The first issue of the newspaper "Zëri i Korçë" (1925-1931), an impartial political, literary, cultural, social and economic newspaper, was published in Korça.
Muzafer Asqeriu, participant in the communist movement and in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed in the war with the Italian forces.
Persefoni Kokëdhima, participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Heroine of the People, was hanged by the German Nazis in the Gjirokastra prison.
In Pejë, Kosovo, Ali Kelmendi was born, a fighter for national liberation in Kosovo, an activist of the democratic communist and antifascist movement in Albania, and a People's Hero.
