{"id":6359,"date":"2023-09-13T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/09\/13\/sali-nivica\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:50:47","slug":"sali-nivica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/09\/13\/sali-nivica\/","title":{"rendered":"Sali Nivica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The publicist, patriot, Teacher of the People, Sali Nivica, one of the leaders of the Albanian National Movement and director of the <i>&#8220;Populli&#8221; (\u201cThe people\u201d)<\/i> newspaper, was killed in Shkod\u00ebr. He was born in the Kurvelesh region. He finished the &#8220;Zosimea&#8221; high school in Ioannina (1909). In 1909-1910 he was a teacher in Durr\u00ebs. He participated in the organization of the anti-Ottoman uprisings in South Albania in 1911-1912. He was imprisoned by the Ottoman authorities. After leaving prison, he taught the Albanian language at the American high school <i>Roberts College <\/i>in Istanbul. He returned to Albania with the Declaration of Independence and in 1914-1915, in the newspaper &#8220;Populli&#8221;, where he wrote a series of articles with a patriotic, democratic, and anti-feudal spirit. In 1916-1918 he worked in the field of education. In 1919-1920 he directed the newspaper <i>&#8220;Populli&#8221;<\/i> <i>(\u201cThe people\u201d)<\/i>, in which he defended the independence and territorial integrity of the Albanian state and the issue of national unification. 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