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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...