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Welcome to Dardan Cocaj Web Site

My name is Dardan Cocaj, I was born in Prishtina, Kosova.  My Origins are from the south-west Kosovan Village of Hasi, My grand parents migrated to Prishtina in 1930.

Albanians in Kosova

 

Kosova was part of Albania and since 1912 when Serbia took control of Kosova.  Kosova’s population is 90% Albanian.  Albanians have been living in Kosova and in the Balkans for more then 6000 BC. Which were known as Ancient Illyrians.  Serbs came in the Balkans in the 8th century AD. Serbs came in Kosova after 1912. 

 

Kosovar Albanians have been suffering from the Serbian government for a long time. Especially when Slobodan Milosevic came in power.  When Milosevic came in power, he closed down our university, he started closing our schools and it started firing Kosovar Albanians from their jobs and replacing them by Serbs.  Kosovar Albanians were denied access to state-run health care, and Kosovar Albanians lost administrative control of Kosova.  University students use to go to jail just because they went on demonstration saying, “We want Our Rights”.  In 1990, 180 dead Albanian bodies were return from the Serbian government.  The bodies were of young men who went to do military service.  When the bodies return, they told the media, that it was suicide or accident, when they opened the coffin they use to have bullets on the back and most of the organs gone. So how could it be suicide or accident?  When the Serbian government really wanted to clear Kosova from Albanian population.  They started the Kosova war, which lasted from 1998 till 1999.  Twenty thousand innocence Kosovar Albanians died (including woman, children, old people) This People are proven that they are dead and five thousand are still missing which is believed by the United Nations to be in mass graves somewhere in Serbia. United Nations found 8 Mass Graves in Bajtanica, near Belgrade, Serbia.  One of them has been opened which United Nations found 800 Kosovar Albanians bodies, that were killed during the Kosova War.  Serbian government also drove two million Kosovar Albanian Refugees out of Kosova into Macedonia and Albania.  All World Participated in Taken Kosovar refugees to look after during the Kosova War. This included Australia that gave home to 4 thousand Kosovar Albanian Refugees. 

 

The world reacted and couldn't  watch this crime bineg committed by Milosevic.  NATO, United States of America and United Nations gave Milosevic several warnings for crime on humanity but he ignored them.  On 23th March 1999 Thanks to United States of America with the NATO Alliance, they declared war on Serbia.  The Air Strike bombing lasted until 10th June 1999 (78 days)  when the Serb forces pulled back from Kosova. After the war Kosovar Albanians could return to their homes because the Serbian Occupiers were gone.  Now Slobodan Milosevic and other former Serbian leaders are in the War Crime Tribunal Court in Hague, Holland where the world is trying to bring them to justice. Kosova is  currently under United Nations where Kosovar Albanians are patiently waiting for their Right Independence.

 

Albanians in Macedonia (Ilirida)

30%  of Macedonia's Population containts Albanians, being a large percentage of the population the Albanians demanded for Albanian rights in the country, refused by Macedonian Nationalists lead to a war Between National Liberation Army and Macedonian Security Forces, the war continued for several months eventually the Government of Macedonia meet with the Albanian Demands. Albanian University in the City of Tetova was officially opened and recognised, Albanian was proclaimed the second official langauge in Macedonia, Albanians and Macedonians had equal rights. Today Albanians and Macedonians live Free and happy in Macedonia.

 

Albanians in Montenegro (Mali i Zi)

15% of Montenegro's Population containts Albanians, They have the minority rights which they deserve.

 

Albanians in Italy (Arberia)

Approximetly 200 000 Arberesh Albanians live in South-East Italy, Colonized there during the 14th century, they recieve minority rights as they deserve.

 

Albanians in Greece (Chameria)

The Region of Chameria is located in North-West of Greece bordering Albania.  Population of this region was 95% Albanian before 1946 when the Greek Fascist killed and ethnic cleans the region of its Albanian population.   Most of the Chamerians Albanians today live in Turkey, the remainder were Greekinzed and continue to live there as Greeks

 

Albanians in Southern Serbia (Presheva, Bujanovc and Medvexh)

Albanians inhabit three cities in southern Serbia, Presheva with 90% majority, Bujanovc with 65% majority and Medvexh with 45% minority. Tension in this region is high between Albanians and Serbs but the new so called Serbian democratic government did give very limited minority rights, Many Albanians of this region seeked refugee in Kosova and Albania because they fear the Serbs.

 

Long Live Free Albanians and Our Mother Country Free Albania!!!

I Truly Love you all Dear Albanians!

Albanian Flag

The eagle goes back to Gjergj Kastrioti (George Castriota), an Albanian who became Muslim and a Turkish general in the 14th century under the name of Skenderbeu (Iskander Bey or Skanderbeg). He later returned to the Christian faith and led the fight of the Albanians against the Turks in the 1440's.
He is the Father of the first Albanian State. He used the Byzantine two-headed eagle on his seals, the original flag was composed of a black double-headed eagle (two religious faiths in one nation), on a red background (martyrs blood).
It was first raised at the Kruja Castle in November 28, 1443. Exactly 469 years later November 28, 1912 Sir Ismail Qemali, proclaimed the Independence.
The modern flag had at various times a crown or a star above the eagle. In 1992 the Parliament stated that the official version is to be the same as the original one.

 

Albanian National Anthem



The Albanian anthem was written by the Albanian poet Asdreni (an accronym for Aleks Stavre Drenova), who was born in 1872 and died in 1947. The original title of the hymn was "Betimi mi flamur", or "Pledge to the Flag". The hymn was first published as a poem in Liri e Shqipërisë (Freedom of Albania), an Albanian newspaper in Sofia, Bulgaria, in its issue of April 21, 1912. Later that year it appeared in a volume of collected poems by Asdreni, under the title èndra e lot‘ (Dreams and Tears), which was published in Bucharest. The official anthem is two verses shorter than the original poem. The music of the anthem was composed by the Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

The original text in Albanian is in rhyme and meter. Next to it is an English translation in free verse, which is adapted from a translation found in an Albanian Bulletin published in USA.

Rreth flamurit te perbashkuar
Me nje deshire dhe nje qellim
Te gjithe Atij duke iu betuar
Te lidhim besen per shpetim
Prej lufte vec ay largohet
Qe eshte lindur tradhetor
Kush eshte burre nuk friksohet
Po vdes, po vdes si nje deshmor
Ne dore armet do t'i mbajme
Te mbrojme Atdheun ne cdo vend
Te drejtat tona ne s'i ndajme
Ketu armiqte s'kane vend
Se Zoti vet e tha me goje
Qe kombe shuhen permbi dhe
Po Shqiperia do te rroje
Per te, per te luftojme ne

The National Anthem

United around the flag,
With one desire and one goal,
Let us pledge our word of honor
To fight for our salvation

Only he who is a born traitor
Averts from the struggle.
He who is brave is not daunted,
But falls - a martyr to the cause.

With arms in hand we shall remain,
To guard our fatherland round about.
Our rights we will not bequeath,
Enemies have no place here.

For the Lord Himself has said,
That nations vanish from the earth,
But Albania shall live on,
Because for her, it is for her that we fight.



The Land and the People

Albania has a reputation as a land of great natural beauty and romantic remoteness. These two characteristics have made it all the more attractive, mysterious, forbidding, challenging, or exasperating to outsiders, be they travelers, scholars, diplomats, or merchants. For example, in a work he published in 1913, the Croatian scholar Milan von Sufflay called Albania regio mirabilissima, "a most singular country" or "a most marvelous country" (1). Others have referred to it as the "Switzerland of the Balkans" or as the "rock garden of southeastern Europe." On the other hand, the country's uncommon isolation from the world, arising generally from its rugged, mountainous terrain, has led foreigners to speak of it as "the Tibet of Europe" or as a country more mysterious than central Africa. It is an attitude that has had currency for centuries. We find it, for instance, in the writings of Edward Gibbon, the great eighteenth-century British historian. Speaking of Albania, Gibbon said that it is "a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of America." (2)

The remoteness and isolation of the country became practically legendary and all too frequently gave rise to reports and descriptions of the land and of the people - even in books and encyclopedias - that were closer to legends than to reality. Perhaps because of its romantic remoteness and other reasons, Albania has exerted a continuous fascination on artists, including poets, playwrights, composers, and more recently film makers and producers of television programs. Shakespeare set his comedy Twelfth Night in Illyria - the name by which Albania was known in former times. Lord Byron, who visited southern Albania in 1810, wrote some stirring lines about her landscape in his poem Childe Harold.

    Morn dawns: and with it stern Albania's hills...
    Robed half in mist, bedewed with snowy rills.

In Mozart's comic opera Cosi fan tutte the principal male characters, Ferrando and Guglielmo, appear for the most part as two "Albanian noblemen" in clever scheme to test the love of their fiances. [The women fail the test when they succumb the charms of the Albanians but succeed nevertheless in winning back the love of their men.]



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