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	Bajram Curri (town) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bajram_Curri_(town) (101 words)

	Bajram Curri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bajram Curri (1862 – 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.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bajram_Curri (215 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of cities in Albania
		A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status.
		krume is a pleasant small town of HAS District it is located at the bottom of the mauntain Bjeshka e Krumes on the east, mountain of GAJREPI (mali i Gajrepit) on the east of the town it starts the river vrella which comes out of the bottom of the mountain...
		Librazhd (Albanian: Librazhd or Librazhdi) is a city in Albania with a population of approximately 11,500 located at 41.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-Albania (1055 words)

	At high risk, aid workers deliver. - Concern USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 (524 words)

	Albanian bandits turn frontier town into anarchy zone: 5/15/99
		BAJRAM CURRI, Albania -- Kosovo's war has been one big bonanza for the bandits who control this renegade frontier town and prey on aid workers and journalists in shiny four-wheel drive vehicles loaded with high-tech gear.
		In a town of fewer than 10,000 people, where few can afford cars, there were a remarkable number of almost new, four-wheel drive vehicles screeching up and down the town's potholed streets.
		After communism collapsed in 1991, the vestiges of law and order began to crumble, and Bajram Curri was flooded with guns in 1997 when the country's armories were emptied amid nationwide unrest.
	www.s-t.com /daily/05-99/05-15-99/c06wn118.htm (828 words)

	Ethnic Albania - Albania - Cities - Kukes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kukës (Albanian: Kukës or Kukësi) is a town in Albania located at 42.09°N, 20.43°E in the district and county with the same name.
		The town is set among the mountains of northern Albania, near the border with Kosova.
		The town was relocated as part of a hydroelectric scheme.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze7b2yg/id26.html (161 words)

	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)

	Bajram Curri - TheBestLinks.com - Albania, 20th century, List of Albanians, Bajram Curri (town), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Bajram Curri was an Albanian national hero of the early 20th century.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bajram_Curri.html (110 words)

	Guardian \| Julian Borger@Bajram Curri
		But in Bajram Curri, the family arsenal often takes up a whole room and typically includes anti-tank mines, hand grenades and rocket launchers.
		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".
		The safest place in town is probably the Hotel Shkelzeni which is guarded by Albanian special forces in blue berets.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3868140-103558,00.html (609 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)

	Clans, KLA rule north Albania
		BAJRAM CURRI (ALBANIA), MAY 23: In Bajram Curri, economics revolve around demand and supply.
		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.
		But although the KLA are welcomed in this decaying town and allowed to go about their business with only the occasional token hold-up, few locals have rushed to join the ranks of the separatists.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990524/ige24036.html (493 words)

	Serbian Demonstration - Albanian Badlands -- May 5, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Adding to the feel of an armed camp are the squads of Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas clad in new combat fatigues who frequently come to town from their base camps in nearby mountains.
		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)

	[ALBSA-Info] 5 die in shootout in Tropoje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Berisha's gift to the nation on the occasion of the 88th aniversary of the declaration of independence is to show the world that the Albanians are an unruly bunch, undeserving of even the half-assed state they have.
		Five killed in northern Albanian police shootout TIRANA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Five Albanians were killed on Tuesday in the northern Albanian town of Bajram Curri after gunmen attacked the local police station, police said.
		Bajram Curri lies in the mountainous region of Tropoje which borders on the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and which is largely outside government control.
	www.alb-net.com /pipermail/albsa-info/2000-November/000987.html (231 words)

	Yugoslav MiG crashes as Serb fighting reported in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (May 12, 1999 9:14 a.m.
		The sound of shells exploding on both sides of the border were heard in the northern town of Bajram Curri, and heavy plumes of smoke billowed into the air.
		Thirty wounded KLA fighters were hospitalized in Bajram Curri on Tuesday, and KLA sources said three others were killed in the fighting,
	www.aeronautics.ru /migdownnando01.htm (390 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-04-27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAJRAM CURRI, April 27 (ata) - By Riza Hoxha: A grave accident occurred in the town of Bajram Curri on Tuesday at about 1 p.m.
		The three injured were taken to the civil hospital of Bajram Curri in a grave situation and are undergoing operations.
		The commander of this unit has confirmed travel towards the North of Albania and concretely towards the Kukes town, which may be the place of its deployment.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/balkans/ata/1999/99-04-27.ata.html (4593 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hajrije Tofaj, a grandmother, crossed the border into Albania with her husband and two grandchildren in the middle of August as part of a group of some 500 refugees.
		Arriving in the district's main town, Bajram Curri, Hajrije and her family were accommodated in an empty cultural centre.
		However, large groups of refugees are also living in the capital, Tirana, and the port city of Durres, and the ARC and the Federation are helping people in these areas.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/98/98082702 (346 words)

	Fixed access bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of Kapyong was waged during the Korean War.
		The Bambi Effect is an informal name used primarily by hunters and trappers for the emotional impact of the harvesting of animals which the public considers adorable, regardless of what the opponents
		Barrhead is a small town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, 8 miles southwest of Glasgow on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes.
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	ICRC News 17 / 28-Apr-99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Last week an ICRC helicopter took food and medicines to the town of Bajram Curri in Tropoje, the northernmost district of Albania.
		Further assistance will be delivered to the refugees and displaced in Tropoje and to the hospital at Bajram Curri, which is treating around 15 war-wounded patients a day.
		At present the main services are radio broadcasts which have enabled thousands of refugees to let their relatives know of their whereabouts, and telephone links in six towns and cities, which are giving people the chance to talk directly to their families around the world.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/icrc/99/0016.html (266 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 98-01-15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAJRAM CURRI, Jan 14 (ATA)-By R. Hoxha, "Tele Tropoja" is the new private TV station, which has begun broadcasting in the Bajram Curri town, North of Albania.
		This station covers the town of Bajram Curri and its nearby villages.
		One of the co-owners of the station, Ismail Bucpapaj, told ATA that "In January, with the installation of several modern apparatuses, the waves of this station will extend all over the Tropoje district, as well as beyond the state border, to the suburbs of Gjakove and Peje", in Kosova.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/balkans/ata/1998/98-01-15.ata.html (3666 words)

	Legacy Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Through her work and other coordinating Christian missionaries, a church has been formed in the beautiful area of Bajram Curri, and one in the smaller town close by called Fierz.
		We will be helping the local churches clean up their town of Bajram Curri, encourage the Christians in their walk, and show a Christ-like example of kindness and motivation to the community.
		Building Child Care Center for town that will be used as ministry as well as a place for Pastor Astrit to live, and a meeting place for the church in BC.
	www.legacychurch.org /missions/Albania2.htm (698 words)

	CNN - Albanian elder, 86, flees Serbs a second time - June 13, 1998
		BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (Reuters) - Born in 1912, the year Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire, Xhaferr Mazrekaj is a refugee from Serbian guns for the second time in his life.
		This is the second time for me. They drove 70,000 ethnic Albanians out in 1954," Mazrekaj recounted from his bed in the decrepit hospital that serves the northern Albanian town of Bajram Curri.
		Mazrekaj's 61-year-old nephew Rexhep, who made the trip from Voksa to Bajram Curri with his ailing uncle, says there is no longer any prospect for a negotiated settlement with the Serbs and that war is now the only answer.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9806/13/kosovo.refugee (768 words)

	Moment of Fame Forums - How not to fish
		Doctors at the Bajram Curri hospital said he had lost both hands, badly hurt his eyes and suffered serious wounds all over his body.
		He was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail on charges of leading an attack on the Bajram Curri police station last year.
		Since 2000, warrants have been issued for Malaj's arrest on charges of wilful murder, armed robbery, armed assault and battery of the education directress of the town.
	www.momentoffame.com /forum/printthread.php?t=506 (213 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This report was filed Sunday, April 11, from Bajram Curri, Albania.
		The town has a population of only 10,000 or so, and it looked like all of them were there.
		Behind them were the crumbling, dormitory-like apartment houses, abandoned factories and offices and piles of trash that mark, depressingly, every Albanian town and city.
	www.usatoday.com /news/index/kosovo/kirk001.htm (949 words)

	Facts about topic: (Bajram Curri (town)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bajram Curri is a town in Northern Albania (A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula) on the border with Kosovo (A Serbian province in southern Yugoslavia populated predominantly by Albanians).
		The town is named after Bajram Curri (additional info and facts about Bajram Curri), a national hero of the early 20th century (additional info and facts about 20th century).
		List of cities in Albania (additional info and facts about List of cities in Albania)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bajram_curri_(town).htm (108 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (AP) - In one of their deepest cross-border incursions so far, Yugoslav soldiers stormed two northern Albanian villages in an offensive aimed at cutting supply lines of the Kosovo rebels, international observers said Wednesday.
		Artillery shells exploded on both sides of the Kosovo-Albanian border, sending up columns of gray smoke visible from the Albanian town of Bajram Curri, only six miles away.
		''This is the deepest penetration (by Yugoslav forces) and the longest we have seen,'' Pier Gonggrijp, head of the Bajram Curri office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said Wednesday morning.
	www.usatoday.com /news/index/kosovo/koso608.htm (498 words)

	TN11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now a National Monument as the people's hero Bajram Curri used it as a refuge.
		To the east of Bajram Curri by the mill of Kocanej on the Valbone River.
		from the town at the foot of a wide range of hills called the Mali i Gjere, in the wide valley of the River Dronojierhebt.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/hape/tn11.htm (3017 words)

	America Military with KLA
		In the Albanian border town of Bajram Curri last week,
		Bajram Curri is famous in Albania only for
		visitors came to Bajram Curri to assess the terrain and
	www.geocities.com /johndavidpowell/KLAUSA.html (584 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Administrative divisions
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	What young people think - Europe and Central Asia
		What young people think - Europe and Central Asia
		A football game in the town of Bajram Curri, Albania.
		Two-thirds of all children polled feel happy most of the time, more so in Western Europe (80%) than transition countries (60%).
	www.unicef.org /polls/cee/happiness (264 words)

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