Prishtina street named after Top Channel’s founder, Dritan Hoxha
23/02/2012 00:00
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A street in the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina, will hold the name of
Top Channel’s founder, Dritan Hoxha, for honoring his contribution in
the pan-Albanian media.
This was decided by Prishtina’s Municipal Council, which approved with majority of votes a list of names for the new roads.
In this name list there are personalities who have contributed to national matters; geographical toponyms from the Albanian lands and distinguished foreign personalities who have contributed in the Albanian matters and international literature.
“Enver Zymberi” was named one street, in honor of the Kosovo Police agent that was killed on 26 July 2011 in Northern Kosovo, and other personalities since the Scanderbeg period.
Other famous names for Kosovo were in the list, such as Richard Holbrook, Xhemi Shija, Tom Lantosh, Papa John Paul II and William Shakespeare.
Vollca Dibra Ibrahimi, member of the Road Naming Commission declared that the basic criteria was the contribution of personalities from history, culture, education, science, humanitarian and political activities.
The Commission has decided to name “Dritan Hoxha” the second part of the Garibaldi Street in the center of Prishtina, in honor of the man who united the Albanians in front of a screen.
The Mayor of Prishtina, Isa Mustafa, declared for Top Channel why a road in the capital of Kosovo will be named “Dritan Hoxha”.
“He deserves to be present in Prishtina, for integrating the Albanians in a media that was a novelty for Balkan and even wider, with great qualities for Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and other lands. We are grateful for what he has done and will express this by naming one street after him. We will decide for one road in the center of the city, near the media, and we think that the road that will hold the Dritan Hoxha name will be near the media, so that it can be related with his work”, declared Isa Mustafa, Mayor of Prishtina, in an interview for Top Channel on May 2011.
Top Channel has not been only a screen that has attracted the Kosovo Albanians with the novelties brought in the media market. Being present at any moment and for every big event, in the most important decade of Kosovo and the Albanian Nation, Top Channel contributed in the cultural unification not only for the Albanians in both sides of the border.
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