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The Albanian Declaration of Independence ( Albanian: Deklarata e Pavarësisë) was the declaration of independence of Albania from the Ottoman Empire. Independent Albania was proclaimed in Vlorë on 28 November 1912. Six days later the Assembly of Vlorë formed the first Government of Albania which was led by Ismail Qemali and the Council of ...
Gjergj Kastrioti ( c. 1405 – 17 January 1468), commonly known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanian feudal lord and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia . A member of the noble Kastrioti family, he was sent as a hostage to the Ottoman court.
As of 2020, there were 56 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language. [citation needed] Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
Sign in Battir, West Bank, which is in Arabic and English.. The primary language of Palestine is Arabic.. Overview. Palestinian Arabic is the main language spoken by Palestinians and represents a unique dialect.
Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.077 billion: 1.456 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 939 million 199 million: 1.138 billion Hindi (excl ...
550 Madison Avenue is a postmodern skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Street in New York City. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee with associate architect Simmons Architects, the building was completed in 1984. It is a 647-foot-tall (197-meter), 37-story office tower with a facade made of pink granite.
English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [23] over a year since the ...
