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30Mar

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Famous Albanians, Histori

Isa Boletini

Isa Boletini Isa bej Boletini i njohur edhe thjesht si Isaose Isë Boletini[1][2] (Boletin, 15 janar1864 – Podgoricë, 23 janar 1916) ka qenë figurë kombëtare dhe kryengritës shqiptar në Vilajetin e Kosovës, pjesëmarrës në rini në veprimet e Lidhjes së Prizrenit. Më pas shërbeu si kryetar i rojeve të pallatit sulltanor, prej ku u kthye me nishane (grada) dhe çifligje, pas ardhjes së xhonturqve dhe masave të tyre drejtoi kryengritjet e 1910 dhe atë të 1912. U caktua ndër rojet e Princ Vidit gjatë sundimit të tij jetëshkurtër. Vritet gjatë një shkëmbimi zjarri në Podgoricë, pasi u vranë 17 bashkëluftëtarët e vet. Isa Boletini Vendi i lindjes Boletin, Vilajeti i Kosovës, Perandoria Osmane Vendi i vdekjes Podgorica, Mali i Zi Pala • Lidhja e Prizrenit(1...

11Jan

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Famous Albanians, Micky Haxhiislami

KARL GEGA ~ THE ALBANIAN GENIUS 🇦🇱🚂⛰️

On January 10, 1802, in Venice (then part of the Habsburg Monarchy or Empire), was born to parents of Albanian origin, Karl Ritter von Ghega or in Albanian KARL GEGA, the designer of the Semmering Railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag. During his time, he was the most prominent of Austrian railway engineers and architects. His father Anton Ghega, was an Albanian who was an officer in the Imperial Navy. In 1851, Ghega was knighted (Ritter) for his services to the country, and in 1853 he was made chief of planning for the whole railway network of the Austrian Empire. Karl Ritter von Ghega was next assigned to the building of a railway in Transylvania, but he could not see this project to its end because of his death in Vienna from tuberculosis, on March 14, 1860. Karl Gega's rem...

4Dec

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Famous Albanians, Micky Haxhiislami

THE FIRST ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT

On December 4, 1912, the National Assembly of Vlora approved the following composition of the first Albanian government: Prime Minister and Foreign Minister: Ismail Qemal Vlora (photo 1) Deputy Prime Minister: Dom Nikollë Kaçori (photo 2) Minister of Internal Affairs: Myfid Libohova (photo 3) Minister of Finance: Abdi Toptani (photo 4) Minister of War: Mehmet Dërhalla (photo 5) Minister of Justice: Petro Poga (photo 6) Minister of Education: Luigj Gurakuqi (photo 7) Minister of Public Affairs: Mid'hat Frashëri (photo 8), and Minister of Post-Telegraph: Lef Nosi (photo 9) 🙇🏻‍♂️❤️🇦🇱 /by Micky Haxhiislami

1Nov

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Gjergj Fishta

On October 23, 1871, in Fishta of Zadrima was born one of the greatest Albanians ever, At Gjergj Fishta, the Franciscan fraternity, teacher, writer, translator, and also chairman of the committee for drafting the Albanian alphabet in the Congress of Manastir, member of the Permeti government delegation at the Versailles Conference and the Vice-President of the Albanian legislature in 1921.

Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba)

1Nov

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Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba)

Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba) was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language. Variboba was born in 1725 in San Giorgio Albanese in the province of Cosenza to a family originally from the Mallakastra region of southern Albania. He studied at the Corsini seminary in San Benedetto Ullano, a center of learning and training for the priesthood of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church. This seminary, founded in 1732 by Pope Clement XII, affected the cultural advancement of the Arbëresh of Calabria in the eighteenth century similar to that of the Greek seminary of Palermo for the Arbëresh of Sicily. Variboba, one of its first students, was ordained as a priest in 1749 and returned to his native San Giorgio to assist his elderly fathe...

1Nov

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Famous Albanians, Female

Shaqe Marie Çoba, the Albanian feminist

Shaqe Marie Çoba, the Albanian feminist and suffragist, born in 1875 into the prominent "Shiroka" family in Shkodra, Albania. She finished primary school in her hometown and then continued her studies in Zagreb, at the Austrian Institute, where she studied Italian, German and Serbo-Croatian. In 1904 she moved and completed her studies in Venice. After graduating, she married the Albanian intellectual and patriot Ndoc Çoba, in whose family her patriotic and feminist ideas were encouraged and flourished. On August 3, 1920, she founded in Shkorda the organization "Gruaja Shqiptare (The Albanian Woman)", with honourary chairwoman, Habibe Bekteshi, secretary, Paulina Leka and accountant, Albina Ashiku. The organization was interested in issues of Albanian female emancipation and meeting funds...

31Oct

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ILJAZ (aka Ilias, Ilyas, Elyas) TOPTANI

ILJAZ (aka Ilias, Ilyas, Elyas) TOPTANI, the most "mysterious" man of one of the leading noble families of Albania, who lived as he wanted and died as Count Don Jose Maria Toptani, at the age of 69. Iljaz was without a doubt the greatest Albanian adventurer of his time. He traveled wherever the road took him: to Paris, to Johannesburg, to New York, to Argentina, to Spain. Iljaz had a "weak heart" towards women and was a man born to enjoy life. He was given the title of Count Toptani by the Pope, according to his daughter Isabelle. He wrote a book called "Modern Show Jumping" on equestrian horse riding methods and created a horse saddle, which is one of the best saddles still used today throughout the world. He married six times. His first wife was a Jewish woman with whom he had no c...

31Oct

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Sali Nallbani

Sali Nallbani, born on May 5, 1915, in an old Tirana family, was the first Albanian tennis player. In the early 1930s, Sali received his first tennis lessons from a French high school professor. In 1933, a Swede, the honorary consul of Albania in Stockholm, Franklin Gardlund, at his own expense, took a group of high school students to Stockholm, among whom, besides Sali Nallbani, were also Vedat Kokona, Sadik Kaceli, Xhemal Kallçiu, etc. Here Sali played his first matches and his talent fell in the eyes of foreign specialists, inviting him to the official tournaments. Thus in 1934 in Stockholm, he reached the final of the student championship taking first place and winning the cup which is the first cup of any Albanian athlete in the international arena. Afterward, he successfully par...