{"id":8392,"date":"2026-05-10T00:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/normal-albanian-school\/---a4c67dbf-ecc4-4444-8495-69fd5916f782"},"modified":"2026-05-10T00:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T00:09:20","slug":"normal-albanian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/normal-albanian-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Normal Albanian School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">In Bucharest, Romania, the &#8220;Shkolla Normale Shqipe&#8221; (Normal Albanian School) was founded, a secondary educational institution with a pedagogical profile, founded by the initiative of the &#8220;Drita&#8221; society of Bucharest and mainly by its president, Nikola Na&ccedil;o. Followed by Albanian exiles, as well as by Romanians, boarding students and outsiders. Lessons were given in Albanian and Romanian. Among the students of this school are mentioned the luminaries Mihal Grameno, Aleksand&euml;r Stavre Drenova (Asdreni), Dervish Hima, Shahin Kolonja, Jashar Erebara, etc. Albanian works published by the Albanian printing house in Bucharest were also used as textbooks, such as the book &#8220;Le&ccedil;itja shqipe&#8221; (1887) by Jovani Risto Llazit Terova and &#8221; Gramatika e gjuh&euml;s shqipe &#8221; (&#8220;Gramatical limbii Albanian&#8221;), which was specially prepared for this school by the Romanian philologist Bogdan Hazdeu. <em>(In the photo: Front page of the book &#8220;Le&ccedil;itja Shqipe&#8221;, 1887)<\/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. 3<\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2486.<\/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:\/\/sq.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shkolla_Normale_e_Bukureshtit<\/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 Bucharest, Romania, the &#8220;Shkolla Normale Shqipe&#8221; (Normal Albanian School) was founded, a secondary educational institution with a pedagogical profile, founded by the initiative of the &#8220;Drita&#8221; society of Bucharest and mainly by its president, Nikola Na\u00e7o.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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