)

  
 Serbian Demonstration - Albanian Badlands -- May 5, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (Reuters) - In town after town along Albania's northern border, young men swagger through the streets with handguns in their waist bands and Kalashnikov assault rifles slung on their shoulders.
This is the heart of the Albanian badlands, a remote, lawless place where foreign officials say violent criminal gangs known as clans are exploiting the Kosovo crisis as just another money-making opportunity.
In Bajram Curri, there are so many guns in private hands that few law-abiding citizens dare stray on to the streets after nightfall, when gunfire becomes the soundtrack of life.
www.prop1.org /protest/serbia/990503.serb.albanians.htm   (466 words)

  
 Evidence of the change in relationship of the KLA and NATO
Speaking from a KLA camp in Babine, between the northern Albanian town of Bajram Curri and the Kosovo border, Shpend Gjocaj revealed that British and American special forces originally entered the Serbian province in the early hours of 21 March, three days before the start of the Nato air strikes against Yugoslavia.
Bajram Curri is famous in Albania only for its bandits, who have stripped arriving journalists of cars, cameras and satellite telephones.
According to the KLA, however, the American military visitors came to Bajram Curri to assess the terrain and the border fighting with an eye to deploying Apache helicopters against Serbian artillery and tanks on the other side of the mountains.
www.bolshevik.org /Leaflets/klanato.htm   (5820 words)

  
 Hasan Prishtina at AllExperts
He together with Isa Boletini and Bajram Curri took the responsibility to start the Movement in Kosovo.
In 1918, Hasan Prishtina, Kadri Prishtina (Hoxhë Kadriu), Bajram Curri and many others create the committee National Protection of Kosovo and had their representatives in Rome and Albania.
He was in charge of the delegation in december 1919, participating to protect the rights of Albania in the Peace Conference of Paris, where he requested the re-unification of Kosovo and Albania.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/ha/hasan_prishtina.htm   (453 words)

  
 King Zog - Page 3 - Albanian Forums
Ne historine tone kombetare Bajram Curri ka zene nje vend nderi e lavdie, si nje nder rilindasit e shquar per pavaresi kombetare, per liri e demokraci dhe per krijimin e shtetit unik shqiptar, anembane trojeve etnike.
Bajram Curri kurre nuk u pajtua me copetimin e trojeve ndermjet shovinisteve fqinje, ai ishte kunder synimeve te tyre per te zhdukur a tjetersuar kombin shqiptar.
Bajram Curri do te jetoje perjetesisht ne zemrat e shqiptareve te vertete, si hero i popullit.
www.albanian.com /community/vbl/showthread.php?t=1222&page=3   (1211 words)

  
 Bajram curri - Projects - Public Works
Bajram Curri je město v severní části Albánie na hranici s Kosovem.
Bajram Curri är centralort i distriktet Tropoja i norra Albanien.
BAJRAM CURRI, Albania - Imagine sticking thousands of sick people, feeble elderly, and children in the middle of the OK Corral at high noon
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 VeloAsia: Alabanian Alps Cycling Tour
At the upper end of this voyage, we will overnight in Bajram Curri, a small city in a spectacular mountain setting with a Muslim history.
Bajram Curri’s statue reminds us that the village is named after a national hero, who held off the Germans in WWII.
For those not interested in trekking, it is possible to backtrack in the minibus from Rrogam to overnight in Bajram Curri.
www.veloasia.com /tours/albania/itinerary.html   (1158 words)

  
 Bajram Curri, ALB Weather - Current Conditions, Forecasts, and Maps
Bajram Curri, ALB Weather - Current Conditions, Forecasts, and Maps
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 BBC News | EUROPE | Berisha blamed for Albania gunfight
Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta has blamed elements within the opposition Democratic Party for an attack on a police station in the north of the country in which at least two people were shot dead and over 20 injured.
The violence in the town of Bajram Curri followed two weeks of protests by ex-President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party which has been challenging the governing Socialists' victories in last month's municipal elections.
Now the stakes have been raised with the killings in Bajram Curri - a town in the district of Tropoja which is Mr Berisha's birthplace and remains one of his party's few remaining strongholds.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1045919.stm   (353 words)

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