{"id":8365,"date":"2026-05-05T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/fiqri-dine-2\/---10383251-48d6-4848-beaf-ba3e8f1d0617"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:06:20","slug":"fiqri-dine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/fiqri-dine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiqri Dine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">In Maqellare in Dibra, Fiqri Dine, soldier, political activist, minister and prime minister, was born. He attended high school in Dib&euml;r and continued his studies in the aspirants&#8217; course in Shkod&euml;r and then at the Vienna Military Academy. He returned to the country and completed the gendarmerie course in Tirana. He was appointed commander of the marching battalion Kruj&euml;-Mirdit&euml;; in 1921, he became a lieutenant in the Albanian National Army, then district commander in Mat and Peshkopi. During the Democratic Revolution of June 1924 he supported the government forces and, after its suppression, he was appointed to important military duties, as the commander of the Puka Zone and later commander of the North Zone. In December 1928 he was sent for studies in Turin. During the monarchy period, he was appointed commander of the First Group in Tirana, commander of the regiment in Berat and in 1936, inspector of the army near the Royal Court. During the period of the Italian occupation, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Ekrem Libohova (1943): during the German occupation, he was prime minister from 18.07.- 28.08.1944. After the end of the war, he left the country. He passed away in Belgium. <em>(In the photo: Fiqri Dine)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <em>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1<\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, pages 454-485.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">&copy; https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fiqri_Dine<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maqellare in Dibra, Fiqri Dine, soldier, political activist, minister and prime minister, was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8365","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 - 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