Ilias Vrioni
Appearance
Ilias Vrioni | |
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Ahmet Zogu | |
Personal details | |
Born | Isuf Vrioni | 1 January 1882
Parent | Mehmet Ali Vrioni (father) Hysnije Vokopola (mother) |
Occupation | politician, diplomat |
Profession | civil servant |
Awards | Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) |
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Ilias bej Vrioni (1 January 1882 – 12 March 1932) was an Albanian politician and landowner. He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and served as Prime Minister of Albania three times.[1]
Biography
Ilias Vrioni was born in 1882 in
Janina Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, modern day Albania, to Mehmet Ali Pasha of the Vrioni family and Hysnije Vokopola of the Vokopola family, making Ilias maternally a relative to Ferid Vokopola.[2] His household had great chifliks in the surroundings of Berat, Fier, and the Myzeqe plain. His father was a high dignitary of the administration of the Ottoman Empire and collaborator of Abdyl Frashëri at the time of the Congress of Berlin,[3] his mother came from a local landowning family that had their chifliks in the surroundings of Vokopolë.[2]
He was one of the signatories of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs
. He died in Paris in 1932, while serving his second mandate as the Plenipotentiary Minister of the Kingdom of Albania to Paris and London.
He was decorated in 1920s with the order of French Republic.
Political Activity
- Prime Minister of Albania: 19 November 1920 – 1 July 1921
- Prime Minister of Albania: 11 July 1921 – 16 October 1921
- Minister of Foreign Affairsof Albania: 30 Mars 1924 – 27 May 1924
- Prime Minister of Albania and Minister of Foreign Affairs: 24 December 1924 – 5 January 1925
- Minister of Foreign Affairsof Albania: 12 February 1927 – 21 October 1927
- Minister of Justice: 26 October 1927 – 21 May 1928
- Minister of Foreign Affairsof Albania: 11 May 1928 – 1 September 1928
- Minister of Foreign Affairsof Albania: 5 September 1928 – 13 January 1929
- Plenipotentiary Minister of Albania in Paris and London: 1925 – 1926
- Plenipotentiary Minister of Albania in Paris and London: 1929 – 1932
See also
- Omar Pasha Vrioni II
- Sami Bey Vrioni
References
- ^ "Albania statesmen".
- ^ ISBN 99927-780-6-7.
- ISBN 9781780764313.
See also
- History of Albania
- List of prime ministers of Albania