The ethnic Albanians entered Balkan history in 1043 when they came from East Sicily and settled in present-day Central Albania by the Byzantine authorities.¹ Their ethnic origin remains still ...

Gjilan and Balkan have already published the official lineups ahead of the match which will be played as part of week 20 in the Kosovo football elite. The 'Skifters' will host Orges Shehi's team at ...

This month, we explore the 125-year-old history of Abbott Laboratories and its most significant milestone to date – the creation of its own independent company, AbbVie. In 1888, a 30-year-old ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson ...

New Study Unravels the History of the Largest Pastoral Population in Africa Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest ...

Each February, people across Canada participate in Black History Month events and celebrations that honour the legacy and contributions of Black people in Canada and their communities. The 2025 theme ...

In the first of our Balkan Cold Cases series, BIRN examines whether justice was ever done. The initiators of the Children of War Museum in Pristina hope to provide insight into the 1998-99 Kosovo ...

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush ...

This luminous messenger of God’s love was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, a city situated at the crossroads of Balkan history. The youngest of the children born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...