{"id":7337,"date":"2023-11-03T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/11\/03\/gavril-dara-junior-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:07","slug":"gavril-dara-junior-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/11\/03\/gavril-dara-junior-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavril Dara Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; color: black; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Gavril Dara Junior, Arb&euml;r poet and scholar of Albanian and Arb&euml;r traditions (1826&ndash;1889), <\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">passed away . <span style=\"color: black;\">He was born in the village of Palac Adriano (Sicily), in 1826. He completed his high school studies at the Italian-Arb&euml;resh Seminary in Palermo. Then he studied law. He actively participated in the movement for the liberation and national unification of Italy. During the years 1871-1874, Gavril Dara directed the political newspaper <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">&#8220;La Riforma&#8221; <\/em>(&#8220;Reform&#8221;) of Francesco Crispi in Rome. The main work of Gavril Dara and one of the most outstanding poems of the literature of the National Renaissance is &#8220;<em>K&euml;nga e sprasme e Bal&euml;s<\/em>&#8220;, which was published in its entirety in 1900-1902, in the Albanian newspaper <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">&#8220;La nazione albanese&#8221; <\/em>. This work reflects the resilience of Albanians led by Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg. Dara&#8217;s literary and scientific interests were wide and included: poetry, folklore, philosophy, archeology and law. Gavril Dara tried to bring the Arberesh language closer to the language spoken in the Albanian lands. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Gavril Dara Junior)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"line-height: 115%; border: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 415.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"line-height: 115%; border: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gavril_Dara_i_Riu\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gavril_Dara_i_Riu<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavril Dara Junior, an Arb\u00ebresh poet and researcher of the Albanian language and Arb\u00ebresh traditions, passed away (1826\u20131889).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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