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He was shot in the back in 1918 at the age of 65 by Austro-Hungarian forces in Qafa e Markofqes, in the mountain of Gjarpri in today's Kukës County. [11] [12] [13] He was a close friend and related to Isa Boletini. He is a venerated figure in Albania and Kosovo. [14] He also helped Bajram Curri open up a school in Krasniqe. [15]
In 1908 he was the president of the Albanian Bashkimi club in Monastir and later became vice-president. [6] In 1908, he was a delegate at the Congress of Monastir . [ 7 ] Qiriazi also worked as an interpreter at the Austro-Hungarian consulate in Bitola. [ 8 ]
Naum Veqilharxhi was born on 6 of December 1797 in the village of Vithkuq, near Korçë, southern Albania in an Orthodox Albanian family. [6] [7] His family inherited the name Veqilharxhi (Vekilharç lit. meaning steward) since his father Panajot Bredhi was a supplier to the court of Ali Pashë Tepelena, the ruler of the Pashalik of Janina. [8]
The Myzeqe plain is a large alluvial plain traversed by three main rivers, the Shkumbin, Seman and Vjosë. [2] The Vjosë gives a rough approximation of the southern extent of the Myzeqe, while the Shkumbin is roughly its northern extent. [3]
The Black Society for Salvation (Albanian: Shoqëria e zezë për shpëtim) [1] was a secret Albanian nationalist society established in 1909. [2] Its main task was to organize uprisings in southern Albania and Macedonia struggling for the unification of the four Ottoman vilayets with the substantial Albanian population (Kosovo Vilayet, Scutari Vilayet, Monastir Vilayet and Janina Vilayet ...
They are run by a mayor (kryebashkiak / kryebashkiaku) and a municipal council (këshill / këshilli bashkiak), elected every 4 years. Before 2015, a bashki was an urban municipality and only covered the jurisdiction of such cities. After 2015, the jurisdiction of the bashki was expanded to cover the nearby rural municipalities. [5] [6]
The present Constitution of the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Kushtetuta e Republikës së Shqipërisë) was adopted by the Parliament of Albania on 21 October 1998 and certified by presidential decree on 28 November 1998, following a public referendum which approved the new Constitution. [1] [2] It is split up over many different acts.
[4] The bank was founded in 1925 in Rome as the National Bank of Albania (Albanian: Banka Kombëtare e Shqipnis, Italian: Banca Nazionale d’Albania, Albanian acronym BKS or BKSH), replaced in 1945 by the state-owned Albanian State Bank based in Tirana (Albanian: Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar, BSS or BSHSH), before taking its current name in 1992.