The first issue of the newspaper “Reforma.”

The first issue of the newspaper “Reforma” (“The Reform”) (1921-1923), a religious, political and literary newspaper, organ of the Bektashi clergy, was published in Gjirokastër. It was prepared in Këlcyrë and printed in Gjirokastër. It continued with big interruptions only 8 numbers. “Reforma” newspaper published religious and social writings of interest for the time. (In the photo: View from Gjirokastra, 1920.) 

Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2220. 

Photo: © https://memorie.al/en/gjirokastra-during-the-first-world-war/  

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