When Farushe Hoxha was born in 1918, in Gramsh, Gramsh, Elbasan, Albania, her father, Ramadan Hoxha, was 58 and her mother, Zymbyle Pole, was 33. She died in 2007, in Durrës, Durrës, Albania, at the age of 89.
Albanian: status name from hoxhë (definite form hoxha) ‘khoja’, a title for an Islamic religious teacher or a priest, and also for a scribe or a clerk in the Ottoman Empire, itself of Turkish and ultimately of Persian origin (see Khawaja , compare Khoja ). This is by far the most common Albanian surname in Albania, while in Kosovo it is in the second half of the dozen most frequent surnames.
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