Abdyl Frashëri was born in the village of Frashër, the capital of the Dangëllia province in Përmet; he was the originator and one of the main leaders of the Albanian League of Prizren, a politician, and diplomat.
In Budapest (Hungary), Guri Madhi, painter and one of the most important Albanian artists of socialist realism, passed away in the second half of the 20th century.
In Ioannina, the first issue of the newspaper "Awakening of Albania" (1909-1911), a political, social, and literary newspaper in Albanian and partly in Turkish, was published.
