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On March 30, 1926, the French Higher Institution, the president of the French Republic, awarded Pertef Pogoni the Order of the &#8220;Legion of Honor&#8221;. On January 31, 1927, the President of the Republic, Ahmet Zogu, awarded Pertef Pogoni the &#8220;Commander of the Order of Skanderbeg&#8221; decoration. In 1929, he left the Ministry of Education and was appointed director of studies at the royal military school in Tirana. In 1933-1934, he was appointed director of the Kor\u00e7a National High School. After 1934, Pogoni took the post of general secretary in the Ministry of Education. During the war years, the house of the Pogons became a nest of the capital&#8217;s resistance. <i>(In the photo: &#8220;Commander of the Order of Skanderbeg&#8221; decoration.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> https:\/\/gazetadielli.com\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Xhoxhi L., personal archive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pertef Pogoni, a prominent figure in Albanian education, was born in the village of Voshtim\u00eb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pertef Pogoni - 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