Independent Albania

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Albania
Shqipëria (Albanian)
1912–1914
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Anthem: 
Ismail Qemali
Ismail Qemali
LegislatureAssembly of Vlorë
• Upper house
Senate of Albania
History 
28 November 1912
21 February 1914
CurrencyAlbanian lek
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
1912:
Janina
Scutari
Kosovo
Manastir
1913:
Central Albania
1914:
Principality of Albania

Independent Albania (

senate
were established on 5 December 1912.

The delegation of Albania submitted a memorandum to the

London Conference of 1913 requesting international recognition of independent Albania. At the beginning of the conference it was decided that the region of Albania would be under Ottoman suzerainty but with an autonomous government. The requests by the delegation for recognition based on the ethnic rights of Albanians were rejected and the treaty signed on 30 May 1913 partitioned a major part of the claimed lands between Serbia, Greece and Montenegro, leaving as independent territory only a central region, which was put under the protection of the Great Powers. The ambassadors of six Great Powers met again on 29 July 1913 and decided to constitute a new state, the Principality of Albania, as a constitutional monarchy. Finally, with the Treaty of Bucharest being signed in August 1913, this new independent state was established, leaving about 40%[1]
of the ethnic Albanian population outside its borders.

Name

The name of the state used in the text of declaration of independence of Albania is Shqipëria (English: Albania).[2] It is also referred to as the "independent Albania" (Albanian: Shqipëria e Mosvarme),[3] the "Albanian State"[4] (Albanian: Shteti Shqiptar) or the "independent state of Albania"[5][6] (Albanian: Shteti i pavarur shqiptar).[7]

Political system

The independent Albania established on 28 November 1912 is the first Albanian state in modern history.[8] It was a parliamentary state.[9] Some sources refer to it as the Republic of Albania[10][11] or the Albanian Republic.[12]

Albania became an independent state through four constitutional decisions of the Assembly of Vlorë made on 28 November 1912:[13]

  1. Albania, as of today, should be on her own, free and independent
  2. under a provisional government
  3. that a council of elders (
    senate
    ) be elected to assist and supervise the government
  4. a commission is to be sent to Europe to defend Albanian interests among the Great Powers

Territory

The authority of the state was limited to the regions of Vlore, Berat and Lushnje.

Janina Vilayet.[15] The Treaty of London, signed on 30 May 1913, reduced the territory of Albanian state to its central regions after partitioning a significant part of territory claimed by Albania between the Balkan allies (a major part of the northern and western area was given to the Serbia and Montenegro while the southern region of Chameria became part of Greece).[16] Kosovo was given to Serbia at the London treaty at the insistence of Russia.[17]

During the

Lushnje.[18]

History

Albanian Vilayet

Albanian rebels capturing Skopje in August 1912
Main article: Albanian Vilayet

Until September 1912, the Ottoman government intentionally kept Albanians divided within four ethnically heterogeneous vilayets to prevent Albanian national unification.

Albanian vilayet.[23][24]

First Balkan War

Main article: First Balkan War
Situation in the Balkans during the First Balkan War, in 1914.

The success of the Albanian revolt sent a strong signal to the neighbouring countries that the

Albanian vilayet, preferring a partition of the European territory of the Ottoman Empire among the four Balkan allies.[26] In the meantime it was agreed that the conquered territory was to have the status of a condominium.[27]

Albanian leaders, including

Faik Konitza and Fan Noli, organized a large meeting on 7 October 1913 in Boston. They decided that Albanians should "unite fully with the Ottoman government against the enemies of the Empire" because "if Turkey is defeated, the Balkan states would shred Albania."[28] That decision was risky, because if the Ottomans were defeated, Albanian participation in the Balkan war on the Ottoman side would serve as justification for the Balkan allies to partition Albania as an Ottoman province.[29] Albanians who were mobilized in the Ottoman army fought for their country rather than for the Ottoman Empire.[30]

During the First Balkan War the combined armies of the Balkan allies overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success. They occupied almost all the remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire including the territory of the Albanian Vilayet.[31]

At the beginning of November 1912, Albanian leaders appealed to Emperor

Ismail Kemal, who had been an Albanian deputy in the Ottoman parliament, secured the support of Austria-Hungary for the autonomy of Albania within the Ottoman Empire, but not for its independence.[34]

All-Albanian Congress

Further information: All-Albanian Congress

Ismail Kemal invited the representatives of all parts of Albanian Vilayet to attend the

kaza of Albanian Vilayet would be counted as one vote, regardless of the number of its delegates.[40]
Participants of this congress are regarded as Founding Fathers of Albania.

After the declaration of independence

Caricature published in February 1913 shows Albania defending itself from neighboring countries. Montenegro is represented as a monkey, Greece as a leopard attacking Ioannina and Serbia as a snake. Text in Albanian: "Flee from me! Bloodsucking beasts!"

The first notification about the proclaimed independence was sent to the command of Serbian Army in Ohrid.

Lezha, Elbasan and Tirana.[42][43] New Serbian authorities were faced with big difficulties in governing a new county because all secluded army garrisons with small number of soldiers were destroyed in a couple of days.[44] Although some tribal chieftains proposed to organize an armed resistance against troops of Serbia in the occupied parts of Albania, the provisional government of the Independent Albania decided to avoid unnecessary casualties and concluded agreement (besa) to maintain harmony in occupied territory.[45]

The

Kosovo, western Macedonia including Skopje and Bitola and the whole territory of Epirus up to Arta.[47]

The main delegates of the Albanian Congress of Trieste with their national flag, 1913.

About 120 notable politicians and intellectuals from Albania attended the

Great Powers a recognition of the political and economical independence of Albania.[48][49] Isa Boletini and Ismail Kemal travelled to London in March 1913 to obtain Britain's support for their new country.[50] On March 6 Ioannina was captured by forces of the Kingdom of Greece.[51] In March 1913 a group of 130 (or 200) soldiers of the Kingdom of Serbia were killed near Prizren by Albanian irregulars in act of revenge for repression of Serbian army.[52]

In April 1913 the army of the Kingdom of Serbia retreated from Durrës but remained in other parts of Albania. On the other hand, Kingdom of Montenegro managed to capture Shkodër on 23 April 1913 after six months of siege. However, when the war was over, the Great Powers did not award the city to the Kingdom of Montenegro, which was compelled to evacuate it in May 1913.

In May 1913, delegates of Albania in London requested a British sovereign and considered offering the Albanian throne to Aubrey Herbert.[53]

London Treaty

Various borders for Albania proposed during the London Conference of 1912–13
Further information:
London Conference of 1912–13, and Treaty of London (1913)

The Great Powers did not fulfil the requests for recognition of Albania.

London conference in December 1912 the ambassadors of all six Great Powers rejected the plan for establishing an independent Albania.[55] Instead, they decided that Albania would be under Ottoman suzerainty but with an autonomous government.[56] After it became obvious that Ottoman Empire would lose all of Macedonia and its territorial connection with Albania, the Great Powers realized they had to change their decision.[57]

The Treaty of London, signed on 30 May 1913, partitioned significant part of territory claimed by Albania, regardless its ethnic composition, between the Balkan allies reducing the territory of Albania to its central regions.[58]

After the London treaty

In September 1913 independent Albania secretly supported and helped

Serbian army and officials, creating a front line 15 km east of Ohrid. A local administration was set up in Ohrid.[62] The Serbian Army of 100,000 regulars suppressed the uprising in several days. Thousands were killed, and tens of thousands of local inhabitants fled for Bulgaria and Albania to save their lives. According to the Report by the International Commission of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace the number of Albanians who took refuge was 25,000.[63]

On 16 October 1913,

Shkumbin in the South. It further partitioned already truncated territory of Albania. Toptani contested the status of the provisional government and denied that Kemal's government was legitimate, emphasizing that it was "the personal creation of a number of men."[65][66] In July 1913 Ismail Kemal attempted to calm Toptani by appointing him Minister of Interior, but with no avail.[67] Toptani was also, like Kemal little earlier, forced by Great Powers to step away on 1 February 1914.[68]

Politics

Ismail Kemal and his cabinet during the celebration of the first anniversary of independence in Vlorë on 28 November 1913

Declaration of Independence

Further information: Albanian Declaration of Independence and Assembly of Vlorë

At the beginning of the session Ismail Kemal emphasized that the only way to prevent division of the territory of Albania between the Balkan allies was to establish it as independent state, separated from Ottoman Empire.[69] Kemal's proposal was unanimously accepted and it was decided to sign the declaration of independence of Albania in the name of the constituted Assembly of Vlorë (Albanian: Kuvendi i Vlorës) which members were representatives of all the regions of Albania.[70] By the declaration of Albanian independence the Assembly of Vlorë rejected the autonomy granted by the Ottoman Empire to the Albanian Vilayet, projected a couple of months earlier.[71] The consensus was made for the complete independence.[72]

In Vlora, on the 15th/28th of November 1328/1912.
Following the speech made by the President, Ismail Kemal Bey, in which he spoke of the great perils facing Albania today, the delegates have all decided unanimously that Albania, as of today, should be on her own, free and independent.[73]

— Albanian Declaration of Independence

The sitting was then suspended and members of newly constituted National Assembly went to the house of Ismail Kemal who raised the flag of Skanderbeg on the balcony of his house, in front of the gathered people.[74]

Government and Senate

The establishment of the government was postponed for the fourth session of the Assembly of Vlorë, held on 4 December 1912, until representatives of all regions of Albania arrived to Vlore.

Senate (Albanian: Pleqësi) with advisory role to the government, consisted of 18 members of Assembly.[78]

Ismail Kemal was appointed as the first prime minister of independent Albania.[79] On the same session held on 4 December 1912 the assembly appointed the other members of the government:[80]

Public services

Post stamp of the independent Albania, 16 June 1913.

A week after the independent Albania was proclaimed, its first Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs was established with Lef Nosi as its minister. Independent Albania took over the Ottoman post offices and placed significant efforts to make the Albanian postal service identifiable.[81] Post offices of the independent Albania used the Ottoman postal seals until the end of April and the beginning of May 1913, when they were replaced by the postal seals of Albania with the name of the place in the upper part of the seal and the name of the state, Albania (Shqipenie), in the bottom part.[82] On 5 May 1913 the first postage stamps of Albania were put into circulation. On 7 July 1913 Albania submitted an official request to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) for membership.[83] The request was rejected, and Albania would become a member of UPU only in 1922.[84]

After Albania achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, its legal system continued to function under the Ottoman Civil Code (

Mejelle) for some time.[85]

Since 28 November 1912 until 1926 the Albanian government did not mint any currency. Transactions occurred in gold and silver coins of other countries, whereas the official unit of account was the franc of the Latin Monetary Union.[86]

Until 1912, the education system in Albania depended on religious institutions. Muslims attended Ottoman schools, the Orthodox population attended Greek or Armenian schools, Catholics attended Italian or Austrian schools, whereas in the districts near Slavic states, the population attended Serbian or Bulgarian schools.[87] When Albania was declared independent in 1912 its government took measures to close foreign schools and to open Albanian ones.[88] From 1912 to 1914, there was not much opportunity and time for progress of national education, because of the political instability and the breakout of World War I.[89] The first laic school was opened in Shkoder in 1913.

Isa Boletini with men from Kosovo in the streets of Vlorë in 1912

A group of fighters from

Ottoman forces backed the government of Independent Albania until the beginning of 1913, although the Ottomans did not recognize its independence.[45]

Albanian Police) of the independent Albania were established on 13 January 1913.[92] About 70 former Ottoman officers were engaged as officers of the law enforcement units of the independent Albania. The first director of the Albanian Police was Halim Jakova-Gostivari, whereas the first commanders of the gendarmerie were Alem Tragjasi, Hysni Toska, Sali Vranishti, and Hajredin Hekali. The Albanian Police uniforms was colored in gray and green, and the collars were red and black.[93]

Economy

The economy of Albania after it became independent state in 1912 was based on primitive agriculture and livestock, with no significant industry, and little international trade.[94] Starting in 1912, Albania began activities aimed at implementing an agrarian reform, which would transfer ownership of the arable land from the big landowners to the peasants.[95]

Aftermath

Borders of the Principality of Albania, recognized by the Treaty of Bucharest.
Further information: Principality of Albania and Republic of Central Albania

The Treaties of London and Bucharest dealt with the final territorial adjustments arising out of the conclusion of the Balkan Wars.[96] After the London treaty has been signed the ambassadors of six Great Powers decided to constitute a new state, Albania, as hereditary principality.[97][98]

Point 1. Albania is constituted as an autonomous, sovereign and hereditary principality by right of primogeniture, guaranteed by the six Powers. The sovereign will be designated by the six Powers.[99]

— Decision of the ambassadors of the six Great Powers made on 29 July 1913 during 54th meeting of the Conference of the Ambassadors

The

International Commission of Control (ICC) to take care of the administration of the newly established principality until the arrival of the new monarch.[100][101] The first law enforcement agency of the new principality was the International Gendarmerie
.

The treaty of Bucharest, signed on 10 August 1913, established internationally recognized Albania as an independent state.[102] The creation of Albanian state in 1913[103] after the Balkan Wars was their only political result.[104]

A plot by the

Young Turk government and led by Bekir Fikri to restore Ottoman control over Albania through the installment of an Ottoman-Albanian officer Ahmed Izzet Pasha as monarch was uncovered by the Serbs and reported to the ICC.[105][106][107] Ismail Kemal supported the plot for military assistance against Serbia and Greece.[108][105][109] The ICC allowed their Dutch officers serving as the Albanian Gendarmerie to declare a state of emergency and stop the plot.[106][108][107] They raided Vlorë on 7–8 January 1914, discovering more than 200 Ottoman troops and arrested Fikri.[106][105][110] During Fikri's trial the plot emerged and an ICC military court under Colonel Willem de Veer condemned him to death[110] and later commuted to life imprisonment,[106] while Kemal and his cabinet resigned.[108] After Kemal left the country, turmoil ensured throughout Albania.[111]

After a display of independence of Kemal's government, the Great Powers were angered and the International Commission of Control forced Kemal to step aside and leave Albania.[112]

Princess Sophie of Albania arriving in Durrës
, Albania on 7 March 1914.

In 1914, after a gradual assumption of the administration of the country, the

International Commission of Control in 1914 the political system of Albania became a monarchy.[116]

The biggest group of

Fascist Italy exploited the discontent of the Albanians about the inaccurate ethnic borders.[118]

Commemorations

Since Albania was declared independent on November 28, 1912,

Republic of Kosovo, the day has been an official public holiday since a 2011 decision of Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi's cabinet.[121]

The

Macedonia, Montenegro, Preševo and Bujanovac, who were joined that day like they were 100 years ago.[125]

The

Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports announced on 22 December 2011 the "International Competition for the accomplishment in sculpture of the monumental work dedicated to the “100 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the Albanian State: 28 November 1912 – 28 November 2012”".[126]

Gallery

  • 16 June 1913
    16 June 1913
  • 16 June 1913
    16 June 1913
  • 25 October 1913
    25 October 1913
  • 25 October 1913
    25 October 1913
  • 1 December 1913
    1 December 1913

See also

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  47. ^ Petrović, Dragoljub S., Heterogenost stanovništva determinanta složenosti rešenja političkog statusa albanskog prostora (Heterogamy of the population determining the complexity of solution of the political status of the territory of Albania), retrieved August 6, 2011, Albanska delegacija je konferenciji u Londonu u decembru dostavila memorandum u kome se insistira na etničkim pravima. Ta Velika Albanija bi zahvatala Metohiju, Kosovo, zapadnu Makedoniju sa Skopljem i Bitoljem, na jugu čitav Epir do Arte. .... Delegation of Albania submitted to the London conference in December a memo in which they insist on the rights of ethnic Albanians. That Great Albania would encompass Kosovo, western Macedonia with Skopje and Bitola, and on the south the whole Epirus up to Arta.
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    The plan for independent Albanian state was rejected by the ambassadors of England, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Russia and Italy at their conference on 17 December 1912 in London.
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    The representatives first decided that an autonomous Albania under continued Ottoman rule would be organized...This decision had to be changed in the spring of 1913, when it became obvious that the Ottoman Empire would lose all of Macedonia and thus its territorial connection with Albania.
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    ... the Conference nevertheless awarded the Balkan allies large areas of Albanian-claimed territory... leaving the Albanian state reduced to the central regions ...
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  65. ^ Lakshman-Lepain, Rajwantee (September 2000), Dimitras, Panayote; Papanikolatos, Nafsika; Lenkova, Mariana; Slusarczyk, Ellen (eds.), Catholics of Albania, Center for Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe - Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE), p. 28, archived from the original (doc) on September 26, 2011, retrieved October 6, 2011, The self-proclaimed provisional government of Ismail Qemal in Vlorë did not receive the general approval of the public and different forces from within the country (e.g. by Esad Pacha Toptani) contested the provisional government's status
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    .. four countries in the Balkans ...agreed to divide the Empire up among themselves, including Albania...only road to salvation was to separate Albania from Turkey...According to Ismail Kemal Bey, the most urgent measures that the Albanian nation must take today are these: that Albania be independent...
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    TEXT:in Vlora, on the 15th/28th of November 1328/1912. Following the speech made by the President, Ismail Kemal Bey, in which he spoke of the great perils facing Albania today, the delegates have all decided unanimously that Albania, as of today, should be on her own, free and independent.
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    Erst auf seiner funften sitzung am 4. Dezember 1912 komplettierte der Nationalcongreß die provisorische Regierung, die folgende Zusammensetzung hatte:
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    ... a provisional government, consisting of ten members and led by Vlora, was formed on 4 December.
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    From its own members congress elected a senate (Pleqësi), composed of 18 members, which assumed advisory role to the government.
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  82. ^ Albanološki institut u Prištini (1970), Gjurmime albanologjike, Volume 9, Issues 1-2 (in Serbian), Priština: Filozofski fakultet u Prištini. Katedra za albanologiju, pp. 123, 124, retrieved 29 January 2012, posle proglasa nezavisnosti upotrebljavane i starim turskim žigovima poništavane marke i dopisnice... i posle ... poništavane albanskim prstenastim zigovima, koji nose u gornjem delu prstena ime mesta a u donjem ime zemlje — „Shqipenie". Zamena turskih zigova novim albanskim zigovima izvrsena je pri kraju aprila i pocetkom maja 1913.
  83. ^ "Postal service in Albania". www.postashqiptare.al. Albania. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012. on July 7, 1913, presented the official demand to be recruited in Universal Postal Union and International Union of Telecommunication, entrance which was performed in 1922...
  84. ^ "Albania". Universal Postal Union. Archived from the original on 27 April 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012. Albania ... Date of entry into the UPU:01-03-1922
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  86. OCLC 1784022
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    , After the Proclamation of Independence and the creation of the Government of Vlora in 1912, measures were taken for the closing of foreign schools and opening Albanian ones.
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    , Since World War I broke out shortly after Albania declared her independence in November 1912, there was a little time for progress in national education
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    , A significant fact is that the Kosovar fighters, headed by the legendary hero Isa Boletini, set out on a long voyage to Vlora and created there the first nucleus of the new Albanian army under the command of the Provisional Government.
  91. ^ Ministry of Defence (Albania) (5 December 2011). "Forcat e Armatosura festojnë 99-vjetorin e krijimit të tyre (Armed forces celebrate their 99th anniversary)" (in Albanian). Ministry of Defence (Albania). Retrieved 17 February 2012. Gjeneral brigade Agim Lala, pasi bëri një retrospektivë të shkurtër përsa i përket Forcave të Armatosura që nga krijimi i tyre në 4 Dhjetor të vitit 1912 (Brigadier General Agim Lala, after making a brief retrospective of the terms of the Armed Forces since their creation on December 4, 1912)
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    . Treaty of London consisted simply of cession by the Sultan to the Great Powers of all Ottoman territory in Europe except... It was the Treaty of Bucharest, 13 August 1913, which provided the definitive settlement after the Second Balkan War
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    Despite the fact that a provisional government under Kemal was in existence, the powers refused to recognize it. Instead they established International Control Commission
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    The Powers were angered by this display of independence by Kemal's government, ... as a result, the International Commission forced Kemal to step aside. Kemal subsequently left Albania ...
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    International Commission prepared a draft constitution. It provided for the establishment of national assembly,...composed of three representatives from...seven administrative districts... chosen by direct suffrage,... heads of three churches and ten nominees of the prince. .... a four year... ministers ..appointed by the prince
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  115. ^ Zaharia, Perikli (March 24, 2003). "The post - 1989 constitutional course of south east europe". Athens: Centre for European Constitutional Law. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2011. A Constitution (Statuti Organik) for the new State, consisting of 216 articles, was elaborated in 1914 by the International Commission. Albania was designated as a hereditary constitutional monarchy. The power of legislation was entrusted to a National Assembly, while the executive power was vested in the Council of Ministers, who were to be appointed by the Prince and accountable to him only.
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    , retrieved 3 February 2012, When Albania's state boundaries were delineated... in 1913, many Albanians were left outside of the new state. The largest group of unredeemed could be found in Kosova, which had served as cradle of Albanian nationalism in the nineteenth century...
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  119. ^ Elsie 2010, p. lix"...on 28 November 1912, Albania was finally declared independent."
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    , All Albanians, wherever they are located in the world, joyously commemorate November 28 as Albanian Independence Day (Dita e Flamurit), for it was on that day in 1912 in Albanian seacoast town of Vlora, that the venerable Albanian patriot, Ismail Qemali, first raised Albanian red-and-black double headed eagle flag and proclaimed Albanian independence...
  121. ^ "Albanians celebrate Flag Day". Info Globi. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2012. Kosovo legislation does not include 28 November on the list of official holidays, however under a special decision of the Government PM Hashim Thaci,...today has been announced a holiday.
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  124. ^ Topi, Bamir (31 December 2011). "The address of President Topi to the Nation on New Year's Eve". Albanian National News Agency. Tirana, Albania. Albanian National News Agency. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2012. The year 2012, dear Albanians, is the most beautiful historic year. The 100th anniversary of the Independence of Albania
  125. ^ "100th anniversary of independence". Albania: TOP Channel Shqip. 2012. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012. The Albanian Parliament opened with a solemn ceremony the 100th year of Albania's independence. January 17th was chosen as the opening day for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of independence, since it is the day when the Albanian National hero, Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu died, who symbolizes the unification of all Albanians...Representatives from Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Presheva and Bujanovci were present in the Albanian Parliament, without partial distinctions, together, as six centuries ago and as 100 years ago,.
  126. ^ Republic of Albania, Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports; National Gallery of Arts (2011). "Competition announcement" (PDF). Republic of Albania, Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports; National Gallery of Arts. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012. Today, on 23.12.2011, in reliance on the Order of the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports No 289, dated 22.12.2011 on "Announcement of competition for the accomplishment in sculpture the monumental work dedicated to the "100 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the Albanian State: 28 November 1912 – 28 November 2012".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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