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	Prizren - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Prizren, city in the Kosovo province of southern Serbia.
		Prizren is located on the Bistrica River in the foothills of the Šar Mountains.
		Prizren (Serbian : Призрен, Prizren ; Albanian Prizren, Prizreni) is a historical city located in Kosovo, a Serbian province under UN administration at 42.23° N 20.74...
	encarta.msn.com /Prizren.html (149 words)

	Prizren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prizren was the cultural and intellectual centre of Ottoman Kosovo.
		Prizren was taken by Austria-Hungary only two years later, during the First World War, and was handed over to Bulgaria in 1916.
		Prizren and its surrounding municipality were badly affected by the Kosovo War of 1998-1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prizren (789 words)

	League of Prizren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The League was the first major attempt to create a unified Albanian region since the Middle Ages when Albanian forces under Gjergj Kastrioti, Skanderbeg, had failed.
		The league was formed after the Treaty of San Stefano, which had given Albanian-populated lands to Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia after the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878.
		The Prizren League had 16,000 armed members under its control who launched a revolution against the Ottoman Empire after the debacle at the Congress of Berlin and the official dissolvement of the League ordered by the Ottomans who feared the League would seek total independence from the empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prizren_League (498 words)

	League of Lezhë - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The League of Lezhë was the first coordinated Albanian Independence movement led by Gjerj Kastrioti, or Skanderbeg.
		The nobles agreed to fight together for mutual gain against the common Turkish enemy and they voted Skanderbeg as their suzerain chief.
		The League of Lezhë was a union and each clan kept its sovereignty.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/League_of_Lezha (377 words)

	Greater Albania Explained
		The Prizren League was crucial in uniting Albanian leaders in creating and establishing a political and nationalist ideology and political program and agenda to create an Albanian nation or state.
		The 1878 League of Prizren is significant because the Albanians now emerged with a nationalist agenda and ideology to create a united Albanian state.
		The Prizren League outlined territories that were to be included in a unified, ethnic Albania, a Greater Albania.
	www.kosovo.net /gralbania.html (2563 words)

	Albanian Information - Albanian.com
		Prizren is a town with around 70,000 inhabitants, and it is a true open air museum, one of the most beautiful towns of Kosova.
		The craftsmen of Prizren are well known for their beautiful gold and silver articles, embroidery, the Prizren cloth, knives, and other folk handcrafts, trades which Prizrenians have preserved throughout the centuries.
		Prizren was established at a convenient locality as an important trading town, through which passed old roads towards the Adriatic coast and the interior of the Balkan peninsula.
	www.albanian.com /main/countries/kosova/prizren/index.html (686 words)

	SEDA - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The League demanded the recognition of the Albanian nation, maintaining the inviolability of the Albanian territories and their unification in a single entity under an Albanian administration, with Albanian as its official language and with its own capital.
		Thanks to the League of Prizren, the Albanian issue was taken up for discussion in the international diplomatic arena as a formidable Balkans issue in the frame of the Eastern issue.
		In 1899 the Albanian League of Pejë (or “Besa-Besë”) was founded in defence of the Albanian territories from the chauvinistic claims of the neighbouring Balkan monarchies.
	www.seda.org.al /ACH/ren.htm (3008 words)

	UNDER ORDERS: War Crimes in Kosovo - 11. Prizren Municipality
		Prizren municipality was the site of many crimes during the period of NATO bombing, including in the city of Prizren itself, especially the neighborhood of Tusus.
		Prizren was also one of the seven regional bases in Kosovo of the Serbian police, known as a Sekretarijat Unutrasnjih Poslova (Secretariat for Internal Affairs), or SUP.
		The establishment of the League was a landmark in the movement for Albanian self-determination.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/kosovo/undword-11A.html (2652 words)

	League of Prizren
		The League of Prizren (Albanian: Lidhja e Prizrenit) was created on June 10, 1878 in Prizren, Kosovo by Albanian leaders in order to achieve an independent state of Albania.
		The league was formed after the Treaty of San Stefano, which had given Albanian-populated lands to Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia after the Russo-Turkish war.
		The League of Prizren was meant as a political and military organization that would help get Albania recognized internationally, initially as an autonomous region.
	www.ukpedia.com /l/league-of-prizren.html (295 words)

	Albania The Rise of Albanian Nationalism - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		The delegates set up a standing organization, the Prizren League, under the direction of a central committee that had the power to impose taxes and raise an army.
		The Prizren League worked to gain autonomy for the Albanians and to thwart implementation of the Treaty of San Stefano, but not to create an independent Albania.
		At first the Ottoman authorities supported the Prizren League, but the Sublime Porte pressed the delegates to declare themselves to be first and foremost Ottomans rather than Albanians.
	www.workmall.com /wfb2001/albania/albania_history_the_rise_of_albanian_nationalism.html (1608 words)

	Encyclopedia: Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The League of Prizren (Albanian: Lidhja e Prizrenit) was created on June 10, 1878 in a mosque in Prizren, Kosovo by 300 Albanian nationalist leaders, mostly from Kosovo, Western former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Muslim leaders from Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Sandzak, in order to achieve an autonomous Albanian...
		The nine accused were all convicted and sentenced to long prison sentences, but were released and declared innocent in 1968 with Kosovo's assembly declaring that the trial had been "staged and mendacious." 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
		The NATO flag NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prizren (2027 words)

	Encyclopedia: Timeline of Albanian history to 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Albanian leaders meet in Prizren, Kosovo, to form the Prizren League, initially advocating a unified Albania under Ottoman suzerainty.
		The Prizren League begins to organize resistance to the Treaty of Berlin's provisions that affect Albanians.
		Prizren League's leaders and families arrested and deported.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Timeline-of-Albanian-history-to-1993 (3556 words)

	Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Prizren (Serbian Cyrillic Призрен) is an historic city located in the province of Serbia called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia) at 42.23° North, 20.74° East.
		It is the administrative capital of Prizren Municipality, which has an estimated population of about 178,000 and is located on the slopes of the ar mountain in the south-western part of the province, close to the Albanian border.
		Serbian forces destroyed a number of Albanian cultural monuments, such as the League of Kosovo building, to which the returning Albanians responded by destroying Serbian cultural monuments such as old Eastern Orthodox churches.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/prizren (878 words)

	League of Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The League of Prizren (Albanian: Lidhja e Prizrenit) was created on June 10, 1878 in Prizren, Kosovo by Albanian leaders in order to achieve an autonomous Albanian state, comprising the four Ottoman vilayets of Shkodër, Janina, Bitola and Kosovo.
		In July 1878, the league sent a letter to the Great Powers at the Congress of Berlin, asking for the settling of the Albanian issues resulting from the Turkish War.
		The Ottoman Empire sought to suppress the League of Prizren and they dispatched an army that by April 1881 had captured Prizren and crushed the resistance at Ulcinj.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/league_of_prizren (362 words)

	Greater Albania Explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Prizren League was crucial in uniting Albanian leaders in creating and establishing a political and nationalist ideology and political program and agenda to create an Albanian nation or state.
		The 1878 League of Prizren is significant because the Albanians now emerged with a nationalist agenda and ideology to create a united Albanian state.
		The members of the Prizren League were beys and agas, wealthy and privileged landowners who sought to maintain those privileges and status within the Ottoman feudal system.
	www.kosovo.com /gralbania.html (2563 words)

	Ottoman Empire Albania Resistance 1878-1881
		The Prizren League worked to gain autonomy for the Albanians and to thwart implementation of the Treaty of San Stefano (an abortive treaty between Russian and the Ottoman Empire, signed on March 3, 1878, which assigned Albanian-populated lands to Serbia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria), but not to create an independent Albania.
		At first the Ottoman authorities supported the Prizren League, but the Sublime Porte pressed the delegates to declare themselves to be first and foremost Ottomans rather than Albanians.
		The Prizren League's leaders and their families were arrested and deported.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/albania1878.htm (667 words)

	Greater Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 1878 Prizren League was motivated by a primary goal, the establishment of a unified, ethnic Albanian state which would be made up of four Ottoman Turkish vilayets, provinces or administrative districts.
		The Second League of Prizren and the Balli Kombetar were decisive in the creation of the 21st Waffen Gebrigs Division der SS iSkanderbegi, the Skanderbeg SS Division, which focused on the extermination of the Serbian Orthodox and Jewish populations of Kosovo and present-day Macedonia.
		The Second League of Prizren, the Balli Kombetar, and the Skanderbeg SS Division were anti-Slav, anti-Macedonian, anti-Serbian, anti-Jewish, anti-Orthodox.
	www.kosovo.com /gralb.html (8814 words)

	The rise of Nationalism
		To defend and promote their national interests, Albanians met in Prizren, a town in Kosova, in 1878 and founded the Albanian League of Prizren.
		The Albanian League was suppressed by the Turks in 1881, in part because they were alarmed by its strong nationalistic orientation.
		By then, however, the league had become a powerful symbol of Albania's national awakening, and its ideas and objectives fueled the drive that culminated later in national independence.
	www.geocities.com /spiritofalbania/rise.htm (331 words)

	Illyrians.org - Chronology of Albania
		The League of Prizren begins to organize resistance to the Treaty of Berlin's provisions that affect Albanians.
		The League's leaders and families are arrested and deported.
		Albania is admitted to the League of Nations as sovereign and independent state.
	www.illyrians.org /coalbania.html (1181 words)

	Priština - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the 1870s onwards Albanians in the region formed the League of Prizren to resist Ottoman rule, and a provisional government was formed in 1881.
		Priština University was seen as a hotbed of Albanian nationalism and was duly purged: 800 lecturers were sacked and 22,500 of the 23,000 students expelled.
		Although the city was formally controlled by Serbs appointed by the Milošević government, the LDK established parallel structures, funded by private contributions, to provide free services such as health care and higher education that were largely denied to the Albanian population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pristina (1467 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Civic League goes to Albania with the National Republican Institute to monitor the first election in Albania and is the first organization to declare the Communist Party victory illegal and the elections a sham.
		February The Civic League issues a public declaration, "In Defense of the Albanian National Cause," in which it announces its support for the Kosova Liberation Army and condemns the neo- Communist government of Fatos Nano for its corrupt politics and abandonment of the Albanian national cause.
		The Civic League holds a rally in Manhattan, marching from the United Nations to the office of U.S. Special Envoy to the Balkans Richard Holbrooke, to protest Holbrooke's entering into the October agreement with Milosevic-a diplomatic holding pattern that would lead to the infamous massacre of Albanians at Recak.
	www.aacl.com /10years.html (3069 words)

	Albania - The Rise of Albanian Nationalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Prizren League worked to gain autonomy for the Albanians and to thwart implementation of the Treaty of San Stefano, but not to create an independent Albania.
		When the sultan refused Albanian demands for unification of the four Albanian-populated vilayets, Albanian leaders reorganized the Prizren League and incited uprisings that brought the Albanian lands, especially Kosovo, to near anarchy.
		The imperial authorities again disbanded the Prizren League in 1897, executed its president in 1902, and banned Albanian- language books and correspondence.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-151.html (1565 words)

	ATA Homepage - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Further on, President Meidani says in his message: "The League of Prizren of 1878 is commemorated today as a major act of the patriotic-fighting and political-cultural movement of the Albanian people for national rebirth, identity and independence.
		The League of Prizren is the first all-national assembly of the Albanians for their national cause.
		This is why this event has determined some of the most positive developments of our history over this century and again beams a new light on the new century, our century of hope and confidence in resolving the injustices of history and of Albania's affirmation as a modern country in the family of free nations.
	www.telpress.it /ATA/1998/jun_98/hdarch09.htm (3129 words)

	Encyclopedia: League of Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining.
		View of Prizren Prizren (Serbian Cyrillic Призрен; Albanian Prizreni) is an historic city located Kosovo (officially Kosovo) at 42.
		In the context of international relations and diplomacy, power (sometimes clarified as international power, national power, or state power) is the ability of one state to influence or control other states.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/League-of-Prizren (1715 words)

	Sipa Tours - Albanian History
		In 1878 Albanian leaders met in the town of Prizren, in Kosovo, where they founded the League of Prizren (Albanian League) to promote a free, unified Albania in all Albanian- populated territories.
		The league also sought to develop Albanian language, education, and culture, and in 1908 Albanian leaders adopted a national alphabet based on the Latin script.
		In 1920 Albania was admitted to the newly-formed League of Nations, thereby gaining international recognition as an independent state.
	www.sipatours.com /albania/history.htm (1820 words)

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