{"id":7886,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/the-national-congress-of-elbasan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:53","slug":"the-national-congress-of-elbasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/the-national-congress-of-elbasan\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Congress of Elbasan."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The “National Congress of Elbasan”, a meeting with an all-Albanian character, was <\/span>convened<\/span>, which took important decisions for the spread of Albanian schools and for other problems of the national movement. It was called at the initiative of the Albanian Club of Thessaloniki. 35 representatives of Albanian clubs and societies <\/span>participated<\/span> as delegates, including Orhan Pojani, Grigor Cilka, Gjergj e Sevasti <\/span>Qirjazi<\/span>, Mithat <\/span>Frashëri<\/span>, Dervish be<\/span>y<\/span> Biçaku<\/span>, Refik Toptani, Ahmet <\/span>Dakli<\/span>, Hamdi Ohri, Abdullah <\/span>Koprencka<\/span>, <\/span>Thoma<\/span> Papapano<\/span>, Nikollë <\/span>Kaçori<\/span> ,<\/span> Simon <\/span>Shuteriqi<\/span>, Selman <\/span>Blloshmi<\/span>, etc. It was led by a leadership consisting of four people and headed by Dervish bey <\/span>Biçaku<\/span>. The Congress decided to <\/span>establish<\/span> in Elbasan, in the fall of 1909, an Albanian pedagogical (normal) high school with six classes, which would prepare teachers for Albanian primary schools and would be <\/span>maintained<\/span> with the contribution of all Albanian clubs and societies. It was also decided to <\/span>establish<\/span> the central school association “<\/span>Pëparimi<\/span>“<\/span> (“<\/span><\/span>Progress<\/span><\/span>”)<\/span> in Korçë, which would take care of the maintenance and administration of the normal school, would work for the opening of other Albanian schools and for the publication of Albanian books and texts. In the closed meetings, the delegates expressed their opposition and distrust towards the Young Turk regime, their determination to ensure Albania’s autonomy and the need for a better organization of the secret committees <\/span>operating<\/span> near the clubs. The decisions of the National Congress of Elbasan gave a further impetus to the national movement and <\/span>to<\/span> the fight for the spread of schools and Albanian writing. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: The castle school building where the Congress of Elbasan was held, 1909.)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. <\/span>2 <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1261.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© Digital Archive of Elbasan<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 2-8, 1909. The “National Congress of Elbasan” was convened, a gathering of an all-Albanian character, which made important decisions regarding the spread of Albanian schools and other issues related to the national movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11514,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions\/11514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}