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Miro Tërbaçe Miro Kosta Strati or more commonly known as "Miro Tërbaçe" was a semi-legendary Albanian hero who slew the local Sanjak of Avlona out of revenge for the death of her brother.
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Gjakmarrja Gjakmarrja (literally "blood-taking", i.e. "blood feud") or Hakmarrja ("revenge") refers to the social obligation to commit murder in order to salvage honour questioned by an earlier murder or moral humiliation. This practice is generally seen as in line with the Albanian social code known as "Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit", or simply the "Kanun" (English: "Code of Lekë Dukagjini" ).
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Telli Hasan Pasha Hasan Predojević ( 1530 – 22 June 1593), also known as Telli Hasan Pasha (Turkish: "Telli Hasan Paşa" ) , was the fifth Ottoman beylerbey (vali) of Bosnia and a notable Ottoman Bosnian military commander, who led an invasion of the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia during the Ottoman wars in Europe.
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Gornje Obrinje massacre The Gornje Obrinje massacre (Albanian: "Masakra në Abri të Epërme" , Serbian: Masakr u Gornjem Obrinju ) refers to the killing of 21 Kosovo Albanians, belonging to the same family, in a forest outside the village of Donje Obrinje on 26 September 1998 during the Kosovo War. Among the victims were women and children.
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Pavlik Morozov Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (Russian: Па́вел Трофи́мович Моро́зов ; 14 November 1918 – 3 September 1932), better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. His story, dated to 1932, is that of a 13-year-old boy who denounced his father to the authorities and was in turn killed by his family. His story was a subject of reading, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, a full-length opera and six biographies. The cult had a huge impact on the moral norms of generations of children, who were encouraged to inform on their parents.
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Herostratus Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος ) — or Erostratus — was a 4th-century BC Greek arsonist, who sought notoriety by destroying the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. His acts prompted the creation of a "damnatio memoriae" law, forbidding anyone to mention his name. Nevertheless, his name has become a metonym for someone who commits a criminal act in order to become noted.
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Battle of Mokra (1445) The Battle of Mokra took place on October 10, 1445 near mountain Mokra (today in Makedonski Brod, Macedonia). It was an Ottoman retaliation to a message sent by Skanderbeg to Murad II. The Albanian forces under Skanderbeg defeated the Ottoman forces under Firuz Pasha. It was the second major Albanian victory over the Ottoman Empire.
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Rugovo (sword dance) The Warrior dance of Rugovo (Albanian: "Vallja me shpata e Rugovës" , Serbian: Борбена руговска игра ) is a traditional sword dance named after the Rugova Canyon in Kosovo. There are two male dancers who fight a mock battle for the hand of a girl (a "maiden's dance"). It was made internationally famous by the Kosovo Albanian Rugova clans (hailing from Kelmend in Albania). It has been unreliably claimed that the dance was a historical "warrior training of the guard of the Monastery of Peć". The dance is also found in mountainous Montenegro, where a tribe of shepherds settled in the 18th century. It was part of Yugoslav folk dancing ensemble, and in 1982, it was noted that "in the last time the Rugova dance has gained wide popularity".
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Svetozar Koljević Svetozar Koljević (; 9 September 1930 – 29 May 2016) was a Serbian author, historian, translator, and professor, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska. He was the elder brother of Nikola Koljević. His studies focused on South Slavic epic poetry.
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Princess Senije Zogu Princess Senije Zogu also called "Sanije Zogu" (1903–1969), was an Albanian princess. She was the daughter of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and Sadijé Toptani, his second wife, and was the third of six sisters of king Zog I of Albania. When her brother became monarch in 1928, she and her siblings were granted the status of prince and princess Zogu. She was the chairperson of the Albanian Red Cross and the women's organisation "Gruaja Shiqiptare" in 1928-1939.
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Meja massacre The Meja massacre (Albanian: "Masakra e Mejës" ) was the mass execution of 372 Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by Serbian police and Yugoslav Army forces as an act of retaliation for the killing of six Serbian policemen by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The executions occurred on 27 April 1999 in the village of Meja near the town of Gjakova, during the Kosovo War. The men were pulled from refugee convoys at a checkpoint in Meja and their families were ordered to proceed to Albania. Men and boys were separated and then executed by the road. The massacre is considered to have been the largest of the war.
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Dragimir of Travunia and Zachlumia Dragimir (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгимир; † 1018) or Dragomir (Драгомир) was ruler of Travunia and Zachlumia, medieval Serbian principalities located in present-day regions of Herzegovina and south Dalmatia, from an unknown date before 1000 to 1018. The only preserved medieval source that mentions Dragimir is the dubious Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, specifically its Chapters 34–37. Chapter 34 relates that "King" Chvalimir of the Belojević dynasty divided his domain among his sons, giving Zenta to his first-born Petrislav, Travunia and Zachlumia to Dragimir, and Podgoria to the youngest Miroslav. After Miroslav died without an heir, his land was taken over by Petrislav, who thus ruled all of Duklja (Zenta and Podgoria). However this is contradictory to the earlier and more trusted De Administrando Imperio which states that Hvalimir's son was Čučimir, leaving up to question whether Dragimir was Hvalimir's grandson, or if he existed at all.
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Kumankata The name of the Cuman noblewoman who subsequently married two Tsars Emperors of Bulgaria, Kaloyan of Bulgaria and Boril of Bulgaria, is unknown. There are only two sources mentioning her, both foreign. The Byzantine historian George Akropolites claimed that after the death of Kaloyan, his sister's son Boril 'married his Scythian aunt'. From this evidence, it is not sure whether the Tsaritsa was really a Cuman, or she belonged to another tribe that could be described as Scythian. As Veselin Ignatov points out, given the strong relations between the Asen dynasty and the Cumans, her Cuman lineage is the most probable possibility, but not the only one. She is known in Bulgarian historiography as Kumankata (Bulgarian: Куманката , "the Cuman [woman]").
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Kristo Negovani Papa Kristo Negovani, born Kristo Harallambi, and also known as "Kristo Negovani" (1875 – February 12, 1905) was an Albanian nationalist figure, religious leader and writer
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Strato I Strato I (Greek: Στράτων Α΄ ), was an Indo-Greek king who was the son of the Indo-Greek queen Agathokleia, who presumably acted as his regent during his early years after Strato's father, another Indo-Greek king, was killed.
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Mirjana Marković Mirjana "Mira" Marković (] ; born 10 July 1942) is the widow and childhood friend of former Yugoslav and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. She was the leader of the Yugoslav Left political party (JUL/ЈУЛ is the Serbian acronym).
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Ilona Zrínyi Countess Ilona Zrínyi (Croatian: "Jelena Zrinska", Hungarian: "Zrínyi Ilona") (1643, Ozalj – 18 February 1703, Izmit) was one of the last surviving members of the Croatian Zrinski/Zrínyi noble family and one of the greatest heroines of Croatian and Hungarian history. She was the daughter of Petar Zrinski, Ban (viceroy) of Croatia, and the wife of Francis Rákóczi I and Imre Thököly, as well as the mother of Francis Rákóczi II.
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Čučuk Stana Čučuk Stana (Serbian: Чучук Стана , ] , English: Little Stana ) was a Serbian female hajduk and the second wife of Hajduk Veljko. She is also a character in Serb epic poetry.
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Rusla Rusla, nicknamed the "red maiden", was a Norwegian skjaldmö warrior in the tenth century that is mentioned in Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus and Irish annals. Rusla was the daughter of a Viking king of Telemark called Rieg, and sister of Tesandus (Thrond), who was dispossessed of his throne by a Danish king named Omund. Rusla formed a Viking fleet to attack all Danish ships as revenge for the affront to her brother. Rusla was always accompanied by another woman (some sources cite her as sister) Stikla, who was her deputy in all raids. Stikla turned to piracy to avoid marriage, and her name is the origin of the Norwegian city Stiklestad.
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Talesa of Aragon Talesa, Talèse, Talèze, or Ataresa (died after 1136) was an Aragonese noblewoman and relative of the royal Jiménez dynasty. She was the daughter of Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza, natural brother of King Sancho Ramírez of Aragon and Navarre. She married Gaston IV of Béarn and acted as regent of the viscounty of Béarn during his absences on Crusade and after his death for their son.
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Zainabadi Mahal Zainabadi Mahal (Persian: زين آباد محل‎ ‎ ; died 1654; meaning "Lady from Zainabad") also known as Hira Bai, was a young Christian slave-girl in the keeping of Mir Khalil, who had married a sister of Aurangzeb's mother. She was a favourite concubine of Aurangzeb. Her sweet voice and unparalleled beauty and charmed Aurangzeb to a very great extant. Her early death ended this love story soon.
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Dance of Zalongo The Dance of Zalongo (Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου , "Horos tou Zalongou") was a mass suicide of women from Souli and their children during the Souliote War of 1803, near the village of Zalongo in Epirus, in the then-Ottoman Empire. It began on 16 December 1803. The name also refers to a popular dance-song commemorating the event. There is also a similar Cham Albanian dance-song called "Vallja e Zallongut" ("Dance of Zalongo").