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  Albanian Information - Albanian.com
Gjakova (pronounced: Jah-ko-vah') is situated in western Kosova.
It is a town with around 60,000 people, situated on the banks of the river Erenik, in the proximity of the Mal'sia e Gjakov's (Mountainside of Gjakova), the largest part of which is in the territory of Albania.
Gjakova is a Kosova town with a somewhat combined oriental and modern appearance.
albanian.com /main/countries/kosova/gjakova   (119 words)

  
 SportsShooter.com - member: Jessica Lifland
Kelly Curry of Orinda, California, may have been carrying the youngest protester during the anti-war...
A bicycle rider passes a mannequin in the rubble on the streets of old Gjakova.
The bicycle cross competitors were still in a pack as they raced up the first hill of the first lap...
www.sportsshooter.com /jblif   (277 words)

  
  Albanian Information - Albanian.com
Gjakova (pronounced: Jah-ko-vah') is situated in western Kosova.
It is a town with around 60,000 people, situated on the banks of the river Erenik, in the proximity of the Mal'sia e Gjakov's (Mountainside of Gjakova), the largest part of which is in the territory of Albania.
Gjakova is a Kosova town with a somewhat combined oriental and modern appearance.
www.albanian.com /main/countries/kosova/gjakova/index.html   (119 words)

  
 Expedition Reports : Kosova Expedition, August/September 1999 -- clowns without borders-usa
The project in Prizren focused on bringing shows to various areas and incorporating mine awareness sketches into the performances The project in Gjakova with MSF is focused on relieving post traumatic stress in children as part of MSF´s mental health project.
Gjakova provided a very different experience as the MSF office and house, an oasis, was right in the destroyed old town.
The longterm project in Gjakova, the first in PSF history, is a very strong new direction for PSF in finding ways to relieve the psychological tensions that stem from conflict.
www.clownswithoutborders.org /expeditions/kosovao/199908.shtml   (2289 words)

  
 albanien.ch Forum :: Thema anzeigen - Wer kennt Gjakova?
Das die Albaner aus Gjakova und Umgebung ziemlich angebildet sind das stimmt nicht....weil sie SEHR eingebildet sind.
Mein Onkel (mütterlicher seite_ Daja) ist von Gjakova.
Falls du noch fragen über gjakova hast, dann kannst du mich ohne schlechtes gewissen ausfragen.
www.albanien.ch /forum/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=449&highlight=   (875 words)

  
 FBI Investigators Find Children Tossed Down a Well. Kosova Crisis Center/Salon, (9 July 1999)
Gjakova, Kosova -- In the village of Meja, on the outskirts of the 16th century town of Gjakova, the fields are filled with the anonymous dead.
The Gjakova they came home to has been turned largely to rubble, the alleyways and cobblestone streets of its old quarter incinerated in a night and day of frenzied revenge by Serbian paramilitaries following the first NATO bombs.
When asked why he didn't flee Gjakova when he had the opportunity, to join the columns of refugees fleeing toward Albania and Macedonia, he replies, "I wanted to stay, not to be a refugee.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /kosovo/Kosovo-Current_News266.htm   (3341 words)

  
 USAID Transition Initiatives: Kosovo field report
On June 7, a local journalist was attacked and beaten by a group of men in Gjakova, allegedly in response to a Radio Gjakova broadcast in which the journalist reported a meeting between the President of the Gjakova Municipal Assembly and a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) general commander for the Dukagjini area.
In Gjakova, KTI is working with a consortium of local and international organizations to fund and run a seven-week, overnight summer camp focusing on interethnic trust building for vulnerable and minority children of the Gjakova area between the ages of eight and 14.
At a raucous meeting of the Gjakova Municipal Assembly, the assembly delegates voted on June 13 to donate municipal land for construction of a youth center.
www.usaid.gov /our_work/cross-cutting_programs/transition_initiatives/country/kosovo/rpt0601.html   (3034 words)

  
 The Unstuck Diaries of John Coombes: Gjakova II   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Unstuck Diaries of John Coombes: Gjakova II The Unstuck Diaries of John Coombes
Gjakova II I fly out today, to Pristina, then on by bus to Gjakova.
Gjakova suffered some of the worst atrocities of the war six years ago, the town was flattened, thousands were killed and hundreds are still missing.
www.deletetheweb.com /unstuck/archives/000588.html   (139 words)

  
 Small Kindness
My name is Aferdita Zenelaj and I was born on the 1st of April, 1970, in Gjakova, Kosova.
Before the war I was married to Driton Zenelaj who was from Gjakova.
Gjakova was razed to the ground, many had been killed and more were missing.
yusufislam.org.uk /sk/beneficiaries_story1.htm   (481 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on gjakova   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tre kosovare nga Gjakova ne Tirane me bicikle...
All American Patriots - On January 17, 2006, the SOC alleged that the Association of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) War Veterans, in cooperation with Gjakova municipality, had erected a monument honoring KLA veterans on church property.
Gjakova - medica mondiale e.V. shared by mlinks into gjakova Links 1 week ago via source URL
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/gjakova   (812 words)

  
 Wochenbericht 409 von KMDLNJ/CDHRF - Weekly report 409 - from May 3 until May 10, 1998
GJAKOVA: The corpse of an unidentified man was brought to the city morgue in Gjakova.
GJAKOVA: The corpse of Ramë Ali Neziri (88) from the village of Ponoshec was identified
GJAKOVA: Serb forces shelled the villages of Reka e Keqe on the border with Albania.
www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/week409.htm   (2220 words)

  
 Travel Kosova - Open Project - Gjakova
Gjakova municipality covers an area of 521 square kilometers, consisting of the main town and of 84 villages.
Gjakova is situated 360 meters above sea level, at a strategic position between the Albanian border and the heartland of Kosova.
Cultural activities are concentrated within the framework of the town’s Cultural Centre, including a public library, theatre, cinema (not currently operating), and the office of a local radio station, Radio Gjakova.
www.travelkosova.com /modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=8   (706 words)

  
 Kosova Daily Report #1460, 98-06-14
Fierce clashes are thought being occurring between Serbian forces and the local Albanian defendants in the three villages of the Dushkaja region.
The intensity of fire, including heavy artillery, indicates that a frontal Serbian attack is being resisted by the Albanian population, sources from the area said.
The body of Muhamet was taken late last night by the Serb police to the Gjakova town morgue.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/kosova/1998/98-06-14.ksv.html   (1978 words)

  
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Natasa Kandic, the director of Humanitarian Law Center, told earlier the paper that the trial of Albanians from Gjakova was a unprecedented trial in the judicial practice of the former Yugoslavia, since it never happened that such a group was tried without distinguishing the suspects on individual charges.
Zamira Eshambetova, the Municipal Administrator of Gjakova, told the crowd that they received the decision of the Nis Court with deep outrage and that the efforts for their release would continue.
Showing understanding for the reactions of Gjakova citizens, the KPC also said that with this act the Serb court commits yet another crime against the citizens of Gjakova, who have already suffered the most horrible crimes during the war.
www.unmikonline.org /press/mon/lmm230500.html   (3312 words)

  
 Kosovo Document
Montenegro occupied the district of Gjakova, Peja, and Istogu, and Serbia, as decided in the Conference of Ambassadors in 1913 occupied the rest of the districts.
Orthogonal and Polar methods were used in the territory of Gjakova, Peja, and Vushtria,, while in the territory of districts Mitrovica, Prizreni, Rahovec, and Ferizaj, the aerial photogrammetry was used.
For example, in the Commune of Gjakova, at the competent Court, there were issued less than 10 tapis, from the end of WW2 until the end of 1998.
www.ies.wisc.edu /ltc/kosovdoc.html   (2678 words)

  
 Arab - Lifestyles - Balkanlardakicamiler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In addition to the human damage brought about by the last 10 years of war in Balkans, the recent conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo have been devastating to their historical and architectural heritages.
However, this rehabilitation program is not as altruistic as it appears at first sight, since it is generated principally by a missionary sentiment and a narrow sectarian zeal which aims at purifying the Balkan version of Islam from what these Saudi patrons consider unorthodox and impure to the true faith.
The required authorization to start works was granted soon after by the local conservator of historical monuments and by the municipality, and a local construction firm, having no experience of restoration of historical structures, was entrusted with the implementation of the project.
www3.estart.com /arab/lifestyles/balkanlardakicamiler.html   (912 words)

  
 President Rugova Talks on the Phone with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
An report circulated by the LDK chapter in Gjakova said that at 8least 27 villages in the municipality have become ethnically cleansed since the beginning of the Serb offensive in south-west Kosova.
The situation in the town itself is appalling, swelled as it is by uprooted persons, and packed with Serb troops who have restricted the flow of goods to the minimum, the LDK chapter said.
Sources in Gjakova said that at least two other male corpses were taken to the local morgue later in the day on Thursday, also supposed to be originating from Meqe.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/27c/615.html   (2960 words)

  
 Appeal to Support Mixed Albanian
That day, she suffered the deaths of her husband, son, brother, and nephew in an assault on the community by Serbian police, paramilitaries, and soldiers of the Yugoslav army.
Pater Ambroz was interrogated as to how he knew anything had happened at all, and he replied that women in the village reported the mass arrest of all males.
Meja was also the site of a Serb massacre of Albanians on the same infamous day, in which 430 adult males were murdered, after they had been forced out of their homes in the Catholic village of Guska and the Muslim settlement of Deva.
www.islamicpluralism.org /articles/2006a/appealsupportmixedalbanian.htm   (1845 words)

  
 EAR - Kosovo - Annual programme 2000 - part 5 - District heating   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The majority of the works and supplies required concern the Pristina system, but the Gjakova and Mitrovica systems will also need significant inputs to be fully operational over the Winter.
The main objective of this project is to provide a steady and reliable source of energy to the populations of Pristina, Gjakova and Mitrovica who are plugged into the district heating grid, thus alleviating the pressure on the power stations and electricity distribution systems.
This project will benefit people from all ethnic backgrounds living in the Pristina, Gjakova and Mitrovica area and who are linked to the system.
www.ear.eu.int /kosovo/main/kosovo-a1c2b3e4b5.htm   (609 words)

  
 ICRC, Red Cross and Red Crescent activities in Kosovo
The Gjakova group, 143 men from 19 to 54 years old, were arrested during the Kosovo conflict in the town of Gjakova and sentenced collectively.
Thousands of people were gathered along the 100 km between the boundary in Kosovo and the town of Gjakova, cheering and waving their hands to celebrate the return of the group.
In Gjakova a large meeting place was arranged where the families and thousands of relatives gathered to wait for them and were kept informed by the ICRC staff and by the radios of the progress of the convoy.
www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JR55?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print   (2763 words)

  
 The CyberBoxingZone News
Gjakova is a small town in the west of Kosovo.
They loved this sport so much they decided to practice it in secret in a village in the vicinity of Gjakova, even though it endangered their own lives.
So, the people of the Gjakova Boxing Club have picked up where they left, trying to create a place for the local youth where they can release their energy.
www.cyberboxingzone.com /boxing/kosovo.htm   (684 words)

  
 Kosova social services
Women from villages in the Gjakova Valley region have benefited from support groups which bring them together as they heal from the tragedies of war.
The main compliment of the visitors was that we are working the best on the education and integration of this community in the civil society and democratization (significant comment by community and nationa leaders who attended this event).
Besides the homework support and lunch that is offered to the children attending the classes, our social worker and animator work with these children in social education, activities such as games, dramas, singing, and drawing, and twice a week they watch educational movies.
www.bethany.org /A55798/bethanyWWW.nsf/0/7D5D06B17149E4B485256CE100721F16   (971 words)

  
 Foundation for Democratic Initiatives::FDI::
Since its establishment in October 2001, the Foundation for Democratic Initiatives (FDI) has become a leader in the promotion and funding of programs in good governance, human rights, gender issues, market economy reform, ecology, and civil society in Kosovo and the region.
Strategically located in Gjakova, FDI reaches out to previously neglected rural communities.
FDI is fiscally responsible for administering grants and has developed grant-tracking and financial systems that meet international standards.
www.fdi-kosovo.org   (161 words)

  
 Destruction of cultural heritage in Kosovo: a postwar report--Conservation DistList
The Department of Culture in the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK), established in April 2000 () is now working with the Institute for the Protection of Monuments of Kosovo to prepare a more detailed survey of monuments and sites in Kosovo that are in need of protection and restoration.
Allegations by the Yugoslav authorities notwithstanding, it was evident both from the nature of the damage we saw and from the statements of eyewitnesses we interviewed that this destruction was not the result of aerial bombardment.
In Gjakova, for example, we found the two Ottoman-era bridges, both alleged to have suffered direct hits, to be completely intact.
palimpsest.stanford.edu /byform/mailing-lists/cdl/2000/1124.html   (2422 words)

  
 Solidarites - Our former programmes in Kosovo
It is essential that we manage to see part of the population recovering from its trauma and resuming its social and economic activities without forgetting the others, who are totally reliant on our aid.
(beams, doors, windows) to enable vulnerable families in the Gjakova region to rebuild their ruined or badly damaged homes.
Firewood distribution programme to vulnerable families in the Gjakova, Decan and Malisheva municipalities, and to ethnic Albanian refugee families from Macedonia at Prizren.
www.solidarites.org /ourprog/kosovo.htm   (558 words)

  
 Kosova Daily Report #1461, 98-06-15
The echo of artillery and trembling could be heard and felt in the town of Gjakova itself, the local LDK Information Commission said.
The town of Gjakova is still sealed off rigorously by heavy Serb police and army forces.
The three villages are situated in the suburbs of the town of Gjakova, in the direction of the border villages with Albania.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/kosova/1998/98-06-15.ksv.html   (2288 words)

  
 Die Stadt Gjakova/Djakovica im Kosovo erklärt sich für zwei Wochen zur autonomen Provinz | Südosteuropa | Deutsche ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Haraqia informierte die Leitung der Verwaltung darüber und forderte ihre Unterstützung beim Aufstellen der Schilder mit der Aufschrift "Autonome Provinz Gjakova" an den Ein- und Ausfallstraßen der Gemeinde.
"Keines der Unternehmen in Gjakova ist bis jetzt privatisiert", erklärte er.
Der einzige Kommentar des UNMIK-Vertreters in der Gemeinde, John Rogers, war, dass die Schilder in allen offiziellen Sprachen Kosovas beschriftet sein sollten und nicht nur in albanischer Sprache.
www.dw-world.de /german/0,1594,2991_A_1335977_1_A,00.html?mpb=de   (172 words)

  
 Bericht 406 von KMDLNJ/CDHRF - Report 406 - from April 19 until April 26 1998
GJAKOVA: The situation in the village of Dushkaja is very tense.
Large forces were stationed on the road connecting Gjakova with Rahovec and Prizren.
GJAKOVA: The situation in the district of Gjakova is dramatic, especially in the region of
www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/week406.htm   (5059 words)

  
 Marines Help Children World Wide
The U.S. Marine Corps is rich with traditions and the Toys for Tots program is one of the most recognized.
On the 23rd of December the Marine Security Guard Detachment Pristina along with the Save the Children foundation gave over 150 toys to more than 70 children in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo.
Gjakova is a war-torn city home to many children lost who their families during the armed conflict in the late 1990s.
www.military.com /features/0,15240,121514,00.html   (270 words)

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