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Miss Grand Kosovo

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Miss Grand Kosovo
Established20 July 2014; 8 years ago (2014-07-20)
(As Miss Grand Kosovo pageant)
FounderSherif Pacolli
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersPristina
Location
Membership
Miss Grand International
Official language
Albania
President
Eduart Deda
Parent organization

Miss Grand Kosovo is an annual Kosovan female beauty pageant founded in 2014 by a Pristina-based event organizer chaired by Sherif Pacolli, Lens Production.[1] The pageant winner represents the country at its international parent contest, Miss Grand International.[2] From 2014 to 2018, the pageant had been held in parallel with the Miss Grand Albania competition as Miss Grand Albania & Kosovo, but after Aleks Tanushi of Aleks Fashion Events (A.F.E.) took over the Albanian franchise in 2018, the pageant has been held as a stand-alone pageant during 2019–2021.[3][4]

The contest was dissolved in 2022 after Pacolli lost the license to another national pageant chaired by Eduart Deda, Miss Universe Albania & Kosovo, in which one of the pageant runners-up was elected Miss Grand Kosovo.[5] The national contest, which was previously defunct in 2012, "Miss Kosovo," was brought back by Pacolli as his replacement contest in 2022.[6][7]

Since its first participation at the Miss Grand International pageant in 2014, Kosovo never got any placement at such an international contest.

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Beauty pageant

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Pristina

Pristina

Pristina is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the homonymous municipality and district.

Miss Grand International

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Miss Grand Albania

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Miss Kosovo is a national Beauty pageant in Kosovo. Since 2008, Miss Kosova is responsible for selecting the country's representative to Miss Earth, which is an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness.

Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 101 member states of the United Nations. It is bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Metohija and Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Pristina.

History

Kosovo participated at the Miss Grand International for the first time in 2013 by the appointed representative Lirie Sejdija, a Pristina-based professional model.[8] Later in 2014, after Lens Production, headed by Sherif Pacolli, acquired the license,[1] the inaugural competition of the Miss Grand Kosovo pageant was finally happen, which the twenty-one years old Switzerland-based licensed practical nurse Naile Thaqi was announced the winner at a contest held at California Resort in the city of Lipljan on 20 July 2014, outclassing 19 other finalists.[2] The event was broadcast nationwide by the local television channel named RTK Live.[9] Since then, the contest was organized annually until 2021, when the license is no longer belonged to Pacolli. (Except for 2020, in which the titleholder was appointed to the position.) In 2022, the Kosovo's representative was elected through the Miss Universe Albania and Kosovo pageant, which was organized by Eduart Deda.[10]

The contest was usually held at California Resort, located in Lipljan city, Pristina district of Kosovo, only the 2015 edition that was held in the head office of the First Channel.[11] In 2018, the original winner, Bernadeta Nikolla, resigned the title, Nikolla stated that after acquiring the title, the national organizer asked her to pay €20,000 EUR if she wants to participate in the Miss Grand International 2018 [es] in Myanmar and she has also been accused by such an organizer that she is undisciplined and has not been worthy of representing the country in the race, caused her to engage the lawyer for the case and found that the organizer has no license as well as no right to send any country representative to the aforementioned competition.[12] After Nikolla resignation, the organizers appointed their affiliated model, Songyl Meniqi, to join the contest in Myanmar instead.[1]

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Licensed practical nurse

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Miss Universe Albania

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Editions

The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Kosovo contest, held annually from 2014 to 2021.

Year Edition Date Final venue Entrants Winner Ref.
2014 1st July 20 California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina 20 Naile Thaqi [2]
2015 2nd May 31 Objekti i First Channel Studio, Pristina 13 Dardanie Thaqi [11]
2016 3rd July 1 California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina 17 Anxhela Dashi [13]
2017 4th February 28 10 Nora Muja [14]
2018 5th May 26 14 Bernadeta Nikolla [12]
2019 6th June 23 14 Arlinda Prenaj [3]
2021 7th June 11 15 Mejreme Hajdaraj [4]

Representatives at Miss Grand International

Year Representative Original national title Result Ref.
Placement Other awards
2013 Lirie Sejdija Appointed Unplaced — [8]
2014 Naile Thaqi Miss Grand Kosovo 2014 Unplaced — [2]
2015 Dardanie Thaqi Miss Grand Kosovo 2015 Unable to compete [11]
2016 Anxhela Dashi Miss Grand Kosovo 2016 [13]
2017 Nora Muja Miss Grand Kosovo 2017 [14]
2018 Bernadeta Nikolla[a] Miss Grand Kosovo 2018 Resigned [12]
Songyl Meniqi[b] Appointed Unplaced — [1]
2019 Arlinda Prenaj Miss Grand Kosovo 2019 Unable to compete [3]
2020 Frontina Gashi Appointed Unplaced — [15]
2021 Mejreme Hajdaraj Miss Grand Kosovo 2021 Unable to compete [4]
2022 Edona Aliu Miss Grand Kosovo 2022 Withdraw during the competition [5][16]
Notes
  1. a Resigned.
  2. b Took over the title after the original winner resigned.

Source: "Miss Grand Kosovo", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 13th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Grand_Kosovo.

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Further Reading

List of Kosovo Albanians

Alban Skënderaj

Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo

Black Society for Salvation

Kosovo national football team results (1993–2019)

2021 Kosovan presidential election

Vjosa Osmani

Armando Broja

COVID-19 pandemic in Kosovo

Brotherly derby

Ermal Krasniqi

Miss Grand Albania
References
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