Ibrahim Rugova
In Cerra of Istog municipality in Kosovo, on 2ndDecember 2nd, 1944, was born the writer, scholar and prominent politician from Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova, the first president of the Republic of Kosovo. He was graduated on language and literature at the University of Pristina. He started his career as a teacher and editor of the notebook “Bota e re”. In the Albanology Institute of Pristina he was distinguished as literary critic and esthete, which led to the position of the President of Writers Association of Kosovo and awarded the high title “Doctor of Science”. The greatest success for him was in the political struggle, he was the initiator and leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo and in the first parliamentary elections and presidential elections, in May 1992, and he was elected to the high post of President of the Republic, a patriotic task, where he served until in the end of life.
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