“The Assembly of Cepo” was organized, the gathering of patriotic bands of Southern Albania held at the Cepo monastery (Gjirokastër), where the demand for the autonomy of Albania presented by the rebels of the Malësia e Mbishkodra in the Greçë Memorandum was supported. The participants of the assembly opposed the attempts of the Ottoman government to treat the Northern uprising as a local movement, recognizing only some rights to the highlanders. The assembly demanded that the recognition of these rights be extended throughout Albania, so that the country would have a unified system of administration and government, as stated in their decision, to establish “a kind of regime in the north and south of Albania,” to ensure that Albanians live “as a national entity.” (In the photo: Cepo Monastery, Gjirokastër.)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1664.
Photo: © Albanian Telegraphic Agency
Graphic processing: AHCF
